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Updated: June 18, 2025
'Are there many men in my antechambers? he asked Viridus, and hearing that there were more than one hundred and fifty: 'Why, let this wench stay there a half-hour. It humbles a woman to be alone among so many men, and she shall come here without a sound clout to her back for the crush of them.
'Ye sent no boy to stay him at Calais with lieutenancy of barges? Cromwell asked, swiftly and hard in voice. 'No boy ne no man, Viridus answered. He had acted by the card of Privy Seal's injunctions; men were posted at Calais, at Dover, at Ashford, at Maidstone, at Sandwich, at Rochester, at Greenwich, at all the landing places of London.
Katharine laughed; she was sorely afraid of the serving man behind her, for that he was a spy set there by Viridus she was very sure, and she was casting about in her mind for a device that should let her tell whether or no he had known the bishop.
'Would your master have me dip my fingers in the dish and wipe them on bread-manchets as the Queen does? Katharine asked in a serious expostulation. 'It were an excellent action, Viridus answered. There was a brazen flare of trumpets so that the smoke swirled among the rafters. Men with brass helmets and shields of brass were below in the hall.
Cromwell said: 'Tush; I must have the best of these Flemish furnishings. He signed to Viridus to send for Katharine Howard, and went on talking with Sadler about the furnishing of his house in the Austin Friars.
'That neither do you make a beast of yourself if you come before the King's great majesty this night, Viridus said in his cold and minatory voice, 'not yet smell beastly of liquors when you kiss the King his hand. Culpepper said: 'By Cock! I had forgot the King's highness.
'Master Viridus, thou art naught to this. Three farms shall not content me nor yet ten. Throckmorton's eyes shot a glance at Viridus and back again to Lascelles' face. 'If you speak I slay you, he said. Lascelles' eyes started from his head, his mouth worked, and on the table his hands jerked convulsively. But Throckmorton had seen that Viridus still sat motionless. 'By Cock! Culpepper cried.
You shall sit at the table with the door a little opened, so that ye may see when the King's Highness cometh. But you shall sit opposite T. Culpepper that he may not see. Viridus remained like a statue carved of wood, motionless, his head inclined to the ground. Lascelles had his head forward, his mouth a little open.
The faces of Cromwell's three assistants were upon her, hard, sardonic and grinning. Viridus said, with an air of parade: 'I had told your lordship this lady had flaws in her loyalty. And the Chancellor was raising his hands in horror, after the fashion of a Greek Chorus. Cromwell, however, grinned still at her.
Their English hoods with the tails down made the head sleek and comely; or, with the tails folded up and pinned square like flat caps they could give to the face a gallant or a pensive expression. 'Why, I could never get me in at the door of the confessional with such a spreading cloth. Viridus had his chin on the rail of the gallery; he gazed down below with his snaky eyes.
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