KING HENRY the Eighth. 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 SANDS. SIR HENRY GUILDFORD. SIR THOMAS LOVELL. SIR ANTHONY DENNY. SIR NICHOLAS VAUX. Secretaries to Wolsey. CROMWELL, Servant to Wolsey. GRIFFITH, Gentleman-usher to Queen Katharine. 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. Page to Gardiner A Crier. QUEEN KATHARINE, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced. An old Lady, friend to Anne Bullen. PATIENCE, woman to Queen Katharine. Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women attending upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. Spirits. SCENE: London; Westminster; Kimbolton. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII. : The Prologue. I come no more to make you laugh: things now, 10 A noise of targets, or to see a fellow In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, 20 The first and happiest hearers of the town, The very persons of our noble story As they were living; think you see them great, 30 A man may weep upon his wedding-day. Act First. Scene I: London. An ante-chamber 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 ye done Since last we saw in France? Nor. Buck. I thank your grace, Healthful, and ever since a fresh admirer Of what I saw there. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Met in the vale of Andren. Nor. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde: I was then present, saw them salute on horseback; weigh'd 10 |