The Life of Henry the Eight Author:William Shakespeare General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing... more » text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Scena Secunda. Kimbolton,.] Enter Katberine Dowager, sicke, lead bettaeene Griffith, her Gentleman Usher, and Patience her Woman. Grif. How do's your Grace? Kath. O Griffith, sicke to death: My Legges like loaden Branches bow to'th'Earth, Willing to leave their burthen: Reach a Chaire, So now (me thinkes) I feele a little ease. Did'st thou not tell me Griffith, as thou lead'st mee, 10 That the great Childe of Honor, Cardinall Wo!sey Was dead? Grif. Yes Madam: but I thanke your Grace Out of the paine you suffer'd, gave no eare too't. Kath Pre'thee good Griffith, tell me how he dy'de. If well, he stept before me happily For my example. Grif. Well, the voyce goes Madam, For after the stout Earle Northumberland Arrested him at Yorke, and brought him forward 20 As a man sorely tainted, to his Answer, He fell sicke sodainly, and grew so ill He could not sit his Mule. Kath. Alas poore man. Grif. At last, with easie Rodes, he came to Leicester, Lodg'd in the Abbey; where the reverend Abbot With all his Covent, honourably receiv'd him; To whom he gave these words. O Father Abbot, An old man, broken with the stormes of State, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: 30 i3. thank: think-2-4F. Give him a little earth for Charity. So went to bed; where eagerly his sicknesse Pursu'd him still, and three nights after this, About the houre of eight, which he himselfe Foretold should be his last, full of Repentance, 'Continuall Meditations, Teare...« less