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Henrik 79 Warwick: Call for the music in the other room. Kong Henrik: Set me the crown upon my pillow kere. Clarence: His eye is hollow, and he changes much. Nu følger den smukke Scene imellem Kongen og Prins Henrik, som tager Kronen; da de andre atter komme tilstede, spørger Kongen Lord Warwick: Doth any name particular belong Unto the lodging where I first did swoon? Warwick: ’Tis call’d Jerusalem, my noble lord. Kong Henrik: Laud be to God! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem; Which vainly I suppes’d the Holy Land: — But bear me to that chamber; there PH lie; In that Jerusalem shall Henry die. [exeunt] Hermed ender 4. Akt. I Act. V. Scene II: Chief Justice: How doth the king? Warwick: Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended. Chief Justice: I hope, not dead. Warwick: H’is walk’d the way of nature And, to our purposes, he lives no more. HENRIK den VIIIde af England (1492—1547). (Goldsmith: History ... II. S. 197.) Henrik den VIIIde, »grusom i sin Regering, grusom i sin Re- ligion, grusom i sin Familie«, havde i lang Tid lidt af et Saar