Shakespeare's Opening Lines - First lines of Henry VIII

Shakespeare's Opening Lines: The Quiz

Question #10: CORRECT!

I come no more to make you laugh: things now,
That bear a weighty and a serious brow,
Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe,
Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow,
We now present. Those that can pity, here
May, if they think it well, let fall a tear;
The subject will deserve it. Such as give
Their money out of hope they may believe,
May here find truth too. Those that come to see
Only a show or two, and so agree
The play may pass, if they be still and willing,
I'll undertake may see away their shilling
Richly in two short hours.
Henry VIII (1.1)

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Henry VIII. From Shakespeare's stories of the English kings. Thomas Carter. Illus. Gertrude Demain Hammond. (1912)