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For he would needs be virtuous. That good fellow,
If I command him, follows my appointment;
I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother,
We live not to be griped by meaner persons.

KING
Deliver this with modesty to th’Queen. [135]

Exit Gardiner
The most convenient place that I can think of
For such receipt of learning is Blackfriars;

There ye shall meet about this weighty business.
My Wolsey, see it furnished. O, my lord,
Would it not grieve an able man to leave [140]
So sweet a bedfellow? But conscience, conscience:
O, ’tis a tender place, and I must leave her.

Exeunt

Scene III IT

Enter Anne Bullen and an Old Lady

ANNE
Not for that neither. Here’s the pang that pinches:

His highness having lived so long with her, and she
So good a lady that no tongue could ever
Pronounce dishonour of her − by my life,

She never knew harm-doing − O, now, after [5]
So many courses of the sun enthronèd,
Still growing in a majesty and pomp, the which
To leave a thousand-fold more bitter than
’Tis sweet at first t’acquire − after this process,

To give her the avaunt, it is a pity [10]
Would move a monster.

OLD LADY
Hearts of most hard temper
Melt and lament for her.