Luke xi. 4—" And forgive us our sinnes: for even wee forgive every man that is indetted to us."

James v. 13-" Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray."

Ps. cii. 17-"The Lord shall turne unto the prayer of the desolate and not despise their prayer."

THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHT.

"First printed in the Folio of 1623. The three chief characters-the King, Queen Katharine of Arragon and Cardinal Wolsey-bear clear marks of Shakespeare's best workmanship; but only Act I. i., Act II. iii. and iv. (Katharine's trial), Act III. ii. (except ll. 204-460), Act V. i. can on either aesthetic or metrical grounds be confidently assigned to him. These portions may, according to their metrical characteristics, be dated, like the Winter's Tale,' about 1611. There are good grounds for assigning nearly all the remaining thirteen scenes to the pen of Fletcher, with occasional aid from Massinger."

"The conjecture that Massinger and Fletcher alone collaborated in 'Henry VIII.' (to the exclusion of Shakespeare altogether) does not deserve serious consideration. Sidney Lee, Life, pp. 262, 263.

Act I. i. 7-Buckingham. "Those Sunnes of Glory, those two Lights of Men.”

Gen. i. 15-" And let them bee for lightes in the firmanent of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and it was so."

Act I. i. 64: Norfolk

"The force of his owne merit makes his way;

A guift that heaven gives for him, which buyes

A place next to the King."

Prov. xviii. 16—“ A man's gift enlargeth him and leadeth him before great men."

Act I. i. 66: Abergavenny—

"I cannot tell

What Heaven hath given him, let some graver eye

Pierce into that, but I can see his Pride

Peepe through each part of him: whence ha's he that,

If not from Hell."

Ecclus. x. 7— Pride is hatefull before God and man." 14

"For Pride is the original of sinne, and he that hath it shall powre forth abomination, till at last hee be overthrowen."

Act I. i. 140

Buckingham. "There's difference in no persons."

Norfolk. "Be advis'd;

Heat not a Furnace for your foe so hot
That it do sindge yourself."

Acts x. 34-" God is no accepter of persons."

Rom. ii. II-"There is no respect of persons with God."

Dan. iii. 19-22-"Therefore he charged and commanded that they should heate the fornace at once seven times more than it was wont to be heat. Therefore because the King's commandment was straite, that the fornace should bee exceeding hote, the flame of the fire slew those men that brought forth Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego."

Act I. i. 202: Buckingham

"Lo you, my Lord,

The net has falne upon me, I shall perish

Under device and practice."

Ps. cxl. 5- The prowde have laid a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me."

Act I. i. 209

"The will of Heav'n

Be done in this and all things."

Matt. xxvi. 42-"Thy will be done."

2 Sam. x. 12—"Let the Lord do that which is good in His

eyes."

Act I. i. 225

"My life is spann'd already :

I am the shadow of poore Buckingham,

Whose Figure even this instant clowd puts on,

By darkning my cleere Sunne."

Ps. xxxix. 5-" Beholde thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: Surely every man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe."

Author.-"a vain shew."

Act I. ii. 50-Queen Katharine. "The back is Sacrifice to the load."

Compare

Gen. xxii. 6-" Then Abraham tooke the woode of the burnt

offering, and layd it upon Izhak his sonne, and hee tooke the fire in his hand and the knife and they both went together. Then spake Izhak to Abraham his father, . . . Beholde the fire and the wood, but where is the Lambe for the burnt offering?" "Abraham builded an altar and couched the wood and bound Izhak his sonne, and layd him on the altar upon the wood."

Act I. ii. 211: King Henry

"If he may

Finde mercy in the Law, 'tis his, if none,

Let him not seek 't of us."

Rom. ii. 12—" As many as have sinned in the Lawe, shalbe judged by the Lawe."

Act I. iii. 60: Sands

"Sparing would shew a worse sinne, then ill Doctrine :
Men of his way, should be most liberall;

They are set heere for examples."

1 Tim. 4, 6—“A good minister of Jesus Christ, which hast bene nourished up in the words of faith, and of good doctrine which thou hast continually followed."

1 Peter v. 3-"That ye may be ensamples to the flocke."

I Tim. iv. 12- "Be unto them that beleeve an ensample."

I Peter iv. 9-"Bee yee harberous to one another, without grudging."

Act II. i. 64: Buckingham

But those that sought it I could wish more Christian :

(Be what they will) I heartily forgive 'em :

Yet let them look they glory not in mischiefe,

Nor build their evils on the graves of great men ;

For then my guiltlesse blood must cry against 'em.
75-"Goe with me like good Angels to my end;
And as the long divorce of steele fals on me,
Make of your Prayers one sweet sacrifice

And lift my soule to Heaven."

Luke vi. 27-"Love your enemies: doe well to them that hate you. Blesse them that curse you, and pray for them which hurt you."

Ps. vii. 16" His mischiefe shall returne upon his owne head, and his cruelty shall fall upon his owne pate."

Gen. iv. 10-"The voyce of thy brother's blood cryeth unto Me from the earth."

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Ps. cxli. 2-" Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting up of mine handes as an evening sacrifice."

Act II. i. 121: Buckingham

"Yet thus farre we are one in Fortunes: both

Fell by our Servants, by those men we lov'd most ;

A most unnaturall and faithlesse service."

Compare the betrayal by Judas, and the words of the
Psalmist-

Ps. xli. 9-" Yea, my familiar friend, whome I trusted, which did eate of my bread, hath lifted up the heele against mee."

Act II. i. 127: Buckingham

"For those you make friends

And give your hearts to, when they once perceive

The least rub in your fortunes, fall away

Like water from ye, never found again."

Job vi. 15-18-" My brethren have deceived me as a brooke, and as the rising of the rivers they pass away they depart from their way and course, yea, they vanish and perish."

Act II. ii. 48: Suffolk

"All men's honours

Lie like one lumpe before him, to be fashion'd
Into what pitch he please."

I.e., Wolsey was aiming at Omnipotence.

Rom. ix. 21" Hath not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lumpe one vessel to honour, and another unto dishonour."

Wic.-" of the same gobet."

Rheims-" of the same masse."

Tyn., Cran., Gen., Author.-" of the same lumpe."

Jer. xviii. 4-"So he returned and made it another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it."

Isa. xlv. 9-" Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makest thou ?"

Wisd. of Sol. xv. 7-"The potter also tempereth soft earth, and fashioneth every vessel with labor to our use: but of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve to cleane uses and the