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SUFFOLK

That out of mere ambition you have caused
Your holy hat to be stamped on the King’s coin. [325]

SURREY
Then, that you have sent innumerable substance −
By what means got I leave to your own conscience −

To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways
You have for dignities, to the mere undoing
Of all the kingdom. Many more there are, [330]
Which since they are of you, and odious,

I will not taint my mouth with.

CHAMBERLAIN

O my lord,
Press not a falling man too far: ’tis virtue.
His faults lie open to the laws: let them,

Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him [335]
So little of his great self.

SURREY
I forgive him.

SUFFOLK
Lord Cardinal, the King’s further pleasure is −
Because all those things you have done of late
By your power legative within this kingdom

Fall into th’compass of a praemunire − [340]
That therefore such a writ be sued against you:
To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,

Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be
Out of the King’s protection. This is my charge.

NORFOLK
And so we’ll leave you to your meditations [345]
How to live better. For your stubborn answer
About the giving back the great seal to us,

The King shall know it and, no doubt, shall thank you.