Your sister waits her trial.

Gardiner. Let me speak.

While she, the princess, lives, there is no safety

For England, for the Church.”

Here Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower, enters with a sealed warrant.

“Bridges. Your Grace will pardon, if, in a case like this,

Your servant feels misgiving. This sealed warrant

Commands me yield the princess—to be dealt with

As sentence shall direct.

Queen. O thou good servant!