You were wishing that he were a criminal; and I shall prove to you that he is so." "Oh, I shall then be able at least to tread his hated head under my feet," said the king, grinding his teeth.

"I shall no more tremble before this malicious enemy, who goes about among my people with his hypocritical tongue, while I, tortured with pain, sit in the dungeon of my sickroom.

Yes, yes, I thank you, Douglas, that you will hand him over to my arm of vengeance; and my soul is full of joy and serenity at it.
Ah, why were you obliged to cloud this fair, this sublime hour?
Why was it necessary to weave the queen into this gloomy web of guilt and crime?
Her cheerful smile and her radiant looks have ever been an enjoyment so dear to my eyes." "Sire, I do not by any means say that the queen is guilty.

Only there was no other means to prove to you Earl Surrey's guilt than that you should hear for yourself his confession of love to the queen." "And I will hear it!" cried the king, who had now already overcome the sentimental emotion of his heart.
"Yes, I will have full conviction of Surrey's guilt; and woe to the queen, should I find her also guilty! This night, then, earl! But till then, silence and secrecy! We will have father and son seized and imprisoned at the same hour; for otherwise the imprisonment of the one might easily serve as a warning to the other, and he might escape my just wrath.

Ah, they are so sly--these Howards--and their hearts are so full of cunning and malice! But now they shall escape me no more; now they are ours! How it does me good to think that! And how briskly and lightly my heart leaps! It is as though a stream of new life were rushing through my veins, and a new power were infused into my blood.
Oh, it was these Howards that made me sick.