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Henry The Eighth (Folio 1, 1623)
The Famous History of the Life of
King HENRY the Eight.
1THE PROLOGVE.
2I 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
7May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,
9Their Money out of hope they may beleeue,
14Richly in two short houres. Onely they
15That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play,
17In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow,
18Will be deceyu'd. For gentle Hearers, know
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
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
32And if you can be merry then, Ile say,
33A Man may weepe vpon his Wedding day.