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

ftay.

"Q. Mar. 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 fecure us
"By what we can, which can no more but fly.

[Alarum afar of.

"If you be ta'en, we then should fee 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 mischief fet, "I would fpeak blafphemy ere bid you fly; "But fly you must; uncurable discomfit "Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts. "Away, for your relief! and we will live To fee 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

"That winter lion, who, in rage, forgets "Aged contufions and all brush of time;

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And, like a gallant in the brow of youth, "Repairs him with occafion? this happy day "Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,

"If Salisbury be loft.

Rich.

My noble father,

'Three times to-day I holp him to his horse,
'Three times bestrid him, thrice I led him off,
• Perfuaded him from any further act :

But ftill, where danger was, ftill 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.

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Enter SALISBURY.

Sal. Now, by my fword, well haft 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.-

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Well, lords, we have not got that which we have ; "'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled, "Being oppofites of such repairing nature.

• York. I know, our fafety is to follow them; 'For, as I hear, the king is fled to London, To call a prefent court of parliament. 'Let us pursue him, ere the writs go forth :What fays lord Warwick? fhall we after them? War. After them! nay, before them, if we can. Now by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day : I

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Saint

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 fuch days as these to us befall!

Printed by T. Bensley,
Bolt Court Fleet, Street, London.

[Exeunt.

Harding's Edition.

THIRD PART OF

KING HENRY VI.

AN

HISTORICAL PLAY.

BY

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

ACCURATELY PRINTED

FROM THE TEXT OF

Mr. STEEVENS's LAST EDITION.

Drnamented with Plates.

London:

Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.

PUBLISHED BY E. HARDING, NO. 98, PALL-MALL; J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY; G. SAEL, STRAND; AND VERNOR AND HOOD, POULTRY.

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