I hear you've been unwell? Is it true?
Majesty, when was I ever unwell enough not to serve you?
That's what I thought.
“Look to God First” · Season 1, Episode 9
In this episode: Cardinal Wolsey (4), King Henry VIII (3), Anne Boleyn (2), Thomas More (2), Queen Katherine (2), Thomas Cromwell (1)
Have you no kind things to say?
Kind?
To your wife, the mother of your child. You treat me so unkindly and in public neglect me.
Katherine, you must accept the inevitable. The weight of academic opinion is against us. We were never legally man and wife. And the court will decide in my favour and if the court does not decide in my favour, I shall denounce the pope as a heretic and marry whom I please.
Try to discover by subtle means, through his agents, if the emperor is prepared to support his aunt by use of force.
You think he might invade England in support of the queen?
I don't think anything, but I imagine everything.
Wolsey promises me I will have a divorce by summer.
Promises are easy.
I know also your malice against my nephew, the Emperor. You hate him like a scorpion. And why? Because he would not satisfy your ambition and make you pope by force.
Madam, you should never presume...
My only satisfaction is that in frustrating you I hasten your fall from the King's good graces, an outcome I desire above all others.
Francis has betrayed me!
Francis saw the futility of war. He recognised the need for tradition!
[Wolsey, ignoring everything More has said, looks up and glares at him]
[hatefully] And you, Thomas...you have destroyed me!
(smiles) Lady Anne.
Master Cromwell. Do you... do you have a message from the King?
...I think we understand each other. A mutual friend- a Mr. Fish, now living in exile in Holland- has sent me a gift for you. (hands her a book)
What is it, Master Cromwell?
"The Obedience of the Christian Man"... by William Tyndale. It contains many good criticisms of the Papacy; you'll find it most illuminating. But, always and ever, be cautious as to whom you show this. You must know it would be accounted heresy even to possess it. And, Wolsey is still keen enough to prosecute heretics, as we are called... who embrace the true religion.
I will. And God bless you, Master Cromwell.
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