King. Call Buckingham, and bid him arm himself. York. Call Buckingham, and all the friends thou hast; Both thou and they shall curse this fatal hour. Enter at one door, the Earls of SALISBURY and WARWICK, with drum and Soldiers. And at the other door, the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, with drum and Soldiers, Clif. Are these thy bears we'll bait them soon, Despite of thee and all the friends thou hast. War. You had best go dream again, To keep you from the tempest of the field. War. Now by my father's age (badge), old Nevil's crest, The rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff, Clif. And from thy burgonet will I rend the bear, Y. Clif. And so, renowned sovereign, to arms, To quell these traitors and their complices. Rich. Fie, charity, for shame! speak it not in spite, For you shall sup with Jesus Christ to-night. Y. Clif. Foul stigmatic, thou canst not tell. Rich. No, for if not in heaven, you'll surely sup in hell. [Exeunt omnes. Be this the day of doom to one of us; For now my heart hath sworn immortal hate To thee and all the house of Lancaster. Clif. And here I stand, and pitch my foot to thine, Vowing never to stir till thou or I be slain. [Alarums, and they fight, and YORK kills York. Now Lancaster sit sure; thy sinews shrink. Come, fearful Henry, grovelling on thy face, Yield up thy crown unto the prince of York. [Exit YORK. Alarums, then enter YOUNG CLIFFORD alone. Y. Clif. Father of Cumberland! Where may I seek my aged father forth? Oh, dismal sight! see where he breathless lies, All smear'd and welter'd in his luke-warm blood! Ah, aged pillar of all Cumberland's true house, Sweet father, to thy murder'd ghost I swear Immortal hate unto the house of York! Nor never shall I sleep secure one night, Till I have furiously reveng'd thy death, And left not one of them to breathe on earth. [He takes him up on his back. And thus, as old Anchises' son did bear His aged father on his manly back, And fought with him against the bloody Greeks, Even so will I. But stay, here's one of them, To whom my soul hath sworn immortal hate. Enter RICHARD, and then CLIFFORD lays down his father, fights him, and RICHARD flies away again. Out, crook'd-back villain, get thee from my sight! But I will after thee, and once again (When I have borne my father to his tent) I'll try my fortune better with thee yet. [Exit YOUNG CLIFFORD with his father. Alarums again, and then enter Three or Four, bearing the Duke of BUCKINGHAM wounded to his tent. Alarums still, and then enter the KING and QUEEN. Queen. Away, my lord, and fly to London straight. Make haste, for vengeance comes along with them: Come, stand not to expostulate, let's go. King. Come then, fair queen, to London let us haste, And summon up a parliament with speed, [Exeunt KING and QUEEN. (SCENE III.) Alarums, and then a flourish, and enter the Duke of YORK, EDWARD, and RICHARD. York. How now, boys! fortunate this fight hath been, I hope, to us and ours, for England's good, And our great honour, that so long we lost, Rich. My lord, I saw him in the thickest throng, Edu. See, noble father, where they both do come, The only props unto the house of York Sal. Well hast thou fought this day, thou valiant duke, And thou brave bud of York's increasing house! I hold for thee, for with thy warlike arm, There as I hear to hold a parliament: War. After them! nay, before them if we can. THIS drama appears in the original folio collection under the title of The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the Death of the Duke of Yorke.' In 1595 was published The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the Death of good King Henry the Sixt, with the whole Contention between the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his Servants.' This was reprinted in 1600, the publisher of each edition being Thomas Millington. Upon this drama is founded The Third Part of Henry the Sixth, in the form in which we have received it as Shakspere's. We print this original, as a Supplement, from the edition of Thomas Pavier, in 1619, which edition we have collated with the unique copy now in the Bodleian Library, having been purchased for that noble collection at the sale of Mr. Chalmers's books in 1842. This play, in Pavier's edition, is entitled the 'Second Part of the Contention of the Two famous Houses of York and Lancaster.' We indicate, in foot-notes, where this edition materially raries from the first copy of 1595. COSTUME OF HENRY VI., PART III. THE Costume for the Third Part of King Henry VI. is in fact that of the reign of Edward IV., the principal characteristics of which were, in male attire, the exceeding shortness of the jackets, doublets, or pourpoints, and the padding out of the shoulders of them with large waddings called mahoitres, the sleeves being slit up the back or across the elbow to show those of the white shirt. |