172 PERSONS REPRESENTED. 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 OTHER GENTLEMEN. DOCTOR BUTTS, physician to the king. GARTER king at arms. SURVEYOR to the duke of Buckingham. BRANDON, and a SERGEANT at arms. DOORKEEPER 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. 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. PROLOGUE. I come no more to make you laugh; things now, The play may pass; if they be still, and willing, Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring, Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known Be sad, as we would make ye: think, ye see As they were living; think, you see them great, KING HENRY VIII. ACT I. SCENE I. London. An antechamber in the palace. Enter DUKE OF norfolk, at one door; at the other, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, and LORD ABERGAVENNY. Buck. Good morrow, and well met. How have you done, Since last we saw in France? Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Nor. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde. I was then present, saw them salute on horseback; Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung 1 Henry VIII. and Francis I. king of France. In their embracement, as they grew together; Which had they, what four throned ones could have The view of earthly glory. Men might say, suns, When these 1 Glittering, shining. 2 In judging which monarch had the noblest appearance. |