What danger, or what sorrow can befall thee,
So long as —— is thy constant friend,
And their true Soveraigne, whom they must obey?
Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,
Unlesse they seeke for hatred at my hands:
Which if they doe, yet will I keep thee safe,
And they shall feele the vengeance of my wrath.”
H. VI., Act iv., Sc. i.
Critics trace the marked anti-papal spirit of King John to 'Henry the Eighth’s revolt from the Roman obedience,’ and these passages are indeed a part of Henry’s speech, in the Tragedy of Anne Boleyn:
——“What earthie name to Interrogatories