K. Hen. Prepare we for our marriage: on which day, My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath, And all the Peers', for surety of our leagues. Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me; And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be! [Exeunt.

Entre CHORUS.

Thus far, with rough, and all unable pen, Our bending author hath pursu'd the story; In little room confining mighty men,

Mangling by starts the full course of their

glory.

Small time, but, in that small, most greatly liv'd, This star of England: fortune made his sword; By which the world's best garden he achiev'd, And of it left his son imperial lord.

Henry the sixth, in infant bands crown'd King Of France and England, did this King succeed;

Whose state so many had the managing, That they lost France, and made his England bleed:

Which oft our stage hath shown: and, for their sake,

In your fair minds let this acceptance take.

Exeunt.

KING HENRY VI.

PARTI

1

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

King Henry the Sixth.

Duke of Gloster, uncle to the King, and Pro

tector,

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Duke of Bedford, uncle to the King, and Regent of France. Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, great uncle' to the King.

Henry Beaufort, great uncle to the King, Bishop of Winchester, and afterwards Cardinal. John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset; afterwards Duke.

Richard Plantagenet, eldest son of Richard late Earl of Cambridge; afterwards Duke of

York.

Earl of Warwick. Earl of Salisbury. Earl of Suffolk.

Lord Talbot, afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury: John Talbot, his son.

Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.

Mortimer's Keeper, and a Lawyer.
Sir John Fastolfe. Sir William Lucy.

Sir William Glansdale. Sir Thomas Gargrave. Mayor of London. Woodville, Lieutenant of the Tower.

Vernon, of the White Rose, or York faction. Basset, of the Red Rose, or Lancaster faction.

Charles, Dauphin, and afterwards King of

France.

Reignier, Duke of Anjou, and titular King of
Naples.

Duke of Burgundy. Duke of Alençon.
Governor of Paris. Bastard of Orleans.
Master-Gunner of Orleans, and his son.
General of the French forces in Bourdeaux.
A French Sergeant. A Porter.

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An old Shepherd, father to Joan la Pucelle.
Margaret, daughter to Reignier; afterwards
married to King Henry.
Countess of Auvergne.

Joan la Pucelle, commonly called, Joan of Arc. Fiends appearing to La Pucelle, Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and several Attendants both on the English and French.

SCENE, partly in England, and partly in

France.