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With your theme I could
O’ermount the lark: the Marchioness of Pembroke!
A thousand pounds a year, for pure respect! [95]
No other obligation! By my life,

That promises more thousands: honour’s train
Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time
I know your back will bear a duchess. Say,
Are you not stronger than you were?

ANNE

Good lady, [100]
Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,
And leave me out on’t. Would I had no being,
If this salute my blood a jot; it faints me
To think what follows.

The Queen is comfortless, and we forgetful [105]
In our long absence: pray do not deliver
What here y’have heard to her.

OLD LADY
What do you think me?

Exeunt

Scene IV IT

Trumpets, sennet, and cornets. Enter two Vergers, with short silver wands;

next them two Scribes, in the habit of doctors; after them, the [Arch]bishop
of Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincoln, Ely, Rochester, and
Saint Asaph; next them, with some small distance, follows a Gentleman
bearing the purse, with the great seal, and a cardinal’s hat; then two Priests
bearing each a silver cross; then [Griffith,] a Gentleman Usher, bare-headed,

accompanied with a Sergeant-at-arms bearing a silver mace; then two
Gentlemen bearing two great silver pillars; after them, side by side, the two
Cardinals [Wolsey and Campeius]; two Noblemen with the sword and mace.

The King takes place under the cloth of state. The two Cardinals sit under
him as judges. Queen [Katherine] takes place some distance from the King.
The Bishops place themselves on each side the court in manner of a