In the third play in this series, a character declares his intent to "add colours to the chameleon, / Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, / And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
In the third play in this series, a character declares his intent to "add colours to the chameleon, / Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, / And set the murderous Machiavel to school." The second play in this series presents an early version of Mary's Room in a scene in which a man claiming to have been miraculously cured of congenital blindness is exposed as a fraud when he correctly identifies the colors of robes. At the end of that play in this series, a man satisfies a prophecy that he should avoid castles, when he is killed under the sign of one hanging from an alehouse. Dick the Butcher suggests: "The first (*) thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" during Jack Cade's rebellion in the second of these plays. Thomas Nashe may have co-written the Temple Garden scene in the first of these plays, in which nobles support the Duke of Somerset or Richard Plantagenet by plucking red or white roses. For 10 points, name this trilogy of history plays spanning the reign of the title ineffectual king, written by Shakespeare. 
In the third play in this series, a character declares his intent to "add colours to the chameleon, / Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, / And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Henry VI