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Henry VI part two

Act III, Scene 2

Bury St. Edmund's. A room of state.
 
[Enter certain Murderers, hastily]
 
FIRST MURDERER
       ,            ,        ,         ,          ,
      Run to | my Lord | of Suf|folk: let | him know
       ,     2       ,            ,         ,      ,
      We have dis|patched the | duke, as | he com|manded.
 
SECOND MURDERER
       ,              ,        ,     ,              ,
      Oh, that | it were | to do:| What have | we done?
            ,       ,       ,        ,     ,
      Didst ev|er hear | a man | so pen|itent?
 
[Enter SUFFOLK]
 
FIRST MURDERER
             ,          ,
      Here comes | my lord.  \\
 
SUFFOLK
       T    T     T     ,         ,            ___
      Now sirs, have | you dis|patched this | thing?
 
FIRST MURDERER
       ,               ,           ,
      Aye, my | good lord,| he's dead.  \\
 
SUFFOLK
             ,             ,     T   T   T      2     ,
      Why that's | well* said.| Go, get you | to my house,
          ,        ,         ,          ,    2      ,
      I will | reward | you for | this vent|urous deed:
            ,         ,          ,           ,         ,
      The king | and all | the peers | are here | at hand.
                   ,    ,         ,        ,             ,
      Have you / laid fair | the bed?| Is all | things^well,
         ,        ,       ,       ,
      Accord|ing as | I gave | direc|tions?
 
FIRST MURDERER
                                             ,       2        ,
                                           'Tis, | my good* lord.
 
SUFFOLK
         ,        ,
      Away,| be gone.  \\
 
[Exeunt Murderers. Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, CARDINAL, SOMERSET, with Attendants]
 
KING HENRY VI
           ,         ,      ,        ,            ,
      Go call | our unc|le to | our pres|ence straight:
       ,            ,        ,          ,        ,
      Say, we | intend | to try | his grace | today,
          ,        ,       ,         ,      ,
      If he | be guil|ty, as | 'tis pub|lished.
 
SUFFOLK
             ,         ,       ,       ,       ,
      I'll call | him pres|ently,| my nob|le lord.
 
[Exit]
 
KING HENRY VI
              ,          ,        ,        ,         ,
      Lords^take | your pla|ces: and | I pray | you all
           ,        ,        ,        ,       ,
      Proceed no straiter gainst our uncle Gloucester,  ????
                    ,   ,    ,          ,       ,
      Than from / true ev|idence,| of good | esteem,
          ,        ,          ,         ,    ,
      He be | approved | in prac|tice culp|able.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
       ,       ,        ,         ,          ,
      God for|bid an|y mal|ice should | prevail,
             ,         ,         ,       ,      ,
      That fault|less may | condemn | a nob|le man:
             ,        ,        ,     ,    2    ,
      Pray* God | he may | acquit | him of su|spicion.
 
KING HENRY VI
          ,            ,            ,          ,         ,
      I thank | thee Nell,| these words | content | me much.
 
[enter SUFFOLK]
           ,           ,            ,          ,          ,
      How now?| Why lookst | thou pale?| Why trem|blest thou?
             ,        ,         ,          ,          x
      Where^is | our unc|le? What's | the mat|ter, Suffolk?
 
SUFFOLK
        ,            ,         ,       ,              ,
      Dead in | his bed,| my lord:| Gloucester | is dead.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
       ,       ,        ,
      Marry | God for|fend.  \\
 
CARDINAL
             ,        ,        ,         ,         ,
      God's^sec|ret judg|ment: I | did dream | tonight,
            ,          ,          ,           ,         ,
      The duke | was dumb,| and could | not speak | a word.
 
[KING HENRY VI swoons]
 
QUEEN MARGARET
            ,          ,      T    T     .    T         ,
      How fares | my lord?| Help lords, the king | is dead.
 
SOMERSET
        T   T  .   T       ,          ,         ,
      Rear up his bo|dy, wring | him by | the nose.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
       T    T    T     ,       ,      ,          ,
      Run, go, help, help: Oh Henry ope thine eyes.  ????
 
