QUEEN: 
Enough, enough!  Go desire Lady Jane
She place my lute, together with the music
Mari received last week from Italy,
In my boudoir, and—­

[EXIT ARCHY.]

KING: 
I’ll go in.

NOTE: 
254-455 For by...I’ll go in 1870; omitted 1824.

QUEEN: 
MY beloved lord, 455
Have you not noted that the Fool of late
Has lost his careless mirth, and that his words
Sound like the echoes of our saddest fears? 
What can it mean?  I should be loth to think
Some factious slave had tutored him.

KING: 
Oh, no! 460
He is but Occasion’s pupil.  Partly ’tis
That our minds piece the vacant intervals
Of his wild words with their own fashioning,—­
As in the imagery of summer clouds,
Or coals of the winter fire, idlers find 465
The perfect shadows of their teeming thoughts: 
And partly, that the terrors of the time
Are sown by wandering Rumour in all spirits;
And in the lightest and the least, may best
Be seen the current of the coming wind. 470

NOTES:  460, 461 Oh...pupil 1870; omitted 1824. 461 Partly ’tis 1870; It partly is 1824. 465 of 1870; in 1824.

QUEEN: 
Your brain is overwrought with these deep thoughts. 
Come, I will sing to you; let us go try
These airs from Italy; and, as we pass
The gallery, we’ll decide where that Correggio
Shall hang—­the Virgin Mother 475
With her child, born the King of heaven and earth,
Whose reign is men’s salvation.  And you shall see
A cradled miniature of yourself asleep,
Stamped on the heart by never-erring love;
Liker than any Vandyke ever made, 480
A pattern to the unborn age of thee,
Over whose sweet beauty I have wept for joy
A thousand times, and now should weep for sorrow,
Did I not think that after we were dead
Our fortunes would spring high in him, and that 485
The cares we waste upon our heavy crown
Would make it light and glorious as a wreath
Of Heaven’s beams for his dear innocent brow.

NOTE: 
473-477 and, as...salvation 1870; omitted 1824.

KING: 
Dear Henrietta!

SCENE 3: 
THE STAR CHAMBER. 
LAUD, JUXON, STRAFFORD, AND OTHERS, AS JUDGES. 
PRYNNE AS A PRISONER, AND THEN BASTWICK.

LAUD: 
Bring forth the prisoner Bastwick:  let the clerk
Recite his sentence.

CLERK: 
’That he pay five thousand
Pounds to the king, lose both his ears, be branded
With red-hot iron on the cheek and forehead,
And be imprisoned within Lancaster Castle 5
During the pleasure of the Court.’