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Nor.
There's in him ftuff that puts him to the
For, being not propp'd by ancestry, (wh
Chalks fucceffors their way,) nor call'd u
For high feats done to the crown; neithe
To eminent affiftants, but, fpider-like,
Out of his felf-drawing web, he gives us
The force of his own merit makes his way
A gift that heaven gives for him, which I
A place next to the king.

Aber.
I cannot tell
What heaven hath given him, let fome g
Pierce into that; but I can fee his pride
Peep through each part of him: Whence
If not from hell, the devil is a niggard;
Or has given all before, and he begins
A new hell in himself.

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Upon this French going-out, took he up
Without the privity o' the king, to appoi
Who should attend on him? He makes u
Of all the gentry; for the most part such
Too, whom as great a charge as little hon

He meant to lay upon: and his own letter,
The honourable board of council out,
Muft fetch him in he papers.

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Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have
By this fo ficken'd their eftates, that never
They shall abound as formerly.

Buck.

O, many

Have broke their backs with laying manors on them
For this great journey. What did this vanity,
But minifter communication of

A moft poor iffue?

Nor.

Grievingly I think,

The peace between the French and us not values
The coft that did conclude it.

Buck.
Every man,
After the hideous ftorm that follow'd, was
A thing infpir'd; and, not confulting, broke
Into a general prophecy,―That this tempest,
Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded
The fudden breach on't.

Nor.

Which is budded out;

For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd
Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux.

Aber.

The anbaffador is filenc'd?

Nor.

Is it therefore

Marry, is't.

Aber. A proper title of a peace; and purchas'd

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The state takes notice of the private difference
Betwixt and the cardinal. I advife you,

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Thither he darts it. Bofom up my cour
You'll find it wholefome. Lo, where co
That I advise your fhunning.

Enter Cardinal WOLSEY, (the purse borne
tain of the guard, and two Secretaries
Cardinal in his passage fixeth his eye on E
Buckingham on him, both full of disdain.

Wol. The duke of Buckingham's furve
Where's his examination?

1. Secr.

Here, fo pleaf

Wol. Is he in person ready?

1. Secr.

Ay, please Wol. Well, we shall then know more; Shall leffen this big look. [Exeunt Wo

Buck. This butcher's cur is venom-mo Have not the power to muzzle him; ther Not wake him in his flumber. A beggar Out-worths a noble's blood.

Nor.

What, are y

Afk God for temperance; that's the appl
Which your disease requires.

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Me, as his abject object : at this instant

He bores me with fome trick: He's gone to the king;
I'll follow, and out-ftare him.

Nor.
Stay, my lord,
And let your reason with your choler question
What 'tis you go about: To climb steep hills,
Requires flow pace at first: Anger is like
A full-hot horfe; who being allow'd his way,
Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
Can advise me like you: be to yourself

As you would to your friend.

Buck.

I'll to the king;

And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
This Ipfwich fellow's infolence; or proclaim,
There's difference in no perfons.

Nor.
Be advis'd;
Heat not a furnace for your foe fo hot
That it do finge yourself: We may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lofe by over-running. Know you not,
The fire, that mounts the liquor till it run o'er,
In feeming to augment it, waftes it? Be advis'd;
I fay again, there is no English foul

More ftronger to direct you than yourself;
If with the fap of reason you would quench,
Or but allay, the fire of passion.

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I am thankful to you; and I'll go along

By your prescription:-but this top-proud fellow, (Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but

From fincere motions,) by intelligence,

And proofs as clear as founts in Júly, when
We fee each grain of gravel, I do know
To be corrupt and treasonous,

Nor.

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As here at home, suggests the king our m
To this last coftly treaty, the interview,
That fwallow'd fo much treasure, and lik
Did break i' the rinfing.

Nor.

'Faith, and fo it

Buck. Pray,, give me favour, fir. Th
dinal

The articles o' the combination drew,
As himself pleas'd; and they were ratify'
As he cry'd, Thus let be: to as much en
As give a crutch to the dead: But our co
Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy
Who cannot err, he did it. Now this fol
(Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
To the old dam, treason,)-Charles the e
Under pretence to fee the queen his aunt,
(For 'twas, indeed, his colour; but he c
To whisper Wolfey,) here makes vifitatio
His fears were, that the interview, betwix
England and France, might, through the
Breed him fome prejudice; for from this
Peep'd harms that menaç'd him. He priv
Deals with our cardinal; and, as I trow,-
Which I do well; for, I am fure, the em
Pay'd ere he promis'd; whereby his fuit

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