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Speeches (Lines) for Queen Katharine
in "Henry VIII"

Total: 50

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# Act, Scene, Line
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Speech text

1

I,2,328

Nay, we must longer kneel: I am a suitor.

2

I,2,333

Thank your majesty.
That you would love yourself, and in that love...

3

I,2,339

I am solicited, not by a few,
And those of true condition, that your subjects...

4

I,2,369

No, my lord,
You know no more than others; but you frame...

5

I,2,382

I am much too venturous
In tempting of your patience; but am bolden'd...

6

I,2,444

I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
Is run in your displeasure.

7

I,2,481

My learn'd lord cardinal,
Deliver all with charity.

8

I,2,515

If I know you well,
You were the duke's surveyor, and lost your office...

9

I,2,553

God mend all!

10

II,4,1369

Sir, I desire you do me right and justice;
And to bestow your pity on me: for...

11

II,4,1427

Lord cardinal,
To you I speak.

12

II,4,1430

Sir,
I am about to weep; but, thinking that...

13

II,4,1436

I will, when you are humble; nay, before,
Or God will punish me. I do believe,...

14

II,4,1469

My lord, my lord,
I am a simple woman, much too weak...

15

II,4,1495

What need you note it? pray you, keep your way:
When you are call'd, return. Now, the Lord help,...

16

III,1,1620

Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles;
Sing, and disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working....

17

III,1,1636

How now!

18

III,1,1639

Would they speak with me?

19

III,1,1641

Pray their graces
To come near....

20

III,1,1651

Your graces find me here part of a housewife,
I would be all, against the worst may happen....

21

III,1,1657

Speak it here:
There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience,...

22

III,1,1670

O, good my lord, no Latin;
I am not such a truant since my coming,...

23

III,1,1699

[Aside]. To betray me.—
My lords, I thank you both for your good wills;...

24

III,1,1715

In England
But little for my profit: can you think, lords,...

25

III,1,1727

How, sir?

26

III,1,1734

Ye tell me what ye wish for both,—my ruin:
Is this your Christian counsel? out upon ye!...

27

III,1,1739

The more shame for ye: holy men I thought ye,
Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues;...

28

III,1,1751

Ye turn me into nothing: woe upon ye
And all such false professors! would you have me—...

29

III,1,1763

Have I lived thus long—let me speak myself,
Since virtue finds no friends—a wife, a true one?...

30

III,1,1778

My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty,
To give up willingly that noble title...

31

III,1,1783

Would I had never trod this English earth,
Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!...

32

III,1,1816

Do what ye will, my lords: and, pray, forgive me,
If I have used myself unmannerly;...

33

IV,2,2559

O Griffith, sick to death!
My legs, like loaden branches, bow to the earth,...

34

IV,2,2567

Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died:
If well, he stepp'd before me, happily...

35

IV,2,2576

Alas, poor man!

36

IV,2,2591

So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!
Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,...

37

IV,2,2609

Yes, good Griffith;
I were malicious else.

38

IV,2,2632

After my death I wish no other herald,
No other speaker of my living actions,...

39

IV,2,2664

Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone,
And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?

40

IV,2,2667

It is not you I call for:
Saw ye none enter since I slept?

41

IV,2,2670

No? Saw you not, even now, a blessed troop
Invite me to a banquet; whose bright faces...

42

IV,2,2678

Bid the music leave,
They are harsh and heavy to me.

43

IV,2,2689

You are a saucy fellow:
Deserve we no more reverence?

44

IV,2,2697

Admit him entrance, Griffith: but this fellow
Let me ne'er see again....

45

IV,2,2705

O, my lord,
The times and titles now are alter'd strangely...

46

IV,2,2715

O my good lord, that comfort comes too late;
'Tis like a pardon after execution:...

47

IV,2,2721

So may he ever do! and ever flourish,
When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name...

48

IV,2,2727

Sir, I most humbly pray you to deliver
This to my lord the king.

49

IV,2,2730

In which I have commended to his goodness
The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter;...

50

IV,2,2760

I thank you, honest lord. Remember me
In all humility unto his highness:...

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