For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign, [Erit. Fight : excursions. Enter King, QUEEN, and others. Queen. Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away! king. Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay. Queen. What are you made of? you'll nor fight nor fly: Now is it manhood, wisdom and defence, To give the enemy way, and to secure us By what we can, which can no more but fly. [Alarum afar off. If you be ta’en, we then should see the bottom Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape, As well we may, if not through your neglect, 80 Re-enter Young CLIFFORD. (Exeunt. SCENE III. Fields near St. Alban's. Soldiers, with drum and colours. My noble father, 10 But still, where danger was, still there I met him; And like rich hangings in a homely house, Enter SALISBURY York. I know our safety is to follow them; War. After them! nay, before them, if we can. 30 Shall be eternized in all age to come. Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all: And more such days as these to us befall. [E.ceunt. THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI. $ DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. KING HENRY the Sixth. LORD STAFFORD. EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, his SIR JOHN MORTIMER, uncles to son. SIR HUGA MORTIMER, of York. the Duke LEWIS XI. KING OF FRANCE. DI'KE OF SOMERSET. HENRY, Earl of Richmond, a DUKE OF EXETER. youth. EARL OF OXFORD. LORD Rivers, brother to Lady EARL or NORTHUMBERLAND. Grey. EARL OF WESTMORELAND. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY. LORD CLIFFORD. SIR JOHN MONTGOMERY. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of Sir John SOMERVILLE. York. Tutor to Rutland. Mayor of York. EDWARD, Earl of March, Lieutenant of the Tower. A afterwards King Ed Nobleman. ward IV., Two Keepers. A Huntsman, EDMUND, Earl of Rutland his A Son that has killed his father. GEORGE, afterwards Duke sons, A Father that has killed his son. of Clarence. RICHARD, afterwards QUEEN MARGARET. Duke of Gloucester, LADY Grey, afterwards Queen to DUKE OF NORFOLK. Edward IV. MARQUESS OF MONTAGUE. Boxa, sister to the French Queen. EARL OF WARWICK. EARL OF PEMBROKE. Soldiers. Attendants, Messengers, LORD HASTINGS. Watchmen, &c. ACT I. SCENE I. London. The Parliament-house. Alarum. Enter the DUKE OF YORK, EDWARD, RICHARD, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, WARWICK, and Soldiers. York. While we pursued the horsemen of the north, 499 Cheer'd up the drooping army; and himself, El. Lord Stafford's father, Duke of Buckingbam, 10 Mont. And, brother, here's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood, [ Throuring doron the Duke of Somerset's lcud. Norf. Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt! 20 York. Assist me, then, sweet Warwick, and I will; For hither we have broken in by force. Norf. We'll all assist you; he that flies shall die. 30 York. Thanks, gentle Norfolk: stay by me, my lords; And, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night. [They go up. War. And when the king comes, offer him no violence, Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce. York. The queen this day here holds her parliament, War. The bloody parliament shall this be called, 40 And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice Hath made us by-words to our enemies. York. Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute; War. Veither the king, nor he that loves him best, Flourish. Enter King HENRY, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBER LAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest. K. Ilen. My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits, 50 Even in the chair of state: belike he means, Back'd by the power of Warwick, that falsc peer, To aspire unto the crown and reign as king. Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father, And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd re venge North. If I be not, heaveris bc revenged on me! West. What, shall we suffer this? let's pluck him down: My heart for anger burns; I cannot brook it. 60 K. Hen. Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmoreland. Clif. Patience is for poltroons, such as lie: North. Well hast thou spoken, cousin: be it so. K. Hen. Ah, know you not the city favours them, And they have troops of soldiers at their bock? Ere. But when the duke is slain, they'll quickly fly. K. Men. Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart, 70 To make a shambles of the parliament-house! Cousin of Excter, frowns, words and threats Shall be the war that Ilenry means to lisc. Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne, And kneel for grace and mercy at my feet; I am thy sovereign. York. I am thine. York {้า In following this usurping Henry. Clif. Whom should he follow but lis natural king? West. lle is both king and Duke of Lancaster; War. And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget |