ABSTRACT
CROMWELL: Now we plainly see that you are malicious! MORE: Not so, Master Secretary! . . . I am the King’s true subject, and
pray for him and all the realm . . . I do none harm, I say none harm, I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live . . . I have, since I came to prison, been several times in such a case that I thought to die within the hour, and I thank Our Lord I was never sorry for it, but rather sorry when it passed. And therefore, my poor body is at the King’s pleasure. Would God my death might do him some good . . . Nevertheless, it is not for the Supremacy that you have sought my blood – but because I would not bend to the marriage!3
