PERSONS REPRESENTE D. King HENRY the Eighth. Cardinal WOLSEY. Cardinal CAMPFIUS. CRANMER, Archbishop of Canterbury. Duke of NORFOLK. Duke of BUCKINGHAM. Sir THOMAS AUDLEY, Lord Keeper. Lord ABERGAVENNY. Lord SANDS. Sir THOMAS LOVELL, Sir ANTHONY DENNY. Sir NICHOLAS VAUX. GRIFFITH, Gentleman-Ufer to Queen Katha rine. Three other Gentlemen. Doctor BUTTS, Phyfician to the King. Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham. Queen KATHARINE. An old Lady, Friend to Anne Bullen. The SCENE lies mofly in London and Weftminster; once, at Kimbolton. PROLOGU COME no more to make you laugh; things now, The play may pajs; if they be fill and willing, In a long molley coat2, guarded with yellaw, SCÈNE E. Will be deceiv'd: for, gentle hearers, knot, As they were living; think, you fee them great, ACT I. I. Nor. I thank your grace: Healthful; and ever fince a fresh 4 admirer Buck. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prifoner in my chamber, when Nor. 'Twixt Guines and Arde: 1 Mr. Steevens obferves, that Sir William Sands was created Lord Sand's about this time, but is here introduced among the perfons of the drama, as a distinct character. Sir William has not a fingle 1peech alligned to him; and, to make the blunder the greater, is brought on after Lord Sands has already made his appearance. 2 Alluding to the fools and buffoons, introduced for the generality in the plays a little before our author's time; and of whom he has left us a fmall tafte in his own. 3. e. pretend. 4 i. e. an untired admirer, I was then prefent, faw them falute on horfe-back; Such a compounded one? Back. All the whole time I was my chamber's prifoner, The view of earthly glory: Men might say, (For fo they phrafe 'em) by their heralds challeng'd Being now feen poffible enough, got credit, Buck. Oh, you go far. Nor. As I belong to worship, and affect Order gave each thing view; the office did. Buck. Who did guide, I mean, who fet the body and the limbs Nor. One, certes, that promifes no element 5 In fuch a bulinefs. Buck. I pray you, who, my lord? A thing infpir'd; and, not confulting, broke Into a general prophecy,-That this tempeft, Nor. All this was order'd by the good discretion | Dashing the garment of this peace, aboaded Of the right reverend cardinal of York. The fudden breach on't. 1 i e. all glittering, all shining. Cerfure for determination of which had the noblest appear ance. 3 The old romantic legend of Bevis of Southampton. This Bevis (or Beavois) a saxom, was for his prowefs created by William the Conqueror carl of Southampton. 4 i. e. the commiffion for regulating this fellivity was well executed. 5 No initiation, no previous practices. 61. e. proud. 7 A keeth is a folid lump or mafs. A cake of wax or tallow formed in a mould is called yet in fome places a keech. There may, perhaps, be a fingular propriety in this term of contempt. Wolfey was the fon of a butcher, and in the Second Part of King Henry ÍV, a butcher's wile is called--Goody Keech. 9 That is, all mention of the board of 19 i. e. His own letter, by his own fingle authority, and without the concurrence of the council, muft fetch in him whom he papers down. 11 i. e. What effect had this pompous how but the production of a wretched conclufion? council being left out of his letter. 81. r. the lift. Nor. Which is budded out; Buck. I'll to the king; For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd And from a mouth of honour quite cry down Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux. elber. L it therefore The ambailador is filene'd? Nor. Marry, is't. This Ipfwich fellow's infolence; or proclaim, Nor. Be advis'd; Heat not a furnace for your foe fo hot der. A proper title of a peace 2; and purchas'd That it do finge yourfelf: We may out run, At a fuperfluous rate! Back. Why, all this business Our reverend cardinal carry'd. Nor. Like it your grace, The ftate takes notice of the private difference Enter Cardinal Wolfey, the purfe borne before him, Wol. The duke of Buckingham's furveyor? ha? Where's his examination ? Wel. Well, we fhall then know more; and BuckShall leffen this big look. [Exeunt Cardinal, and his train. Buck. This butcher's cur 3 is venom-mouth'd, and I Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, best Not wake him in his flumber. A beggar's book Out-worths a noble's blood 4. Nor. What, are you chaf'd? [as ftrong Nor. Say not, treasonous. Nor. 'Faith, and fo it did. [cardinal Buck. Pray, give me favour, fir. This cunning Afk God for temperance; that's the appliance only, (Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy Which your difeafe requires. Buck. I read in his looks Matter against me; and his eye revil'd [king; He bores me with fome trick: He's gone to the Nor. Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question To the old dam, treafon)-Charles the emperor, 1 Silenc'd for recalled. 2 A fine name of a peace! fpoken ironically. 3 Wolley, as has been before obferved, is faid to have been the fon of a butcher. 4 That is, the literary qualifica tions of a bookish beggar are more prized than the high defcent of hereditary greatnefs. This is a contemptuous exclamation very naturally put into the mouth of one of the antient, unletter'd, mar tial nobility. 5 i. e. he ftabs or wounds me by fome artifice or fifion. i. c. from honeft indignation; warmth of integrity. 7 i. e. excites. And break the forefaid peace. Let the king know,|Of a full-charg'd confederacy; and give thanks (As foon he shall by me) that thus the cardinal Does buy and fell his honour as he pleases, And for his own advantage. Nor. I am forry To hear this of him; and could with, he were Buck. No, not a fyllable; I do pronounce him in that very shape, Enter Brandon; a Serjeant at Arms before him, and two or three of the guard. Bran. Your office, ferjeant; execute it. My lord the duke of Buckingham, and earl Buck. Lo you, my lord, The net has fallen upon me; I thall perish You fhall to the Tower. Buck. It will help me nothing, To plead mine innocence; for that dye is on me, Which makes my whiteft part black. The will of heaven -I obey. Be done in this and all things! How he determines further. Aber. As the duke faid, To you that choak'd it.- Let be call'd before us And point by point the treafons of his master A noife within, crying, Room for the Queen. Enter the Queen, uffered by the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk he kneels. The King rifeth from bis flate, takes her up, kisses, and placeth ber by him. Queen. Nay, we must longer kneel; I am a fuitor. King Arife, and take your place by us :-Half your fuit Never name to us; you have half our power: Queen. Thank your majefty. That you would love yourself; and, in that love, King. Lady mine, proceed. Queen. 1 am folicited, not by a few, And thofe of true condition, that your fubjects Are in great grievance: There have been commillions Sent down among them, which have flaw'd the heart Of all their loyalties:wherein, although, [To Wolley. My good lord cardinal, they vent reproaches escapes not Language unmannerly, yea, fuch which breaks The fides of loyalty, and almost appears The will of heaven be done, and the king's pleafure In loud rebellion. Bran. Here is a warrant from The king, to attach lord Montacute; and the bodies Buck. So, fo; Nor. Not almost appears, It doth appear: for, upon these taxations, These are the limbs of the plot: No more, I hope. And lack of other means, in defperate manner Bran. A monk o' the Chartreux. Buck. O, Nicholas Hopkins? 2 i. c. I am but firft in the row of counsellors. The |