England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth, [Exeunt KING HENRY VIII. PERSONS REPRESENTED. KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. CARDINAL WOLSEY. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS. CAPUCIUS, Ambassador from the CRANMER, Archbishop of Canter- DUKE OF NORFOLK. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. DUKE OF SUFFOLK. EARL OF SURREY. GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester. SIR HENRY GUILDFORD. SIR THOMAS LOVELL. to THREE OTHER GENTLEMEN. GARTER, King at Arms. SURVEYOR to the Duke of Buck- BRANDON, and a Sergeant at Arms. PORTER, and his Man. QUEEN KATHARINE, Wife to AN OLD LADY, Friend to Anne PATIENCE, Woman to Queen Ka- Several LORDS and LADIES in the Dumb Shows; WOMEN attending upon the Queen; SPIRITS which appear to her; SCRIBES, OFFICERS, GUARDS, and other AT TENDANTS. SCENE, chiefly in London and Westminster; once at Kimbolton. 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, The subject will deserve it. Such, as give May here find truth too. Those, that come to see The play may pass; if they be still, and willing, Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring, As they were living; think, you see them great, ACT I. SCENE I-London. An Ante-chamber in 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 you done, Since last we saw in France? Nor. I thank your grace: Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer Of what I saw there, Buck. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Met in the vale of Arde. Nor. "Twixt Guynes and Arde:§ I was then present, saw them salute on horseback; * Laced. † Pretend. + Ardres. Which had they, what four throned ones could have weigh'd Such a compounded one? Buck. All the whole time I was my chamber's prisoner. Nor. Then you lost The view of earthly glory: Men might say, Till this time, pomp was single; but now married Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story, Buck. O, you go far. Nor. As I belong to worship, and affect In honour honesty, the tract of everything Would by a good discourser lose some life, Which action's self was tongue to. All was royal; Buck. Who did guide ? I mean, who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together, as you guess? Nor. One, certes, § that promises no element || In such a business. Buck. I pray you, who, my lord? Nor. All this was order'd by the good discretion Of the right reverend cardinal of York. Buck. The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. What had he To do in these fierce T vanities? I wonder * Glittering, shining. Sir Bevis, an old romance. + Decision between them. § Certainly. ¶ Proud. That such a keech Take up the rays can with his very bulk o' the beneficial sun, And keep it from the earth. There's in him stuff that put's him to these ends: Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note, Aber. I cannot tell What heaven hath given him, let some graver eye Pierce into that; but I can see his pride Peep through each part of him: whence has he that? If not from hell the devil is a niggard: Or has given all before, and he begins A new hell in himself. Buck. Why the devil, Upon this French going-out, took he upon him, Who should attend on him? He makes up the file t Of all the gentry; for the most part such Too, whom as great a charge as little honour He meant to lay upon: and his own letter, The honourable board of council out, Must fetch him in the papers. Aber. I do know Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have By this so sicken'd their estates, that never They shall abound as formerly. Buck. O, many Have broke their backs with laying manors on them For this great journey. What did this vanity, But minister communication of A most poor issue? Nor. Grievingly I think, The peace between the French and us not values Buck. Every man. After the hideous storm that follow'd, was Nor. Which is budded out; For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attached t I. e. sets down in his letter without consulting the council. |