SUFFOLK
           ,        ,       ,     ,   2      ,
      He doth | revive | again,| madam be | patient.
 
KING HENRY VI
           x       ,
      O heaven|ly God.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
                            ,         ,          ,
                      How fares | my gra|cious lord?
 
SUFFOLK
       ,             ,          ,         ,      ,       ->
      Comfort | my sove|reign, gra|cious Hen|ry com||fort.
 
KING HENRY VI
        ,        2     ,        ,        ,        , 
      What,| doth my Lord | of Suf|folk com|fort me?
        T   .   T    T         ,       ,         ,
      Came he right now | to sing | a rav|en's note,
             ,        ,        ,        ,        x
      Whose dis|mal tune | bereft | my vi|tal powers:
             ,      ,               ,        ,       ,
      And thinks | he, that | the chirp|ing of | a wren,
          ,       ,         ,       ,         ,
      By cry|ing com|fort from | a hol|low breast,
            ,       ,          ,         ,       ,
      Can chase | away | the first-|conceiv|ed sound?
            ,         ,        ,          ,         ,
      Hide^not | thy pois|on with | such^sug|ared words,
           ,          ,         ,        ,       ,
      Lay^not | thy hands | on me:| forbear | I say,
              ,          ,          ,      ,           ,
      Their touch | affrights | me as | a serp|ent's sting.
             ,       ,      ,     ,            ,
      Thou bale|ful mes|senger,| out of | my sight:
        ,         ,     ,      ,           ,  2
      Upon | thy eye-|balls, murd/erous | tyranny
        T   .   T   T     ,         ,           ,
      Sits in grim maj|esty,| to fright | the world.
        ,     2   ,        ,           ,          ,
      Look not u|pon me,| for thine^|eyes are | wounding:
           ,        ,     ,          ,     ,
      Yet^do | not go | away:| come^bas|ilisk,
            ,         ,   2     ,       ,          ,
      And kill | the in|nocent gaz|er with | thy sight:
           ,         ,          ,                 ,   ,
      For^in | the shade | of death,| I shall / find joy;
           ,          ,       ,            ,            ,
      In life,| but doub|le death,| now Glouce|ster's dead.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
       ,             ,         ,        ,         ,
      Why do | you rate | my Lord | of Suf|folk thus?
           ,           ,        ,    ,       ,
      Although | the duke | was en|emy | to him,
           ,           ,          ,        ,           ,
      Yet he | most* Chris|tian-like | laments | his death:
           ,        ,     ,           ,        ,
      And for | myself,| foe as | he was | to me,
             ,        ,          ,       ,          ,
      Might^li|quid tears,| or heart-|offend|ing groans,
           ,        ,        ,         ,          ,
      Or blood-|consum|ing sighs | recall | his life;
          ,          ,           ,          ,            ,
      I would | be blind | with weep|ing, sick | with groans,
        T    T   .   T    ,           T      Tx      T
      Look pale as prim|rose with | blood-drinking sighs,
           ,         ,         ,       ,       ,
      And all | to have | the nob|le duke | alive.
             ,       ,          ,           ,        ,
      What know | I how | the world | may deem | of me?
           ,        ,          ,         ,         ,
      For^it | is known | we were | but hol|low friends:
          ,          ,         ,          ,      ,
      It may | be judged | I made | the duke | away.
       ,      2       ,           ,            ,          ,
      So shall my | name with | slander's | tongue be | wounded,
            ,          ,           ,           ,        ,
      And princ|es' courts | be filled | with my | reproach:
        ,        ,   2        ,           ,     ,
      This get | I by his | death: aye*| me un|happy,
          ,       ,            ,            ,    ,
      To be | a queen,| and crowned | with in|famy.
 
