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THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHT

[DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

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.

Man.

Page to Gardiner.

A Crier.

Porter, and his

QUEEN KATHARINE, 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 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 THE EIGHT

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THE PROLOGUE.

COME no more to make you laugh, Things now,
That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow,
Sad, high, and working, full of State and woe:
Such Noble Scones, as draw the Eye to flow
We now present. Those that can Pitty, beere
May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,
The Subject will deserve it. Such as give
Their Money out of hope they may beleeve,
May beere finde Truth too. Those that come to see 10
Onely a show or two, and so a gree,

The Play may passe: If they be still, and willing,
Ile undertake may see away their shilling
Richly in two short boures. Onely they
That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play,
A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow

In a long Motley Coate, garded1 with Yellow,
Will be deceyv'd. For gentle Hearers, know 1trimmed
To ranke our chosen Truth with such a show

As Foole, and Fight is, beside forfeyting

Our owne Braines, and the Opinion that we bring 11. a gree: agree-2-4F.

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