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THIRD GENTLEMAN

I know it,
But ’tis so lately altered that the old name
Is fresh about me.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
What two reverend bishops

Were those that went on each side of the Queen? [100]

THIRD GENTLEMAN
Stokesley and Gardiner, the one of Winchester,
Newly preferred from the King’s secretary,
The other, London.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
He of Winchester

Is held no great good lover of the Archbishop’s,
The virtuous Cranmer.

THIRD GENTLEMAN
All the land knows that; [105]
However, yet there is no great breach. When it comes,

Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him.

SECOND GENTLEMAN

Who may that be, I pray you?

THIRD GENTLEMAN
Thomas Cromwell,
A man in much esteem with th’King, and truly
A worthy friend. The King has made him [110]
Master o’th’Jewel House,

And one, already, of the Privy Council.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
He will deserve more.