[657] Quamprimum regi patefaciendum. (Polyd. Virg. p. 685.) That forthwith it should be declared to the king.
[658] Vehementer orat ne se patiatur in tanto versari discrimine. (Ibid.) He earnestly begged him not to suffer himself to be exposed to such hazard.
[659] Bone pater, vide bene quale saxum suo loco jacens movere coneris. Ibid.
[660] Like another Herodes. More's Life, p. 129.
[661] Ipse cui de salute animæ tuæ cura est, hortor, rogo, persuadeo. Polyd. Virg. p. 686.
[662] Mulier præter cæteras digna matrimonio tuo. Polyd. Virg p. 686.
[663] Works (ed. Russell), vol. i. p. 464.
[664] Princeps illa, mulier optima, noluerit quicquam audire de nuptiis, quæ nuptiæ non possunt conjungi sine miserabili Catharinæ casu atque adeo interitu. (Polyd. Virg. p. 687.) That princess, a most noble woman, would not listen to any proposal for an alliance which could not be made without involving Catherine in ruin and death.
[665] Utrum staret ad te an contra te? Le Grand, Preuves, p. 2.
[666] What had been here provided for taking away the impediment of that marriage. (State Papers, i. p. 199.) Le Grand (vol. i. p. 17.) discredits the objections of the bishop of Tarbes; but this letter from Wolsey to Henry VIII establishes them incontrovertibly. And besides, Du Bellay, in a letter afterwards quoted by Le Grand himself, states the matter still more strongly than Wolsey.