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That English may as French, French Englishmen,
Receive each other. God fpeak this Amen!

All. Amen!

K. Henry. Prepare we for our marriage; on which day,

My lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath

And all the Peers, for furety of our leagues.
Then fhall I fwear to Kate, and you to me,
And may our oaths well kept, and profp'rous be!

Enter Chorus.

[Exeunt.

Thus far with rough, and all-unable, pen
́Our bending author hath purfu'd the story;
In little room confining mighty men,

Mangling by ftarts the full courfe of their glory,
Small time, but, in that fmall, moft greatly liv'd
This Star of England. Fortune made his fword;
By which the world's beft garden he achiev'd,
And of it left his fon imperial lord.

Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King
Of France and England, did this King fucceed:
Whose state so many had i'th' managing,

That they loft France, and made his England bleed: Which oft our ftage hath fhown; and, for their fake, In your fair minds let this acceptance take.

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Dramatis Perfonæ.

KING Henry VI.

Duke of Gloucefter, Uncle to the King, and Protector.

Duke of Bedford, Uncle to the King, and Regent of France.

Cardinal Beauford, Bishop of Winchester, and Uncle likewife to the King.

Duke of Exeter,

Duke of Somerfet.
Earl of Warwick.

Earl of Salisbury.

Earl of Sufolk.
Lord Talbot.

Young Talbot, his Son.

Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of York.

Mortimer, Earl of March.

Sir John Faftolfe.

Woodvile, Lieutenant of the Tower.

Lord Mayor of London.

Sir Thomas Gargrave.
Sir William Glanfdale.

Sir William Lucy.

Vernon, of the White Rofe, or York Faction.
Baffet, of the Red Rofe, or Lancafter Faction.

Charles, Dauphin, afterwards King of France.

Reignier, Duke of Anjou, and Titular King of Naples.

Duke of Burgundy.

Duke of Alanfon.

Baftard of Orleans,

Governor of Paris.

Mafter Gunner of Orleans.

Boy, his Son.

An old Shepherd, Father to Joan la Pucelle.

Margaret, Daughter to Reignier, and afterwards Queen to King Henry. Countess of Auvergne.

Joan la Pucelle, a Maid pretending to be inspir'd from Heaven, and fetting up for the Championess of France.

Fiends, attending her.

Lords, Captains, Soldiers, Meffengers, and several Attendants both on the

English and French.

The SCENE is partly in England, and partly in France.

THE

THE FIRST PART OF

King HENRY VI.

A C T I. SCENE I.

WESTMINSTER-Abbey.

Dead March. Enter the Funeral of King Henry the Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke of Gloucefter, Protector; the Duke of Exeter, and the Earl of Warwick, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset.

BEDFORD.

UNG be the heav'ns with black, yield day to

HU night!

Comets, importing change of times and states,
Brandifh your cryftal treffes in the sky;,

And with them fcourge the bad revolting stars,
That have consented unto Henry's death!
Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!
England ne'er loft a King of fo much worth.

Glou. England ne'er had a King until his time:
Virtue he had, deferving to command.

His brandifh'd sword did blind men with its beams;
His arms spread wider than a Dragon's wings:
His fparkling eyes replete with awful fire,
More dazzled and drove back his enemies,
Than mid-day fun fierce bent against their faces.
What fhould I fay; his deeds exceed all speech:
He never lifted up his hand, but conquer'd.

Exe.

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