[336] Mumchance appears to have been a game played with dice, at which silence was to be observed.—Singer.
[337] Probably a handsomer figure than the King. This (though not the subtlest imaginable) would be likely to be among Wolsey's court-tricks, and modes of gaining favour.
[338] This "dashed out" is in the best style of bluff King Hal, and capitally well said by Cavendish.
[339] Lingard, vol. iv., p. 246. (Quarto Edit.)
[340] Vol. iii., p. 862, Edit. 1808.
[341] Folio edit
[342] Ut supra, p. 347. Henry had been afflicted with this ulcer a long while. He was in danger from it during his marriage with Anne Bullen. It should be allowed him among his excuses of temperament; but then it should also have made him more considerate towards his wives. It never enters the heads, however, of such people that their faults or infirmities are to go for anything, except to make others considerate for them, and warrant whatever humours they choose to indulge.
[343] Nicholls's "Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth," year 1595, pp. 4-8. "He will ever bear in his heart the picture of her beauty." "He now looks on his mistress's outside with the eyes of sense, which are dazzled and amased."
[344] See the poems in Anderson's Edition, vol. ii., p. 706.
[345] From an article in the second volume of that elegant and interesting publication, the "Retrospective Review;" the discontinuance of which, some years back, was regretted by every lover of literature.