KING.
Give her an hundred marks. I’ll to the Queen.
[Exit King.]
OLD LADY.
An hundred marks? By this light, I’ll ha’ more.
An ordinary groom is for such payment.
I will have more or scold it out of him.
Said I for this the girl was like to him?
I’ll have more, or else unsay’t. And now,
While ’tis hot, I’ll put it to the issue.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE II. Lobby before the council-chamber.
Enter Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.
CRANMER.
I hope I am not too late, and yet the gentleman
That was sent to me from the Council prayed me
To make great haste. All fast? What means this? Ho!
Who waits there?
Enter Keeper.
Sure you know me?
KEEPER.
Yes, my lord,
But yet I cannot help you.