May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on them! What more?

Crom. That Cranmer is return'd with welcome, Inftall'd lord archbishop of Canterbury.

Wol. That's news indeed.

Crom. Laft, that the lady Anne,

Whom the king hath in fecrecy long marry'd,
This day was view'd in open, as his queen,
Going to chapel; and the voice is now

Only about her coronation.

Wol. There was the weight that pull'd me down.
O Cromwell,

The king has gone beyond me, all my glories
In that one woman I have loft for ever:

No fun fhall ever ufher forth mine honours,
Or gild again the noble troops that waited
Upon my fmiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell;
I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now

To be thy lord and mafter: Seek the king;
That fun, I pray, may never fet! I have told him
What, and how true thou art: he will advance thee
Some little memory of me will stir him,

I know his noble nature, not to let

Thy hopeful fervice perish too: Good Cromwell,
Neglect him not; make ufe now, and provide
For thine own future fafety.

3

-a tomb of orphans' tears wept on them!] The chancellor is the general guardian of orphans. A tomb of tears is very harfh. JOHNSON.

This idea will appear not altogether indefenfible to those who recollect the following epigram of Martial:

Flentibus Heliadum ramis dum vipera ferpit,

Fluxit in obftantem fuccina gemma feram.

Quæ dum miratur pingui fe rore teneri,
Concreto riguit vincta repente gelu.

Ne tibi regali placeas Cleopatra fepulchro
Vipera fi tumulo nobiliore jacet.

The Heliades certainly wept a tomb of tears over the viper.

STEEVENS.

Crom.

Crom. O my lord,

Muft I then leave you? muft I needs forego
So good, fo noble, and fo true a master?-
Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,
With what a forrow Cromwell leaves his lord.-
The king shall have my fervice, but my prayers
For ever, and for ever, fhall be yours.

Wol. Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miferies; but thou haft forc'd me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And,-when I am forgotten, as I fhall be;

And fleep in dull cold marble, where no mention
Of me more must be heard of,—fay, I taught thee,.......
Say, Wolfey, that once trod the ways of glory,
And founded all the depths and fhoals of honour,
Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in;
A fure and fafe one, though thy mafter mifs'd it.
Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition;
By that fin fell the angels, how can man then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by't?
Love thyself laft: cherish thofe hearts that hate
thee;

Corruption

-cherish thofe hearts that hate thee;] Though this be good divinity, and an admirable precept for our conduct in private life; it was never calculated or defigned for the magistrate or public minifter. Nor could this be the direction of a man experienced in affairs, to his pupil. It would make a good chriftian but a very ill and very unjust statesman. And we have nothing fo infamous in tradition, as the fuppofed advice given to one of our kings, to cherish his enemies, and be in no pain for his friends. I am of opinion the poet wrote:

-cherish thofe hearts that wait thee;

i. e. thy dependants. For the contrary practice had contributed to Wolfey's ruin. He was not careful enough in making dependants by his bounty, while intent in amaffing wealth to himself. The following line feems to confirm this correction :

Corruption wins not more than honefty.

i. e. You will never find men won over to your temporary occa

Corruption wins not more than honefty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,

To filence envious tongues. Be juft, and fear not:
Let all the ends, thou aim'ft at, be thy country's,
Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall't, o
Cromwell,

Thou fall'ft a bleffed martyr. Serve the king;
And,-Pr'ythee, lead me in:

There take an inventory of all I have,

To the last penny; 'tis the king's: my robe,
And my integrity to heaven, is all

I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell,
' Had I but ferv'd my God with half the zeal
I ferv'd my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.

Crom. Good fir, have patience.

fions by bribery, fo useful to you as friends made by a juft and generous munificence. WARBURTON.

I am unwilling wantonly to contradict fo ingenious a remark, but that the reader may not be mifled, and believe the emendation proposed to be abfolutely neceffary, he should remember that this is not a time for Wolfey to speak only as a statesman, but as a christian. Shakspeare would have debafed the character, just when he was employing his ftrongest efforts to raife it, had he drawn it otherwife. Nothing makes the hour of difgrace more irkfome, than the reflection, that we have been deaf to offers of reconciliation, and perpetuated that enmity which we might have converted into friendship. STEEVENS.

5 Had I but ferv'd my God, &c.] This fentence was really ut-tered by Wolfey. JOHNSON.

When Samrah, the deputy governor of Baforah, was depofed by Moawiyah the fixth caliph, he is reported to have expressed himfelf in the fame manner :- If I had ferved God fo well as I have ferved him, he would never have condemned me to all eternity." STEEVENS.

Antonio Perez, the favourite of Philip the Second of Spain, made the fame pa hetic complaint: "Mon zele etoit fi grand vers ces benignes puiffances [la cour de Turin,] que fi j'en euffe en autant pour Dieu, je ne doubte point qu'il ne m'cut deja recompensé de fon paradis." MALONE.

Wol.

The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell.

1 Gen. You come to take your stand here, and behold

The lady Anne pafs from her coronation ?

2 Gen. 'Tis all my business. At our laft encounter, The duke of Buckingham came from his trial.

I Gen. 'Tis very true: but that time offer'd for

row;

This, general joy.

2 Gen. 'Tis well the citizens,

I am fure, have fhewn at full their royal minds;
As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward
In celebration of this day with fhews,

Pageants, and fights of honour.

I Gen. Never greater,

Nor, I'll affure you, better taken, fir.

-once again.] Alluding to their former meeting in

the fecond act. JOHNSON.

7 this day

-thefe days,

-] Hanmer reads:

but Shakspeare meant fuch a day as this, a coronation day. And fuch is the English idiom, which our authour commonly prefers to grammatical nicety. JOHNSON.

2 Gen. May I be bold to afk what that contains, That paper in your hand?

I Gen. Yes; 'tis the lift

Of those, that claim their offices this day,

By cuftom of the coronation.

The duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims

To be high steward; next, the duke of Norfolk,
To be earl marshal: you may read the reft.

2 Gen. I thank you, fir; had I not known those
customs,

I should have been beholden to your paper.
But, I beseech you, what's become of Katharine,
The princess dowager? how goes her business?

I Gen. That I can tell you too. The archbishop
Of Canterbury, accompanied with other
Learned and reverend fathers of his order,
Held a late court at Dunstable, fix miles off
From Ampthill, where the princefs lay; to which
She oft was cited by them, but appear'd not:
And, to be short, for not appearance, and
The king's late fcruple, by the main affent
Of all these learned men fhe was divorc'd,
And the late marriage made of none effect:
Since which fhe was removed to Kimbolton,
Where she remains now, fick.

2 Gen. Alas, good lady!

The trumpets found: ftand close, the queen is com

ing.

[Hautboys.

THE ORDER OF THE CORONATION.

. A lively flourish of trumpets.

2. Then two Judges.

3. Lord Chancellor, with the purse and mace before him. 4. Chorifters finging.

[Mufick. 5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then Garter, in his coat of arms, and on his head a gilt copper

crown.

6. Marquis

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