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 _THE  WORKS_
 OF
 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.


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 THE WORKS
 OF
 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 EDITED BY
 WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.

 FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY
 COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN
 THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

 AND WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A.

 LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE,
 CAMBRIDGE.

 _VOLUME V_.

 Cambridge and London:
 MACMILLAN AND CO.

 1864.


 CAMBRIDGE:
 PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.




CONTENTS.


 THE Preface. . . .                                  vii

 THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI. . . .                3

 Notes to The First Part of King Henry VI. . . .     103

 THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY VI. . . .             109

 Notes to The Second Part of King Henry VI. . . .    223

 THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI. . . .              229

 Notes to The Third Part of King Henry VI. . . .     339

 THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION, &c. . . .         343

 Notes to The First Part of the Contention,
 &c. . . .                                           405

 THE TRUE TRAGEDIE OF RICHARD DUKE
 OF YORKE, AND THE GOOD KING HENRY THE SIXT. . . .   407

 Notes to The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of
 Yorke. . . .                                        469

 KING RICHARD III. . . .                             473

 Notes to King Richard III. . . .                    637




PREFACE.


_The First Part of King Henry the Sixth_ was printed for the first
time, so far as we know, in the Folio of 1623. The same edition
contained also for the first time in their present form, ‘The second
Part of King Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke Humfrey,’
and ‘The third Part of King Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke
of Yorke.’

The play upon which the Second part of Henry the Sixth was founded was
first printed in quarto (Q1), in 1594, with the following title:

 The | First part of the Con- tention betwixt the two famous houses of
 Yorke | and Lancaster, with the death of the good | Duke Humphrey:
 | And the banishment and death of the Duke of | _Suffolke_, and the
 Tragicall end of the proud Cardinall | of _Winchester_, with the
 notable Rebellion | of _Iacke Cade:_ | _And the Duke of Yorkes first
 claime vnto the_ | _Crowne_. | LONDON | Printed by Thomas Creed, for
 Thomas Millington, | and are to be sold at his shop vnder Saint Peters
 | Church in Cornwall. | 1594. |

The only copy known of this edition is in the Bodleian Library (Malone,
Add. 870), and is probably the same which was once in Malone’s
possession, and which he collated with the second Quarto printed in
1600. Mr Halliwell, in the preface to ‘The first sketches of the
second and third parts of King Henry the Sixth,’ edited by him for the
Shakespeare Society, is inclined to doubt this, on the ground that
Malone quotes, from the copy in his possession, a reading which does
not exist in that now in the Bodleian. The passage in question is in
Scene IX. line 12, p. 370 of the present volume, ‘Honouring him as
if he were their king:’ on which Mr Halliwell in his note observes,
‘Malone, who has collated his copy of the edition of 1600, “printed by
W. W.,” with a copy of the 1594 edition formerly in his possession,
distinctly writes--

 “_Thinking_ him as if he were their king,”

as the reading of his copy of the first edition. If so, it must have
been a different copy from that now in the Bodleian, from which
the present text is reprinted, and another instance of the curious
variations in different copies of the same editions, which were first
discovered by Steevens (Boswell’s _Malone_, Vol. X. p. 73), and
recently applied to good use by Mr Collier.’ Mr Halliwell has here
inadvertently fallen into error. Malone’s collation is made in a copy
of the edition of 1600, in which the line stands thus:

 ‘Honouring him as if he were _a king