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Duke of Bucking-`

ham,

Duke of Somerset,

of the King's

party.

Duke of Suffolk,

Earl of Salisbury,

of the York

Earl of Warwick,

faltion."

Lord Clifford, of the King's party.
Lord Say.

Lord Scales, Governor of the
Tower.

Sir John Stanley.
Sir Humphry Stafford.
Young Stafford, his brother.
Alexander Iden, a Kentifh Gen-
tleman.

Young Clifford, fon to the Lord
Clifford.

Edward Planta

genet. Richard Planta

genet,

fons to the Duke
of York.

Vaux, a fea captain, and Walter
Whitmore-pirates.

A Herald.

Hume and Southwell, two priefs.
Bolingbrook, an astrologer.
A Spirit attending on Fordan the

witch.

Thomas Horner, an armourer.
Peter, his man.

Clerk of Chatham.
Mayor of St. Alban's.
Simpcox, an impostor.
Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John
Holland, Dick the butcher,
Smith, the weaver, and feveral
others, rebels.

Margaret, Queen to K. Henry VI.
fecretly in love with the Duke
of Suffolk.

Dame Eleanor, wife to the Duke of Gloucefter

Mother Jordan, a witch employ'd
by the Dutchess of Gloucefter.
Wife to Simpcox.

Petitioners, Aldermen, a Beadle,
Sheriff, and Officers, Citizens,
with Faulconers, Guards, Mef
Jengers, and other Attendants.

The SCENE is laid very difperfedly in feveral parts of England.

This and the third part were firft written under the title of The contention of York and Lancaster, printed in 1607; but fince vastly improved by the author. Mr. Pope. 1 A

VOL. V.

ACT

ACT I. SCENE I.

The palace.

Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter King Henry, Duke Humphry, Salisbury, Warwick, and Beaufort, on the one fide: the Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other.

Suf *.

As

S by your high imperial Majefty
I had in charge at my depart from France,
As procurator for your Excellence,

To marry Princefs Margret for your Grace;
So in the famous ancient city Tours,

In prefence of the Kings of France and Sicil,

The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne, Alanfon,
Seven Earls, twelve Barons, twenty reverend Bishops,
I have perform'd my task, and was efpous'd:
And humbly now upon my bended knee,
In fight of England and her lordly peers,
Deliver up my title in the Queen.

[prefenting the Queen to the King.

To your moft gracious hand; that are the fubftance

Of that great fhadow I did reprefent;

The happiest gift that ever Marquis gave,

The fairest Queen that ever King receiv'd.

K. Henry. Suffolk, arife. Welcome, Queen Margaret;

I can exprefs no kinder fign of love,

Than this kind kifs. O Lord, that lend'ft me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

For thou haft giv'n me in this beauteous face,

A world of earthly bleffings to my foul,

If fympathy of love unite our thoughts.

2. Mar. Great King of England, and my gracious The mutual conf'rence that my mind hath had, [Lord. By day, by night, waking, and in my dreams,

In courtly company, or at my beads,

With you mine alder-lieviest Sovereign;
Makes me the bolder to falute my King
With ruder terms; fuch as my wit affords,
And over-joy of heart doth minister.

K. Henry.

Vide Hall's Chronicle, fol. 66. year 23. init. Mr. Pope.

[fpeech,

K. Henry. Her fight did ravish, but her grace in Her words y-clad with wifdom's majesty, Make me from wond'ring fall to weeping joys, Such is the fulness of my heart's content.

Lords, with one chearful voice welcome my love. All kneel. Long live Queen Margret, England's happiness!

2. Mar. We thank you all.

[Flourish. Suf. My Lord Protector, fo it please your Grace, Here are the articles of contracted peace,

Between our Sovereign and the French King Charles, For eighteen months concluded by confent.

Glo. [reads] Imprimis, It is agreed between the French King, Charles, and William de la Pole Marquis of Suffolk, Ambaffador for Henry King of England, that the faid Henry fball efpoufe the Lady Margaret, daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia, and Ferufalem, and crown her Queen of England, ere the thirtieth of May next enfuing.

Item, That the duchy of Anjou, and the county of Maine, fhall be releafed and delivered to the King her fa Lets fall the paper.

ther.

K. Henry. Uncle, how now?
Gio. Pardon me, gracious Lord;

Some fudden qualm hath struck me to the heart,
And dimm'd mine eyes that I can read no further.

K. Henry. Uncle of Winchefter, I pray, read on.

Win. Item, That the duchies of Anjou and Maine fall be releafed and delivered to the King her father, and foe fent over of the King of England's own proper coft and charges, without having any dowry.

K. Henry. They please us well. kneel you down;

Lord Marquis

We here create thee the firft Duke of Suffolk,
And gird thee with the fword. Coufin of York,
We here discharge your Grace from being Regent
I' th' parts of France, till term of eighteen months
Be full expir'd. Thanks, uncle Winchester,
Glo'fter, York, Buckingham, and Somerfet,
Salisbury, and Warwick;

We thank you for all this great favour done,
In entertainment to my princely Queen.
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Come,

Come, let us in, and with all speed provide
To fee her coronation be perform'd

[Exeunt King, Queen, and Suffolk.

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SCENE II. Manent the ref.

Glo. Brave Peers of England, pillars of the state,
To you Duke Humphry muft unload his grief,
Your grief, the common grief of all the land.-
What! did my brother Henry spend his youth,
H's valour, coin, and people, in the wars?
Did he fo often lodge in open field,

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In winter's cold, and fummer's parching heat,
To conquer France, his true inheritance?
And did my brother Bedford toil his wits
To keep by policy what Henry got?
Have you yourselves, Somerfet, Buckingham,
Brave York, and Salisbury, victorious Warwick,
Receiv'd deep fears in France and Normandy?
Or hath mine uncle Beaufort, and myself,
With all the learned counfels of the realm,
Studied fo long, fat in the council-house,
Early and late, debating to and fro,

How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe?
And was his Highnefs in his infancy
Crowned in Paris, in defpight of foes!

And fhall thefe labours and thefe honours diet
Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,
Your deeds of war, and all our counsel, die?
O Peers of England, shameful is this league,
Fatal this marriage; cancelling your fame,
Blotting your names from books of memory;
Razing the characters of your renown,
Defacing monuments of conquer'd France,
Undoing all, as all had never been.

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Car. Nephew, what means this paffionate difcourfe}?

This peroration with fuch circumftances?

For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it fill.

Glo. Ay, uncle, we will keep it if we can ;

But now it is impoffible we should.

Suffolk, the new-made Duke, that rules the roaft,
Hath giv'n the Duchy of Anjou and Maine
Unto the poor King Reignier, whofe large style

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Agrees

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