That would reduce these bloody days again, And make poor England weep in streams of blood! [Exeunt. 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. Lord Chamberlain. Lord Chancellor. Gardiner, bishop of Winchester. Bishop of Lincoln. Lord Abergavenny. Sir Henry Guilford. 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. Door-keeper of the council-chamber. Porter, and his Man. Page to Gardiner. A Crier. 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, Officer's, Guards, and other Attendants. SCENE, chiefly in London and Westminster; onee, at Kimbolton. I COME ne 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 play may pass; if they be still, and willing, The very persons of our noble story, As they were living; think, you see them great, w SCENE 1.-London. ACT I. An Ante-chamber in the Palace. Enter the Duke of Norfolk, at one door; at the other, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Lord Abergavenny. Buckingham. GOOD morrow, and well met. How have you done, Since last we saw in France? Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when men, Nor. I was then present, saw them salute on horseback; Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung In their embracement, as they grew together; Which had they, what four thron'd ones could have weigh'd 'Twixt Guynes and Arde: Such a compounded one? Buck. All the whole time Then you lost I was my chamber's prisoner. Nor. |