King Henry the Eighth. BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. ACCURATELY PRINTED FROM THE TEXT OF MR. STEEVENS'S LAST EDITION. 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. Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester. Bishop of Lincoln. Lord Abergavenny. Lord Sands. Sir Henry Guildford. Sir Thomas Lovell. Sir Anthony Denny. Sir Nicholas Vaux. Cromwell, Servant to Wolsey.. Griffith, Gentleman-Usher to Queen Katharine. 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. 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, B As they were living; think, you see them great, 1 KING HENRY VIII. ACT I. 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 Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Those suns of glory, those two lights of men, Met in the vale of Arde. Nor. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde: I was then present, saw them salute on horseback; have weigh'd Such a compounded one? |