"... 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.
ACT III.
Scene 2. Page 112.
Suf. ... I persuade me, from her
Will fall some blessing to this land, which shall
In it be memoriz'd.
This is, no doubt, a compliment to queen Elizabeth.
Scene 2. Page 126.