The FIRST PART OF

HENRY

THE

SIXTH.

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KING Henry VI.

Duke of Gloucester, Uncle to the King, and Protector. Duke of Bedford, Uncle to the King, and Regent of France. Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, and Uncle likewife to the King.

Duke of Exeter.

Duke of Somerset.

Earl of Warwick.
Earl of Salisbury.
Earl of Suffolk.
Lord Talbot.

Young Talbot, his Son.

Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of York.
Mortimer, Earl of March.

Woodvile, Lieutenant of the Tower.

Lord Mayor of London.

Vernon, of the White Rofe, or York Faction.

Baffet, of the Red Rose, or Lancaster Faction.

Charles, Dauphin, and afterwards King of France. Reignier, Duke of Anjou, and Titular King of Naples. Duke of Burgundy.

Duke of Alanfon.

Baftard of Orleans.

An old Shepherd, Father to Joan la Pucelle.

Margaret, Daughter to Reignier, and afterwards Queen to King Henry.

Joan la Pucelle, a Maid pretending to be infpir'd from Heaven, and fetting up for the Championess of France. Countess of Auvergne.

Lords, Captains, Soldiers, Meffengers, and several Attendants both on the English and French.

The SCENE is partly in England, and partly in France.

The

The FIRST PART of

King HENRY VI

ACT I. SCENE I.

Dead March. Enter the Funeral of King Henry the Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke of Gloucester, Protector; the Duke of Exeter, and the Earl of Warwick, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset.

H

BEDFORD.

UNG be the heav'ns with black, yield day to night!

Comets, importing change of times and ftates,

Brandifh your cryftal treffes in the sky,
And with them fcourge the bad revolting
ftars

That have confented unto Henry's death:
Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long,
England pe loft a King of fo much worth.
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Glou.