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SCENE II -- A room in the ARCHBISHOP'S Palace. The ARCHBISHOP and a CARDINAL seated.
Arch. Knowing how near it touched the public morals, / And that our age is grown corrupt and rotten / By such excesses, we have sent to Rome, / Beseeching that his Holiness would aid / In curing the gross surfeit of the time, / By seasonable stop put here in Spain / To bull-fights and lewd dances on the stage. / All this you know.