First, Shake-Speare:
Katherine: My soul grows sad with troubles
.....
Pray do my service to his Majesty;
He has my heart yet and shall have my prayers
While I shall have my life.
.....
Pray do my service to his Majesty;
He has my heart yet and shall have my prayers
While I shall have my life.
Henry VIII, 3.1.1 and 179-81
and now Bacon:
"And the Lady Katherine herself (a sad and religious woman) long after, when King Henry the Eight his resolution of a divorce from her was first made known to her, used some words that she had not offended, but it was a judgment of God.
History of Henry VII
History of Henry VII
Comment: Our authors, unlike Holinshed, both describe Katherine as "sad" and depict her as religious.
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