KING HENRY VI
          ,        ,          ,           ,        ,
      Ah woe | is me | for Glouce|ster, wretch|ed man.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
          ,         ,          ,               ,  ,
      Be woe | for me,| more^wretch|ed than / he is.
        ,                 ,      ,          ,          ,
      What, dost | thou turn | away,| and hide | thy face?
      ,           ,         ,        ,        ,
      I am | no loath|some lep|er, look | on me.
        ,           T     T       T      ,       ,
      What? Art | thou, like the^ad|der wax|en deaf?
          ,    2     ,          ,              ,    ,
      Be pois|onous too,| and kill | thy for/lorn queen.
          ,         ,         ,          ,            ,
      Is all | thy com|fort shut | in Glouce|ster's tomb?
             ,          ,     ,          ,         ,
      Why* then | dame^Marg|aret | was nere | thy joy.
         ,         ,        ,     ,        __
      Erect | his sta|tue, and | worship | it,
            ,     ,  ,        2      T   T     T
      And make | my im/age but an | alehouse sign.
          ,         ,             ,        ,         ,
      Was I | for this | nigh* wrecked | upon | the sea,
            ,         ,         ,          ,           ,
      And twice | by awk|ward wind | from Eng|land's bank
              ,       ,       ,       ,        ,
      Drove^back | again | unto | my nat|ive clime.
            ,       ,          ,         ,         ,
      What bod|ed this?| But well | forewarn|ing wind
            ,        ,          ,        ,    2      ,
      Did seem | to say,| Seek^not | a scorp|ion's nest,
           ,        ,      2     ,     T  T    T
      Nor set | no foot|ing on this | unkind shore?
            ,        ,           ,          ,        ,
      What did | I then?| But cursed | the gent|le gusts,
           ,           ,            ,            ,        ,
      And he | that loosed | them forth | their braz|en caves,
           ,           ,             ,           ,        ,
      And bid | them blow | towards^Eng|land's bles|sed shore,
           ,          ,       ,        ,         ,
      Or turn | our stern | upon | a dread|ful rock:
           ,        ,          ,      ,     ,
      Yet Aeo|lus would | not be | a murd|erer,
            ,           ,       ,       ,      ,
      But left | that hate|ful of|fice un|to thee.
            ,       ,        ,        ,          ,        ->
      The pret|ty-vault|ing sea | refused | to drown || me,
        ,     2       ,              ,          ,           ,
      Know|ing that thou | wouldst^have | me drowned | on shore
             ,          ,        ,       ,       2     ,
      With tears | as salt | as sea,| through thy un|kindness.
            ,          ,      ,          2     ,         ,
      The split|ting rocks | cowered | in the sink|ing sands,
            ,           ,         ,           ,        ,
      And would | not dash | me with | their rag|ged sides,
          ,           ,       ,            ,           ,
      Because | thy flin|ty heart,| more hard | than they,
        ,             ,        ,       ,     ,
      Might in | thy pal|ace, per|ish Marg|aret.
          ,       ,          ,          ,        ,
      As far | as I | could ken | thy chal|ky cliffs,
             ,          ,          ,         ,         ,
      When from | thy shore,| the temp|est beat | us back,
          ,       ,          ,       ,         ,
      I stood | upon | the hatch|es in | the storm:
            ,         ,      ,       ,        ,
      And when | the dus|ky sky,| began | to rob
          ,        ,        ,      .  T     T     T
      My earn|est-gap|ing sight | of thy land's view,
          ,        ,      ,       ,         ,
      I took | a cost|ly jew|el from | my neck,
          ,      .  T    T    T         ,    ,
      A heart | it was bound in | with di|amonds,
            ,           ,            ,         ,            x
      And threw | it towards | thy land:| the sea | received it,
           ,        ,          ,      ,          ,
      And so | I wished | thy bo|dy might | my heart:
            x           ,        ,          ,           ,
      And even | with this,| I lost | fair^Eng|land's view,
           ,           ,         ,        ,         ,
      And bid | mine^eyes | be pack|ing with | my heart,
             ,            ,          ,       ,      ,
      And called | them blind | and dus|ky spec|tacles,
           ,       ,        ,          ,       ,
      For los|ing ken | of Al|bion's wish|ed coast.
           ,       ,        ,       ,            ,
      How of|ten have | I tempt|ed Suf|folk's tongue
           ,       ,         ,       ,       ,
      (The a|gent of | thy foul | incon|stancy)
          ,          ,         ,      ,   2   ,
      To sit | and watch | me as | Ascan|ius did,
            ,       ,        ,      ,         ,
      When he | to mad|ding Di|do would | unfold
           ,          ,          ,         ,         ,
      His fath|er's acts,| commenced | in burn|ing Troy.
         ,        ,          ,        ,        ,         ,
      Am I not witched like her? Or thou not false like him?  ????
            ,      ,         ,     ,   ,
      Aye* me,| I can | no more:| die Marg/aret, [or "Elmor" instead of "Margaret" in First Folio?]
           ,       ,            ,           ,         ,
      For Hen|ry weeps,| that thou | dost live | so long.
 
