STRAFFORD: 
A rod in pickle for the Fool’s back!

ARCHY: 
Ay, and some are now smiling whose tears will make the brine; for the
Fool sees—­

STRAFFORD: 
Insolent!  You shall have your coat turned and be whipped out of the
palace for this. 53

ARCHY:  When all the fools are whipped, and all the Protestant writers, while the knaves are whipping the fools ever since a thief was set to catch a thief.  If all turncoats were whipped out of palaces, poor Archy would be disgraced in good company.  Let the knaves whip the fools, and all the fools laugh at it. [Let the] wise and godly slit each other’s noses and ears (having no need of any sense of discernment in their craft); and the knaves, to marshal them, join in a procession to Bedlam, to entreat the madmen to omit their sublime Platonic contemplations, and manage the state of England.  Let all the honest men who lie [pinched?] up at the prisons or the pillories, in custody of the pursuivants of the High-Commission Court, marshal them. 65

NOTE: 
64 pinched marked as doubtful by Rossetti.
    1870; Forman, Dowden; penned Woodberry.

[ENTER SECRETARY LYTTELTON, WITH PAPERS.]

KING [LOOKING OVER THE PAPERS]: 
These stiff Scots
His Grace of Canterbury must take order
To force under the Church’s yoke.—­You, Wentworth,
Shall be myself in Ireland, and shall add
Your wisdom, gentleness, and energy, 70
To what in me were wanting.—­My Lord Weston,
Look that those merchants draw not without loss
Their bullion from the Tower; and, on the payment
Of shipmoney, take fullest compensation
For violation of our royal forests, 75
Whose limits, from neglect, have been o’ergrown
With cottages and cornfields.  The uttermost
Farthing exact from those who claim exemption
From knighthood:  that which once was a reward
Shall thus be made a punishment, that subjects 80
May know how majesty can wear at will
The rugged mood.—­My Lord of Coventry,
Lay my command upon the Courts below
That bail be not accepted for the prisoners
Under the warrant of the Star Chamber. 85
The people shall not find the stubbornness
Of Parliament a cheap or easy method
Of dealing with their rightful sovereign: 
And doubt not this, my Lord of Coventry,
We will find time and place for fit rebuke.—­ 90
My Lord of Canterbury.

NOTE: 
22-90 In Paris...rebuke 1870; omitted 1824.

ARCHY: 
The fool is here.

LAUD: 
I crave permission of your Majesty
To order that this insolent fellow be
Chastised:  he mocks the sacred character,
Scoffs at the state, and—­

NOTE: 
95 state 1870; stake 1824.