THE

PLAY S

O F

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.

KING Henry the Sixth.

Humphry Duke of Gloucefter, Uncle to the King. Cardinal Beauford, Bishop of Winchefter, great Uncle to the King.

Duke of York pretending to the Crown.

Duke of Buckingham,

Duke of Somerset,

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Of the King's Party.

Duke of Suffolk,
Earl of Salisbury,

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 Kentifh Gentleman.

Young Clifford, Son to the Lord Clifford.

Edward Plantagenet,

Richard Plantagenet, S

Sons to the Duke of York.

Vaux, a Sea Captain, and Walter Whitmore, Pirates A Herald. Hume and Southwel, two Priests.

Bolingbrook, an Aftrologer.

A Spirit, attending on Jordan the Witch.

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

Simpcox, an Impofior.

Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John Holland, Dick the
Butcher, Smith the Weaver, aad feveral 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 employed by the Dutchess of

Gloucester.

Wife to Simpcox.

Petitioners, Aldermen, a Beadle, Sheriff and Officers, Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Meffengers, and

other Attendants.

The SCENE is laid very difperfedly in several Parts of England.

King HENRY VI

АСТ I. SCENE I.

The PALACE.

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.

A

SUFFOLK:

S by your high imperial Majefty

I had in charge at my depart for France,
As procurator for your Excellence,

at St. Albans, and won by the

2 As by your high, &c.] Vide Hall's Chronicle, Fol. 66. Year 23. Init.

POPE

1 The fecond part, &c.] This and the third part were firft writ-York Faction, in the 33d Year ten under the title of the Con- of his Reign. So that it comtention of York and Lancafter, prizes the Hiftory and Tranfacprinted in 1600, but fince vaftly tions of 10 Years. THEOBALD. improved by the author. POPE. The fecond Part of K.Henry VI.] This and the Third part of King Henry VI.contain that trouble fom Period of this Prince's Reign, which took in the whole Contention betwixt the two Houfes of York and Lancaster: And under that title were thefe two Plays first acted and published. The prefent Scene opens with K.Henry's Marriage, which was in the 23d Year of his Reign; and clofes with the firft Battle fought

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