THE

PLAYS

OF

William Shakspeare,

ACCURATELY PRINTED FROM

The Text of the Corrected Copy left by the late

GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ.

WITH

GLOSSARIAL NOTES,

AND

A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SHAKSPEARE.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. VI.

CONTAINING

KING HENRY VIII....TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.. TIMON

OF ATHENS....CORIOLANUS.

Stereotyped by J. Howe. York.

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790212 A ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

King Henry the Eighth.
Cardinal Wolsey. Cardinal Campeius.
Capucius, ambassador from the emperor

Charles V.
Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury.
Duke of Norfolk. Duke of Buckingham.
Duke of Suffolk. Earl of Surrey.
Lord Chamberlain. Lord Chancellor.
Gardiner, bishop of Winchester.
Bishop of Lincoln. Lord Abergavenny. Lord

Sands. Sir Henry Guildford. Sir Thomas Lovell. Sir Anthony Denny. Sir Nicholas Vaux. Secretaries to Wolsey. Cromwell, servant to Wolsey. Griffith, gentleman-usher to queen Katharine. Three other Gentlemen. Doctor Butts, physician to the king. Garter, king at arms. Surveyor to the duke of Buckingham. Brandon, and a Serjeant at arms. Door-keeper of the council-chamber. Porter, and

his Man. Page to Gardiner. Crier. Queen Katharine, wife to king Henry, afterwards

divorced. Anne Bullen, her maid of honour; afterwards

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, 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 wo,
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, 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, beside forfeiting
Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring
(To make that only true we now intend, 2)
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 see
The very persons of our noble story,

(2) Pretend.

(1) Laced.