[DRAMATIS PERSONE KING HENRY the Sixth. EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, his son. LEWIS XI. King of France. DUKE OF Somerset. DUKE OF EXETER. EARL OF OXFORD. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND. EARL OF WESTMORELAND. LORD CLIFFord. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York. EDMUND, Earl of Rutland, GEORGE, afterwards Duke of Clarence, ter, DUKE OF Norfolk. MARQUESS OF Montague. EARL OF WARWICK. EARL OF PEMmbroke. LORD HASTINGS. his sons. LORD RIVERS, brother to Lady Grey. SIR JOHN SOMERVILLE. Tutor to Rutland. Mayor of York. A Son that has killed his father. A Father that has killed his son. QUEEN MARGARet. LADY GREY, afterwards Queen to Edward IV. Soldiers, Attendants, Messengers, Watchmen, &c. SCENE: England and France.] THE THIRD PART OF with the death of the Duke of Actus Primus. Scœna Prima. [Scene i. London. The Parliament-bouse.] Alarum. Enter Plantagenet, Edward, Richard, Norfolke, Mountague, Warwicke, and Souldiers. Warwicke. WONDER how the King escap'd our hands? IO Pl. While we pursu'd the Horsmen of the North, He slyly stole away, and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose Warlike eares could never brooke retreat, Chear'd up the drouping Army, and himselfe. Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford all a-brest Charg'd our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, Were by the Swords of common Souldiers slaine. Edw. Lord Staffords Father, Duke of Buckingham, Is either slaine or wounded dangerous. I cleft his Beaver with a down-right blow: Mount. And Brother, here's the Earle of Wiltshires blood, | Whom I encountred as the Battels joyn'd. 20 Rich. Speake thou for me, and tell them what I did. [Throwing down the Duke of Somerset's head.] Plan. Richard hath best deserv'd of all my sonnes: But is your Grace dead, my Lord of Somerset? Nor. Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt. Rich. Thus do I hope to shake King Henries head. Warw. And so doe I, victorious Prince of Yorke. Before I see thee seated in that Throne, Which now the House of Lancaster usurpes, I vow by Heaven, these eyes shall never close. This is the Pallace of the And this the Regall Seat: fearefull King, possesse it Yorke, For this is thine, and not King Henries Heires. 30 Plant. Assist me then, sweet Warwick, and I will, For hither we have broken in by force. Norf. Wee'le all assist you: he that flyes, shall dye: Plant. Thankes gentle Norfolke, stay by me my Lords, And Souldiers stay and lodge by me this Night. They goe up. Warw. And when the King comes, offer him no violence, Unlesse he seeke to thrust you out perforce. 40 Plant. The Queene this day here holds her Parliament, But little thinkes we shall be of her counsaile, By words or blowes here let us winne our right. Rich. Arm'd as we are, let's stay within this House. 16 dangerous: dangerously-QQ. |