if you do sweat to put a tyrant down, If you do fight in safeguard of your wives, If you do free your children from the sword, For me, the ransom of my bold attempt God, and Saint George! Richmond, and vic- K. Rich. What said Northumberland, as Rat. That he was never trained up in arms. Rat. He smil'd and said, the better for our K. Rich. He was i'the right; and so, indeed, it is. [Clock strikes. Tell the clock there.-Give me a calendar.Who saw the sun to-day? Rat. Not 1, my lord." K. Rich. Then he disdains to shine; for, by He should have brav'dt the east an hour ago: Rat. My lord? K. Rich. The sun will not be seen to-day; That frowns on me, looks sadly upon him. Nor. Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field. K. Rich. Come, bustle, bustle;-Caparison Call uplord Stanley, bid him bring his power:- A thing devised by the enemy.— March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell; What shall I say more than I have inferr'd What says lord Stanley? will he bring b Mess. My lord, he doth deny to come. Nor. My lord, the enemy is pass'd the marsh K. Rich. A thousand hearts are great within Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Upon them! Victory sits on our helms. Consisting equally of horse and foot; Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse. Nor. A good direction, warlike sovereign. This found I on my tent this morning. [Giving a scroll. K. Rich. cky of Norfolk, be not too bold, reads. For Dickont thy master is bought and sold. * Requite. + Made it splendid. The ancient familiarization of Richard. [Exeunt. SCENE IV.-Another part of the field. Alarum: Excursions. Enter NORFOLK, and Forces; to him CATESBY. Cute. Rescue, my lord of Norfolk, rescue, The king enacts more wonders than a man, His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights, Alarum. Enter King RICHARD. * Company. + Fright the skies with the shivers of your lances, Cate. Withdraw, my lord, I'll help you to a horse. K. Rich. Slave, I have set my life upon a And I will stand the hazard of the die: cast, 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 horse! [Exeunt. Alarums. Enter King RICHARD and RICHMOND; and exeunt fighting. Retreat, and flourish. Then enter RICHMOND, STANLEY, bearing the crown, with divers other Lords, and Forces. Richm. God, and your arms, be prais'd, victorious friends; The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead. Stan. Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee! 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:[ing? But tell me first, is young George Stanley livStan. He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town; Whither, if it please you, we may now with. draw us. Richm. What men of name are slain on either side? Stan. John duke of Norfolk, Walter lord Ferrers, [don. Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir Willium Bran Richm. Inter their bodies as becomes their births. Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled, The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase, That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again; That she may long live here, God say-Amen [Exeunt. KING HENRY VIII. KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. PERSONS REPRESENTED. CARDINAL WOLSEY.-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS. CRANMER, Archbishop of Canterbury. BISHOP OF LINCOLN.-LORD ABERGAVENNY. SIR HENRY GUILDFORD.-SIR THOMAS LOVELL. SIR ANTHONY DENNY.-SIR NICHOLAS VAUX. SECRETARIES to Wolsey. CROMWELL, Servant to Wolsey. GRIFFITH, Gentleman-Usher to Queen Katha rine. IAREE OTHER GENTLEMEN. DOCTOR BUTTS, Physician to the King. GARTER, King at Arms SURVEYOR to the Duke of Buckingham. PAGE to Gardiner.-A CRIer. QUEEN KATHARINE, Wife to King Henry; afterwards divorced. ANNE BULLEN, her Maid of Honour; afterwards Queen. AN OLD LADY, Friend to Anne Bullen. Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; SCENE, chiefly in London and Westminste once, at Kimbolton. Palace. I COME no more to make you laugh; things | SCENE 1.-London.-An Autc-chamber in now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, The first and happiest hearers of the town, Of thousand friends; then, in a moment, see Enter the Duke of NORFOLK, at one door; at the other, the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, and the Lord ABERGAVENNY. Buck. Good morrow, and well met. How have you done, Since last we saw in France? Nor. I thank your grace: Buck. