All this was ordered by the good discretion

Norfolk
All this was ordered by the good discretion
Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.

No man’s pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.

Buckingham
The devil speed him! No man’s pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.Metaphor What had he
To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
That such a keech can with his very bulk
Take up the rays o’ th’ beneficial sun
And keep it from the Earth.Metaphor
Norfolk
Surely, sir,
There’s in him stuff that puts him to these ends;
For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace
Chalks successors their way,Apposition nor called upon
For high feats done to th’ crown, neither allied
To eminent assistants, but spiderlike,
Out of his self-drawing web,Simile he gives us note
The force of his own merit makes his way—
A gift that heaven gives for him which buys
A place next to the King.