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Scene V.
The Queen's Cabinet.Enter Mary, Arundel, Gardiner.
MARY.
These orders expedite. I shall preside
At this great trial.
ARUNDEL.
Doth it please your Grace
That all shall be arraigned to-day—or each
Called separately to plead?
MARY.
Each separately:
But all confronted. Hark you—there are rumours
Of tumults in the city; gatherings
Of sottish malcontents in hostelries;
And fanatick preachments in the Queen's highway.
Let the Queen's Sheriffs look to this. I brook
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Over small plots: wring off the heads of such.
It is reported that Sir Thomas Wyatt
In Suffolk speaks great things: admonish him:
And that one Captain Brett his mouth enlarges,
Among swash-bucklers, prentices, and gownsmen,
Against our rights. Cut me this license short.
I know this Brett; a dangerous man, who parleys
With treason, and consorts with hereticks;
A man without respect for forms or persons.
Your office puts into your hand a sword
To smite such evils. Let it be done.
GARDINER.
Dread Madam,
The voice that I shall speak with to offenders,
Pitched at your tone, shall make the guilty tremble!
[Exeunt.
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