HISTORY

OF THE

LIFE

O F

King HENRY VIII.

Printed in the YEAR 1709.

ING Henry the Eighth.

Cardinal Wolfey, his firft Minifter and Fa vourite.

Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Duke of Norfolk.

Duke of Buckingham.

Duke of Suffolk.

Earl of Surrey.

Lord Chamberlain.

Cardinal Campeius, the Pope's Legat.

Capucius, Ambaffador from the Emperor Charles the Fifth.

Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester.

Lord Abergavenny.

Lord Sands.

Sir Henry Guilford.

Sir Thomas Lovell.

Sir Anthony Denny.

Sir Nicholas Vaux.

Cromwell, firft Servant to Wolfey, afterwards to the King.

Griffith, Gentleman Uber to Queen Katherine.
Three Gentlemen.

Dr. Butts, Physician to the King.
Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham.
Porter and his Man.

Queen

Queen Katherine, firft Wife to King Henry, afterwards Divorc'd.

Anne Bullen, belov'd by the King, and afterwards married to him.

An old Lady, Friend to Anne Bullen.

Patience, Woman of the Bed-Chamber to Queen Katherine.

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

The SCENE lies mostly in LONDON.

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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 prefem. Those that can Pity, here
May, if they think it well, let fall a Tear,
The Subject will deferve it. Such as give
Their Mony out of hope they may
believe,

May here find Truth too. Those that come to fee
Only a show or two, and so agree,

The Play may pafs: If they be still, and willing,
I'll undertake may fee away their Shilling
Richly in two fort Hours. Only they
That come to hear a merry, bawdy Play,
A noife of Targets: Or to fee a Fellow
In a long Motley Coat, guarded with Yellow,
Will be deceiv'd: For, gentle Hearers, know
To rank our chofen Truth with fuch a show
As Fool, and Fight is, befide forfeiting
Our own Brains, and the Opinion that we bring
That make that only true, we now intend,
Will leave us never an understanding Friend.
Therefore, for Goodness fake, and as you are known
The firft and happiest Hearers of the Town,
Be fad, as we would make ye. Think ye fee
The very Perfons 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, fee
How foon this Mightiness meets Mifery.
And if you can be merry then, I'll say,
A Man may weep upon his Wedding Day.

THE

THE

LIFE

O F

King HENRY VIII,

ACTI, SCENE I

Enter the Duke of Norfolk at one Door: At the other, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Lord Abergavenny.

BUCKINGHA M.

OOD morrow, and well met. How have
Since laft we faw y'in France?

Nor. I thank your Grace:

Lye done

Healthful, and ever fince a fresh admirer

Of what I faw there.

Buck. An untimely Ague

Staid me a Prifoner in my Chamber, when

Thofe Sons of Glory, thofe two Lights of Men
Met in the vale of Ardres.

Nor. Twixt Guynes and Ardres,

I was then prefent, faw them falute on Horfe-back,

Beheld