[Noise within. Enter WARWICK, SALISBURY, and many Commons]
 
WARWICK
       ,   2    ,         ,        ,   
      It is re|ported,| mighty | sovereign,
      <-       ,            ,         ,    2   ,      ,     ,
        That good || Duke^Humph|rey trait|orously is mur|dered
          ,         ,         ,    2     ,           ,
      By Suf|folk, and | the card|inal Beau|fort's means:
           ,         ,        ,       ,         ,
      The com|mons like | an ang|ry hive | of bees
             ,           ,         ,       ,         ,
      That want | their lead|er, scat|ter up | and down,
       .    T   T   T           ,         ,        ,
      And care not who | they sting | in his | revenge.
          ,            ,              ,        ,    ,
      Myself | have calmed | their spleen|ful mut|iny,
         ,           ,         ,      ,         ,
      Until | they hear | the ord|er of | his death.
 
KING HENRY VI
        ,    2       ,          ,          T   T    T
      That he is | dead good*| Warwick,| 'tis too true,
           ,         ,     T    T     T     ,
      But how | he died,| God knows, not | Henry:
       ,            ,         ,           ,           ,
      Enter | his chamb|er, view | his breath|less corpse,
           ,         ,      ,         ,        ,
      And com|ment then | upon | his sud|den death.
 
WARWICK
        ,             ,        ,       ,   ,      2
      That shall | I do | my liege;| Stay Sal/isbury
                   ,   ,      ,         ,       ,
      With the / rude mult|itude,| till I | return.
 
[Exit]
 
KING HENRY VI
          ,            x       T     T      T           ,
      O Thou | that judgest | all things, stay | my thoughts,
             ,            ,      ,        ,          ,
      My thoughts,| that lab|or to | persuade | my soul,
            ,  2      ,            ,         ,           ,
      Some vi|olent hands | were laid | on Humph|rey's life:
          ,       ,          ,          ,        ,
      If my | suspect | be false,| forgive | me God,
            ,        ,      ,        ,         ,
      For judg|ment on|ly doth | belong | to thee:
        ,             ,        ,          ,      ,
      Fain would | I go | to chafe | his pa|ly lips,
             ,       ,        ,        ,         ,
      With twen|ty thous|and kis|ses, and | to drain
        ,          ,       ,             ,    ,
      Upon | his face | an o|cean of / salt tears,
           ,         ,     ,  2        T    T    T
      To tell | my love | unto his | dumb deaf trunk,
       ,      2      ,          ,          ,      ,
      And with my | fingers | feel his | hand un|feeling:
           ,         ,          ,           ,     ,
      But all | in vain | are these | mean^ob|sequies,
       ,        ,    2        ,          ,       ,
      And to | survey his | dead and | earthly | image:
               x      ,         ,        ,         ,
      What were it | but to | make my | sorrow | greater?
 
[Enter WARWICK and others, bearing GLOUCESTER'S body on a bed]
 
WARWICK
            ,       ,          ,           ,          ,     ->
      Come^hith|er gra|cious sove|reign, view | this bo||dy.
 
KING HENRY VI
        ,      2    ,          ,         ,          ,
      That | is to see | how deep | my grave | is made,
            ,          ,          ,         ,         x
      For with | his soul | fled^all | my world|ly solace:
           ,       ,       ,         ,         ,
      For see|ing him,| I see | my life | in death.
 
