THE FIRST PART OF

KING HENRY THE SIXTH

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PERSONS

REPRESENTED

KING HENRY THE SIXTH.

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER: UNCLE TO THE KING, AND PROTECTOR.

DUKE OF BEDFORD: UNCLE TO THE KING, AND REGENT OF FRANCE.

THOMAS BEAUFORT, DUKE OF EXETER: GREAT-UNCLE TO THE KING.

HENRY BEAUFORT: GREAT-UNCLE TO THE KING, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, AND AFTERWARDS CARDINAL.

JOHN BEAUFORT: EARL, AFTERWARDS DUKE, OF

SOMERSET.

RICHARD PLANTAGENET: SON OF RICHARD LATE

EARL OF CAMBRIDGE, AFTERWARDS DUKE OF YORK. EARL OF WARWICK.

EARL OF SALISBURY.

EARL OF SUFFOLK.

LORD TALBOT: AFTERWARDS EARL OF SHREWSBURY.

JOHN TALBOT: HIS SON.

EDMUND MORTIMER: EARL OF MARCH.

SIR JOHN FASTOLFE.

SIR WILLIAM LUCY.

SIR WILLIAM GLANSDALE.

SIR THOMAS GARGRAVE.

MAYOR OF LONDON.

WOODVILE: LIEUTENANT OF THE TOWER.

VERNON: OF THE WHITE-ROSE OR YORK FACTION.

BASSET: OF THE RED-ROSE OR LANCASTER FACTION.
A LAWYER.

MORTIMER'S KEEPERS.

CHARLES: DOLPHIN, AND AFTERWARDS KING, OF FRANCE.

REIGNIER: DUKE OF ANJOU, AND TITULAR KING OF

NAPLES.

DUKE OF BURGUNDY.

DUKE OF ALENÇON.

BASTARD OF ORLEANS.

GOVERNOR OF PARIS.

MASTER-GUNNER OF ORLEANS, AND HIS SON.

GENERAL OF THE FRENCH FORCES IN BOURDEAUX.

A FRENCH SERGEANT.

A PORTER.

AN OLD SHEPHERD: FATHER TO JOAN LA PUCELLE.

MARGARET :

DAUGHTER

ΤΟ REIGNIER, AFTERWARDS

MARRIED TO KING HENRY.

COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE.

JOAN LA PUCELLE: COMMONLY CALLED JOAN OF ARC.

LORDS, WARDERS OF THE TOWER, HERALDS, OFFICERS, SOLDIERS, MESSENGERS, AND ATTENDANTS.

FIENDS APPEARING TO LA PUCELLE.

SCENE-England and France.

THE FIRST PART OF

KING HENRY THE SIXTH

ACT I

SCENE I. 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, the EARL OF WARWICK, the
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, Heralds, etc.

BED. Hung be the Heavens with black, yield day to
night!

Comets, importing change of times and States,
Brandish your crystal1 tresses in the Sky,

And with them scourge the bad revolting Stars,
That have concented unto2 Henry's death!
King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!
England ne'er lost a King of so much worth.
GLOU. England ne'er had a King until his time.
Virtue he had, deserving to command:

His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams;
His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings;
His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire,

More dazzled and drove back his enemies

Than mid-day Sun fierce bent against their faces.

What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech :

He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.

EXE. We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood?

Henry is dead, and never shall revive:

Upon a wooden coffin we attend ;

And Death's dishonourable victory
We with our stately presence glorify,

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