BBC Television Shakespeare

King Henry the Eighth

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired Feb 25, 1979

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- Cardinal Wolsey: I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
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- Griffith: Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.
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- Norfolk: Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running.
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- King Henry the Eighth was largely filmed on location at Leeds Castle, Kent, in rooms Henry VIII had actually lived in five hundred years before.
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