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PROLOGU E.

Come no more to make you laugh; things now
That bear a weighty and a ferious brow,
Sad, high, and working, full of state and wo,
Such noble fcenes, as draw the eye to flow,
We shall prefent. Those that can pity, here
May, if they think it well, let fall a tear;
The fubject will deferve it: fuch as give
Their money out of hope they may believe,
May here find truth too: thofe that come to fee
Only a fhow or two, (and fo agree,

The play may pass) if they be ftill, and willing,
I'll undertake may fee away their filling
Richly in two fhort 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 th' opinion that we bring
To make that only true we now intend)
Will leave us ne'er an understanding friend.
Therefore, for goodness' fake, as you are known,
The first and happiest hearers of the town,
Be fad, as we would make ye: think before ye
The very perfons of our noble ftory,

As they were living; think you fee them great,
And follow'd with the gen'ral throng, and fweat
Of thousand friends; then, in a moment, fee
How foon this mightiness meets mifery:
And, if you can be merry then, I'll fay,
A man may weep upon his wedding day.

DRAMATIS

Cardinal CAMPEIUS, the Pope's Legate.

CAPUCIUS, Ambassador from the Emperor CHARLES the Fifth.
GARDINER, Bishop of Winchefter.

Lord ABERGAVENNY.

Bishop of Lincoln.

Lord SANDS.

Sir HENRY GUILDFORD.

Sir THOMAS LOVELL.

Sir ANTHONY DENNY.

Sir NICHOLAS VAUX.
WALTER SANDS.

CROMWELL, Servant first to WOLSEY, afterwards to the King.
GRIFFITH, Gentleman-Usher to Queen CATHARINE.

Three Gentlemen.

Dr. BUTTS, Phyfician to the King.

Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham.

Porter and his Man.

Queen CATHARINE, 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 Bedchamber to Queen CATHARINE.

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

The SCENE lies moftly in London, Once at Kimbolton.

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