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and remember that the original title ne
e ave those tragedies were histories.
Katharine. Sir, | desire you, do me right
and justice;
And 10 bestow your pity on me; for
] am most poor woman, ana Stranger
Born out oil your dominions having mere
No Judge indifferent, nor no more assurance
OF equal friendship and proceeding. Alas
Sir,
In chat hare I offended you9 What cause
Hath my behaviour given to your oisplea-
sure,
That thus you should proceed toput me Oh,
And take your good grace from me hea-
ven witness :, >, r.
I have been to yor true and humble wife,
At all times TO your will conformable;
Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,
Yea, subject 10 your countenance giad' or
Ash .aw Il Inclined. When was the hour
ever contradicted your desire, =. .
Or made il not mine too! or winch OF
your friends :, -,
Have not strove to love, altbo' knew i.
He were mine enemy? What friend OF
mine, ~,
That had to him derived your anger, did |
t;ce [mind
He was thence discharged? Sir, call to
That | have been your wife, in this ODE.
d;anca Gblest
Upwards of twenty years, and have been
With many children byyou: 1t IN the course
And process of this lime, you can report;
And prove il too, against NINE honor augnt,
My bond to wedlock, OF my love ana duty
Against your sacred person, in tod 5 name,
Tam me away and let the foul st contempt
Shut doors upon me, and so give me up
TO the sharpest kind Of justice. Please yon'
Sir,
The king your father, was re?uted for
A prince most prudent, OF an excellent :.
And unmatched wit and judgment; Ferdi-
nand, -,
Nv father, King of Spain, was reckon d one
The wisest prince, that mere had reign
by many
A year before: 1t is not TO be questioned
That they had gather'd wise council 70
them
OF every realm, that did debate this bust
ness, fore humbly
Who deem'd our marriage lawful where
Beseech you, Sir, 10 spare me, I'll may
Be by my friends in Spain advIs'd; whose
counsel
| will implore II not. i'the name OF God,
Your pleasure be fuIhiFd.
On the Queens leaving the court, the
Historian puts this speech into the mouth OF
the King;
+" will now in her absence, declare this
unto you all, that she has been unto me as
true and obedient wife, as could wish,
or desire She has all the vir.uous qualities
that ought to be in a woman of her dignity,
or in any other of mean condition. She Is
also surely noble woman born her condl-
ton will well declare it."
Which Shakespeare puts in the following
words:
King. Go thy ways, Kate:
Tha, man 1.-THE world, who shall repeat he
has
A better wife, let him in nought be trusted
For speaking false in that; thou art, alone,
(If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,
Thy meekness saint-likc, wife-like govern
ment,
Obeying in commanding-and thy parts
Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee
ohtl born;
The Queen OF earthly Queens she is noble
Aud like her true nobility she has
Carried herself towards me.
Henry o, .4ct 2, Scene 4.
Thus faithfully has Shakspeore adhered
to historical record in play which passes
with many for being chiefly coinage of
his own creative fancy and thus il is pro-
we'd that his historical dramas may bcresort-
ed 10 as, authentic. CUklO.