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"At the far end a dais. On this three chairs, two under one canopy / for" MARY "and" PHILIP, "another on the right of these for" POLE. / "Under the dais on" POLE'S "side, ranged along the wall, sit all the / Spiritual Peers, and along the wall opposite, all the Temporal. The / Commons on cross benches in front, a line of approach to the dais / between them. In the foreground", SIR RALPH BAGENHALL "and other / Members of the Commons".
FIRST MEMBER. St. Andrew's day; sit close, sit close, we are friends. / Is reconciled the word? the Pope again? / It must be thus; and yet, cocksbody! how strange / That Gardiner, once so one with all of us / Against this foreign marriage, should have yielded / So utterly! strange! but stranger still that he, / So fierce against the Headship of the Pope, / Should play the second actor in this pageant / That brings him in; such a cameleon he!