The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight I Come no
more to make you laugh, Things now, That beare a Weighty, and a
Serious Brow, Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe:
Such Noble Scoenes, 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 agree, 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 Hearers, know To ranke our chosen Truth
with such a show As Foole, and Fight is, beside forfeyting Our
owne Braines, and the Opinion that we bring To make that onely
true, we now intend, Will leaue vs neuer an vnderstanding
Friend. Therefore, for