Cardinal Wolsey Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina
serenissima,--
O, good my lord, no Latin;
I am not such a truant since my coming,
As not to know the language I have lived in:
A strange tongue makes my cause more strange,
suspicious;
Pray, speak in English: here are some will thank you,
If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake;
Believe me, she has had much wrong: lord cardinal,
The willing'st sin I ever yet committed
May be absolved in English.
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SCENE I. London. QUEEN KATHARINE's apartments.
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