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,* Met in the vale of Arde. Nor. Twixt Guynes and Arde: back; I was then present, saw them salute on horse[clung Beheld them, when they lighted, how they In their embracement, as they grew together; Which had they, what four thron'd ones could have weigh'd Such a compounded one? Buck. All the whole time The view of earthly glory: Men might say, Till this time, pomp was single; but now mar ried To one above itself. Each following day Became the next day's master, till the last Made former wonders it's: To-day, the French All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, * Henry VIII, and Francis 1. king of Fi uce † Gatering, shining. Shone down the English: and, to-morrow, Made Britain, India: every man, that stood, were As cherubims, all gilt; the madams too, Made it a fool, and beggar. The two kings, Being now seen possible enough, got credit, Buck. O, you go far. Nor. As I belong to worship, and affect To the disposing of it nought rebell'd, Buck. Who did guide, I mean, who set the body and the limbs Buck. I pray you, who, my lord? cretion Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have Buck. O, many [them Nor. Grievingly I think, [values After the hideous storm that follow'd, was Nor. Which is budded out; [tach'd For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath atOur merchants' goods at Bourdeaux Aber. Is it therefore The ambassador is silenc'd? Nor. Marry, is't. Aber. A proper title of a peace; and purchas'd At a superfluous rate! Buck. Why, all this business Nor. 'Like it your grace, 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 Nor. All this was order'd by the good dis- Honour and plenteous safety,) that you read The cardinal's malice and his potency Together: to consider further, that Of the right reverend cardinal of York. Buck. The devil speed him! no man's pie is What his high hatred would effect, wants not A minister in his power: You know his na ture, That he's revengeful; and I know, his sword It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend, Enter Cardinal WOLSEY, (the purse borne before Wol. The duke of Buckingham's surveyor? 1 Secr. Here, so please you. 1 Secr. Ay, please your grace. Shall lessen this big look. Exeunt WOLSEY, and train. Buck. This butcher's curț is venom-mouth'd, and I [best Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's Out-worths a noble's blood. look Practice. ** List. *Sets down in his letter without consulting the council, + Conducted. Wolsey was the son of a butcher. Nor. What, are you chaf'd? His fears were, that the interview, betwixt Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance England and France, might, through their only, Which your disease requires. Buck. I read in his looks Matter against me; and his eye revil'd He bores me with some trick: He's gone to I'll follow, and out-stare him. Nor. Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question Buck. I'll to the king; And from a mouth of honour quite cry down Nor. Be advis'd; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot In seeming to augment it, wastes it? Be ad- I say again, there is no English soul Buck. Sir, I am thankful to you; and I'll go along (Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but Nor. Say not, treasonous. Buck. To the king I'll say't; and make my As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox, master To this last costly treaty, the interview, Nor. 'Faith, and so it did. [glass Buck. Pray, give me favour, Sir. This The articles o' the combination drew, peror, Under pretence to see the queen his aunt league Peep'd harms that menac'd him: He privil Ere it was ask'd;-but when the way was And pav'd with gold, the emperor thus de And break the aforesaid peace. Let the king (As soon he shall by me,) that thus the cardi- Nor. I am sorry To hear this of him; and could wish, he were Buck. No, not a syllable; I do pronounce him in that very shape, Enter BRANDON; a SERGEANT at Arms before Bran. Your office, sergeant; execute it. My lord the duke of Buckingham, and earl Buck. Lo you, my lord, The net has fallen upon me; I shall perish Bran. I am sorry To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on Buck. It will help me nothing, To plead mine innocence; for that die is on me, Be done in this and all things!-I obey.- The will of heaven be done, and the king's By me obey'd. Bran. Here is a warrant from The king, to attach lord Montacute; and the Of the duke's confessor, John de la Court, These are the limbs of the plot: no more, I Bran. A monk o' the Chartreux. Buck. My surveyor is false; the o'er great |