[Enter Cardinal Wolsey, the purse borne before him, certain of the Guard, and two Secretaries, with papers. The Cardinal in his passage fixeth his eye on Buckingham, and Buckingham on him, both full of disdain.]
WOLSEYThe Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?
 Where's his examination?
Here, so please you.
Is he in person ready?
Ay, please your Grace.
Well, we shall then know more; and Buckingham
 Shall lessen this big look.
[Exeunt Wolsey and his train.]
BUCKINGHAMThis butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I
 Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best
 Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book
 Outworths a noble's blood.
What, are you chaf'd?
 Ask God for temp'rance; that's the appliance only
 Which your disease requires.
I read in 's looks
 Matter against me, and his eye revil'd
 Me as his abject object. At this instant
 He bores me with some trick. He's gone to the King;
 I'll follow, and outstare him.
Stay, my lord,
 And let your reason with your choler question
 What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills
 Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like
 A full hot horse, who being allow'd his way,
 Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
 Can advise me like you; be to yourself
 As you would to your friend.
I'll to the King,
 And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
 This Ipswich fellow's insolence, or proclaim
 There's difference in no persons.
Be advis'd;
 Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
 That it do singe yourself. We may outrun,
 By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
 And lose by over-running. Know you not,
 The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er,
 In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advis'd.
 I say again, there is no English soul
 More stronger to direct you than yourself,
 If with the sap of reason you would quench,
 Or but allay, the fire of passion.
Sir,
 I am thankful to you; and I'll go along
 By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow,
 Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
 From sincere motions, by intelligence,
 And proofs as clear as founts in July when
 We see each grain of gravel, I do know
 To be corrupt and treasonous.
Say not "treasonous."
To the King I'll say't, and make my vouch as strong
 As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox,
 Or wolf, or both,  for he is equal ravenous
 As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
 As able to perform't; his mind and place
 Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally 
 Only to show his pomp as well in France
 As here at home, suggests the King our master
 To this last costly treaty, the interview,
 That swallowed so much treasure, and like a glass
 Did break i' the rinsing.
Faith, and so it did.
Pray, give me favour, sir. This cunning Cardinal
 The articles o' the combination drew
 As himself pleas'd; and they were ratified
 As he cried "Thus let be," to as much end
 As give a crutch to the dead. But our count-cardinal
 Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolsey,
 Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows, 
 Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
 To the old dam, treason,  Charles the Emperor,
 Under pretence to see the Queen his aunt, 
 For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came
 To whisper Wolsey,  here makes visitation.
 His fears were, that the interview betwixt
 England and France might, through their amity,
 Breed him some prejudice; for from this league
 Peep'd harms that menac'd him. He privily
 Deals with our Cardinal; and, as I trow, 
 Which I do well, for I am sure the Emperor
 Paid ere he promis'd; whereby his suit was granted
 Ere it was ask'd but when the way was made,
 And pav'd with gold, the Emperor thus desir'd,
 That he would please to alter the King's course,
 And break the foresaid peace. Let the King know,
 As soon he shall by me, that thus the Cardinal
 Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases
 And for his own advantage.
I am sorry
 To hear this of him; and could wish he were
 Something mistaken in't.
No, not a syllable:
 I do pronounce him in that very shape
 He shall appear in proof.
[Enter Brandon, a Sergeant-at-arms before him, and two or three of the Guard.]
BRANDON. Your office, sergeant; execute it.
Sir,
 My lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl
 Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I
 Arrest thee of high treason, in the name
 Of our most sovereign king.
Lo, you, my lord,
 The net has fall'n upon me! I shall perish
 Under device and practice.
I am sorry
 To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on
 The business present. 'Tis his Highness' pleasure
 You shall to the Tower.
It will help nothing
 To plead mine innocence; for that dye is on me
 Which makes my whit'st part black. The will of Heaven
 Be done in this and all things! I obey.
 O my Lord Abergavenny, fare you well!
Nay, he must bear you company.
[To Abergavenny.] The King
Is pleas'd you shall to the Tower, till you know
 How he determines further.
As the Duke said,
 The will of Heaven be done, and the King's pleasure
 By me obey'd!
Here is warrant from
 The King to attach Lord Montacute, and the bodies
 Of the Duke's confessor, John de la Car,
 One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor, 
So, so;
 These are the limbs o' the plot. No more, I hope?
A monk o' the Chartreux.
O, Nicholas Hopkins?
He.
My surveyor is false; the o'er-great Cardinal
 Hath show'd him gold; my life is spann'd already.
 I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
 Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on,
 By dark'ning my clear sun. My lord, farewell.
[Exeunt.]