A Groom of the Chamber's Religion in King Henry the Eighth's Time
One of King Henry's favourites began
To move the King one day to take a man
Whom of his chamber he might make a groom.
‘Soft’, said the King, ‘before I grant that room,
It is a question not to be neglected
How he in his religion stands affected.’
‘For his religion’, answered then the minion,
‘I do not certain know what's his opinion.
But sure he may, talking with men of learning,
Conform himself in less than ten days' warning.’
To move the King one day to take a man
Whom of his chamber he might make a groom.
‘Soft’, said the King, ‘before I grant that room,
It is a question not to be neglected
How he in his religion stands affected.’
‘For his religion’, answered then the minion,
‘I do not certain know what's his opinion.
But sure he may, talking with men of learning,
Conform himself in less than ten days' warning.’
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