* And the premised1 flames of the last day
* Knit earth and heaven together!
*Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,
*Particularities and petty sounds

To cease!Wast thou ordain'd, dear father,
*To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve3
*The silver livery of advised4 age;

*And, in thy reverence, and thy chair-days, thus
*To die in ruffian battle?--Even at this sight,
*My heart is turn'd to stone: and, while 'tis

mine,

* It shall be stony. York not our old men spares; *No more will I their babes: tears virginal * Shall be to me even as the dew, to fire; *And beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims, *Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax. *Henceforth, I will not have to do with pity: *Meet I an infant of the house of York, *Into as many gobbets will I cut it, * As wild Medea young Absyrtus did: *In cruelty will I seek out 'Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house; [Taking up the body.

my

fame.

'As did Æneas old Anchises bear,

So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders; * But then Æneas bare a living load,

* Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine. [Exil.

Enter Richard Plantagenet and Somerset, fight ing, and Somerset is killed.

Rich. So, lie thou there;

For, underneath an ale-house' paltry sign, The Castle in Saint Albans, Somerset Hath made the wizard famous in his death.*Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill. (Exil *Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still:

(1) Sent before their time.

(3) Obtain.

(2) Stop.

(4) Considerate.

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Alarums: Excursions. Enter King Henry, Queen
Margaret, and others, retreating.

'Q. Mar. Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away!

*K. Hen. Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay.

*Q. Mar. What are you made of? you'll not 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,) We shall to London get; where you are lov'd; *And where this breach, now in our fortunes made, *May readily be stopp'd.

Enter Young Clifford.

*Y. Clif. But that my heart's on future mis
chief set,

*I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly;
* But fly you must; uncurable discomfit
*Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts,1
*Away, for your relief! and we will live
*To see their day, and them our fortune give:
*Away, my lord, away!

[Exeunt

SCENE III.-Fields near Saint Albans. Alarum: Retreat. Flourish; then enter York, Richard Plantagenet, Warwick, and Soldiers, with

drum and colours.

York. Of Salisbury, who can report of him; *That winter lion, who, in rage, forgets Aged contusions and all brush of time;2

(1) For parties.

(2) i. e. The gradual detrition of time.

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*And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,!
* Repairs him with occasion? this happy day
*Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,
*If Salisbury be lost.

'Rich.

My noble father, Three times to-day I holp him to his horse, "Three times bestrid him, thrice I led him off, 'Persuaded him from any further act: But still, where danger was, still there I met him; *And like rich hangings in a homely house, *So was his will in his old feeble body. * But, noble as he is, look where he comes. Enter Salisbury.

'Sal. Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day; "By the mass, so did we all.-I thank you, Richard: God knows, how long it is I have to live; • And it hath pleas'd him, that three times to-day "You have defended me from imminent death.

go

forth

*Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:? *'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled, *Being opposites of such repairing nature.3 "York. I know, our safety is to follow them: For, as I hear, the king is fled to London, To call a present court of parliament. Let us pursue him, ere the writs s What says lord Warwick? shall we after them? War. After them! nay, before them, if we can. Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day: Saint Albans' battle, won by famous York, Shall be eterniz'd in all age to come.Sound, drums and trumpets;-and to London all: And more such days as these to us befall! [Exeunt. (1) i. e. The height of youth: the brow of a hill

is its summit.

(2) i. e. We have not secured that which we

have acquired.

likely so soon te (3) i. e. Being enemies that are rally and recover themselves from this defeat.

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PART III

King Henry the Sixth:
Edward, prince of Wales, his son.
Lewis XI. king of France.

Duke of Somerset,

Duke of Exeter,

Earl of Oxford,

Earl of Northumberland,

Earl of Westmoreland,
Lord Clifford,

lords on King Hen

ry's side.

Richard Plantagenet, duke of York.
Edward, earl of March, afterwards
King Edward IV.

Edmund, earl of Rutland,

George, afterwards duke of Clarence,
Richard, afterwards duke of Glocester,

Marquis of Montague,

Duke of Norfolk,

Earl of Warwick,

Earl of Pembroke,

of the duke of York's
party.

Were by

Dhe Lo ether s

Lord Hastings,

Lord Stafford,

Sir John Mortimer,

Sir Hugh Mortimer, uncles to the duke of York.
Henry, earl of Richmond, a youth.

Lord Rivers, brother to Lady Grey. Sir William
Stanley. Sir John Montgomery. Sir John Som-
erville. Tutor to Rutland. Mayor of York.
Lieutenant of the Tower. A Nobleman. Two
Keepers. A Huntsman. A Son that has killed
his father. A Father that has killed his son.

Queen Margaret.

Lady Grey, afterwards queen to Edward IV.

Bona, sister to the French queen.

Soldiers, and other attendants on King Henry and
King Edward, Messengers, Watchmen, &c.
Scene, during part of the third act, in France;
during all the rest of the play, in England.

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