K. Edw. Clarence and Glofter, love my lovely queen ; And kifs your princely nephew, brothers both.

Clar. The duty, that I owe unto your majesty, I feal upon the lips of this fweet babe.

Queen. Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks. Glo. And, that I love the tree from whence thou

sprang'st,

Witnefs the loving kifs I give the fruit :---
To fay the truth, so Judas kifs'd his master;
And cry'd all hail! when as he meant—all harm.
K. Edw. Now am I feated as my foul delights,
Having my country's peace, and brothers' loves.

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[Afide.

Clar. What will your grace have done with Margaret? Reignier, her father, to the king of France Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerufalem,

And hither have they fent it for her ranfom.

K. Edw. Away with her, and waft her hence to France, And now what refts, but that we spend the time With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows, Such as befit the pleasures of the court?Sound, drums and trumpets !-farewel, four annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

[Exeunt omnes.

A fummary Lift of the several Battles fought between the Houfes of York and Lancaster.

1. The battle of St. Albans, between Richard Plantagenet duke of York and K. Henry VI. in which the latter was defeated and made prisoner: 23d. May, 1455.

2. The battle of Blore-heath, in Shropshire, between Richard earl of Salisbury (for York) and James Lord Audley (for Lancaster); in which the latter was defeated and flain: 30th. September, 1459.

3. The battle of Northampton, between the earls of March and Warwick and K. Henry; in which the King was again defeated and taken prisoner: 20th. July, 1460.

4. The battle of Wakefield, between Richard duke of York and queen Margaret; in which the former was defeated and flain: 30th. December, 1460.

5. The battle of Mortimer's Cross, in Herefordshire, between Edward duke of York and Jasper earl of Pembroke; in which the latter was defeated Candlemas-day, 2d. February, 1460-1.

6. The fecond battle of St. Albans, between queen Margaret and the earl of Warwick; in which the latter was defeated: Shrove-Tuesday, 17th. February, 1460—1.

7. The action of Ferrybridge in Yorkshire, between lord Clifford (for Lancaster) and the lord Fitzwalter (for York); in which the latter was surprised and killed, Clifford and most of his party being flain in their retreat: 28th. March, 1461.

8. The battle of Towton, in Yorkshire, between Edward duke of York and K. Henry; in which the latter was defeated: 29th March, 1461.

9. The battle of Hedgely-Moor, in Northumberland, between the lord Montacute (for York) and the lords Hungerford, and Roos, Sir Ralph Percy, &c. (for Lancaster); in which the Lancaftrians were defeated, and Percy flain: 29th. April, 1463.

15. The battle of Hexham, between lord Montacute and K. Henry; in which the latter was defeated; 15th. May, 1463.

11. The battle of Hedgecote, near Banbury, between the earl of Pembroke (for K. Edward IV.) and the lords Fitz-hugh, Latimer, and Sir John Conyers (for K. Henry) in which the former was defeated: 25th. June, 1469.

12, The

12. The battle of Stamford (Loofecoat-field,) between fir Robert Wells and K. Edward; in which the former was defeated and made prifoner: ift. October, 1469.

13. The battle of Barnet, between K. Edward and the earl of Warwick; in which the latter was defeated and flain (Eafter Sunday) 14th. April, 1471.

14. The battle of Tewksbury between K. Edward and Q. Margaret; in which the latter was defeated and taken prifoner: 3d. May, 1471.

15. The battle of Bosworth, in Leicestershire, between K. Richard III. and the earl of Richmond, afterward K. Henry VII. in which the former was defeated and flain: 22d. Auguft, 1486.

The total number of persons flain in this contest was upwards of ninety one thousand.

RICHARD

RICHARD III.

KING EDWARD THE FOURTH.

EDWARD, PRINCE of WALES, after

wards EDWARD V.

RICHARD, DUKE of YORK.

Son to Edward IV.

GEORGE, DUKE of CLARENCE, Brother to Edward IV. A young Son of CLARENCE.

RICHARD, DUKE of GLOSTER, Brother to Edward IV. afterwards KING RICHARD III.

CARDINAL BOURCHIER, Archbishop of Canterbury.

ARCHBISHOP of YORK.

DUKE of BUCKINGHAM.

DUKE of NORFOLK.

BISHOP of ELY.

EARL of SURREY.

LORD RIVERS, Brother to King Edward's Queen.
MARQUIS of DORSET, LORD GREY. her Sons.
EARL of RICHMOND, afterwards King Henry VII.

LORD HASTINGS.

SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN.

SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF.

LORD LOVEL.

SIR WILLIAM CATESBY. SIR JAMES TYRREL. LORD STANLEY. EARL of OXFORD.

SIR JAMES BLOUNT. SIR WALTER HERBERT. SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower. CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a Priest.

Lord Mayor.

ELIZABETH, Queen of Edward IV.

Another Prieft.

QUEEN MARGARET, Widow of Henry VI.

ANNE, Widow of Edward Prince of Wales, Son to Henry VI. afterwards married to the Duke of Glofter.

DUTCHESS of YORK, Mother to Edward IV. Clarence, and Richard III.

Sheriff, Purfuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Ghofts, Soldiers, and other Attendants.

This Play was written about the year 1596 or 7; it opens with no flight deviation from the order of hiftory; the imprisonment of Clarence, which happened in 1477, being introduced in the firft feene, and the interment of Hen. VI. which preceded it fix years, made the fubject of the Second: It concludes with the death of Richard at the battle of Bofworth Field, which was fought in the year 1485; containing under the title of the "Life and Death of Richard the Third," little more than the last eight years of his time.