Mojo, The Bard, & Me

Today’s Totally Random Line

What! Is my Lord of Winchester install’d,

And call’d unto a cardinal’s degree?

Exeter

Henry the Sixth Part I               Act V, Scene i, Line 29                            

I’ve no idea what’s going on here other than what I read in the stage direction: Enter Winchester [in Cardinal’s habit], a Legate, and two Ambassadors.

Presumably, based on Exeter’s comment, the Cardinal’s habit is something new for Winchester. I suppose I’d be a bit surprised too if someone I knew showed up in a Cardinals habit.  

These two see a lot of cardinals in cardinal habits. 

No surprises here.