THE

SECOND PART

OF

King HENRY VI

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KING Henry VI.

Duke ,
Cardinal Beauford, Bp. of Winchefer, } Uncles to the King.
Duke of York, pretending to the crown.
Duke of Buckingham,
Duke of Somerset, of the King's Party.
Duke of Suffolk,

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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 Kentilh Gentleman.
Young Clifford, Son to the Lord Clifford.
Edward Plantagenet, 1 Sons to the Duke of York.

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Richard Plantagenet, s
Vaux, A Sea Captain, and Walter Whitmore-Pirates.
A Herald.
Hume and Southwel, 2 Priests.
Bolingbrook, an Afrologer.
A Spirit, attending on Jordan the Witch.
Thomas Horner, an Armourer.
Peter, his Man.
Clerk of Chatham.
Mayor of St. Albans.
Simpcox, an Impostor.
Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John Holland, Dick the

Butcher, Smith the Weaver, and several others, Rebels. Margaret, Queen to King Henry VI. fecretly in love with

the Duke of Suffolk. Dame Eleanor, Wife to the Duke of Gloucester. Mother Jordan, a Witch employ’d by the Dutchess of GlouWife to Simpcox.

[cester. Petitioners, Aldermen, a Beadle, Sheriff and Oficers, Citi

zens, with Faulconers, Guards, Messengers, and other

Attendants. The SCENE is laid very dispersedly in several Parts

of England.

The SECOND PART of (1)

King HENRY VI.

ACTI.

SCENE, the Palace.

Flourish of trumpets: then, hautboys. Enter King Henry, Duke Humphry, Salisbury, Warwick, and Beauford on the one fide: The Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerfet, and Buckingham on the other.

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SUFFOLK.

S by your high imperial Majefty,
I had in charge at my depart for France,
As procurator for your excellence,
marry Princess Margret for your grace;

So

So in the famous ancient city, Tours,

In prefence of the Kings of France and Sicil,
The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretaigne, Alanfox,
Seven Earls, twelve Barons, twenty reverend Bishops,
I have perform'd my task, and was efpous'd:
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 most gracious hand; that are the substance
Of that great fhadow I did reprefent:
The happieft gift that ever Marquifs gave,
The fairest Queen that ever King receiv'd.

K. Henry. Suffolk, arife. Welcome, Queen Margaret; I can exprefs no kinder fign of love,

Than this kind kifs. O Lord, that lend'st me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness !

For thou haft giv'n me, in this beauteous face,
A world of earthly bleffings 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 minifter.

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

Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my love. All kneel. Long live Queen Margret, England's happiness !

Q. Mar. We thank

you all.

[Flourish.

time. For Eleanor Dutchefs of Gloucester's conviction and banishment for forcery, (which are here introduc'd) happen'd in the 20th year of K. Henry VI, in the 3d year before his marriage with Queen Margaret.

Suff.

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.

Gla. reads.] Imprimis, It is agreed between the French King, Charles, and William de-la Pole Marquis of Suffolk, Ambassador for Henry King of England, that the faid Henry fhall 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 enfuing. (2)

Item. That the dutchy of Anjou, and the county of Maine, fhall be released 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 dutchies of Anjou and Maine fhall be releafed and delivered to the King her father, and fhe fent over of the King of England's own proper coft and charges, without having any dowry.

K. Henry. They please us well. Lord Marquifs, kneel you down;

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

We thank you for all this great favour done,
In entertainment to my princely Queen.
Come, let us in, and with all speed provide

(2) Ere the thirteenth of May next enfuing.] This is an error only of our modern impreffions. I have fet the text right from the joint: authorities of the first old quarto, the first and fecond folio's, and the chronicles both of Hall and Holing fhead.

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