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Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! Upon them! Victory sits upon our helms. 352 [Exeunt.

SCENE IV. Another Part of the Field. Alarum: Excursions. Enter NORFOLK and Forces; to him CATESBY.

Cafe. Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk! rescue,
rescue!

The king enacts more wonders than a man,
Daring an opposite to every danger:
His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!

Alarum. Enter KING RICHARD.

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·K. Rich. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

Cate. Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse.

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K. Rich. Slave! I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.

I think there be six Richmonds in the field;
Five have I slain to-day, instead of him.-
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horsel

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Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us;
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red:
Smile, heaven, upon this fair conjunction,
That long hath frown'd upon their enmity!
What traitor hears me, and says not amen?
England hath long been mad, and scarr'd her-
self;
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The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,
The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,
The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:
12 All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided in their dire division,

[Exeunt. Alarums. Enter from opposite sides KING RICHARD and RICHMOND, and exeunt fighting. Retreat and flourish. Then re-enter RICHMOND, STANLEY, bearing the crown, with divers other Lords, and Forces.

torious friends;

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O! now, let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God's fair ordinance conjoin together;
And let their heirs-God, if thy will be so,-
Enrich the time to come with smooth-fac'd
peare,

With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days!

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Richm. God and your arms be prais'd, vic- Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of
blood!

The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.

Stan. Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee!

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Lo! here, this long-usurped royalty
From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal:
Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.
Richm. Great God of heaven, say amen to
all!

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KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.

CARDINAL WOLSEY.

CARDINAL CAMPEIUS.

Charles the Fifth.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

Three Gentlemen.
Garter King-at-Arms.

DOCTOR BUTTS, Physician to the King.

CAPUCIUS, Ambassador from the Emperor Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham.

CRANMER, Archbishop of Canterbury.

DUKE OF NORFOLK.

DUKE OF SUFFOLK.

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

EARL OF SURREY.

Lord Chancellor.

Lord Chamberlain.

GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester.

BISHOP OF LINCOLN.
LORD ABERGAVENNY.
LORD SANDS.

SIR THOMAS LOVELL.
SIR HENRY GUILDFORD.
SIR ANTHONY DENNY.
SIR NICHOLAS VAUX.
Secretaries to Wolsey.

CROMWELL, Servant to Wolsey.
GRIFFITH, Gentleman-Usher to Queen Katha-

rine.

BRANDON, and a Sergeant-at-Arms.
Door-keeper of the Council Chamber.
Porter, and his Man.

Page to Gardiner.

A Crier.

QUEEN KATHARINE, Wife to King Henry; afterwards divorced.

ANNE BULLEN, her Maid of Honour; after-
wards Queen.

An Old Lady, Friend to Anne Bullen.
PATIENCE, Woman to Queen Katharine.

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.

PROLOGUE.

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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

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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,

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'Twixt Guynes and Arde: I was then present, saw them salute on borseback;

8 Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung In their embracement, as they grew together; Which had they, what four thron'd ones could have weigh'd

Such a compounded one?
Buck.

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All the whole time 12 I was my chamber's prisoner. 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 16 Became the next day's master, till the last Made former wonders its. To-day the French 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. Their dwarfish pages were As cherubins, all gilt: the madams, too, Not us'd to toil, did almost sweat to bear The pride upon them, that their very labour Was to them as a painting. Now this masque Was cried incomparable; and the ensuing night Made it a fool, and beggar. The two kings, 28 Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst, As presence did present them; him in eye, Still him in praise; and, being present both, 'Twas said they saw but one; and no discerner Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these

suns

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For so they phrase 'em-by their heralds challeng'd

The noble spirits to arms, they did perform Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story, 36

Being now seen possible enough, got credit,
That Bevis was believ'd.

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From his ambitious finger. What had he
To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
That such a keech can with his very bulk
Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun,
And keep it from the earth.
Nor.
Surely, sir,
There's in him stuff that puts him to these
ends;

For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace
Chalks successors their way, nor call'd upon 60
For high feats done to the crown; neither allied
To eminent assistants; but, spider-like,
Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note,
The force of his own merit makes his way;
A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys
A place next to the king.

Aber.

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I cannot tell What heaven hath given him: let some graver

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Of all the gentry; for the most part such
To whom as great a charge as little honour
He meant to lay upon: and his own letter,—
The honourable board of council out,—
Must fetch him in he papers.
Aber.
I do know
Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have
By this so sicken'd their estates, that never
They shall abound as formerly.

