Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Diane JakackiNot Peer Reviewed
Henry The Eighth (Folio 1, 1623)
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Prologue
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Prologue
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Act 1, scene 1
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Act 1, scene 2
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Act 1, scene 3
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Act 1, scene 4
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Act 2, scene 1
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Act 2, scene 2
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Act 2, scene 3
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Act 2, scene 3
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Act 2, scene 4
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Act 3, scene 1
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Act 3, scene 2
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Act 4, scene 1
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Act 4, scene 2
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Act 5, scene 1
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Act 5, scene 2
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Act 5, scene 3
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Act 5, scene 4
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Epilogue
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Complete text
> The Famous History of the Life of
King HENRY the Eight.
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Come no more to make you laugh, Things now,
3That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow,
4Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe: 5Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow 6We now present. Those that can Pitty, heere 7May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,
8The Subiect will deserue it. Such as giue 9Their Money out of hope they may beleeue,
10May heere finde Truth too. Those that come to see 11Onely a show or two, and so agree,
12The Play may passe: If they be still, and willing,
13Ile vndertake may see away their shilling 14Richly in two short houres. Onely they 15That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play,
16A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow 17In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow,
18Will be deceyu'd. For gentle Hearers, know 19To ranke our chosen Truth with such a show 20As Foole, and Fight is, beside forfeyting 21Our owne Braines, and the Opinion that we bring 22To make that onely true, we now intend,
23Will leaue vs neuer an vnderstanding Friend 24Therefore, for Goodnesse sake, and as you are knowne 25The First and Happiest Hearers of the Towne,
26Be sad, as we would make ye. Thinke ye see 27The very Persons of our Noble Story,
28As they were Liuing: Thinke you see them Great,
29And follow'd with the generall throng, and sweat 30Of thousand Friends: Then, in a moment, see 31How soone this Mightinesse, meets Misery: 32And if you can be merry then, Ile say,
33A Man may weepe vpon his Wedding day.