And so was comforted. Remember, also,
In weeping I can pray. Should I not?
Cardinal. Yea.
Pray with thanksgiving: ’tis the sum of duty.”
The sublimity of this passage needs no comment. The rest of the scene is equally touching. Mary speaks for an instant of Philip. She is still obliged to say:
“Whene’er I turn my thoughts to God, one image
Stands between me and heaven. Instead of prayer
A sigh for Philip trembles on my lips.
Cardinal. To pine thus for the absent, as men mourn
The dead, is sinful.