Page 1738 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

ALL

We are.

CRANMER
Is there no other way of mercy,
But I must needs to th’Tower, my lords?

GARDINER
What other

Would you expect? You are strangely troublesome.
Let some o’th’guard be ready there.

Enter the Guard

CRANMER
For me?
Must I go like a traitor thither?

GARDINER
Receive him, [130]

And see him safe i’th’Tower.

CRANMER
Stay, good my lords,
I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords:
By virtue of that ring I take my cause
Out of the gripes of cruel men, and give it

To a most noble judge, the King my master. [135]

CHAMBERLAIN
This is the King’s ring.

SURREY
’Tis no counterfeit.

SUFFOLK
’Tis the right ring, by heaven. I told ye all,