112 FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI.

As I am sick with working of my thoughts.
Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France;
Agree to any covenants; and procure
That lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
To cross the seas to England, and be crown'd
King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:
For your expences and sufficient charge,
Among the people gather up a tenth.
Be gone, I say; for, till you do return,
I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.-
And you, good uncle, banish all offence:
If you do censure me by what you were,
Not what you are, I know it will excuse
This sudden execution of my will.
And so conduct me, where, from company,
I may revolve and ruminate my grief.

[Exit.

Glo. Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last. [Exeunt Gloster and Ereter.

Suf. Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd: and thus he

goes,

As did the youthful Paris once to Greece;

With hope to find the like event in love,
But prosper better than the Trojan did.

Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;

But I will rule both her, the king, and realm.

[Exit.

Cade. These five days have I hid me in these woods; and durst not peep out, for all the country is lay'd for me; but now am I so hungry, that if I might have a lease of my life for a thousand years, I could stay no longer.

King Henry the Sixth.

PART II.

BY

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

ACCURATELY PRINTED

FROM THE TEXT OF

MR. STEEVENS'S LAST EDITION.

King Henry the Sixth :

Humphrey, Duke of Glo'ster, his uncle.

Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, great uncle

Lord Scales, Governour of the Tower. Lord Say.

Sir Humphrey Stafford, and his brother. Sir John

Stanley.

A Sea-captain, Master, and Master's Mate, and

Hume and Southwell, two priests.

Bolingbroke, a Conjurer. A spirit raised by him.
Thomas Horner, an Armourer. Peter, his man.
Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of Saint Alban's.

Simpcox, an Impostor. Two Murderers.

Jack Cade, a Rebel:

George, John, Dick, Smith, the Weaver, Michael, &c.

his followers.

Alexander Iden, a Kentish Gentleman.

Margaret, Queen to King Henry.
Eleanor, Dutchess of Glo'ster.

Margery Jourdain, a Witch. Wife to Simpcox.

Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Petitioners, Aldermen, a Beadle, Sheriff, and Officers; Citizens, Prentices, Falconers, Guards, Soldiers, Messengers, &c.

SCENE, dispersedly in various parts of England.