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King Edward the Third

The Reign of King Edward the Third, attributed in part to William
Shakespeare.
PERSONS REPRESENTED.
EDWARD THE THIRD, King of England. EDWARD, Prince of
Wales, his Son. Earl of WARWICK. Earl of DERBY. Earl of
SALISBURY. Lord AUDLEY. Lord PERCY. LODOWICK, Edward's
Confident. Sir WILLIAM MOUNTAGUE. Sir JOHN COPLAND.
Two ESQUIRES, and a HERALD, English. ROBERT, styling himself
Earl, of Artois. Earl of MONTFORT, and GOBIN DE GREY. JOHN,
King of France. CHARLES, and PHILIP, his Sons. Duke of LORRAIN.
VILLIERS, a French Lord. King of BOHEMIA, Aid to King John. A
POLISH CAPTAIN, Aid to King John. Six CITIZENS of Calais. A
CAPTAIN, and A POOR INHABITANT, of the same. Another
CAPTAIN. A MARINER. Three HERALDS; and Four other
FRENCHMEN. DAVID, King of Scotland. Earl DOUGLAS; and Two
MESSENGERS, Scotch.
PHILIPPA, Edward's Queen. Countess of SALISBURY. A FRENCH
WOMAN.
Lords, and divers other Attendants; Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, &c.
Scene, dispers'd; in England, Flanders, and France.
ACT I. SCENE I. London. A Room of State in the Palace. Flourish.
[Enter King Edward, Derby, Prince Edward, Audley, and Artois.]
KING EDWARD. Robert of Artois, banished though thou be >From
France, thy native Country, yet with us Thou shalt retain as great a
Seigniorie: For we create thee Earl of Richmond here. And now go
forwards with our pedigree: Who next succeeded Phillip le Bew?
ARTOIS. Three sons of his, which all successfully Did sit upon their
father's regal Throne, Yet died, and left no issue of their loins.
KING EDWARD. But was my mother sister unto those?
ARTOIS. She was, my Lord; and only Isabel Was all the daughters that
this Phillip had, Whom afterward your father took to wife; And from

the fragrant garden of her womb Your gracious self, the flower of
Europe's hope, Derived is inheritor to France. But note the rancor of
rebellious minds: When thus the lineage of le Bew was out, The French
obscured your mother's Privilege, And, though she were the next of
blood, proclaimed John, of the house of Valois, now their king: The
reason was, they say, the Realm of France, Replete with Princes of
great parentage, Ought not admit a governor to rule, Except he be
descended of the male; And that's the special ground of their contempt,
Wherewith they study to exclude your grace: But they shall find that
forged ground of theirs To be but dusty heaps of brittle sand. Perhaps it
will be thought a heinous thing, That I, a French man, should discover
this; But heaven