SENIORY. Act IV., Sc. 4.

"Give mine the benefit of seniory."

Seniory is seniority.

STATUAS. Act III., Sc. 7.

"Like dumb statuas or breathing stones."

Statuas, or statues, was probably used here, as well as in 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' (Act IV., Sc. 4), for pictures, as distinguished from "breathing stones."

TEEN. Act IV., Sc. 1.

"And each hour's joy wrack'd with a week of teen."

Teen, from the Anglo-Saxon teon, is injury, and thence sorrow TOUCH. Act IV., Sc. 2.

"Now do I play the touch."

Touch is used for touchstone.

UNRESPECTIVE. Act IV., Sc. 2.

Unrespective is inconsiderate. "Away to heaven respective lenity" occurs in Romeo and Juliet,' Act III., Sc. 1.

VICE, INIQUITY. Act III., Sc. 1.

"Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity."

The Vice of the old drama was a perfect counterpart, says Gifford," of the Harlequin of the modern stage, and had a twofold office; to instigate the hero of the piece to wickedness, and at the same time to protect him from the devil, whom he was permitted to buffet and battle with his wooden sword till the process of the story required that both the protector and the protected should be carried off by the fiend."

WARN. Act I., Sc. 3.

"Sent to warn them to his royal presence."

Warn, says Phillips, for one of its meanings, is to cite or summon to a court of justice.

WATCH. Act V., Sc. 3.

"Give me a watch!"

Richard is not here asking for a sentinel, as has been supposed, but a watch-light, as is proved by the use of the word give, and the subsequent expression-" Bid my guard watch." The night-candle was divided by marks to show the time it had⚫ burned.

WHERE. Act III., Sc. 1.

"Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit."

Where is understood between and and shall; there is then no obscurity in the sentence.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

KING HENRY VIII.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 2.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 4.
CARDINAL WOLSEY.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4.
Act III. sc. 1; sc. 2.

CARDINAL CAMPEIUS.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 1.
CAPUCIUS, ambassador from the Emperor Charles V.
Appears, Act IV. sc. 2.

CRANMER, archbishop of Canterbury.
Appears, Act II. sc. 4. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 4.

DUKE OF NORFOLK.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 2.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

Act III. sc. 2.

Lord Chamberlain.

Appears, Act I. sc. 3; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Lord Chancellor.
Appears, Act V. sc. 2.

GARDINER, bishop of Winchester.

QUEEN KATHARINE, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2.

Act II. sc. 4. Act III. sc. 1.
Act IV. sc. 2.

ANNE BULLEN, maid of honour to Queen Katharine, and afterwards Queen. Act II. sc. 3.

Appears, Act I. sc. 4.

An old Lady, friend to Anne Bullen.
Appears, Act II. sc. 3. Act V. sc. 1.

PATIENCE, woman to Queen Katharine.
Appears, Act IV. sc. 2.

Several Lords and Ladies in the dumb shows; Women attending upon the
Queen; Spirits which appear to her; Scribes, Officers, Guards,
and other Attendants.

SCENE, CHIEFLY IN LONDON AND WESTMINSTER; ONCE, AT KIMBOLTON.

The famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth' was first published in the folio collection of Shakspere's works in 1623. The text, taken as a whole, is singularly correct: it contains, no doubt, some few typographical errors, but certainly not so many as those which deform the ordinary reprints.