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King HENRY VI

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KING Henry VI.

Humphry Duke of Gloucefter,

Cardinal Beauford, Bp. of Winchefter, Uncles to the King.

Duke of York, pretending to the Crown.

Duke of Buckingham,

Duke of Somerset,

Duke of Suffolk,

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Of the King's Party.

Earl of Salisburys Of the York Faction.
Earl of Warwick, 3

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

Lord Scales, Governor of the Tower.
Sir Humphry Stafford."

Young Stafford, bis Brother.

Alexander Iden, a Kentish Gentleman.
Young Clifford, Son to the Lord Clifford.
Edward Plantagenet,

Richard Plantagenet, Sons to the Duke of York.

Vaux, a Sea Captain, and Walter Whitmore
A Herald.

Hume and Southwel, two Priefts.

Bolingbrook, an Aftrologer.

A Spirit, attending on Jordan the Witch.

Thomas Horner, an Armourer

Peter, bis Man.

Clerk of Chatham.

Mayor of St. Albans.

Simpcox, an Imp flor.

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-Pirates.

Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John Holland, Dick the Butcher, Smith the Weaver, and several others, Rebels.

Margaret, Queen to King Henry VI. fecretly in Love with the Duke of Suffolk.

Dame Eleanor, Wife to the Duke of Gloucester.

Mother Jordan, a Witch employed by the Dutchess of Gloucester,
Wife to Simpcox.

Petitioners, Aldermen, a Peadle, Sheriff and Officers, Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Messengers, and other Attendants.

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

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SCENE, The Palace.

Flourish of Trumpets: then, Hautboys. Enter King Henry, Duke Humphry, Salisbury, Warwick, and Beauford on the one fide: The Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerset, and Buckingham on the other.

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SUFFOLK.

S by your high imperial Majefty

I had in charge at my depart from France,
As procurator for your Excellence,

To marry Princess 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, Bretaigne, Alanfon,
Seven Earls, twelve Barons, twenty reverend Bifhops,

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(1) The Second Part of K. Henry VI.] This and the Third Part of K. Henry VI. contain the troublefome Period of this Prince's Reign, which took in the whole Contention betwixt the two Houfes of York and Lancaster: And under that Title were these two Plays first acted and

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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 happieft 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 fout;
If fympathy of love unite our thoughts.

Q.Mar. Great King of England, and my gracious Lord,
The mutual conf'rence that my mind hath had,
By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,
In courtly company, or at my beads,
With you mine alder-liefeft 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. Her fight did ravish, but her grace in fpeech, Her words y-clad with wifdom's majesty,

Make me from wondring fall to weeping joys,

Such is the fulnefs of my heart's content.

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

Q. Mar. We thank you all.

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

and published. The prefent Scene opens with K. Henry's Marriage, which was in the 23d Year of his Reign; and clofes with the fift Battle fought at St. Albans, and won by the York Faction, in the 338 Year of his Reign. So that it comprifes the History and Tranfactions of ten Years.

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