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Henry VIII

Act I, Prologue

PROLOGUE
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      I come | no more | to make | you laugh,| things^now,
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      That bear | a weigh|ty, and | a se|rious brow,
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      Sad, high, and work|ing, full | of state | and woe:
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      Such noble scenes | as draw | the eye | to flow
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      We now | present.| Those that | can pit|y, here
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      May (if | they think | it well)| let^fall | a tear,
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      The sub|ject* will | deserve | it. Such | as give
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      Their mon|ey out | of hope | they may | believe,
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      May* here | find^truth | too. Those^|that come | to see  ??
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      Only | a show | or two,| and so | agree,
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      The play | may pass:| if they | be still | and wil|ling,
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      I'll und|ertake | may see | away | their shil|ling    (hex with prev)
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      Richly | in two | short hours. On|ly they
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      That come | to hear | a mer|ry, baw|dy play,
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      A noise | of tar|gets: or | to see | a fellow
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      In a / long mot|ley coat,| guarded | with yellow,
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      Will be | deceived.| For gent|le hear|ers, know
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      To rank | our chos|en truth | with such | a show
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      As fool,| and fight | is, be/side for|feiting
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      Our own | brains, and | the opin|ion that | we bring
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      To make | that on|ly true,| we now | intend,
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      Will leave | us never | an und|erstand|ing friend.
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      Therefore,| for good|ness' sake,| and as | you are known
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      The first | and hap|piest hear|ers of | the town,
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      Be sad,| as we | would make | ye: think | ye see
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      The ve|ry pers|ons of | our nob|le sto||ry,
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      As | they were liv|ing: think | you see | them great,
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      And fol|lowed with | the gene|ral throng,| and sweat
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      Of thous|and friends:| then, in | a mo|ment, see
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      How soon | this might|iness,| meets misery:
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      And if | you can | be mer|ry then,| I'll say,
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      A man | may weep | upon | his wed|ding day.

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