Excerpt from The Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 8 of 16 But the queen's kindred and night-walkin g heralds Tha't trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore. Heard ye not what an humble suppliant Lord Hastings was to her for his delivery? Glou. Humbly complaining to her deity Got m lord chamberlain his liberty. I'll telilyou what; I think it is our way, If we will keep in favour with the king, To be her men and wear her livery: The jealous o'erworn widow and herself, Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen, Are mighty gossips in this monarchy. Brak. I beseech your graces both to pardon me His majesty hath straitly given in charge That no man Shall have private conference, Of what degree soever, with his brother. Gloa. Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man: we say the king IS wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; Andftllkat the queen's kindred are made gentle O 8: How say you, sir? Can you deny all this? Bfgakd With this, my lord, myself have nought o o. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.