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[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, EXETER, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, SOMERSET, and
SUFFOLK; the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, and others.
GLOUCESTER offers to put up a bill; BISHOP OF WINCHESTER snatches it, and
tears it.]
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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Comst thou | with deep | premed|itat|ed lines?
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With writ|ten pamph|lets, stud|iously | devised?
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Humphrey | of Glouce|ster, if | thou canst |
accuse,
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Or aught | intendst | to lay | unto | my charge,
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Do it | without | invent|ion, sud|denly,
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As I | with sud|den, and | extem|poral speech,
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Purpose | to ans|wer what | thou canst | object.
GLOUCESTER
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Presump|tuous priest,| this place | commands my
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Or thou | shouldst find | thou hast | dishon|ored
me.
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Think not, although | in writ|ing I | preferred
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The man|ner of | thy vile | outrage|ous crimes,
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That there|fore I | have forged,| or am | not
able
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Verba|tim to rehearse | the meth|od of | my pen.
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No prelate,| such is thy au|dacious |
wickedness,
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Thy lewd,| pestif|erous, and | dissen|tious
pranks,
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As ve|ry in|fants prat|tle of | thy pride.
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Thou art | a most | perni|cious us|urer,
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Forward | by na|ture, en|emy | to peace,
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Lasciv|ious, want|on, more | than well | beseems
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A man | of thy | profes|sion, and | degree.
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And for | thy treach|ery, what's| more man/ifest?
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In that | thou laidst | a trap | to take | my
life,
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As well | at Lon|don bridge,| as at | the Tower.
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Beside,| I fear | me, if | thy thoughts | were
sift||ed,
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The king,| thy sove|reign, is / not quite |
exempt
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From env|ious mal|ice of | thy swel|ling heart.
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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Gloucester,| I do | defy | thee. Lords |
vouchsafe
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To give | me hear|ing what | I shall | reply.
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If I were | covetous,| ambit|ious, or | perverse,
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As he | will have | me: how | am I | so poor?
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Or how | haps it,| I seek | not to | advance
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Or raise | myself?| but keep | my wont|ed
calling.
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And for | dissen|sion, who | prefer|reth peace
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More than | I do? | Except | I be | provoked.
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No, my | good lords,| it is | not that | offends,
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It is | not that,| that hath | incensed | the
duke:
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It is | because | no one*| should sway | but he,
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No one*,| but he,| should be | about | the king;
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And that | engend|ers thund|er in | his breast,
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And makes | him roar | these ac|cusa|tions forth.
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But he | shall know | I am | as good.
GLOUCESTER
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As good?
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Thou bast|ard of | my grand|father.
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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Aye,|| lordly | sir: | for what | are you,| I
pray,
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But one | imper|ious in | anoth|er's throne?
GLOUCESTER
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Am I not | protect|or, sauc|y priest?
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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And am | not I | a prel|ate of | the church?
GLOUCESTER
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Yes, as | an out|law | in a cas|tle keeps,
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And use|th it,| to pat|ronage | his theft.
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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Unreve|rent Glouce|ster.
GLOUCESTER
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Thou | art rev|erent,
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Touching | thy spirit|ual func|tion, not | thy
life.
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Rome shall | reme|dy this./
WARWICK
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Roam thith|er then.
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My lord,| it were | your du|ty to | forbear.
SOMERSET
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Aye, see | the bish|op be | not ov|erborne:
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Methinks | my lord | should be | relig|ious,
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And know | the of|fice that | belongs | to such.
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Methinks | his lord|ship should | be hum|bler,
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it fit|teth not | a prel|ate so | to plead.
SOMERSET
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Yes, when | his ho|ly state | is touched |so
near.
WARWICK
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State ho/ly, or | unhal|lowed, what | of that?
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Is not | his grace | protect|or to | the king?
RICHARD PLANTAGENET
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Plantag|enet | I see | must hold | his
tongue,
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Lest it be | said, Speak sir|rah when | you
should:
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Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords? ????
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Else would | I have | a fling | at Winch|ester.
KING HENRY VI
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Uncles | of Glouce|ster, and | of Winch|ester,
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The spec|ial watch|men of | our Eng|lish weal,
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I would | prevail,| if pray|ers might | prevail,
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To join | your hearts | in love | and am|ity.
