Note 92 — SHAKSPEARE PAPERS.—No. I.
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He is once called so by Westmoreland, Second Part of Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 1.
"Health and fair greeting from our general, The prince Lord John and Duke of Lancaster;"
but it occurs nowhere else, and we must not place much reliance on the authenticity or the verbal accuracy of such verses. He was Prince John of Lancaster, and afterwards Duke of Bedford. The king was then, as the king is now, Duke of Lancaster.