And a true lover of the Holy Church.
Ely. The courses of his youth promis'd it not.
Cant. The breath no sooner left his father's body," etc.
It is really marvellous that for two centuries and a half no critic—not even Theobald or Tyrwhitt—should have discerned that this was the true distribution of the speeches. See Introd. p. [48].
"Upon our spiritual convocation."
This is no doubt metrical; but it is not easy to make sense of it. I suspect that the poet may have written 'Upon the part of,' the verse still being metrical.
Sc. 2.
"They know your Grace has cause and means and might ..."