Reading The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight

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My Lord Cardinall,

I doe excuse you; yea, vpon mine Honour,

I free you from't: You are not to be taught

That you haue many enemies, that know not

Why they are so; but like to Village Curres,

Barke when their fellowes doe. By some of these

The Queene is put in anger; y'are excus'd:

But will you be more iustifi'de? You euer

Haue wish'd the sleeping of this busines, neuer desir'd

It to be stir'd; but oft haue hindred, oft

The passages made toward it; on my Honour,

I speake my good Lord Cardnall, to this point;

And thus farre cleare him.

Now, what mou'd me too't,

I will be bold with time and your attention:

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