Page 1684 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

CAMPEIUS

Madam, you’ll find it so: you wrong your virtues
With these weak women’s fears. A noble spirit,
As yours was put into you, ever casts

Such doubts as false coin from it. The King loves you; [170]
Beware you lose it not. For us, if you please
To trust us in your business, we are ready
To use our utmost studies in your service.

KATHERINE
Do what ye will, my lords, and pray forgive me

If I have used myself unmannerly, [175]
You know I am a woman, lacking wit
To make a seemly answer to such persons.
Pray do my service to his majesty;

He has my heart yet, and shall have my prayers
While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers, [180]
Bestow your counsels on me. She now begs
That little thought, when she set footing here,

She should have bought her dignities so dear.
Exeunt

Scene II IT

Enter the Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Suffolk, Lord Surrey, and Lord

Chamberlain

NORFOLK
If you will now unite in your complaints
And force them with a constancy, the Cardinal
Cannot stand under them. If you omit
The offer of this time, I cannot promise

But that you shall sustain more new disgraces [5]
With these you bear already.

SURREY
I am joyful