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Title: The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Cavendish, George, 1500-1561? Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
Subjects: Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530 Statesmen Cardinals
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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to dance with them, and so to have of them ac-quaintance. And, sir, they furthermore require of your Gracelicence to accomplish the cause of their repair. To whom thecardinal answered, that he was very well contented they shouldso do. Then the maskers went first and saluted all the damesas they sat, and then returned to the most worthiest, and thereopened a cup full of gold, with crowns, and other pieces ofcoin, to whom they set divers pieces to cast at. Thus in thismanner perusing all the ladies and gentlewomen, and to somethey lost, and of some they won. And thus done, they returnedunto the cardinal, with great reverence, pouring down all thecrowns in the cup, which was about two hundred crowns. * Atall, quoth the cardinal, and so cast the dice, and won them allat a cast; whereat was great joy made. Then quoth the car-dinal to my Lord Chamberlain, I pray you, quoth he, showthem that it seemeth me how there should be among themsome noble man, whom I suppose to be much more worthy of
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Cardinal Wol&tp 27 honour to sit and occupy this room and place than I; to whomI would most gladly, if I knew him, surrender my place ac-cording to my duty. Then spake my Lord Chamberlain untothem in French, declaring my Lord Cardinals mind, and theyrounding him again in the ear, my Lord Chamberlain said tomy Lord Cardinal, * Sir, they confess, quoth he, that amongthem there is such a noble personage, among whom, if yourGrace can appoint him from the other, he is contented to dis-close himself, and to accept your place most worthily. Withthat the cardinal, taking a good advisement among them, atthe last, quoth he, me seemeth the gentleman with the blackbeard should be even he. And with that he arose out of hischair, and offered the same to the gentleman in the black beard,with his cap in his hand. The person to whom he offered thenhis chair was Sir Edward Neville, a comely knight of a goodlypersonage, that much more resembled the kings person in thatmask, than any other. The king,

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