Q. Ifa. God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one: As man and wife, being two, are one in love, So be there 'twixt your kingdoms fuch a fpoufal, That never may ill office, or fell jealoufie, Which troubles oft the bed of bleffed marriage, Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms, (45) To make divorce of their incorporate league : That English may as French, French Englishmen, Receive each other. God fpeak this Amen! All. Amen.

K. Henry. Prepare we for our marriage; on which day, My lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath And all the Peers, for furety of our leagues. Then fhall I fwear to Kate, and you to me,

And may our oaths well kept, and profp'rous be!

Enter Chorus.

Thus far with rough, and all-unable, pen
Our bending author hath purfu'd the story ;
In little room confining mighty men,

[Exeunt.

Mangling by starts the full courfe of their glory.
Small time, but, in that small, most greatly liv'd
This Star of England. Fortune made his sword;
By which the world's best garden he atchiev'd,
And of it left his fon imperial lord.

Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King
Of France and England, did this King fucceed:
Whose state so many had i'th' managing,

That they loft France, and made his England bleed : Which oft our stage hath fhown; and, for their fake, In your fair minds let this acceptance take.

(45) Thruft in between the paffion of thefe Kingdoms] The Old Folio's have it, the pation; which makes me believe, the Author's Word was paction; a Word, more proper on the occafion of a Peace ftruck up. A Paffion of two Kingdoms for one another, is an odd Expreffion. An Amity and political Harmony may be fix'd betwixt two Countries, and yet either People be far from having a Paffion for the other.

THE

THE

FIRST PART

OF

K. HENRY VIth

KING Henry VI.

Duke of Glocefter, Uncle to the King, and Protector.

Duke of Bedford, Uncle to the King, and Regent of France:

Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchefter, and Uncle likewife to the

King.
Duke of Exeter.
Duke of Somerfet.
Earl of Warwick.
Earl of Salisbury.
Earl of Suffolk.
Lord Talbot.

Young Talbot, his Sox.

Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of York.
Mortimer, Earl of March.

Sir John Faftolfe.

Woodvile, Lieutenant of the Tower.

Lord Mayor of London.

Sir Thomas Gargrave.

Sir William Glanfdale.

Sir William Lucy.

Vernon, of the White Rofe, or York Faction.

Baffet, of the Red Rofe, or Lancaster Faction.

Charles, Dauphin, and afterwards King of France.

Reignier, Duke of Anjou, and Titular King of Naples.
Duke of Burgundy.

Duke of Alanfon.

Baftard of Orleans.

Governor of Paris.

Mafter Gunner of Orleans.

Boy, his Son

Ay old Shepherd, Father to Joan la Pucelle.

Margaret, Daughter to Reignier, and afterwards Queen to King Henry. Countess of Auvergne.

Joan la Pucelle, a Maid pretending to be infpir'd from Heaven, and fetting up for the Championess of France.

Fiends, attending her.

Lords, Captains, Soldiers, Meffengers, and feveral Attendants both on the English and French.

The SCENE is partly in England, and partly in France.

The

The FIRST PART of (1)

King HENRY VI

ACTI

SCENE, Westminster-Abbey.

Dead March. Enter the Funeral of King Henry the Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke of Gloucester, Protector; the Duke of Exeter, and the Earl of Warwick, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerfet.

H

BEDFORD.

UNG be the heav'ns with black, yield day to night!

Comets, importing change of times and states,

Brandifh your crystal treffes in the sky; And with them fcourge the bad revolting stars, That have confented unto Henry's death!

Henry

(1) The first Part of K. HENRY VI.] The Hiftorical Tranfactions, contain'd in this Play, take in the Compass of above 30 Years. I must observe, however, that our Author, in the three Parts of K. Henry VI.

has