Page 1686 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

SURREY

How came
His practices to light?

SUFFOLK
Most strangely.

SURREY
O, how, how?

SUFFOLK
The Cardinal’s letters to the Pope miscarried, [30]

And came to th’eye o’th’King, wherein was read
How that the Cardinal did entreat his holiness
To stay the judgement o’th’divorce; for if
It did take place, “I do” − quoth he − “perceive

My King is tangled in affection to [35]
A creature of the Queen’s, Lady Anne Bullen”.

SURREY
Has the King this?

SUFFOLK
Believe it.

SURREY
Will this work?

CHAMBERLAIN
The King in this perceives him how he coasts

And hedges his own way. But in this point
All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic [40]
After his patient’s death: the King already
Hath married the fair lady.

SURREY
Would he had.