. The life of Cardinal Wolsey . ithin this realm orelsewhere. Their intent and purpose was onlybut to get him out of the kings daily presence,and to convey him out of the realm, that theymight have convenient leisure and opportunity toadventure their long desired enterprise, and bythe aid of their chief mistress, my Lady Anne,to deprave him so unto the king in his absence,that he should be rather in his high displeasurethan in his accustomed favour, or at the leastto be in less estimation with his ! what will you have more? This matterwas so handled that the cardinal was com-manded
. The life of Cardinal Wolsey . ithin this realm orelsewhere. Their intent and purpose was onlybut to get him out of the kings daily presence,and to convey him out of the realm, that theymight have convenient leisure and opportunity toadventure their long desired enterprise, and bythe aid of their chief mistress, my Lady Anne,to deprave him so unto the king in his absence,that he should be rather in his high displeasurethan in his accustomed favour, or at the leastto be in less estimation with his ! what will you have more? This matterwas so handled that the cardinal was com-manded to prepare himself to this journey; the sharp bit to break horses with. A farriers brake was a machine toconfine or trammel the legs of unruly horses. An antient instru-ment of torture was also called a brake; and a thorny brake meantan intricate thicket of thorns. Shakerly Marmion, in his comedyof Hollands Leaguer, evidently uses the word in the same sensewith Cavendish: Her Ill make A stale to catch this courtier in a CARDINAL VVOLSEY. 149 which he was fain to take upon liini; but whe-ther it was with his good will or no, I am notwell able to tell you. But this I know, thathe made a short abode after the determinedresolution thereof, but caused all things tobe prepared onward toward his journey. Andevery one of his servants were appointed thatshould attend upon him in the same. AVlien all things were fully concluded, andfor this noble embassy provided and furnished,then was no lett, but advance forwards in thename of God. My Lord Cardinal had with himsuch of the lords and bishops and other worthypersons as were not privy of the conspiracy. Then marched he forward out of his own houseat Westminster, passing through all London ^over London Bridge, having before him of gen-tlemen a great number, three in a rank, in blackvelvet livery coats, and the most part of themwith great chains of gold about their all his yeomen, with noblemens and gen-tlemens servants fo
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