205 Nor cease to be an arrogant controller,

Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times.

[♦] War. Madam, be still; with reverence may I say;

For every word you speak in his behalf

Is slander to your royal dignity.

210 Suf. Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour!

If ever lady wrong’d her lord so much,

Thy mother took into her blameful bed

Some stern untutor’d churl, and noble stock

Was graft with crab-tree slip; whose fruit thou art