PERSONS REPRESENTED.

KING HENRY VIII.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 2.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 4.
CARDINAL WOLSEY.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4.
Act III. sc. 1; sc. 2.

CARDINAL CAMPEIUS.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4.

Act III. sc. 1.

CAPUCIUS, ambassador from the Emperor Charles V.
Appears, Act IV. sc. 2.

CRANMER, archbishop of Canterbury.

Appears, Act II. sc. 4. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 4.
DUKE OF NORFOLK.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 2.

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

Act II. sc. 1.

DUKE OF SUFFOLK.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2

EARL OF SURREY.

Appears, Act III. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 2.

Lord Chamberlain.

Appears, Act I. sc. 3; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Lord Chancellor.
Appears, Act V. sc. 2.

GARDINER, bishop of Winchester.

Act III. sc. 2.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

BISHOP OF LINCOLN.
Appears, Act II. sc. 4.

LORD ABERGAVENNY.
Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

LORD SANDS.

Appears, Act I. sc. 3; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 1.

SIR HENRY GUILDFORD.
Appears, Act I. sc. 4.

SIR THOMAS LOVELL.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 4.

Act II. sc. 1. Act III. sc. 2.

Act V. sc. 1.

SIR ANTHONY DENNY.
Appears, Act V. sc. 1.
SIR NICHOLAS VAUX.
Appears, Act II. sc. 1.

Secretaries to Wolsey.

Appear, Act I. se. 1.

CROMWELL, Servant to Wolsey.
Appears, Act III. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 2.

GRIFFITH, Gentleman-Usher to Queen Katharine.
Appears, Act II. sc. 4. Act IV. sc. 2

DOCTOR BUTTS, physician to the King.

Appears, Act V. sc. 2.

Garter King at Arms.
Appears, Act V. sc. 3.

Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2.
BRANDON.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

A Sergeant at Arms.
Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

Door-Keeper of the Council Chamber.

Appears, Act V. sc. 2.

Porter, and his Man.

Appear, Act V. sc. 3.

Page to Gardiner.
Appears, Act V. sc. 1.

A Crier.

Appears, Act II. sc. 4.

QUEEN KATHARINE, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2.

Act II. sc. 4. Act III. sc. 1.
Act IV. sc. 2.

ANNE BULLEN, maid of honour to Queen Katharine, and afterwards Queen

Appears, Act I. sc. 4.

Act II. sc. 3.

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

SCENE, CHIEFLY IN LONDON AND WESTMINSTER; ONCE, AT KIMBOLTON.

The famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth' was first published in the folio collection of Shakspere's works in 1623. The text, taken as a whole, is singularly correct: it contains, no doubt, some few typographical errors, but certainly not so many as those which deform the ordinary reprints.

KING HENRY VIII.

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 hours. Only they
That come to hear a merry, bawdy play,
A noise of targets; or to see a fellow
In a long motley coat, guarded with yellow,
Will be deceiv'd: for, gentle hearers, know,
To rank our chosen truth with such a show
As fool and fight is, besides forfeiting

Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring,
(To make that only true we now intend,)
Will leave us never an understanding friend.

Therefore, for goodness' sake, and, as you are known
The first and happiest hearers of the town,
Be sad, as we would make you: Think, ye see
The very persons of our noble story,

As they were living; think, you see them great,
And follow'd with the general throng and sweat