PROLOGUE. I come no more to make you laugh; things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, see Only a show or two, and so agree, The play may pass; if they be still, and willing, Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring, The first and happiest hearers of the town, Be sad, as we would make ye: Think, ye see As they were living; think, you see them great, PERSONS REPRESENTED. King Henry the Eighth. Cardinal Wolsey. Cardinal Campeius. les V. Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. Duke of Norfolk. Duke of Buckingham. Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Abergavenny, Lord Sir Henry Guildford. Sir Thomas Lovell. Cromwell, Servant to Wolsey. Griffith, Gentleman-Usher to Queen Katharine. Three other Gentlemen. Doctor Butts, Physician to the King. Garter, King at Arms. Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham. Brandon, and a Serjeant at Arms. Door-keeper of the Council-Chamber. Porter, and his Man. Page to Gardiner. A Cryer. Queen Katharine, wife to King Henry; afterwards divorced. Anne Bullen, her maid of honour; afterwards Queen. v An old Lady, Friend to Anne Bullen. Several Lords and Ladies in the dumb shows; Women attending upon the Queen; Spirits, to her, Scribes, Officers, which appear Guards, and other Attendants. SCENE, chiefly in London, and Westminster; once at Kimbolton. KING HENRY VIII. ACTI. SCENE I. 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? Nor. I thank your Grace: Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer Buck. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Nor. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde: I was then present, saw them salute on horse back; Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung In their embracement, as they grew together; Which had they, what four thron'd ones could have weigh'd Such a compounded one? Buck. All the whole time |