1 Gates. Withdraw, my Lord, I'll help you to a horse. I think there be fix Richmonds in the field; A horse! a horfe! my kingdom for a horse! [Exeunt. Alarums. Enter King Richard and Richmond; they fight, Richard is flain. Retreat and flourish. Enter Richmond, Stanley, bearing the crown, with divers other Lords. [thee; Rich. God and your arms be prais'd, victorious The day is ours! the bloody dog is dead. [friends, Stan. Couragious Richmond, well haft thou acquit Lo, here thefe long-ufurped royalties, From the dead temples of this bloody wretch, Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal. Wear it, enjoy it, and make use of it. Rich. Great God of heaven, fay Amen to all! But tell me first, is young George Stanley living? Stan. He is, my Lord, and fafe in Leicester town; Whither, if you so please, we may withdraw us. Rich. What men of name are flain on either fide? Stan. John Duke of Norfolk, Walter the Lord Ferris, Sir Robert Brakenbury, Sir William Brandon. Rich. Inter their bodies as becomes their births. Proclaim a pardon to the foldiers fled, That in fubmiflion will return to us. And then, as we have ta'en the facrament, butchers to the fire: All this divided York and Lancafier, Divided in their dire divifion. O now let, &c. O now let Richmond and Elifabeth, The true succeeders of each royal house, Enrich the time to come with smooth-fac'd Peace, That he may long live here, God fay, Amen? [Exeune. The The Life of HENRY VIII. DRAMATIS PERSONE. KING HENRY VIII, Cardinal Wolfey, his first minifer and favourite. Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. Duke of Norfolk. Duke of Buckingham. Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk Earl of Surrey. Lord Chamberlain. Cardinal Campeius, the Pope's Legate. Capucius, Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V. Sir Thomas Audleie, Lord Keeper Sir Henry Guildford.. Sir William Sands. Cromwell, firft fervant to Wolfey Three Gentlemen. Dotor Butts, physician 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 min Queen Catharine, first wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced. Anne Bullen, beloved by the King, and afterwards married to him. An old Lady, friend to Anne Bul len. Patience, Woman of the bed-cham ber to Queen Catharine. Several Lords and Ladies in the dumb fhews. Women attending upon the Queen; Spirits which appear to her. Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. The SCENE lies mostly in London and Westminster; once at Kim bolton. PROL LOGUE. Come no more to make you laugh; things now I Com Sal, high, and working, full of tite and woes We shall prefent. Thofe that can pity, here The play may pafs), if they be fill and willing As they were living: think you fee them great, ACTI. SCENE F · An antichamber in the palace. Enter the Duke of Norfolk, at one door; at the other, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Lord Abergavenny. Buck. G OOD morrow, and well met. How have you done Since laft we faw y'in France? Nor. I thank your Grace: L Healthful, and ever fince a freth admirer Buck. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prifoner in my chamber, when Met in the vale of Arde: Nor. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde: I was then prefent, faw 'em falute on horfeback, Which had they, what four thron'd ones could have Such a compounded one? Buck. All the whole time I was my chamber's prifoner. [weigh.d The view of earthly glory. Men might fay Cenfure, for determination, of which had the nobleft appearance. †The old romantic legend of Bevis. of Southampton, Mr Pope. |