KING HENRY VIII. CARDINAL WOLSEY. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS. CAPUCIUS, ambassador from the Emperor Charles V. CRANMER, archbishop of Canterbury. DUKE OF NORFOLK. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. DUKE OF SUFFOLK. EARL OF SURREY. Lord Chamberlain. Lord Chancellor. GARDINER, bishop of Winchester. Bishop of Lincoln. LORD ABERGAVENNY. LORD SANDYS (called also SIR WILLIAM SANDYS). SIR HENRY GUILDFORD. SIR THOMAS LOVELL. SIR ANTHONY DENNY. SIR NICHOLAS VAUX. CROMWELL, Servant to Wolsey. Secretaries to Wolsey. GRIFFITH, gentleman usher to Queen Katherine. Three Gentlemen. DOCTOR BUTTS, physician to the King. Garter King-at-Arms. Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham. BRANDON, and a Sergeant-at-Arms. Door-keeper of the Council-chamber. Porter, and his Man. QUEEN KATHERINE, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced. ANNE BULLEN, her Maid of Honour, afterwards Queen. An old Lady, friend to Anne Bullen. PATIENCE, Woman to Queen Katherine. Spirits. Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women attending upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. SCENE: London; Westminster; Kimbolton.] 2 The Life of Henry the Eighth THE PROLOGUE I COME no more to make you laugh: things now, 5 May here find truth too. Those that come to see Only a show or two, and so agree 10 The play may pass, if they be still and willing, Richly in two short hours. Only they In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, 15 Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring 20 To make that only true we now intend, Will leave us never an understanding friend. Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known The first and happiest hearers of the town, Be sad, as we would make ye; think ye see 25 As they were living; think you see them great, 30 ACT FIRST SCENE I [London. An ante-chamber in the palace.] Enter the Duke of Norfolk at one door; at the other, the Buck. Good morrow, and well met. Nor. How have ye done I thank your Grace, Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer Buck. Nor. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber when "Twixt Guynes and Arde. I was then present, saw them salute on horse back; Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung Buck. Such a compounded one? All the whole time I was my chamber's prisoner. Nor. Then you lost 14 The view of earthly glory. Men might say, Till this time pomp was single, but now married leng'd The noble spirits to arms, they did perform 25 30 35 Beyond thought's compass, that former fabulous story, Being now seen possible enough, got credit, |