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A hall of justice.
[Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, GLOUCESTER, YORK,
SUFFOLK, and SALISBURY; the DUCHESS, MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL, HUME, and
BOLINGBROKE, under guard]
KING HENRY VI
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Stand^forth | Dame^El|eanor* Cob|ham,
Glouce|ster's wife:
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In sight | of God,| and us,| your guilt | is
great,
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Receive | the sent|ence of | the law | for sins,
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Such as | by God's | book are | adjudged | to
death.
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You four | from hence | to pris|on, back | again;
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From thence,| unto the | place of | exe|cution:
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The witch | in Smith|field shall be | burned to |
ashes,
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And you | three shall be | strangled | on the |
gallows.
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You mad|am, for | you are | more nob|ly born,
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Despoi|led of | your hon|or in | your life,
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Shall, aft|er three | days' open pen|ance done,
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Live in | your count|ry here,| in ban|ishment,
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With Sir | John Stan/ley, in | the Isle | of Man.
DUCHESS
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Welcome | is ban|ishment,| welcome | were my
death.
GLOUCESTER
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Elea|nor, the | law thou | seest, hath | judged
thee:
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I can|not jus|tify | whom the law | condemns:
[Exeunt DUCHESS and other prisoners, guarded]
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Mine^eyes | are full | of tears,| my heart | of
grief.
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Ah Humph|rey, this | dishon|or in | thine age,
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Will bring | thy head | with sor|row to | the
ground.
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I beseech | your maj|esty | give^me leave | to
go;
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Sorrow | would so|lace, and | mine age | would
ease.
KING HENRY VI
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Stay Humphrey,| Duke of | Gloucester,
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Ere thou go,| give up | thy staff,
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Henry | will to | himself | protect|or be,
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And God | shall be | my hope,| My stay,| my
guide,
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And lan|tern to | my feet: \\
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And go | in peace,| Humphrey,| no less | beloved,
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Than when | thou wert | protect|or to | thy King.
QUEEN MARGARET
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I see | no reas|on, why | a king | of years
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Should be | to be | protect|ed like | a child.
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God and | King^Hen|ry gov|ern Eng|land's realm:
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Give^up | your staff,| sir, and | the king | his
realm.
GLOUCESTER
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My staff?| Here, noble Hen|ry, is | my staff:
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As wil|lingly | do I | the same | resign,
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As ere | thy fath|er Hen|ry made | it mine;
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And even | as wil|lingly at | thy feet | I leave
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As oth|ers would | ambi|tiously | receive it.
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Farewell | good* king:| when I | am dead,| and
gone,
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May hon|ora|ble peace | attend | thy throne.
[Exit]
QUEEN MARGARET
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Why now | is Hen|ry king,| and Marg|aret queen,
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And Humph|rey, Duke | of Glouce|ster, scarce |
himself,
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That bears | so shrewd | a maim:| two pulls at
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His la|dy ban|ished, and a | limb lopped off.
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This staff | of hon|or raught,| there* let | it
stand,
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Where^it | best fits to be,| in Hen|ry's hand.
SUFFOLK
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Thus droops | this lof|ty pine,| and hangs | his
sprays,
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Thus El|eanor's^pride | dies in | her young|est
days.
YORK
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Lords, let him go.| Please it | your maj|esty,
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This is the | day ap|pointed | for the / combat,
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And ready are the appellant and defendant,
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The arm|orer and | his man,| to ent|er the lists,
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So please | your high|ness to | behold | the
fight.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Aye, good*| my lord:| for pur|posely | therefore
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Left^I | the court,| to see | this quar|rel
tried.
KING HENRY VI
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A God's name see | the lists | and all things
fit,
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Here let | them end it,| and God | defend | the
right.
YORK
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I nev|er saw | a fel|low worse | bested,
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Or more | afraid | to fight,| than is | the
appel||lant,
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The serv|ant of | this arm|orer, my lords.
[Enter at one door, HORNER, the Armorer, and his Neighbors, drinking to him
so much that he is drunk; and he enters with a drum before him and his staff
with a sand-bag fastened to it; and at the other door PETER, his man, with a
drum and sand-bag, and 'Prentices drinking to him]
FIRST NEIGHBOR
Here neighbor Horner, I drink to you in a cup of sack; and fear not
neighbor, you shall do well enough.
SECOND NEIGHBOR
And here neighbor, here's a cup of charneco.
THIRD NEIGHBOR
And here's a pot of good double beer neighbor: drink, and fear not your
man.
HORNER
Let it come in faith, and I'll pledge you all, and a fig for Peter.
FIRST PRENTICE
Here Peter, I drink to thee, and be not afraid.
SECOND PRENTICE
Be merry Peter, and fear not thy master, fight for credit of the
'prentices.
PETER
I thank you all: drink, and pray for me, I pray you, for I think I have
taken my last draft in this world. Here Robin, and if I die, I give thee
my apron; and Will, thou shalt have my hammer: and here Tom, take all the
money that I have. O Lord bless me, I pray God, for I am never able to deal
with my master, he hath learnt me so much fence already.
SALISBURY
Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows. Sirrah, what's thy name?
PETER
Peter forsooth.
SALISBURY
Peter? what more?
PETER
Thump.
SALISBURY
Thump? then see thou thump thy master well.
HORNER
Masters, I am come hither as it were upon my man's instigation, to prove
him a knave, and myself an honest man: and touching the Duke of York, I will
take my death, I never meant him any ill, nor the king, nor the queen: and
therefore Peter have at thee with a downright blow.
YORK
Dispatch, this knave's tongue begins to double. Sound trumpets, alarum
to the combatants.
[Alarum. They fight, and PETER strikes him down]
HORNER
Hold Peter, hold, I confess, I confess treason.
[Dies]
YORK
Take away his weapon: Fellow thank God, and the good wine in thy master's
way.
PETER
O God, have I overcome mine enemies in this presence? O Peter, thou hast
prevailed in right.
KING HENRY VI
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Go, take hence | that trait|or from | our sight,
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For his | death we | do per|ceive his | guilt,
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And God | in just|ice hath | revealed | to us
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The truth | and in|nocence | of this | poor*
fellow,
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Which he | had thought | to have murd|ered
wrong|fully.
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Come fellow,| follow us | for thy | reward.
[Sound a flourish. Exeunt]