So am I driv'n by breath of her renown, Suf. Tufh, my good Lord, this fuperficial tale And which is more, fhe is not fo divine, K. Henry. And otherwife will Henry ne'er prefume: How fhall we then difpenfe with the contract, A poor Earl's daughter is unequal odds, And therefore may be broke without offence. Glou. Why, what, I pray, is Margret more than that? Her father is no better than an Earl, Although in glorious titles he excell. Suf. Yes, my good Lord, her Father is a King, The King of Naples and Jerufalem, And of fuch great authority in France Glou. And fo the Earl of Armagnac may do, Because Because he is near kinfman unto Charles. Exe. Befide, his wealth doth warrant lib'ral dow'r, While Reignier fooner will receive than give. Suf. A dow'r, my Lords! difgrace not so your King, That he should be fo abject, bafe and poor, To chufe for wealth, and not for perfect love. And not to feek a Queen to make him rich. Not whom we will, but whom his Grace affects, And therefore, Lords, fince he affects her moft, As is fair Margret, he be link'd in love. Then yield, my Lords, and here conclude with me, That Margret fhall be Queen, and none but she. K. Henry. Whether it be through force of your report, My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that My tender youth was never yet attaint With any paffion of inflaming love, I cannot tell; but this I am affur'd, I feel fuch fharp diffention in my breast, That Lady Margʼret do vouchsafe to come [Exit. [Exeunt Gloucefter and Exeter. 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 profper better than the Trojan did: Margret fhall now be Queen, and rule the King: But I will rule both her, the King, and realm. [Exit. KING Henry VI. Humphry Duke of Gloucefter, Uncle to the King. Cardinal Beaufort, Bp. of Winchefter, Brother to King Henry IV. natural Son to John of Gaunt. Duke of York, pretending to the Crown. Duke of Buckingham, Duke of Somerfet, Duke of Suffolk. Earl of Salisbury, Earl of Warwick, } Of the King's Party. Of the York Faction. Lord Clifford, of the King's Party. Lord Say. Lord Scales, Governor of the Tower. Sir Humphry Stafford. Young Stafford, his Brother. Alexander Iden, a Kentish Gentleman. Young Clifford, Son to the Lord Clifford. Edward Plantagenet, Sons to the Duke of York. Richard Plantagenet, Vaux, A Sea Captain, and Walter Whitmore ---- Pirates. Bolingbrook, an Aftrologer. A Spirit attending on Jordan the Witch. Thomas Horner, an Armorer. Peter, his Man. Mayor of St. Albans. Simpcox, an Impoftor. Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John Holland, Dick the Butcher, Smith the Weaver, and feveral others ----- Rebels. Margaret, Queen to King Henry VI, fecretly in Love with the Duke of Suffolk. Dame Eleanor, Wife to the Duke of Gloucester. Mother Jordan, a Witch employ'd by the Dutchess of Gloucefter. Wife to Simpcox. Petitioners, Aldermen, a Bedel, Sheriff and Officers, Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Meffengers, and other Attendants. The SCENE is laid very difperfedly in feveral Parts of England. The |