of the good Duke Humphrey: And the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of the proud Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of Jacke Cade: And the Duke of Yorkes first claime unto the Crowne. London. Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington, and are to be sold at his shop under Saint Peters Church in Cornwall. 1594.'

A Second Quarto appeared in 1600, with the same imprint and the same text.

A Third Quarto was printed by Thomas Pavier about 1619. This combined the early Quarto text of of The True Trage

The Contention' with that die,' — afterward Part Third of Henry VI,' — and for the first time ascribed the authorship to Shakespeare, as follows:

The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the sixt. Divided into two Parts: And newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. Printed at London

for T. P.'

The First Folio of 1623 shows many important variations from the Quarto text. More than one half of the lines are new, while a larger portion of the lines lifted from the First Quarto have undergone change and revision. The title is changed from 'The First Part of the Contention,' etc., to The Second Part of Henry the Sixt.' The play occupies twenty-seven pages in the Folio, from page 120 to page 146, inclusive, under histories. It contains the acts and scenes, but omits the Dramatis Personæ, which was later supplied by Rowe.

THE SECOND PART OF

HENRY THE SIXT,

with the death of the Good Duke Humfrey.

[DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

KING HENRY the Sixth.

HUMPHREY, Duke of Gloucester, his uncle.
CARDINAL BEAUFORT, Bishop of Winchester, great.

uncle to the King.

RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York.

EDWARD and RICHARD, his sons.

DUKE OF SOMERSET.

DUKE OF SUFFOLK.

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

LORD CLIFFord.

Young CLIFFORD, his son.

EARL OF SALISBURY.

EARL OF WARWICK.

LORD SCALES.

LORD SAY.

SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD, and WILLIAM STAfford,

his brother.

SIR JOHN STANLEY.

VAUX.

MATTHEW GOFFE.

A Sea-captain, Master, and Master's-Mate, and WAL

TER WHITMOre.

Two Gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk.

JOHN HUME and JOHN SOUTHWELL, priests.
BOLINGBROKE, a conjurer.

THOMAS HORNER, an armourer.

Clerk of Chatham.

SIMPCOX, an impostor.

PETER, his man.

Mayor of Saint Alban's.

ALEXANDER IDEN, a Kentish gentleman.

JACK CADE, a rebel.

GEORGE BEVIS, JOHN HOLLAND, DICK the butcher, SMITH the weaver, MICHAEL, &c., followers of Cade..

Two Murderers.

MARGARET, Queen to King Henry.
ELEANOR, Duchess of Gloucester.
MARGARET JOURDAIN, a witch.
Wife to Simpcox.

Lords, Ladies, and Attendants, Petitioners, Aldermen, a Herald, a Beadle, Sheriff, and Officers, Citizens, 'Prentices, Falconers, Guards, Soldiers, Messen