ACT II.
Scene 2. Page 71.
Nor. I'll venture one heave at him.
The first folio reads "I'll venture one; have at him," and this, except as to the punctuation, is right. Have at you was a common phrase; it is used by Surrey in the ensuing act, and afterwards by Cromwell.
Scene 2. Page 73.
Cam. ... which so griev'd him, [Doctor Pace]
That he ran mad and died.
This is from Holinshed. "Aboute this time the king received into favor doctor Stephen Gardiner, whose service he used in matters of great secrecie and weighte, admitting him in the room of Doctor Pace, the which being continually abrode in ambassades, and the same oftentymes not much necessarie, by the Cardinalles appointment, at length he toke such greefe therwith, that he fell out of his right wittes."
Scene 3. Page 75.
Anne. ... 'tis a sufferance panging
As soul and body's severing.
Of the parallel passages already cited, this is not the least so, from Measure for measure;
"... in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great
As when a giant dies."
Scene 4. Page 98.
[they rise to depart.
Mr. Ridley's note is very judiciously introduced to get rid of the interpolated stage direction inserted by some of the editors, and to account for the king's apostrophe to Cranmer. He might have adduced an earlier exemplification of his remark from the ensuing scene, where Norfolk asks, when Cranmer returns? The archbishop of Canterbury, who attends the procession to Blackfriars, was William Warham.