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The THIRD PART of

HENRY

THE

S I X T H.

With the DEATH of the

DUKE of YORK.

KING Henry VI.

Edward, Son to the King, and Prince of Wales.

Duke of Somerset,

Earl of Northumberland,

Earl of Oxford,

Earl of Exeter,

Earl of Weftmorland,

Lord Clifford.

Lords of King Henry's fide.

Earl of Richmond, a Youth, afterwards King Henry VII. Richard, Duke of York.

Edward, Eldest Son to the D. of York, afterwards K. Edw.IV, George, Duke of Clarence, fecond Son to the Duke of York. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, third Son to the Duke of York, afterwards King Richard III.

Edmund, Earl of Rutland, youngest Son to the Duke of York. Duke of Norfolk,

Sir Hugh Mortimer, S

Uncles to the Duke of York.

Sir William Stanly, afterwards Earl of Derby.

Lord Rivers, Brother to the lady Gray.

Sir John Montgomery.

Lieutenant of the Tower.

Mayor of Coventry.

Mayor and Aldermen of York.

Humphry and Sinklo, two Huntsmen.

Lewis, King of France.

Bourbon, Admiral of France.

Queen Margaret.

Bona, Sifter to the French King.

Lady Gray, Widow of Sir Richard Gray, afterwards Queen to Edward IV.

Soldiers and other Attendants on King Henry, and King

Edward.

In Part of the Third Act the SCENE is laid in France, during all the rest of the Play in England.

The THIRD PART of

King HENRY VI

A C T I. SCENE I.

Alarum.

LONDON.

Enter Duke of York, Edward, Richard, Norfolk, Montague, Warwick, and Soldiers.

WARWICK.

Wonder how the King escap'd our hands! York. While we purfu'd the horfen of the north,

He flily ftole away and left his men :
Whereat the great lord of Northumber-
land,

Whofe warlike ears could never brook retreat,
Chear'd up the drooping army; and himself,

Lord

First printed under the title of The true Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, and the good King Henry the Sixth; or the fecond part of the Contention of York and Lancaster. 1690.

Lord Clifford and lord Stafford all a-breast,

Charg'd our main battel's front; and breaking in,
Were by the fwords of common foldiers flain.

Edw. Lord Stafford's father, Duke of Buckingham,
Is either flain or wounded dangerous.

I cleft his beaver with a down-right blow:
That this is true, father, behold his blood.

Mont. And brother, here's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood, Whom I encounter'd as the battels join'd.

Rich. Speak thou for me, and tell them what I did. York. Richard hath best deserv'd of all my fons : Is his grace dead, my lord of Somerset ?

» Norf. Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt. Rich. Thus do I hope to fhake King Henry's head. War. And fo do I, victorious Prince of Tork. Before I fee thee feated in the throne, Which now the house of Lancaster ufurps, I vow by heav'n these eyes fhall never clofe. This is the palace of the fearful King, And this the regal feat; poffefs it York, For this is thine, and not King Henry's heirs.

Tork. Affift me then, fweet Warwick, and I will

For hither we have broken in by force.

Norf. We'll all affift-you; he that flies fhall die. York. Thanks, gentle Norfolk; ftay by me, my lords, And foldiers stay and lodge by me this night. [They go up. War. And when the King comes, offer him no violence, Unless he feek to thrust you out by force.

York. The Queen this day here holds her parliament, But little thinks we fhall be of her council;

By words or blows here let us win our right.

Rich. Arm'd a "we are, let's ftay within this houfe. War. The bloody parliament fhall this be call'd, Unless Plantagenet Duke of York be King, And bafhful Henry depos'd, whofe cowardife Hath made us by-words to our enemies.

York. Then leave me not, my lords, be refolute;

I mean to take poffeffion of my right.

War. Neither the King, nor he that loves him best, The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,

Dares