Befall what may; they cannot take that from me. [Exit.
Scene II.—A room in the Archbishop’s Palace. The Archbishop and a Cardinal seated.
Arch. Knowing how near it touched the public morals,
And that our age is grown corrupt and rotten
By such excesses, we have sent to Rome,
Beseeching that his Holiness would aid
In curing the gross surfeit of the time,
By seasonable stop put here in Spain
To bull-fights and lewd dances on the stage.