Chapter XCIX: Act II: SCENE 2. Page 71
NOR. I'll venture one _heave_ at him.
The first folio reads "I'll venture one; _have_ at him," and this, except as to the punctuation, is right. _Have at you_ was a common phrase; it is used by Surrey in the ensuing act, and afterwards by Cromwell.
SCENE 2. Page 73.
CAM. ... which so griev'd him, [Doctor Pace]
That he ran mad and died.
This is from Holinshed. "Aboute this time the king received into favor doctor Stephen Gardiner, whose service he used in matters of great secrecie and weighte, admitting him in the room of Doctor Pace, the which being continually abrode in ambassades, and the same oftentymes not much necessarie, by the Cardinalles appointment, at length he toke such greefe therwith, that he fell out of his right wittes."
SCENE 3. Page 75.
ANNE. ... 'tis a sufferance panging
As soul and body's severing.
Of the parallel passages already cited, this is not the least so, from _Measure for measure_;
"... in _corporal sufferance_ feels a _pang_ as great
As when a giant dies."
SCENE 4. Page 98.
[_they rise to depart._
Mr. Ridley's note is very judiciously introduced to get rid of the interpolated stage direction inserted by some of the editors, and to account for the king's apostrophe to Cranmer. He might have adduced an earlier exemplification of his remark from the ensuing scene, where Norfolk asks, _when Cranmer returns_? The archbishop of Canterbury, who attends the procession to Blackfriars, was William Warham.
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