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586 of these complaints, however, and Cromwell remained with the Cardinal till his fall.

It was then that the truly noble nature which was in him showed itself. He accompanied his master through his dreary confinement at Esher, doing all that man could do to soften the outward wretchedness of it; and at the meeting of Parliament, in which he obtained a seat, he rendered him a still more gallant service. The Lords had passed a bill of impeachment against Wolsey, violent, vindictive, and malevolent.