Rembrandt Painting

Rembrandt Painting

"Why, so in sooth I did; I do remember it.... What did I with it!... I am very feeble.... So oft these days doth my memory play the traitor with me.... "Tis strange, strange-"
The king dropped into inarticulate mumblings, shaking his gray head weakly from time to time, and gropingly trying to recollect what he had done with the Seal. At last my Lord Hertford ventured to kneel and offer information-
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Sire, if that I may be so bold, here be several that do remember with me how that you gave the Great Seal into the hands of his Highness the Prince of Wales to keep against the day that-"
"True, most true!" interrupted the king. "Fetch it! Go: time flieth!"
Lord Hertford flew to Tom, but returned to the king before very long, troubled and empty-handed. He delivered himself to this effect:
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