The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9] · William Shakespeare
SCENE VI.
Enter the Duke of _Yor_k_e_, and the Earles of _Salsbury_ and _Warwicke_. _Yorke._ My Lords our simple supper ended, thus, [daf001] Let me reueale vnto your honours here, The right and title of the house of Yorke, To Englands Crowne by liniall desent. _War._ Then Yorke begin, and if thy claime be good, ·daf005· The Neuils are thy subiects to command. _Yorke._ Then thus my Lords. Edward the third had seuen sonnes, The first was Edward the blacke Prince, Prince of Wales. ·daf010· The second was Edmund of Langly, [daf011] Duke of Yorke. The third was Lyonell Duke of Clarence. The fourth was Iohn of Gaunt, The Duke of Lancaster. ·daf015· The fifth was Roger Mortemor, Earle of March. The sixt was sir Thomas of Woodstocke, William of Winsore was the seuenth and last. Now, Edward the blacke Prince he died before his father, and left behinde him Richard, that afterwards was King, Crownde by ·daf020· the name of Richard the second, and he died without an heire. Edmund of Langly Duke of Yorke died, and left behind him two daughters, Anne and Elinor. Lyonell Duke of Clarence died, and left behinde Alice, Anne, and Elinor, that was after married to my father, and by her I ·daf025· claime the Crowne, as the true heire to Lyonell Duke of Clarence, the third sonne to Edward the third. Now sir. In the [daf027] time of Richards raigne, Henry of Bullingbrooke, sonne and heire [daf028] to Iohn of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster fourth sonne to Edward the third, he claimde the Crowne, deposde the Merthfull King, and ·daf030· as both you know, in Pomphret Castle harmlesse Richard was [daf031] shamefully murthered, and so by Richards death came the house of Lancaster vnto the Crowne.
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