Compare 1587 edition: 1 Kildare inter|rupteth the Cardinals tale

My Lord Chancellor, I beſeech you pardon me, I am ſhort witted, and you I perceyue in|tende a long tale: if you proceede in this order, halfe my purgation will be loſt for lacke of car|riage. I haue no ſchoole trickes, nor arte of me|morie: excepte you heare me while I remember your wordes, your ſecond proceſſe will hammer out the former.

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The Lords aſſociate, who for the moſt parte tenderly loued him, and knew the Cardinall his manner of tauntes ſo lothſome, as wherewith they were invred many yeares agone, humbly be ſought his grace, to charge him directly with particulars, and to dwell in ſome one matter, vntill it were examined throughly: that graun|ted, it is good reaſon (quoth the Earle) that youre grace beare the mouth of thys boorde,He anſwereth the Cardinals obiection. but my Lorde, thoſe mouthes that put theſe things into your mouth, are verye wyde mouthes, ſuche in deede as haue gaped long for my wracke, and nowe at length, for wante of better ſtuffe, are fayne to fill their mouthes with ſmoke. What my couſin Deſmonde hathe compaſſed, as I knowe not, ſo I beſhrew his naked hearte, for holding out ſo long. If hee can bee taken by my agents, that preſently waite for him, then haue mine aduerſaries bewrayed their malice, and this heape of heynous wordes ſhall reſemble a ſcarcrowe, or a man of ſtrawe, that ſeemeth at a bluſhe to carrie ſome proportion, but when it is felt and peyſed, diſcouereth a vanitie, ſeruyng only to feare Crowes: and I verily truſt, youre honours ſhall ſee the proofe by the thing it ſelfe, within theſe few dayes. But go too: ſuppoſe hee neuer be hadde, what is Kildare too blame for it more than my good brother of Oſſorie? who notwithſtanding his high promiſes, hauing alſo the King his power, is yet content to bring him in at leyſure. Cannot the Earle of Deſmonde ſhift, but I muſt be of counſell? cannot hee hyde him, except I winke? if hee bee cloſe, am I hys mate? if he be friended, am I a Traytour? This is a doughty kynde of accuſation, whiche they vrge agaynſte me, wherein they are ſtabled and mired at my firſte deniall. You woulde not ſee him (ſay they) who made them ſo familiar with mine eyeſight? or when was the Earle within my viewe? or who ſtoode by, when I let hym ſlippe? or where are the tokens of my wilfull hudwinke? but you ſente him worde to beware of you: who was the meſſenger? where are the letters? conuince my negatiues, ſee how looſely this idle geare hangeth togither. Deſmonde is not taken. Well, you are in fault, why? bycauſe you are: who proueth it? no body: what coniec|tures? ſo it ſeemeth: to whome? to your enimies: who tolde it them? they will ſweare it. What other groũd? none: wil they ſweare it my Lord? why then of like they know it, eyther they haue mine hãd to ſhewe, or can bring forth y^e meſſen|ger, or were preſent at a conference, or priuie to Deſmonde, or ſome body bewrayed it to them, or they themſelues were my carriers or vicege|rentes therein: whiche of theſe partes wyll EEBO page image 83 they chooſe, for I know them too well. To recken my ſelfe conuict by their bare wordes or headleſſe ſayings, or frantike othes, were but a mere moc|kerie. My Letter were ſome read, were any ſuch wryting extant, my ſeruants and friends are rea|die to be ſifted: of my couſin of Deſmonde they may li [...] lewdly, ſince no man here can well con|trarie them. Touching my ſelfe, I neuer noted in them eyther ſo much wit, or ſo faſt ſayth, that I would haue gaged vpon their ſilence the life of a good hounde, much leſſe mine owne. I doubt not, may it lyke your honours, to appoſe them, how they came to the knowledge of thoſe mat|ters, which they are ſo readie to depoſe: but you ſhall finde their tongues chayned to an other man his trencher, and as it were knightes of the poſt, ſuborned to ſay, ſweare, and ſtare the vttermoſte they can, as thoſe that paſſe not what they ſay, nor wyth what face they ſay it, ſo they ſaye no truth. But of an other ſide it grieueth mee, that your good grace whom I take to be wiſe & ſharpe, & who of your bleſſed diſpoſition wiſheth me well, ſhoulde be ſo farre gone in crediting theſe corrupt informers, that abuſe the ignorance of your ſtate and Countrey to my perill. Little knowe you, my Lorde, how neceſſarie it is, not onely for the gouernour, but alſo for euery Noble man in Ire|lande to hamper his vnciuil neighbours at diſcre|tion, wherein if they wayted for proceſſe of lawe, and had not thoſe lyues and landes you ſpeake of within theyr reach, they might happe to loſe their owne liues and landes, without lawe. You heare of a caſe as it were in a dreame, and feele not the ſmart that vexeth vs. In Englande there is not a meane ſubiect,a what caſe and the noble men of Irelãd with rebels. that dare extend his hande to fil|lippe a peere of the Realme. In Irelande except the Lord haue cunning to his ſtrength, & ſtrength to ſaue his crowne, and ſufficient authoritie to take theeues and varlets when they ſturre, he ſhal finde them ſwarme ſo faſt, that it will be to late to call for iuſtice. If you wil haue our ſeruice take effect, you muſt not tie vs alwayes to theſe iudi|ciall proceedings, wherewith your realme (than|ked be God) is inured. Touching my kingdome I know not what your Lordſhip ſhoulde meane thereby. If your Grace imagin, that a kingdom conſiſteth in ſeruing God, in obeying the prince, in gouerning with loue the common wealth, in ſhouldering ſubiects, in ſuppreſſing Rebelles, in executing iuſtice, in brideling blind affections, I would be willing to be inueſted with ſo vertuous and royall a name. But if therefore you terme me a king, in that you are perſwaded that I re|pine at the gouernment of my ſoueraigne, or winke at male factors, or oppreſſe ciuill liuers, I vtterly diſclayme in that odious tearme, maruey|ling greatly, that one of your Grace his profound wiſdome, woulde ſeeme to appropriate ſo ſacred a name to ſo wicked a thing. But howſoeuer it be, my Lorde, I woulde you and I had chaun|ged Kingdomes but for one Moneth, I woulde truſt to gather vp more crummes in that ſpace, than twiſe the reuenues of my poore Earledome: but you are well and warme, and ſo holde you, and vpbrayde not me with ſuch an odious terme. I ſlmuber in an hard Cabyn, whẽ you ſleepe in a ſoft bed of downe: I ſerue vnder the Kyng hys Cope of heauen, when you are ſerued vnder a ca|napie: I drinke water out of my ſkull, when you drinke wine out of golden cuppes: my courſer is trayned to the fielde, when your Genet is taught to amble: when you are begraced and belorded, and crouched and kneeled vnto, then find I ſmall grace with our Iriſh borderers, excepte I cut thẽ off by the knees.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At theſe gyrdes the Counſayle woulde haue ſmyled, if they durſt, but eche man bit his lippe, and held his countenaunce: for howſoeuer ſome of them inclined to the Erle of Oſſorie,The Cardinall not beloued. they ha|ted all the Cardinall, who perceyuing that Kil|dare was no babe, roſe in a fume from the Coun|ſayle table, commytted the Earle, and deferred the matter, till more direct probations came out of Irelande.