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THE LIFE OF HENRY THE EIGHTH
by William Shakespeare

DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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 SANDYS (called also SIR WILLIAM
SANDYS) SIR HENRY GUILDFORD SIR THOMAS LOVELL SIR
ANTHONY DENNY SIR NICHOLAS VAUX Secretaries to Wolsey
CROMWELL, servant to Wolsey GRIFFITH, gentleman usher to
Queen Katherine
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 Porter, and his
Man Page to Gardiner A Crier
QUEEN KATHERINE, 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 Katherine
Spirits
Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women attending upon
the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants
SCENE: London; Westminster; Kimbolton

THE PROLOGUE.
I COME no more to make you laugh: things now That bear a weighty
and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such
noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can
pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subject will

deserve it. Such as give Their money out of hope they may believe,
May here find truth too. Those that come to see Only a show or two,
and so agree The play may pass, if they be still and willing, I'll
undertake may see away their shilling Richly in two short hours. Only
they That come to hear a merry bawdy play, A noise of targets, or to
see a fellow In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, Will be
deceiv'd; for, gentle hearers, know, To rank our chosen truth with such
a show As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting Our own brains, and the
opinion that we bring To make that only true we now intend, Will leave
us never an understanding friend. Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as
you are known The first and happiest hearers of the town, Be sad, as we
would make ye; think ye see The very persons of our noble story As
they were living; think you see them great, And follow'd with the
general throng and sweat Of thousand friends; then, in a moment, see
How soon this mightiness meets misery; And if you can be merry then,
I'll say A man