This facsimile reproduces an engraved portrait of King Henry VIII in the Elizabethan Club. It represents the king as he appeared in 1544, near the end of his life. The engraving illustrates the earliest period of the art in England and was executed by Cornelius Metzys (1511?-1550?), son of the Flemish painter Quentin Metzys. KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. CARDINAL WOLSEY. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS. CAPUCIUS, Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V. CRANMER, Archbishop of Canterbury. DUKE OF Norfolk. DUKE OF SUffolk. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. EARL OF SURREY. LORD CHANCELLOR. LORD CHAMBERLAIN. GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester. BISHOP OF LINCOLN. SIR THOMAS LOVELL. GRIFFITH, Gentleman-Usher to Queen Katharine. BRANDON, and a Sergeant-at-Arms. QUEEN KATHARINE, Wife to King Henry. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth THE PROLOGUE I come no more to make you laugh: things now, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, May here find truth too. Those that come to see The play may pass, if they be still and willing, In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring, Will leave us never an understanding friend. The Prologue; cf. n. 3 Sad: serious 9 truth; cf. n. working: full of pathos state: dignity 16 In... coat; cf. n. guarded: trimmed 19 As fool and fight is; cf. n. 21 intend: undertake 8 121 16 20 24 12 shilling; cf. n. 20 opinion: reputation, intention 22 Will leave us; cf. n. Be sad, as we would make ye: think ye see As they were living; think you see them great, ACT FIRST Scene One [London. An Antechamber in the Palace] Enter the Duke of Norfolk at one door; at the other, the Duke of Buckingham and the Lord Abergavenny. Buck. Good morrow, and well met. How have you done, Since last we saw in France? Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Nor. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde: I was then present, saw them salute on horseback; 8 Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung In their embracement, as they grew together; 25, 26 Cf. n. Scene One S. d. Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Buckingham, Lord Abergavenny; cf. n. 6 Those suns of glory; cf. n. 2 saw: met 7 vale of Andren; cf. n. |