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HISTORY OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH, SECOND PART
by William Shakespeare
Dramatis Personae
KING HENRY THE SIXTH.
HUMPHREY, Duke of Gloster, his
uncle.
CARDINAL BEAUFORT, Bishop of Winchester,

great-uncle to the King.
RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York.

EDWARD and RICHARD, his sons.
DUKE OF SOMERSET.

DUKE OF SUFFOLK.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
LORD
CLIFFORD.
YOUNG CLIFFORD, his son.
EARL OF
SALISBURY.
EARL OF WARWICK.
LORD SCALES.
LORD SAY.
SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD,
and WILLIAM
STAFFORD, his brother.
SIR JOHN STANLEY.

VAUX.
MATTHEW GOFFE.
A Sea-Captain, Master, and
Master's-Mate, and WALTER
WHITMORE.
Two Gentlemen,
prisoners with Suffolk.
JOHN HUME and JOHN SOUTHWELL,
priests.
ROGER BOLINGBROKE, a conjurer.
THOMAS
HORNER, an armourer. PETER, his man.
Clerk of Chatham. Mayor
of Saint Albans.
SIMPCOX, an impostor.
ALEXANDER IDEN, a
Kentish gentleman.
JACK CADE, a rebel.
GEORGE BEVIS,
JOHN HOLLAND, DICK the butcher,
SMITH the weaver,
MICHAEL, etc., followers of Cade.
Two Murderers.
MARGARET, Queen to King Henry.
ELEANOR, Duchess of
Gloster.
MARGARET JOURDAIN, a witch.
Wife to Simpcox.
Lords, Ladies, and Attendants, Petitioners, Aldermen, a Herald, a
Beadle, Sheriff, and Officers, Citizens, Prentices,
Falconers, Guards,
Soldiers, Messengers, &c.

A Spirit.
SCENE: England.
ACT I
SCENE I.
London. The palace
[Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter the KING, GLOSTER,
SALISBURY, WARWICK, and CARDINAL BEAUFORT, on the

one side; the QUEEN, SUFFOLK, YORK, SOMERSET, and

BUCKINGHAM, on the other.]
SUFFOLK.
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, Bretagne, and Alencon,
Seven earls, twelve barons,
and twenty reverend bishops,
I have perform'd my task and was
espous'd,
And humbly now upon my bended knee,
In sight of
England and her lordly peers,
Deliver up my title in the queen
To
your most gracious hands, that are the substance
Of that great shadow
I did represent:
The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,
The
fairest queen that ever king receiv'd.
KING.
Suffolk, arise.--Welcome, Queen Margaret.
I can express no
kinder sign of love
Than this kind kiss.--O Lord, that lends me life,

Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
For thou hast given me in
this beauteous face
A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
If
sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
QUEEN.
Great King of England and my gracious lord,
The mutual
conference that my mind hath had,
By day, by night, waking and in
my dreams,
In courtly company or at my beads,
With you, mine
alder-liefest sovereign,
Makes me the bolder to salute my king
With

ruder terms, such as my wit affords
And over-joy of heart doth
minister.
KING.
Her sight did ravish, but her grace in speech,
Her words
yclad with wisdom's majesty,
Makes me from wondering fall to
weeping joys;
Such is the fulness of my heart's content.--
Lords,
with one cheerful voice welcome my love.
ALL.
[Kneeling] Long live Queen Margaret, England's
happiness!
QUEEN.
We thank you all.
[Flourish.]
SUFFOLK.
My Lord Protector, so it please your grace,
Here are
the articles of contracted peace
Between our sovereign and the French
king Charles,
For eighteen months concluded by consent.
GLOSTER.
[Reads] 'Imprimis, It is agreed between the French king

Charles and William de la Pole, Marquess of Suffolk, ambassador
for Henry King of England, that the said Henry shall espouse the Lady
Margaret, daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia, and
Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England ere the thirtieth of May
next ensuing. Item, that the duchy of Anjou