Now, Winchester will not submit, I trow, Humphrey of Gloster, thou shalt well perceive The Bishop will be overborne by thee; Either I'll make thee stoop, and bend thy knee, Or sack this country with a mutiny. 1 HENRY VI. v. 1. York, and impious Beaufort, that false priest, Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings. Blaspheming God, and cursing men on earth, The secrets of his over-charged soul. 2 HENRY VI. iii. 2. Lord Cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, 2 HENRY VI. iii. 3. WOLSEY. My surveyor is false-the o'er great Cardinal Hath shewed him gold :—my life is spanned already. The Cardinal is the end of this, The Commons HENRY VIII. i. 1. This is the Cardinal's doing; the King Cardinal, That blind priest :—the King will know him one day. HENRY VIII. ii. 2. I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed; I knew him, and I know him; so I leave him HENRY VIII. ii. 2. Heaven will one day open The King's eyes, that so long have slept upon This bold, bad, man. I must tell you, HENRY VIII. ii. 2. You tender more your person's honour, than HENRY VIII. ii. 4. These Cardinals trifle with me: I abhor HENRY VIII. ii. 4. Is this your christian counsel ? out upon ye! Holy men I thought ye, But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. HENRY VIII. iii. 2. This paper has undone me: 'Tis the account Thou art a proud traitor, priest ! HENRY VIII. iii. 2. I'll startle you, HENRY VIII. iii. 2. Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench Lay kissing in your arms, Lord Cardinal. HENRY VIII. iii. 2. In all you writ to Rome, or else To foreign princes," Ego et Rex meus Was still inscrib'd :-in which you brought the King To be your servant. HENRY VIII. iii. 2. Out of mere ambition, you have caus'd Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the King's coin. HENRY VIII. iii. 2. Now, if you can blush, and cry guilty, Cardinal, HENRY VIII. iii. 2. His contemplations were above the earth, His thinkings are below the moon; not worth HENRY VIII. iii. 2. Woe upon ye, and such false professors! HENRY VIII. iii. 2. He was a man Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. HENRY VIII. iii. 2. By my soul, Your long coat, priest, protects you: thou should'st feel My sword i' the life-blood of thee else. My lords, Can ye endure this arrogance, And from this fellow? Love and meekness, lord, HENRY VIII. iii. 4. Become a churchman better than ambition : Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away. HENRY VIII. v. 4. Stand back, thou manifest conspirator : Thou, that contrived'st to murder our dead lord! 1 HENRY VI. i. 3. What! talking with a priest, Lord Chamberlain ? RICHARD III. iii. 2. I know that thou art religious, And hast a thing within thee called conscience, Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know And keeps the oath, which by that God he swears ; That thou ador'st and hast in reverence. TITUS ANDRONICUS, v. 1. From the foregoing extracts it is presumed, that every mind capable of judging will be fully convinced that Shakespeare was not a papist; and it must be borne in mind, that the evidence in proof thereof is given by himself; a testimony more powerful than the arguments of commentators. No papist would have been inclined, or would have dared to have put into the mouths of his Dramatis Personæ, such expressions, counter to papacy, as are presented in these extracts. |