You wanted to have Henry Howard in your power; and this crafty and hypocritical earl knew how to conceal his guilt so securely under the mask of virtue and loftiness of soul! But I knew him, and behind this mask I had seen his face distorted with passion and crime.

I wanted to unmask him; but for this, it was necessary that I should deceive first him, and then for the hour even yourself.

I knew that he burned with an adulterous love for the queen, and I wanted to avail myself of the madness of this passion, in order to bring him surely and unavoidably to a richly-deserved punishment.

But I would not draw the pure and exalted person of the queen into this net with which we wanted to surround Earl Surrey.

I was obliged, then, to seek a substitute for her; and I did so.