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G. VanderGucht Scul

Hyravelot in Vol: 5.P.303.

THE

LIFE

O F

K. HENRY VIII.

Dramatis Perfonæ.

KING Henry the Eighth.

Cardinal Wolley, his firft Minifter and Favourite.
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Duke of Norfolk.

Duke of Buckingham.
Duke of Suffolk.

Earl of Surrey.

Lord Chamberlain.

Cardinal Campeius, the Pope's Legate.

Capucius, Ambafador from the Emperor Charles the Fifth.

Sir Thomas Audleie, Lord Keeper after Sir Tho. More ;

and then 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.
Sir William Sands..

Cromwel, firft Servant to Wolfey, afterwards to the

King.

Griffith, Gentleman Usher to Queen Catharine.

Three Gentlemen.

Doctor Butts, Phyfician to the King.

Garter, King at Arms.

Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham:

Brandon, and Serjeant at Arms.
Door-Keeper of the Council Chamber.
Porter, and his Man.

Queen Catharine, firft Wife to King Henry, afterwards

divorced.

Anne

Anne Bullen, beloved by the King, and afterwards mar

ried to him.

An old Lady, Friend to Anne Bullen.

Patience, Woman of the Bed-chamber to Queen Catharine.

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

The SCENE lies moftly in London and Weftminfter; once, at Kimbolton.

PRO

I

Come no more to make you laugh; things now,
That bear a weighty and a ferious brow,
Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe;.
Such noble fcenes, as draw the eye to flow,
We shall prefent. Thofe, that can pity, here
May, if they think it well, let fall a tear;
The fubject will deferve it. Such, as give
Their money out of hope they may believe,
May here find truth too. Thofe, that come to fee
Only a fhow or two, (and fo agree,

The Play may pafs) if they be ftill and willing,
I'll undertake, may fee away their fhilling
Richly in two fort beurs. Only they,
That come to hear a merry, bawdy play';
A noife of targets; or to fee a fellow (1)
In a long motley coat, guarded with yellow;
Will be deceiv'd: for, gentle bearers, know,
To rank our chofen truth with fuch a show
As fool and fight is, (befides forfeiting
Our own brains, and th' opinion that we bring
To make that only true we now intend)
Will leave us ne'er an understanding friend.
Therefore, for goodness' fake, as you are known
The firft and happiest hearers of the town,
Be fad, as we would make ye. Think before ye (2)
The very perfons of our noble flory,

As they were living: think, you fee them great,
And follow'd with the genral throng, and fweat
Of thousand friends; Then, in a moment, fee
How foon this mightiness meets mifery!
And, if you can be merry then, I'll fay,
A man may weep upon his wedding-day.

(1)

or to fee a Fellow

In a long motley Coat,] Alluding to the Fools and Buffoons, introduc'd for the Generality in the Plays a little before our Author's Time: and of whom he has left us a small Tafte in his own.

(2)

Think ye fee

The very perfons of our noble Story.] Why the Rhyme should have been interrupted here, when it was fo eafily to be fupplied, I cannot conceive. It can only be accounted for from the Negligence of the Prefs, or the Transcribers; and therefore I have made no Scruple to replace it.

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