The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]

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Note III

VI. 11–27. In the edition of 1619 this passage is so much altered that it is necessary to give it at full:

‘The second was William of Hatfield,
Who dyed young.
The third was Lyonell, Duke of Clarence.
The fourth was Iohn of Gaunt,
The Duke of Lancaster.
The fift was Edmund of Langley,
Duke of Yorke.
The sixt was William of Windsore,
Who dyed young.
The seauenth and last was Sir Thomas of Woodstocke, Duke of Yorke.

Now Edward the blacke Prince dyed before his Father, leauing behinde him two sonnes, Edward borne at Angolesme, who died young, and Richard that was after crowned King, by the name of Richard the second, who dyed without an heyre.

Lyonell Duke of Clarence dyed, and left him one only daughter, named Phillip, who was married to Edmund Mortimer earle of March and Vlster: and so by her I claime the Crowne, as the true heire to Lyonell Duke of Clarence, third sonne to Edward the third.’

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