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They say, 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'

Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.

Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near

To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.

Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last

Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wrack,

And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall.

Sort how it will I shall have gold for all.

1. Pet. My masters, let's stand close: my

Lord Protector will come this way by and by,

and then we may deliver our supplications in

the quill.

2. Pet. Marry, the Lord protect him, for

he's a good man! Jesu bless him!

1. Pet. Here a' comes, methinks, and the

queen with him. I'll be the first, sure.

2. Pet. Come back, fool! this is the Duke

of Suffolk and not my Lord Protector.

Suf. How now, fellow! wouldst anything

with me?

1. Pet. I pray, my lord, pardon me: I took

ye for my Lord Protector.

Queen. [Glancing at the Superscriptions.]

 100 broker: agent, go-between

106 attainture: conviction

 3, 4 in the quill: in a body 