Buck.

O! many

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Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em 84

For this great journey. What did this vanity But minister communication of

A most poor issue?

Nor.

Grievingly I think,

The peace between the French and us not

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Aber.

. The ambassador is silenc'd? Nor.

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Is it therefore 96 I'll follow, and out-stare him.
Nor.
Stay, my lord,
And let your reason with your choler question

Marry, is't.

Aber. A proper title of a peace; and pur- What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills chas'd

At a superfluous rate!

Buck.
Why, all this business
Our reverend cardinal carried.
Nor.
Like it your Grace, 100
The state takes notice of the private difference
Betwixt you and the cardinal. I advise you,
And take it from a heart that wishes towards
you

Honour and plenteous safety,-that you read 104
The cardinal's malice and his potency
Together; to consider further that

What his high hatred would effect wants not
A minister in his power. You know his nature,
That he's revengeful; and I know his sword 109
Hath a sharp edge: it's long, and 't may be said,
It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend,
Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel, 112
You'll find it wholesome. Lo where comes that
rock

That I advise your shunning.

Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY,-the Purse borne before him, certain of the Guard, and two Secretaries with papers. The CARDINAL in his passage fixeth his eye on BUCKINGHAM, and BUCKINGHAM on him, both full of disdain.

Wol. The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?

Where's his examination?

First Secr.
Wol. Is he in person ready?
First Secr.
Ay, please your Grace.
Wol. Well, we shall then know more; and
Buckingham

Here, so please you. 116

Shall lessen this big look.

[Exeunt WOLSEY, and Train. Buck. This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I

120 Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best

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Requires slow pace at first: anger is like
A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way,
Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
Can advise me like you: be to yourself
As you would to your friend.
Buck.
I'll to the king; 136
And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
This Ipswich fellow's insolence, or proclaim
There's difference in no persons.

Nor.

Be advis'd;

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The articles o' the combination drew
As himself pleas'd; and they were ratified
As he cried, "Thus let be,' to as much end
As give a crutch to the dead. But our count-
cardinal
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Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolsey,
Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows,—
Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
To the old dam, treason, Charles the emperor,
Under pretence to see the queen his aunt,- 177
For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came
To whisper Wolsey,-here makes visitation:
His fears were, that the interview betwixt 180
England and France might, through their amity,
Breed him some prejudice; for from this league
Peep'd harms that menac'd him. He privily
Deals with our cardinal, and, as I trow,
Which I do well; for, I am sure the emperor
Paid ere he promis'd; whereby his suit was
granted

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Which makes my whit'st part black. The will

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Be done in this and all things!
O! my Lord Abergavenny, fare you well!
Bran. Nay, he must bear you company. [To
ABERGAVENNY.] The king

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Is pleas'd you shall to the Tower, till you know
How he determines further.
Aber.
As the duke said,

The will of heaven be done, and the king's
pleasure
By me obey'd!
Bran.
The king to attach Lord Montacute; and the
bodies

Here is a warrant from

Of the duke's confessor, John de la Car, One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor,— Buck.

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So, so; These are the limbs o' the plot: no more, I hope. Bran. A monk o' the Chartreux.

Buck.

Bran.

O! Nicholas Hopkins? He.

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Hath show'd him gold. My life is spann'd already:

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I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on,
By dark'ning my clear sun. My lord, farewell.
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SCENE II.-The Council Chamber.

Enter the KING, leaning on the CARDINAL'S shoulder, the Lords of the Council, SIR THOMAS LOVELL, Officers, and Attendants. The CARDINAL places himself under the KING'S feet on the right side.

K. Hen. My life itself, and the best heart of it, Thanks you for this great care: I stood i' the level

Of a full-charg'd confederacy, and give thanks To you that chok'd it. Let be call'd before us 4 That gentleman of Buckingham's; in person I'll hear him his confessions justify;

And point by point the treasons of his master He shall again relate.

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A noise within, crying, 'Room for the Queen!' Enter QUEEN KATHARINE, ushered by the DUKES OF NORFOLK and SUFFOLK: she kneels. The KING riseth from his state, takes her up, kisses, and placeth her by him. Q. Kath. Nay, we must longer kneel: I am a suitor.

K. Hen. Arise, and take place by us: half your suit

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