The Famous History of the Life of Henry the Eighth: ACT V
Introduction THE PROLOGUE ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. London. A gallery in the palace. SCENE II. Before the council-chamber. Pursuivants, Pages, &c. attending. SCENE III. The Council-Chamber. SCENE IV. The palace yard. SCENE V. The palace. EPILOGUE About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: EPILOGUE       'Tis ten to one this play can never please       All that are here: some come to take their ease,       And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,       We have frighted with our trumpets; so, 'tis clear, 5     They'll say 'tis naught: others, to hear the city       Abused extremely, and to cry 'That's witty!'       Which we have not done neither: that, I fear,       All the expected good we're like to hear       For this play at this time, is only in 10    The merciful construction of good women;       For such a one we show'd 'em: if they smile,       And say 'twill do, I know, within a while       All the best men are ours; for 'tis ill hap,       If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap. Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene