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Camp of the YORK in Anjou.
[Enter YORK, WARWICK, and others]
YORK
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Bring forth that | sorceress | condemned | to
burn.
[Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE, guarded, and a Shepherd]
SHEPHERD
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Ah Joan,| this kills | thy fath|er's heart |
outright,
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Have I | sought^eve|ry count|ry far | and near,
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And now | it is | my chance | to find | thee out,
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Must^I | behold | thy time|less cru|el death:
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Ah Joan,| sweet* daught|er Joan,| I'll die | with
thee.
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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Decrep|it mis|er, base | ignob|le wretch,
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I am | descend|ed of | a gent|ler blood.
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Thou art | no fat|her, nor | no friend | of mine.
SHEPHERD
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Out, out: My lords,| and please | you, 'tis / not so,
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I did | beget | her, all | the par|ish knows:
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Her mot|her liv|eth yet,| can test|ify
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She was | the first | fruit of | my
bach|elorship.
WARWICK
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Graceless,| wilt thou | deny | thy par|entage?
YORK
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This arg|ues what | her kind | of life | hath
been,
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Wicked | and vile,| and so | her death |
concludes.
SHEPHERD
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Fie Joan,/ that thou | wilt be | so^ob|stacle:
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God^knows,| thou art | a col|lop of | my flesh,
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And for / thy sake | have I shed | many | a tear:
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Deny | me not,| I prith|ee, gent|le Joan.
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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Peasant | avaunt.| You have | suborned | this man
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Of pur|pose to | obscure | my nob|le birth.
SHEPHERD
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'Tis true,| I gave | a nob|le to | the priest,
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The morn | that I | was wed|ded to | her
mother. ??
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Kneel down and take | my bless|ing, good | my
girl.
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Wilt thou | not^stoop?| Now curs|ed be | the
time
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Of thy | nativ|ity:| I would | the milk
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Thy moth|er gave | thee when | thou suckst | her
breast,
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Had been | a lit|tle rats|bane for | thy sake.
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Or else,| when thou | didst keep | my lambs | a-field,
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I wish | some rav|enous wolf | had eat|en thee.
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Dost^thou | deny | thy fath|er, curs|ed drab?
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O burn | her, burn | her, hang|ing is / too good.
[Exit]
YORK
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Take her | away,| for she | hath lived | too
long,
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To fill | the world | with vic|ious qual|ities.
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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First^let | me tell | you whom | you have |
condemned;
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Not me,| begot|ten of | a shep|herd swain,
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But is|sued from | the prog|eny | of kings.
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Virtuous | and ho|ly, chos|en from | above,
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By in|spira|tion of | celest|ial grace,
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To work | exceed|ing mir|acles | on earth.
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I nev|er had | to do | with wick|ed spirits.
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But you,| that are | pollut|ed with | your lusts,
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Stained with | the guilt|less blood | of
in|nocents,
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Corrupt | and tain|ted with a | thousand | vices:
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Because | you want | the grace | that oth|ers
have,
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You judge | it straight | a thing | impos|sible
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To comp|ass wond|ers, but | by help | of devils.
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No* mis|conceiv|ed, Joan | of Arc | hath been
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A virg|in from | her tend|er in|fancy,
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Chaste, and | immac|ulate | in ve|ry thought,
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Whose^maid|en blood | thus rig|orously | effused,
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Will cry | for venge|ance, at | the gates | of
heaven.
YORK
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Aye aye: away | with her | to ex|ecu||tion.
WARWICK
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And hark | ye sirs:| because | she is | a maid,
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Spare for | no fag|gots, let | there be | enow:
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Place bar/rels of | pitch u|pon the | fatal ||
stake,
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That | so her | torture | may be | shortened.
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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Will noth|ing turn | your un|relent|ing hearts?
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Then Joan | discov|er thine | infirm|ity,
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That war|ranteth | by law,| to be | thy
priv||ilege.
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I | am with child | ye blood|y hom|icides:
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Murder | not then | the fruit | within | my womb,
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Although | ye hale | me to | a vi|olent death.
YORK
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Now heaven | forfend,| the ho|ly maid | with
child?
WARWICK
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The great|est mir|acle | that ere | ye wrought.
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Is all | your strict | precise|ness come | to
this?
YORK
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She and | the Dauph|in have | been jug|gling,
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I did | imag|ine what | would be | her re||fuge.
WARWICK
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Well go | to, we'll have | no bast|ards live,
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Espe|cially | since Charles | must fath|er it.
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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You are | deceived,| my child | is none | of his,
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It was | Alen|con that | enjoyed | my love.
YORK
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Alen|con that | notor|ious Mach|iavel?
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It dies,| and if | it had | a thous|and lives.
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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O give | me leave,| I have | delud|ed you,
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'Twas neith|er Charles,| nor yet | the duke | I
named,
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But Reign|ier king | of Nap|les that | prevailed.
WARWICK
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A mar|ried man,| that's most | intol|erable.
YORK
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Why here's | a girl:| I think | she knows | not^well
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(There were | so ma|ny) whom | she may | accuse.
WARWICK
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It's sign | she hath | been lib|eral | and free.
YORK
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And yet | forsooth | she is | a virg|in pure.
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Strumpet,| thy words | condemn | thy brat,| and
thee.
