Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience, Wish him ten fathoms deep.— HENRY VIII. ii. 1. That devil monk Hopkins, that made the mischief; That was he That fed them with his prophecies. HENRY VIII. ii. 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 ; 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! But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. HENRY VIII. iii. 2. This 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. 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, You'll shew a little honesty. HENRY VIII. iii. 2. If we did think 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? HENRY VIII. iii. 4. Love and meekness, lord, 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. |