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With envy of each other's happiness,

May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
Plant neighbourhood and chriftian-like accord

In their sweet breafts, that never war advance
His bleeding fword 'twixt England and fair France.
Lords. Amen!

K. Henry, Now welcome, Kate; and bear me witness all, That here I kifs her as my Sovereign Queen.

[Flouri

Qfa, 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 such a spousal,
That never may ill office, or fell jealoufie,
Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,
Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,
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! [Exeunt.
Enter Chorus.

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

Mangling by starts the full courfe of their glory.
Small time, but in that fmall moft greatly liv'd
This ftar of England. Fortune made his fword;
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 the 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,

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THE

FIRST PART

OF

King HENRT VI.

KING HENRY VI.

Duke of GLOUCESTER, Uncle to the King, and Protector.
Duke of BEDFORD, Uncle to the King, and Regent of France.
Cardinal BEAUFORT, Bishop of Winchester, and great
Uncle to the King.

Duke of EXETER, Brother to King Henry IV.
Duke of SOMERSET.
Earl of WARWICK,
Earl of SALISBURY.
Earl of SUFFOLK.
Lord TALBOT.

Young TALBOT, bis Son.

RICHARD PLANTAGENET, afterwards Duke of York, MORTIMER, Earl of March.

Sir JOHN FALSTAFF.

WOODVILE, Lieutenant of the Tower.

Lord Mayor of LONDON.

VERNON, of the White Rofe, or York Faction.
BASSET, of the Red Rofe, or Lancaster Faction.
Sir THOMAS GARGRAVE.

CHARLES, Dauphin, and afterwards King of France. REIGNIER, Duke of Anjou, and Titular King of Naples, Duke of BURGUNDY.

Duke of ALANSON.

Baftard of ORLEANS.

An old Shepherd, Father to Joan la Pucelle.

MARGARET, Daughter to Reignier, and afterwards Queen to King Henry.

JOAN LA PUCELLE, a Maid pretending to be infpir'd from Heaven, and fetting up for the Championess of France. Countess of AUVERGNE.

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

The SCENE is partly in England, and partly in

France.

THE

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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 Winchefter, and the Duke of Somerfet.

Bed.

H

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

Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandifh your crifped treffes in the sky,

And with them fcourge the bad revolting stars
That have confented unto Henry's death!
Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!
England ne'er loft a King of fo much worth.

Glou. England ne'er had a King until his time:
Virtue he had, deferving to command.

His brandish'd fword did blind men with its beams ;
His arm fpread wider than a dragon's wings;
His fparkling eyes repleat with awful fire

Mere

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