CARDINAL WOLSEY
Yes, surely. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread then Even of yourself, lord cardinal. CARDINAL WOLSEY
How! of me? CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
They will not stick to say you envied him, And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous, Kept him a foreign
man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died. CARDINAL WOLSEY
Heaven's peace be with him! That's Christian care enough: for living murmurers There's places of rebuke.
He was a fool; For he would needs be virtuous: that good fellow, If I command him, follows my appointment: I
will have none so near else. Learn this, brother, We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons. KING HENRY VIII
Deliver this with modesty to the queen.
Exit GARDINER
The most convenient place that I can think of For such receipt of learning is Black-Friars; There ye shall
meet about this weighty business. My Wolsey, see it furnish'd. O, my lord, Would it not grieve an able
man to leave So sweet a bedfellow? But, conscience, conscience! O, 'tis a tender place; and I must leave
her.
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