NE I. A CT I. S C ENE The palace. Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter King Henry, Duke Humphry, Salisbury, Warwick, and Beaufort, on the one fide: the Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other. Suf.* A S by your high imperial Majefty [France, So in the famous ancient city Tours, In prefence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne, Alanfon, [prefenting the Queen to the King. Το your moft gracious hand; that are the substance Of that great fhadow I did represent; The happiest gift that ever Marquis gave, K.Henry. Suffolk, arife. Welcome, Queen Margaret; I can express no kinder fign of love, Than this kind kifs. O Lord, that lend'ft me life, If fympathy of love unite our thoughts. 2. Mar. Great King of England, and my gracious The mutual conf'rence that my mind hath had, [Lord, By day, by night, waking, and in my dreams, In courtly company, or at my beads, With you mine alder-lievieft Sovereign; Makes me the bolder to falute my King With ruder terms; fuch as my wit affords, And over-joy of heart doth minister. * Vide Hall's Chronicle, fol. 66. year 23. init. Mr. Pope. K. Henry. [speech, K. Henry. Her fight did ravih, but her grace in Her words y-clad with wildom's majelty, Make me from wond'ring fall to weeping joys, Such is the fulness of my heart's content. Lords, with one chearful voice welcome my love. All kneel. Long live Queen Margret, England's happiness! 2. Mar. We thank you all. [Flourish. Suf. My Lord Protector, fo it pleafe your Grace, Here are the articles of contracted peace, Between our Sovereign and the French King Charles, For eighteen months concluded by confent. Glo. [reads.] Imprimis, It is agreed between the French King, Charles, and William de la Pole Marquis of Suffolk, Ambajador for Henry King of England, that the Jaid Henry fhall efpoufe the Lady Margaret, daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia, and Jerufalem, and crown her Queen of England, ere the thirtieth of May next enfuing. Item, That the duchy of Anjou, and the county of Maine, shall be releafed and delivered to the King her father. [Lets fall the paper. K. Henry. Uncle, how now? Some fudden qualm hath struck me to the heart, K. Henry. Uncle of Winchester, I pray, read on. Win. Item, That the duchies of Anjou and Maine fhall be releafed and delivered to the King her father, and fhe fent over of the King of England's own proper oft and charges, without having any dowry. K. Henry. They pleafe us well. Lord Marquis, kneel you down; We here create thee the first Duke of Suffolk, We thank you for all this great favour done, Come, Come let us in, and with all speed provide [Exeunt King, Queen, and Suffolk. SCENE II. Manent the reft. Glo. Brave Peers of England, pillars of the state, In winter's cold, and fummer's parching heat, Have you yourselves, Somerfet, Buckingham, How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe! And fhall thefe labours and thefe honours die ! Gar. Nephew, what means this paffionate difcourfe? This peroration with fuch circumstances? For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it ftill. Glo. Ay, uncle, we will keep it if we can : But now it is impoffible we fhould. Suffolk, the new-made Duke, that rules the roast, Hath giv'n the duchy of Anjou and Maine Unto the poor King Reignier, whofe large style Agrees Agrees not with the leannefs of his purse. Sal. Now, by the death of him who dy'd for all, Thefe counties were the keys of Normandy. But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant fon? War. For grief that they are past recovery. For were there hope to conquer them again, My fword fhould fhed hot blood, mine eyes no tears. Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both, Those provinces thefe arms of mine did conquer. And are the cities that I got with wounds, Delivered up again with peaceful words? * York. France thould have torn and rent my very heart, Before I would have yielded to this league. I never read, but England's Kings have had Large fums of gold, and dowries with their wives: And our King Henry gives away his own, To match with her that brings no vantages. Glo. A proper jeft, and never heard before, That Suffolk fhould demand a whole fifteenth, For coft and charges in tranfporting her. She fhould have staid in France, and starv'd in France, Before Car. My Lord of Glo'fter, now ye grow too hot: It was the pleasure of my Lord the King. Glo. My Lord of Winchefter, I know your mind 'Tis not my fpeeches that you do mislike, But 'tis my prefence that doth trouble you. Rancour will out, proud prelate; in thy face, I fee thy fury: if I longer stay, We fhall begin our ancient bickerings. Lordings, farewel; and fay, when I am gone, I prophefy'd, France will be loft ere long. [Exit. Car. So, there goes our Protector in a rage. 'Tis known to you, he is mine enemy; Nay more, an enemy unto you all, And no great friend, I fear me, to the King, Confider, Lords, he is the next of blood, And heir-apparent to the English crown. -peaceful words? Tork. For Suffolk's Duke, may he be fuffocate, That dims the honour of this wa, like iffe! France should have torry &c. Had Had Henry got an empire by his marriage, With, God preferve the good Duke Humphry! Buck. Why fhould he then protect our fovereign, [Exit. Som. Coufin of Buckingham, though Humphry's And greatnefs of his place, be grief to us, Than all the princes in the land befide. [pride, [Exe. Buckingham and Somerset, Sal. Pride went before, ambition follows him. While thefe do labour for their own preferment, Behoves it us to labour for the realm. I never faw, but Humphry Duke of Glo❜fter Oft have I seen the haughty Cardinal |