"I thought it good, in Release of the weighty Burthen of my weak Conscience, and also the quiet Estate of this worthy Realm, to attempt the Law therein, whether I may lawfully take another Wife, by whom God may send me more Issue, in case this my first Copulation was not good, without any carnal Concupiscence, and not for any Displeasure or misliking of the Queen's Person and Age, with whom I would be as well contented to continue, if our Marriage may stand with the Laws of God, as with any alive."
Shakespear Illustrated
Text from <u>Shakespear Illustrated: or the Novels and Histories, on which the Plays of Shakespear are Founded, Collected and Translated from the Original Authors. With Critical Remarks. The Third and Last volume. By the Author of The Female Quixote.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004893348.0001.003">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;