I thought of two more:
A wise man will pay no attention to ordinary rumors. You may infer from it that my subjects are not very well pleased that my cause has come to no better conclusion.
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Idk how many of these are “burns”, mainly just ones I think are Funny:
- Henry VIII dad-zoning that one (of…many) ambassadors that kept sending dispatches about how handsome he was.
- “I have this day waited on the King, who arrived late last evening accompanied by the Lady…
To his inquiries about the state of affairs in [Germany] I replied that advices from Envers (Antwerp) stated that everything was improving, and all hoped that Your Majesty would soon make a complete and permanent reform. On this the King observed that there was a report in circulation that the cardinal of Mayence (Maintz) had taken a wife to himself, which was a very scandalous proceeding, and a bad beginning of reform.”- ‘Did I not tell you that whenever you disputed with the queen she was sure to have the upper hand?’
Another time, [Anne Boleyn] was in the king’s privy chamber and, hearing that Wolsey was hovering importantly outside, waiting for her dismissal and the commencement of men’s business, she rapped out a message for him to come and join them: ‘Where else should he come, except where the king is?’
Moreover, if it had been a case in which the Pope could dispense, the bull on which the Queen chiefly relies was acknowledged to be insufficient both here and at Rome when the King’s agents were there (although the King does not trust the Romans to adhere to their opinion), for it suggests falsely that the King desired the marriage for the sake of peace,—a matter of which he was then incapable of judging, being then under 12 years old.
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