THE

SECOND PART

O F

HENRY VI

***********************

VOL. VI.

KING HENRY the Sixth.

HUMPHRY, Duke of Gloucester, uncle to the King. Cardinal BEAUFORD, Bishop of Winchester, great unck to the King.

Duke of York, pretending to the crown.

Duke of Buckingham,

Duke of Somerset,

Duke of Suffolk,
Earl of Salisbury,

Of the King's party.

Earl of Warwick, Of the York faction.

Lord CLIFFORD, of the King's party.
Lord SAY.

Lord SCALES, Governor of the Tower.
Sir HUMPHRY STAFFORD.

Young STAFFORD, his brother.

ALEXANDER IDEN, a Kentish gentleman.
Young CLIFFORD, fon to the Lord Clifford.
EDWARD PLANTAGENET, Sons to the Duke of
RICHARD PLANTAGENET, S York.

VAUX, a fea-captain, and WALTER WHITMORE, pirates.

A Herald. HUME and SOUTHWELL, two priests. 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.

JACK CADE, BEVIS, MICHAEL, JOHN HOLLAND, DICK the butcher, SMITH the weaver, and several others, rebels.

MARGARET, Queen to Henry VI. fecretly in love with the Duke of Suffolk.

Dame ELEANOR, wife to the Duke of Gloucester. Mother JORDAN, a witch employed by the Duchefs

of Glouceker.

Wife to Simpcox.

Petitioners, Alderman, a Beadle, Sheriff and Officers, Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Meffengers, and other Attendants.

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

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.

A

Suffolk.

$ by your high imperial Majesty

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

To marry Princess Margret for your Grace;
So 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 bi-
I have perform'd my task, and was efpous'd: [fhops,

This and the Third part of King Henry VI. contain that troublesome period of this prince's reign, which took in the whole Contention betwixt the two houfes of York and Lancaster: and under that title were these two plays firft acted and publifhed. The present scene: opens with King Henry's marriage, which was in the 23d year of his reign; and clofes with the first battle fought at St Albans, and won by the York faction, in . the 33d year of his reign: fo that it comprizes the hiftory and tranfactions of ten years. Theobald.

And humbly now upon my bended knee,
In fight of England and her lordly peers,
Deliver up my title in the Queen

[Prefenting the Queen to the King. To your moft gracious hand, that are the fubftance Of that great hadow I did reprefent:

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

K. Henry. Suffolk, arife. Welcome, Queen MarI can exprefs no kinder fign of love,

[garet; Than this kind kifs. O Lord, that lend'ft me life,. Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! For thou haft giv'n me, in this beauteous face, A world of earthly bleflings to my foul,

If fympathy of love unite our thoughts.

Q. Mar. Great King of England, and my gracious
Lord,

The mutual conf'rence that my mind hath had,
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 falute my King
With ruder terms, fuch as my wit affords,.
And over-joy of heart doth miniffer.

K. Henry. Her fight did ravifh, but her grace in Her words y-clad with wifdom's majefty, [fpeech, Make me from wond'ring fall to weeping joys, Such is the fulness of my heart's content.

Lords, with one chearful voice welcome my love. All kneel. Long live Queen Marg’ret, England's happiness!

Q. Mar. We thank you all.

[Flourish. Suff My Lord Protector, fo it please 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

A corruption of the German word, now in common ufe, aller lacbyte, beloved above all things. Revifal

of Suffolk, Ambaffador for Henry King of England, that the faid Henry hall efpoufe the Lady Margaret, daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia and Ferufalem, and crown her Queen of England, ere the thirtieth of May next enfuing.

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?

Glo. Pardon me, gracious Lord;

Some fudden qualm hath ftruck me to the heart, And dimm'd mine eyes, that I can read no further. K. Henry. Uncle of Winchester, I pray, read on. Win. Item, That the duchies of Anjou and Maine hall be releafed and delivered to the King her father, and the fent over of the King of England's own proper coft and charges, without having any dowry.

K. Henry. They pleafe us well. Lord Marquis, kneel you down;

We here create thee the firft Duke of Suffolk,
And gird thee with the fword. Coufin of York,
We here discharge your Grace from being Regent
Ith' parts of France, till term of eighteen months
Be full expir'd. Thanks, uncle Winchester,
Glofter, York, Buckingham, and Somerfet,
Salisbury and Warwick;

We thank you all for this great favour done,
In entertainment to my princely Queen.
Come, let us in, and with all speed provide
To fee her coronation be perform'd.

[Exeunt King, Queen, and Suffolk....

Glo. Brave peers of England, pillars of the ftate, To you Duke Humphry muft unload his grief, Your grief, the common grief of all the land. What! did my brother Henry fpend his youth, His valour, coin, and people in the wars? Did he so often lodge in open field,

In winter's cold, and fummer's parching heat,