Wolsey rejoins:

"I do professe

That for your Highnesse good, I ever labour'd

More then mine owne: that am, haue, and will be

(Though all the world should crack their duty to you,

And throw it from their Soule, though perils did

Abound, as thicke as thought could make 'em, and

Appeare in formes more horrid) yet my Duty,

As doth a Rocke against the chiding Flood,

Should the approach of this wilde River breake,