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* SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.] The transactions comprized in this hiftory take up about nine years. The action commences with the account of Hotspur's being defeated and killed [1403]; and closes with the death of King Henry IV. and the coronation of King Henry V. [1412-13.] THEOBALD.

This play was entered at Stationers' Hall, August 23, 1600.

STEEVENS. The Second Part of King Henry IV. I fuppofe to have been written in 1598. See An Attempt to afcertain the Order of Shakspeare's Plays, Vol. I. MALONE.

Mr. Upton thinks these two plays improperly called The First and Second Parts of Henry the Fourth. The firft play ends, he says, with the peaceful fettlement of Henry in the kingdom by the defeat of the rebels. This is hardly true; for the rebels are not yet finally fuppreffed. The fecond, he tells us, shows Henry the Fifth in the various lights of a good-natured rake, till, on his father's death, he affumes a more manly character. This is true; but this representation gives us no idea of a dramatic action. These two plays will appear to every reader, who fhall peruse them without ambition of critical difcoveries, to be fo connected, that the fecond is merely a fequel to the firft; to be two only because they are too long to be one. JOHNSON.

King Henry the Fourth:

Henry, Prince of Wales, afterwards King
Henry V.

Thomas, Duke of Clarence.

Prince John of Lancaster, afterwards his fons. (2 Henry V.) Duke of Bedford.

Prince Humphrey of Glocefter, afterwards (2 Henry V.) Duke of Glocefter.

Earl of Warwick.

Earl of Weftmoreland.

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of the king's

party.

Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
A Gentleman attending on the Chief Justice.
Earl of Northumberland;

Scroop, Archbishop of York;

Lord Mowbray ; Lord Haftings;

Lord Bardolph; Sir John Colevile ;J

enemies to the

king.

Travers and Morton; domefticks of Northumberland.

Falftaff, Bardolph, Pistol, and Page.

Poins and Peto; attendants on Prince Henry.

Shallow and Silence; country Justices.

Davy, fervant to Shallow.

Mouldy, Shadow,Wart, Feeble, and Bullcalf; recruits.

Fang and Snare; sheriff's officers.

Rumour. A Porter.

A Dancer; Speaker of the Epilogue.

Lady Northumberland. Lady Percy.

Hoftefs Quickly. Doll Tear-fheet.

Lords and other Attendants; Officers, Soldiers, Meffenger, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, &c.

SCENE, England.

2 See note under the Perfona dramatis of the Firft Part of this play. STEEVENS.

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NORTHUMBERLAND'S CASTLE AT WARKWORTH. London, Pub. Aprill, 11790. by EHarding N:132 Fleet Street

Henry IV.Part the IL Act IScene L.

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