Henry VIII, 2.4.65–81
Katherine: Lord Cardinal, 65
To you I speak.
Wolsey: Your pleasure, madam.
Katherine: Sir,
I am about to weep; but thinking that
We are a queen, or long have dreamed so, certain
The daughter of a king, my drops of tears
I’ll turn to sparks of fire.
Wolsey: Be patient yet. 70
Katherine: I will, when you are humble—nay, before,
Or God will punish me. I do believe,
Induced by potent circumstances, that
You are mine enemy, and make my challenge
You shall not be my judge. For it is you 75
Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me,
Which God’s dew quench. Therefore, I say again,
I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more
I hold my most malicious foe and think not 80
At all a friend of truth.
Source: William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, King Henry VIII. Ed. Gordon McMullan. Arden Third Series. London: Thomson Learning, 2000.
