Edward Capell [1767], Mr William Shakespeare his comedies, histories, and tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the Players his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those Editions in ten Volumes octavo; with an introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire (Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], London) [word count] [S10601].
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Introductory matter
Persons represented.
King Henry the eighth.
Cardinal Wolsey.
Cardinal Campeius.
Capucius, Embassador from the Emperor.
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Lord Chancellor.
Lord Chamberlain.
Duke of Suffolk.
Duke of Norfolk.
Duke of Buckingham.
Earl of Surrey.
Lord Abergavenny.
Lord Sands [Lord Sandys].
Bishop of Lincoln.
Sir Thomas Lovel [Sir Thomas Lovell].
Sir Henry Guilford [Sir Henry Guildford].
Sir Nicholas Vaux.
Sir Antony Denny.
Gardiner, King's Secretary; afterwards, Bishop of Winchester.
Cromwel [Cromwell], Servant to Wolsey; afterwards, King's Secretary, &c.
Brandon,
a Serjeant at Arms [Sergeant at Arms].
Doctor Butts.
Griffith, gentleman-Usher to Queen Catharine.
Secretary to Wolsey [Secretary 1]:
Attendant upon the same.
Gentleman of the King's.
Gentleman of the Queen's [Gentleman].
three other Gentlemen [Gentleman 1], [Gentleman 2], [Gentleman 3].
Garter, King at Arms [Garter, King at Arms].
Duke of Buckingham's Surveyor.
a Scribe.
a Cryer [Crier].
Page to Gardiner.
Porter,
his Man.
Keeper of the Council-Chamber [Doorkeeper].
Catharine [Queen Katharine], Wife to Henry; afterwards, divorc'd:
Anne Bullen, her Maid of Honour; afterwards, Queen.
an old Lady [Old Lady], Friend to Anne Bullen.
Patience, Woman to Queen Catharine.
Several Lords, Ladies, &c. in the dumb Shews.
Women attending Catharine; Spirits appearing to her.
Guards, and other Attendants.
Scene, London; once, at Kimbolton.
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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, garded with yellow,
Will be deceiv'd: for, gentle hearers, know,
To rank our chosen truth with such a show
As fool and fight is, (beside 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 ye: Think, ye see14Q0904
The very persons of our history note,
As they were living; think, you see them great,
And follow'd with the general throng, and sweat
Of thousand friends; then, in a moment, see
How soon this mightiness meets misery:
And, if you can be merry then, I'll say,
A man may weep upon his wedding day.
Edward Capell [1767], Mr William Shakespeare his comedies, histories, and tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the Players his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those Editions in ten Volumes octavo; with an introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire (Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], London) [word count] [S10601].
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