He cannot exalt the Howards, for they are his equals.

Nor can he degrade them.

Catharine died on the scaffold--the king became thereby only a hangman--our escutcheon was not sullied by that act!" "These are very proud words, Henry!" "They become a son of the Norfolks, Rosabella! Ah, see that petty Lord Hertford, Earl Seymour.

He covets a ducal coronet for his sister.

He wants to give her to me to wife; for as soon as our poor father dies, I wear his coronet! The arrogant upstarts! For the sister's escutcheon, my coronet; for the brother's, your coronet.