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Oh, what | a scand|al is | it to | our crown,
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That two | such^nob|le peers | as ye | should
jar?
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Believe | me, lords,| my tend|er years | can tell,
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Civil | dissen|sion is | a vip|erous worm,
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That gnaws | the bow|els of | the com|monwealth.
[A noise within, 'Down with the tawny-coats!']
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What tum|ult's this?
WARWICK
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An up|roar, I
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Begun | through mal|ice of | the bish|op's men.
[A noise again, 'Stones! stones!' Enter Mayor]
MAYOR
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Oh my good | lords, and | virtuous | Henry,
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Pity | the cit|y of Lon|don, pit|y us:
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The bish|op, and | the Duke | of Glouce|ster's
men,
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Forbid|den late | to car|ry an|y weapon,
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Have filled | their pock|ets full | of peb|ble
stones;
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And band/ing them|selves in | contra|ry parts,
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Do pelt | so fast | at one | anoth|er's pate,
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That ma|ny have | their gid|dy brains |
knocked^out:
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Our wind|ows are / broke down | in eve|ry street,
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And we,| for fear,| compelled | to shut | our
shops.
[Enter Serving-men, in skirmish, with bloody pates]
KING HENRY VI
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We charge | you, on | alleg|iance to | ourself,
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To hold | your slaught|ering hands,| and keep |
the peace:
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Pray^unc|le Glouce|ster mit|igate | this strife.
FIRST SERVING-MAN
Nay, if we be forbidden stones, we'll fall to it with our teeth.
SECOND SERVING-MAN
Do what ye dare, we are as resolute.
[Skirmish again]
GLOUCESTER
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You of my | household, leave | this peev|ish
broil,
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And set | this un|accust|omed fight | aside.
THIRD SERVINGMAN
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My lord,| we know | your grace | to be | a man
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Just and upright;| and for | your roy|al birth,
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Infer|ior to none,| but to | his maj|esty:
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And ere | that we | will suf|fer such | a prince,
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So kind | a fath|er of | the com|monweal,
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To be | disgrac|ed by | an ink|horn^mate,
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We and | our wives | and child|ren all | will
fight,
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And have | our bod|ies slaught|ered by | thy
foes.
FIRST SERVINGMAN
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Aye, and | the ve|ry par|ings of | our nails
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Shall pitch | a field | when we | are dead.|
[Begin again]
GLOUCESTER
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Stay,| stay,| I | say:|
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And if | you love | me, as | you say | you do,
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Let me | persuade | you to | forbear | awhile.
KING HENRY VI
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Oh, how | this dis|cord doth | afflict | my soul.
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Can you,| my Lord | of Winch|ester,| behold
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My sighs | and tears,| and will | not once | relent?
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Who should | be pit|iful,| if you | be not?
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Or who | should stu|dy to | prefer | a peace,
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If ho|ly church|men take | delight | in broils?
WARWICK
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Yield my | lord pro|tector,| yield Winch/ester,
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Except | you mean | with ob|stinate | repulse
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To slay | your sove|reign, and | destroy | the
realm.
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You see | what mis|chief, and | what murd|er too,
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Hath been | enact|ed through | your en|mity:
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Then be | at peace,| except | ye thirst |for
blood.
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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He shall | submit,| or I | will nev|er yield.
GLOUCESTER
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Compas|sion on | the king | commands | me stoop,
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Or I | would see | his heart | out, ere | the
priest
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Should ev|er get | that priv|ilege | of me.
WARWICK
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Behold | my Lord | of Winch|ester,| the duke
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Hath ban|ished moo|dy dis|content|ed fu||ry,
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As by | his smooth|ed brows | it doth | appear:
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Why look | you still | so stern,| and trag|ical?
GLOUCESTER
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Here Winch/ester,| I of|fer thee | my hand.
KING HENRY VI
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Fie uncle Beau|fort, I | have heard | you preach
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That mal|ice was | a great | and griev|ous
sin:
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And will | not you | maintain | the thing | you
teach?
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But prove | a chief | offend|er in | the same.
WARWICK
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Sweet king: the bish|op hath | a kind|ly gird:
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For shame | my lord | of Winch|ester,| relent;
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What, shall | a child | instruct | you what | to
do?
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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Well, Duke of Glouce|ster, I | will yield | to
thee
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Love for | thy love,| and hand | for hand | I
give.
