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THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

VOLUME the FIFTH,

CONTAINING,

The SECOND PART of KING HENRY the SIXTH.
The THIRD PART of KING HENRY the SIXTH.
The LIFE and DEATH of RICHARD the THIRD.
The LIFE of KING HENRY the EIGHTH.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. TONSON, C. CORBET, H. WOODFALL,
J. RIVINGTON, R. BALDWIN, L. HAWES, CLARK and
COLLINS, W. JOHNSTON, T. CASLON, T. LOWNDS,

and the Executors of B. DODD.

M,DCC,LXV.

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KING Henry the Sixth.

Humphry Duke of Gloucester, Uncle to the King.

Cardinal Beauford, Bishop of Winchester, great Uncle

to the King.

Duke of York pretending to the Crown.

Duke

Duke

of Buckingham,

of Somerset,

Duke of Suffolk,

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Earl of Salisbury, Of the York Faltion.

Earl

of Warwick,

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, Son to the Lord Clifford.

Edward Plantagenet,

Richard Plantagenet,

Sons to

the Duke of York.

Vaux, a Sea Captain, and Walter Whitmore, Pirates.

A Herald. Hume and Southwel, two Priests.

Bolingbrook, an Astrologer.

A Spirit, attending on Jordan the Witch.

Thomas Horner, an Armourer. Peter, bis Man.
Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of St. Albans.

Simpcox, an Impostor.

Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John Holland, Dick the
Butcher, Smith the Weaver, aad several others, Rebels..
Margaret, Queen to King Henry VI. Secretly in Love
with the Duke of Suffolk.

Dame Eleanor, Wife to the Duke of Gloucester.
Mother Jordan, a Witch employed by the Dutchess of

Gloucester.

Wife to Simpcox.

Petitioners, Aldermen, a Beadle, Sheriff and Officers, Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Messengers, and other Attendants.

The SCENE is laid very dispersedly in feveral Parts of England.

King HENRYVI.

ACT I. SCENE I.

The PALACE.

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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.

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SUFFOLK:

S by your high imperial Majesty *
I had in charge at my depart for France,
As procurator for your Excellence,

The second part, &c.] This and the third part were first written under the title of the Contention of York and Lancaster, printed in 1600, but since vastly improved by the author. POPE. The second Part of K.Henry VI.] This and the Third part of King Henry VI.contain that troublesom Period of this Prince's Reign, which took in the whole Contention betwixt the two Houses of York and Lancaster: And under that title were these two Plays first acted and published. The present Scene opens with K. Henry's Marriage, which was in the 23d Year of his Reign; and closes with the first Battle fought

at St. Albans, and won by the York Faction, in the 33d Year of his Reign. So that it comprizes the History and Transactions of 10 Years. THEOBALD. * As by your high, &c.] Vide Hall's Chronicle, Fol. 66. Year 23. Init.

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It is apparent that this play begins where the former ends, and continues the series of tranfactions, of which it presupposes the first part already known. This is a sufficient proof that the second and third parts were not written without dependance on the first, tho' they were printed as containing a complete period of history.

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