To cross the feas to England, and be crown'd
King Henry's faithful and anointed queen :
For your expences and fufficient charge,
Among the people gather up a tenth.
Be gone, I fay; for, 'till you do return,
I reft perplexed with a thousand cares.—
And you, good uncle, banish all offence:
If you do 'cenfure me by what you were,
Not what you are, I know it will excuse
This fudden execution of

my will.

And fo conduct me, where from company,

I may revolve and 'ruminate my grief.

Glo. Ay, 'grief, I fear me, both at first and last.

[Exit.

[Exeunt Glofter, and Exeter. Suf. Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd: and thus he goes, As did the youthful Paris once to Greece;

With hope to find the like event in love,
But profper better than the Trojan did.
Margaret fhall now be queen, and rule the king;
But I will rule both her, the king, and realm.

[Exit,

cenfure me by what you were,]-judge of me by what you were in your youth. ruminate my grief.]-mufe on my paffion. 'grief,]-matter of forrow.

HENRY

HENRY VI.

PART II.

KING HENRY THE SIXTH.

HUMPHREY, DUKE of GLOSTER, Uncle to the King. CARDINAL BEAUFORT, Bishop of Winchester.

DUKE of YORK, pretending to the Crown.

DUKE of BUCKINGHAM,

DUKE of SOMERSET,

DUKE of SUFFOLK.

EARL of SALISBURY.

Of the King's party.

EARL of WARWICK. Of the York faction.

LORD CLIFFORD, of the King's party.

LORD SAY.

LORD SCALES, Governor of the Tower.
SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD.
YOUNG STAFFORD, his Brother.

ALEXANDER IDEN, a Kentish gentleman.

YOUNG CLIFFORD, Son to Lord Clifford.

EDWARD PLANTAGENET,

RICHARD PLANTAGENET,

Sons to the Duke of York.

VAUX, a Sea captain, and WALTER WHITMORE, Pirates. A Herald. HUME and SOUTHWELL, two Priests.

BOLINGBROKE, an Aftrologer.

A Spirit, attending on Jordan the Witch.

THOMAS HORNER, an Armourer. PETER, his Man. Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of Saint Albans.

SIMPCOX, an Impoftor.

JACK CADE, BEVIS, MICHAEL, JOHN HOLLAND, DICK the Butcher, SMITH the Weaver, and several others, rebels.

MARGARET, Queen to King Henry VI.

DAME ELEANOR, Wife to the Duke of Glofter.

MOTHER JORDAN, a Witch.

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 feveral parts of England.

SECOND PART OF

KING HENRY VI.

ACT I. SCENE I,

The Palace.

Flourish of trumpets: then bautboys. Enter king Henry, duke Humphrey, Salisbury, Warwick, and Beaufort, on the one fide; the Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerfet, and Buckingbam, on the other.

Suf. As by your high imperial majesty
I had in charge at my depart for France,
As procurator to your excellence,

To marry princess Margaret for your grace;
So, in the famous ancient city, Tours,-

In presence of the kings of France and Sicil,
The dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretaigne, Alençon,
Seven earls, twelve barons, twenty reverend bishops,-
I have perform'd my task, and was efpous'd:

And humbly now upon my bended knee,

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