GLOUCESTER
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Aye, but | I fear | me with | a hol|low heart.
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See here | my friends | and lov|ing count|rymen,
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This tok|en serv|eth for | a flag | of truce,
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Betwixt | ourselves,| and all | our fol|lowers:
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So help | me God,| as I | dissem|ble not.
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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So help | me God,| as I | intend | it
not.
KING HENRY VI
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Oh lov|ing unc|le, kind | Duke of | Gloucester,
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How joy|ful am | I made | by this / contract.
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Away | my mast|ers, troub|le us | no more,
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But join | in friend|ship, as | your lords | have
done.
FIRST SERVING-MAN
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Content,| I'll to the | surgeon's.
SECOND SERVING-MAN
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And so | will
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THIRD SERVING-MAN
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And I | will see | what phy|sic the tav|ern affords.
[Exeunt Serving-men, Mayor, etc.]
WARWICK
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Accept | this scroll,| most gra|cious sov|ereign,
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Which^in | the right | of Rich|ard Plantag|enet,
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We do | exhib|it to | your maj|esty.
GLOUCESTER
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Well^urged,| my Lord | of War|wick: or / sweet
prince,
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And if | your grace | mark^eve|ry cir|cumstance,
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You have / great reas|on to / do Rich|ard right,
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Espec|ially | for those | occas|ions
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At Elth|am Place | I told | your maj|esty.
KING HENRY VI
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And those | occas|ions, unc|le, were | of force:
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Therefore | my lov|ing lords,| our pleas|ure is,
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That Rich|ard be | restor|ed to | his blood.
WARWICK
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Let Rich|ard be | restor|ed to | his blood,
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So shall | his fath|er's wrongs | be
rec|ompensed.
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER
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As will | the rest,| so wil|leth Winch|ester.
KING HENRY VI
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If Rich|ard will | be true,| not that | all
alone,
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But all | the whole | inher|itance | I give,
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That doth | belong | unto | the house | of York,
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From whence | you spring,| by lin|eal | descent.
RICHARD PLANTAGENET
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Thy hum|ble serv|ant vows | obed|ience,
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And hum|ble serv|ice, till | the point | of death.
KING HENRY VI
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Stoop then, and set | your knee | against | my
foot,
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And in | reguerd|on of | that du|ty done,
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I gird | thee with | the val|iant sword | of
York:
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Rise Rich/ard, like^|a true | Plantag|enet,
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And rise | creat|ed prince|ly Duke | of York.
RICHARD PLANTAGENET
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And so thrive Rich|ard, as | thy foes | may
fall,
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And as | my du|ty springs,| so per|ish they,
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That grudge | one^thought | against | your
maj|esty.
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Welcome | high prince, the migh|ty Duke | of
York.
SOMERSET
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Perish | base prince, ignob|le Duke | of York.
GLOUCESTER
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Now^will | it best | avail | your maj|esty,
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To cross | the seas,| and to | be crowned | in
France:
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The pres|ence of | a king | engend|ers love
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Amongst | his sub|jects, and | his loy|al friends,
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As it | disan|imates | his en|emies.
KING HENRY VI
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When Glouce|ster says | the word,| King^Hen|ry
goes,
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For friend|ly couns|el cuts | off ma|ny foes.
GLOUCESTER
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Your ships | alrea|dy are | in read|iness.
[Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but EXETER]
EXETER
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Aye, we | may march | in Eng|land, or | in France,
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Not see/ing what | is like|ly to | ensue:
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This late | dissen|sion grown | betwixt | the
peers,
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Burns und|er feign|ed ash|es of / forged love,
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And will | at last | break^out | into | a flame,
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As fest|ered mem|bers rot | but by | degree,
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Till bones | and flesh | and sin|ews fall | away,
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So will | this base | and env|ious dis|cord^breed.
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And now | I fear | that fat|al proph|ecy,
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Which in | the time | of Hen|ry, named | the Fifth,
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Was in | the mouth | of eve|ry suck|ing babe,
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That Hen|ry born | at Mon|mouth should / win all,
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And Hen|ry born | at wind|sor, lose | all:
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Which is | so plain,| that Ex|eter | doth wish,
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His days | may fin|ish, ere | that hap|less time.
[Exit]