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K ING Henry the Sixth.
Humphry Duke of Gloucester, Uncle to the King.
Cardinal Beauford, Bishop of Winchester, great Uncle

to the King
Duke of York pretending to the Crown.
Duke of Buckingham,
Duke of Somerset, Of the King's Party.
Duke of Suffolk,
Earl of Salisbury, } of the York Fallion.
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; } Sons to the Duke of York.
Vaux, a Sea Captain, and Walter Whitmore, Pirates.
A Herald. Hume and Southwel, two Priests.
Bolingbrook, an Astrologer.

A Spirit, attending on Jordan the Witch.
Thomas Horner, an Armourer. Peter, bis Man.
Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of St. Albans.
Simpcox, an Impostor.
Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John Holland, Dick the

Butcher, Smith the Weaver, cad several others, Rebels. Margaret, Queen to King Henry VI. secretly 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 Beadie, Sherif and Officers,

Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Mellengers, and

other Attendants. The SCENE is laid very dispersedly in several Parts

of England.

King HENRr VI. .

ACT 1. SCENE I.

The PALACE:

Flourish of Trumpets : then, Hautboys. Enter King

Henry, Duke Humphry, Salisbury, Warwick, and Beauford on the one side : The Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerset; and Buckingham on the other.

SUFFOLK

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S by your high imperial Majesty *

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

your

Excellence, · The second part, &c.) This at St. Albans, and won by the and the third part were first writ. York Faction, in the 33d Year ten' under the title of the Con- of his Reign. So that it com. tention of York and Lancafter, prizes the History and Transacprinted in 1600, but fince vastly tions of 10 Years. THEOBALD. improved by the author. Pope, As by your high, &c.] Vide

The second Part of K.Henry VI.) Hall's Chronicle, Fol. 66. Year This and the Third part of King 23. Init.

POPE. Henry VI.contain that troublesom It is apparent that this play Period of this Prince's Reign, begins where the former ends, which took in the whole Conten. and continues the series of transtion betwixt the two Houses of actions, of which it presupposes York and Lancaster : And under the first part already known. that title were these two Plays This is a sufficient proof that the firit acted and published. The second and third parts were not present Scene opens with K.Hen- written without dependance on ry's Marriage, which was in the the first, tho' they were printed! 23d Year of his Reign; and as containing a complete period closes with the firft Battle fought of history.

To marry Princess Marg’ret for your Grace;
So in the famous ancient city, Tours,
In presence of the kings of France and Sicil,
The dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretaigne, Alanfors,
Seven Earls, twelve Barons, twenty reverend Bishops,
I have perform'd my task, and was espous'd:
And humbly now upon my bended knee,
In sight of England and her lordly peers.
Deliver up my title in the Queen

[Presenting the Queen to the King-
To your most gracious hand; that are the substance
Of that great îhadow I did represent;
The happiest gift that ever Marquess gave,
The faireít Queen that ever King receiv'd.
K. Henry. Suffolk, arise. Welcome, Queen Mar.

garet ;
I can express no kinder sign of love,
Than this kind kiss. O Lord, that lend'st me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness !
For thou hast giv'n me, in this beauteous face,
A world of earthly blessings to my soul;
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
Q. Mer. Great King of England, and my gracious

Lord,
The mutual confrerce that my mind hath had, 3
By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,
In courtly company, or at my beads,
With you, mine alder-liefest Sovereign, -
Makes me the bolder to salute my King,
With ruder terms, such as my wit affords,

3 The mutual conf'rence] ly attached : Lieveft being the I am the bolder to address you, fuperlative of the comparative, having already familiarised you tevar, rather, from lief. So Hall to my imagination.

in his Chronicle, Henry VI. Fomine alder-lievest So- lio 12. Ryght hyghe and mighty vereign ;] Alder-lieveft is Prince, and my right noble, and, an old English word given to him after one, levelt Lord. to whom the speaker is supreme

WARBURTON.

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