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SHAKESPEAR:

VOLUME the FIFTH.

CONTAINING,

King HENRY VI. Part II.

King HENRY VI. Part III.

King RICHARD III.

King HENRY VIII.

Marianne De Wanelow

DUBLIN:

Printed for R. OWEN, J. LEATHLEY, G. and A,
EWING, W. and J. SMITH, G. FAULKNER, P.
CRAMPTON, A. BRADLEY, T. MOORE, E. and J.
EXSHAW. M DCC XLVII.

lously

by

KING Henry VI.

Humphry Duke of Gloucester,
Cardinal Beauford, Bp. of Winchefter, S King.
Duke of York, pretending to the Crown.
Duke of Buckingham,
Duke of Somerset,
Duke of Suffolk,

Of the King's Party.

Earl of Warwick, Of the York Faction.
Lord Clifford, of the King's Party.
Lord Say.

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Lord Scales, Governor of the Tower.
Sir Humphry Stafford.
Young Stafford, his Brother.

Uncles to the

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

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, his Man.

Clerk of Chatham.

Mayor of St. Albans.

Simpcox, an Impoftor.

-Pirates.

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

Margaret, Queen to King 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, Messengers, and other Attendants.

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

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I The SECOND PART of

King HENRY VI.

ACT I.

SCENE I.

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.

SUFFOLK.

S by your high imperial Majefty

I had in charge at my depart for France,
As procurator for your Excellence,
To marry Princefs Margret for your Grace;
o 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 Bishops,
Thave perform'd my task, and was efpous'd:
Fe And humbly now upon my bended knee,
In fight of England and her lordly peers,
Deliver up my title in the Queen

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[Prefenting the Queen to the King. To your moft gracious hand; that are the fubftance Of that great fhadow I did represent :

The happieft gift that ever Marquifs gave,
The fairest Queen that ever King receiv'd.

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

1 The fecond part, &c.] This and the third part were firft written under the title of the Contention of York and Lancafter, printed in 1600, but fince vaftly improved by the Author. Mr. Pope.

2 As by your bigb, &c.] Vide Hall's Chronicle, 23. Init.

Fol. 66. Year Mr. Pope.

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