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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_.’

At the foot of the page he wrote ‘their king,’ which is the reading
of the edition of 1594 for the two last words, but which Mr Halliwell
misread ‘thinking’ and regarded as a various reading for ‘Honouring.’
It is still possible, therefore, that Malone’s copy and that at present
in the Bodleian may be identical.

The second edition (Q2) of the First Part of the Contention appeared
in quarto in 1600, with the following title:

 The | First part of the Con-|tention betwixt the two famous hou-|_ses
 of Yorke and Lancaster, with the_ | death of the good Duke | Humphrey:
 | And the banishment and death of the Duke of | Suffolke, and the
 Tragical end of the prowd Cardinall | _of Winchester, with the notable
 Rebellion of_ | _Iacke Cade_: | _And the Duke of Yorkes first clayme
 to the_ | _Crowne_. | LONDON | Printed by Valentine Simmes for Thomas
 Millington, and | are to be sold at his shop vnder S. Peters church |
 in Cornewall. | 1600. |

Copies with this title are in the Library of the Duke of Devonshire,
and in the Bodleian (Malone, 867). An imperfect copy, wanting the last
seven leaves, is in the Capell collection. Another impression bearing
the same date, ‘Printed by W. W. for Thomas Millington,’ is said to
exist, but we have been unable to find it. The MS. title quoted by Mr
Halliwell from a copy in the Bodleian (Malone, 36) is prefixed to what
appears to us unquestionably the same edition as the above. The minute
correspondence of misplaced and defective letters between this copy and
Capell’s, with which, as well as with the other copy in the Bodleian,
we have compared it, proves beyond question that all three must have
been printed from the same form, and that the MS. title inserted in
Malone’s copy is out of place. So far therefore from Capell’s imperfect
copy of this edition being unique, as Mr Halliwell states, there are
at least two other perfect copies in existence, besides one which only
wants the title-page. In Lowndes’s _Bibliographer’s Manual_ (ed. Bohn,
p. 2281), another is said to be in the possession of Mr Tite. The late
Mr George Daniel is stated, on the same authority, to have had the
editions printed by Valentine Simmes and by W. W. in one volume, but
they were not sold at his sale, and we have been unable to trace them.

In 1619, a third edition (Q3) without date, printed by Isaac Jaggard,
and including also ‘The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York,’ appeared
with the following title:

 The | Whole Contention | betweene the two Famous Houses, LANCASTER
 and | YORKE. | _With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke_ | Humfrey,
 Richard Duke of Yorke, | _and King Henrie the_ | _sixt_. | Diuided
 into two Parts: And newly corrected and | enlarged. Written by
 _William Shake-_|_speare_, Gent. | Printed at LONDON, for T. P. |

On the title-page of his copy of this edition, Capell has added in MS.
the date ‘1619.--at the same time with the Pericles that follows;
as appears by the continuation of the signatures.’ The signatures of
‘The whole Contention’ are from A to Q in fours, while in _Pericles_,
‘Printed for T. P. 1619,’ the first page has signature R, which shows
that the two must have formed part of the same volume.

‘The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York,’ which formed the
ground-work of The Third part of King Henry the Sixth, was first
printed in small 8vo. in 1595, with the following title:

 The | true Tragedie of Richard | _Duke of Yorke, and the death of_ |
 good King Henrie the Sixt, | _With the whole contention betweene_ |
 the two Houses Lancaster | and Yorke, as it was sundrie times | acted
 by the Right Honoura-|ble the Earle of Pem-|brooke his seruants. |
 Printed at London by P. S. for Thomas Milling-|_ton, and are to be
 sold at his shoppe vnder_ | _Saint Peters Church in_ | _Cornwal_,
 1595. |

A unique copy of this edition is in the Bodleian Library (Malone, 876).
Although printed in 8vo. we have quoted it as Q1, in order to avoid
introducing a new notation.

The second edition (Q2) was printed in 1600, with the following title:

 The | True Tragedie of | Richarde Duke of | Yorke, and the death of
 good | King Henrie the sixt: | With the whole contention betweene the
 two | Houses, Lancaster and Yorke; as it was | sundry times acted by
 the Right | Honourable the Earle | of Pembrooke his | seruantes. |
 Printed at London by _W. W._ for _Thomas Millington_, | and are to be
 sold at his shoppe vnder Saint | Peters Church in Cornewall. | 1600. |

Copies of this edition are in the Duke of Devonshire’s Library, the
Bodleian (Malone, 36), and the British Museum. In Malone’s Shakespeare
(ed. 1790, Vol. I. Pt. I. p. 235), among the ‘Dramatick Pieces on which
plays were formed by Shakespeare,’ an edition of The True Tragedy