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Shakespere's Historical Play of King Henry the Eighth
Shakespere's Historical Play of 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. ACT I. SCENE I.—LONDON. OLD PALACE YARD, WESTMINSTER Enter the Duke o/'NoBFOLK, L.h. ; the Duke of BuckIngham, and the Lord Abebg... more »ayenny,! R.h. Buck. Good morrow, and well met. How have you done, Since last we saw in France ? Nor. I thank your grace : Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer Of what I saw there. Buck. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Those suns of glory, those two lights of men, Met in the vale of Andren.J Nor. Then you lost The view of earthly glory. Men might say, Till this time, pomp was single; but now married To one above itself. Each following day Became the next day's master, till the last Made former wonders it's. To-day, the French, Copied from a drawing made by Antony Van Den Wyn yrerde, A.d. 1543, and preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. f George Novill, who married Mary, daughter of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. J Guynes then belonged to the English, and Arde to the French ; they are towns in Picardy, and the Valley of Ardren or Andren lay between them. The meeting of Henry the Eighth and Francis the First, which procured this place the name of " The Field of the Cloth of Gold," took place on the 7th of June, 1520. All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, Shone down the English; and, to-morrow, they Made Britain, India: every man, that stood, Show'd like a mine. The two kings, Equal, in lustre, were now best, now worst, As presence did present them. When these suns (For so they phrase them), by their heralds challeng'd The noble spirits to arms, they did perform Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story, Being now seen possible enough, got credit, That Bevis was believ'd. Buck. Who did guide ? ...« less