Shakespeare's King Henry the Eighth Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. PERSONS REPRESENTED. King Henry The Eighth. Thomas Wolsey. Cardinal. Campeius, Cardinal, and Legate. Capucius, Ambassador from the ... more » Emperor Charles V. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. Howard, Duke of Norfolk. Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. Lord Chamberlain. Lord Chancellor. Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester. Longland, Bishop of Lincoln. Neville, Lord Abergavenny. William Lord Sands. Sir Henry Guildford. Sir Thomas Lovell. Sir Anthony Denny. Sir Nicholas Vaux. Cromwell, Servant to Wolsey. GRIFFITH, Gentleman - Usher to Queen Catharine. BUTTS, Physician to the King. Secretaries to Wolsey. Garter, King- at-Arms. Surveyor to Buckingham. BRANDON, and a Sergeant-at-Arms. Door-Keeper of the Council-Chamber. A Crier. Page to Gardiner. A Porter, and his Man. Catharine Of Arragon, Wife to King Henry. Anne Boleyn, her Maid of Honour. An old Lady, Friend to Anne Boleyn. Patience, Woman to Queen Catharine. Several Bishops, Lords, and Ladies in the Dumb-Shows; Women attending on the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. 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, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money out of hope they may believe, May here find truth too. Those that come to see Only a show or two, and so agree The play may pass, if they be still and willing, I'll undertake may see away their shilling Richly in two short...« less