Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight.
THE PROLOGVE.
I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now,
Tat beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow,
Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe:
Such Noble Scœnes, as draw the Eye to flow
We now present. Those that can Pitty, heere
May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,
The Subiect will deserue it. Such as giue
Their Money out of hope they may beleeue,
May heere finde Truth too. Those that come to see
Onely a show or two, and so a gree,
The Play may passe: if they be still, and willing,
Ile vndertake may see away their shilling
Richly in two short houres. Onely they
That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play,
A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow
In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow,
Will be deceyu'd. For gentle Hears, know
To ranke our chosen Truth with such a show