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Use^no | entrea|ty, for | it is | in vain.
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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Then lead | me hence:| with whom | I leave | my
curse.
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May nev|er glor|ious sun | reflex | his beams
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Upon | the count|ry where | you make | abode:
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But dark|ness, and | the gloo|my shade | of death
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Envir|on you,| till mis|chief^and | despair,
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Drive you | to break | your necks,| or hang |
yourselves.
[Exit, guarded]
YORK
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Break thou in | pieces,| and con|sume to | ashes,
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Thou foul | accurs|ed min|ister | of hell.
[Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER, attended]
CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER
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Lord reg|ent, I | do greet | your ex|cellence
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With let|ters of | commis|sion from | the king.
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For know | my lords,| the states | of
Christ|endom,
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Moved with | remorse | of these | outrag|eous
broils,
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Have earn|estly | implored | a gene|ral peace,
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Betwixt | our na|tion, and | the aspir|ing French;
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And here | at hand,| the Dauph|in and | his train
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Approach|eth, to | confer | about | some^matter.
YORK
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Is all | our tra/vail turned | to this | effect,
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After | the slaught|er of so | many | peers,
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So || many | captains,| gentle|men,
and | soldiers,
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That in | this quar|rel have | been ov|erthrown,
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And sold | their bod/ies for their | country's
| benefit,
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Shall we | at last | conclude | effem|inate
peace?
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Have we | not lost | most^part | of all | the
towns,
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By treas|on, false|hood, and | by treach|ery,
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Our great | progen|itors | had con|quered?
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Oh War|wick, War|wick, I | foresee | with grief
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The ut|ter loss | of all | the realm | of France.
WARWICK
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Be pat|ient York,| if we | conclude | a peace
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It shall be | with such | strict and | severe |
covenants,
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As lit|tle shall | the French|men gain | thereby.
[Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BASTARD OF ORLEANS,
REIGNIER, and others]
CHARLES
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Since lords | of Eng|land, it | is thus | agreed,
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That peace|ful truce | shall be | proclaimed | in
France,
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We come | to be | inform|ed by | yourselves,
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What the | condi|tions of | that league | must
be.
YORK
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Speak Winch/ester,| for boil|ing chol|er chokes
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The hol|low pas|sage of | my pois|oned voice,
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By sight | of these | our bale|ful en|emies.
CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER
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Charles, and | the rest,| it is | enact|ed thus:
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That in | regard | King^Hen|ry gives | consent,
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Of mere | compas|sion, and | of len|ity,
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To ease | your count|ry of | distress|ful war,
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And suf|fer you | to breathe | in fruit|ful
peace,
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You shall | become | true liege/men to | his
crown.
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And Charles,| upon | condi|tion thou | wilt^swear
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To pay | him tri|bute,| submit | thyself,
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Thou shalt | be placed | as vice|roy^und|er him,
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And still | enjoy | thy reg|al dig|nity.
ALENCON
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Must he | be then | as shad|ow of | himself?
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Adorn | his temp|les with | a cor|onet,
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And yet | in sub|stance and | author|ity,
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Retain | but priv|ilege | of a priv|ate man?
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This prof|fer is | absurd,| and reas|onless.
CHARLES
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'Tis known | alrea|dy that | I am | possessed
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With more | than half | the Gal|lian
ter|ritories,
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And there|in reve|renced for | their law|ful
king.
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Shall I for | lucre | of the | rest
un|vanquished,
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Detract | so much | from that | prerog|ative,
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As to | be called | but vice|roy of | the whole?
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No lord ambas|sador,| I'll rath|er keep
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That which | I have,| than cov|eting | for more
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Be cast | from pos|sibil|ity | of all.
YORK
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Insult|ing Charles,| hast thou | by sec|ret means
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Used int|erces|sion to | obtain | a league,
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And now | the mat|ter grows | to com|promise,
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Standst thou | aloof | upon | compar|ison.
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Either | accept | the tit|le thou | usurpst,
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Of ben|efit | proceed|ing from | our king,
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And not | of an|y chal|lenge of | desert,
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Or we | will plague | thee with | inces|sant
wars.
REIGNIER
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My lord,| you do | not well | in ob|stinacy,
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To cav|il in | the course | of this / contract:
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If once | it be | neglect|ed, ten | to one
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We shall not | find like op|portun|ity.
ALENCON
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To say | the truth,| it is | your pol|icy,
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To save | your sub|jects* from | such mas|sacre
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And ruth|less slaught|ers as | are dai|ly seen
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By our | proceed|ing in | hostil|ity,
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And there|fore take | this com|pact^of | a truce,
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Although | you break | it when | your pleas|ure
serves.
WARWICK
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How sayst | thou Charles?
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Shall our | condi|tion
stand?
CHARLES
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It shall:
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Only re|served, you | claim no |
interest
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In an|y of | our towns | of gar|rison.
YORK
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Then swear | alleg|iance to | his maj|esty,
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As thou | art^knight,| never | to dis|obey,
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Nor be | rebel|lious to | the crown | of Eng|land,
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Thou nor | thy nob|les, to | the crown | of
Eng|land. (hex with prev)
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So, now dis|miss your | army | when ye | please:
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Hang^up | your ens|igns, let | your drums | be
still,
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For here | we ent|ertain | a sol|emn peace.
[Exeunt]