THE WORKS O F SHAKESPEAR. VOLUME the FIFTH. CONTAINING KING HENRY VI. Part II. KING HENRY VI. Part III. KING RICHARD III. KING HENRY VIII. EDINBURGH: Printed by JOHN BALFOUR. M, DCCLXIX, The Second Part of HENRY VI.* With the Death of the Good Duke Humphry. DRAMATIS PERSONE. KING HENRY VI Hume and Southwel, two priests. Thomas Horner, an armourer. Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John Margaret, Queen to K. Henry VI. fecretly in love with the Duke of Suffolk. Dame Eleanor, wife to the Duke of Gloucefter. Mother Jordan, a witch employed by the Duchefs af Gloucester. Wife to Simpcox. Petitioners, Aldermen, a Beadle, Sheriff, and Officers, Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Meffengers, and other attendants. The SCENE is laid very dispersedly in several parts of England. This and the third part were fust written under the title of The Contention of York and Lancafter, printed in 1600; but fince vaftly improved by the author, Mr Pope' Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter King Henry, Duke Humphry, Salisbury, Warwick, and beaufort, on the one fide: the Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other. Suf.* A S by your high imperial Majefty I had in charge at my depart for France, To marry Princefs Margret for your Grace; In prefence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne, Alanson, In fight of England and her lordly peers, [prefenting the Queen to the King. To your moft gracious hand; that are the fubftance Of that great fhadow I did represent; The happiest gift that ever Marquis gave, K. Henry. Suffolk, arife. Welcome, Queen Margaret; 1 can express no kinder sign of love, Than this kind kifs. O Lord, that lend'ft me life, For thou haft giv'n me in this beauteous face, If fympathy of love unite our thoughts. 2 Mar. Great King of England, and my gracious The mutual conf'rence that my mind hath had, [Lord, By day, by night, waking, and in my dreams, In courtly company, or at my beads, With you mine alder lieviest Sovereign; * Vide Hall's Chronicle, fol. 66. year 23. init, Mr Pope. K. Henry. Her fight did ravifh, but her grace in Her words y-clad with wifdom's majeity, Make me from wond'ring fall to weeping joys, [fpeech, Lords, with one chearful voice welcome my love. All kneel. Long live Queen Marg'ret, England's happiness ! 2. Marg, We thank you all. [Flourish. Suf. My Lord Protector, fo it pleafe your Grace, Here are the articles of contracted peace, Between our Sovereign and the French King Charles, For eighteen months concluded by confent. Glo. [reads.] Imprimis, It is agreed between the French King Charles, and William de la Pole Marquis of Suffolk, Ambaffador for Henry King of England, that the faid Henry shall efpoufe the Lady Margaret, daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia, and Jerufalem, and crown her Queen of England, ere the thirtieth of May next ensuing. item, That the duchy of Anjou, and the county of Maine, fhall be releafed and delivered to the King her father. [Lets fall the paper. K. Henry. Uncle, how now? Some fudden qualm hath struck me to the heart, K. Henry. They pleafe us well. Lord Marquis, kneel you down; We here create thee the firft Duke of Suffolk, We thank you for all this great favour done, |