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,
Duke of Suffolk,
Earl of Salisbury,

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Of the York Faction.

Of the King's Party.

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 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 several 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 feveral Parts of England.

HE NRY VI.

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.

SUFFOLK:

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