WARWICK
           ,      ,        ,        ,          ,
      As sure|ly as | my soul | intends | to live
          2       ,       ,           ,          ,      ,
      With that dread | King that | took our | state u|pon him,
           ,         ,         ,          ,         ,
      To free | us from | his fath|er's wrath|ful curse,
         ,       ,           ,  2      ,            ,
      I do | believe | that vi|olent hands | were laid
        ,          ,                 ,    ,       ,
      Upon | the life | of this / thrice-fam|ed duke.
 
SUFFOLK
          ,         ,      ,             ,         ,
      A dread|ful oath,| sworn with | a sol|emn tongue.
             ,         ,           ,        ,         ,
      What inst|ance^gives | Lord^War|wick for | his vow.
 
WARWICK
       ,              ,         ,        ,         ,
      See how*| the blood | is set|tled in | his face.
       ,             ,        ,      ,        ,
      Oft have | I seen | a time|ly-part|ed ghost,
          ,     ,           ,         ,          ,        ->
      Of ash|y sem|blance, meag|er, pale,| and blood||less,
        x      ,       ,         2     ,   2      ,
      Being | all de|scended | to the lab|oring heart,
       ,            ,    ,               ,            ,
      Who in | the con|flict that | it holds | with death,
           ,         ,       ,          ,        ,  ,
      Attracts the same for aidance against the enemy,   ????
        ,       2        ,             ,            ,      ,
      Which with the | heart there*| cools, and | nere re|turneth,
           ,           ,     ,         ,        ,
      To blush | and beaut|ify | the cheek | again.
           ,          ,         ,           ,         ,
      But see,| his face | is black,| and full | of blood:
           ,     T      T  .  T           ,         ,
      His eye-|balls further^out,| than when | he lived,
       ,          ,    ,                 ,         ,
      Staring | full ghast/ly, like^|a strang|led man:
            ,       ,         ,           ,            ,
      His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling:  ????
            ,        ,           ,         ,            ,
      His hands | abroad | displayed,| as one | that grasped
             ,           ,         ,           ,           ,
      And tugged | for life,| and was | by strength | subdued.
        ,    2         ,           ,          ,          ,
      Look on the | sheets his | hair (you | see) is | sticking,
            ,       ,           ,            ,            x
      His well-|propor|tioned beard,| made rough | and rugged,
        ,            ,          ,        ,          ,
      Like to | the sum|mer's corn | by temp|est lodged:
          ,       ,        ,        ,          ,
      It can|not be | but he | was murd|ered here,
            ,         ,            ,           ,     ,
      The least | of all | these signs | were prob|able.
 
SUFFOLK
           ,         ,            ,         ,         ,
      Why War|wick, who | should do | the duke | to death?
          ,          ,        ,         ,       ,       2->
      Myself | and Beau|fort had | him in | protec||tion,   ??
           ,       ,          ,        ,      ,
      And we | I hope | sir, are | no murd|erers.
 
WARWICK
            ,        ,           ,            ,           ,
      But both | of you | were vowed | Duke^Humph|rey's foes,
           ,         ,                 ,    ,         ,
      And you |(forsooth)| had the / good duke | to keep:
             ,          ,           ,           ,         ,
      'Tis like | you would | not feast | him like | a friend,
            ,           ,        ,        ,    ,
      And 'tis | well seen, he found | an en|emy.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
            ,        ,        ,            ,     ,
      Then you | belike | suspect | these nob|lemen,
           ,            ,    ,           ,         ,
      As guil|ty of / Duke Humph|rey's time|less death.
 
WARWICK
            ,          ,        ,          ,         ,
      Who finds | the heif|er dead,| and bleed|ing fresh,
            ,          ,      ,         ,        ,
      And sees | fast^by,| a butch|er with | an axe,
       ,      2      ,            ,          ,           ,
      But will sus|pect, 'twas | he that | made the | slaughter?
            ,          ,    ,              ,           ,
      Who finds | the part|ridge in | the put|tock's nest,
           ,      ,       ,          ,          ,
      But may | imag|ine how | the bird | was dead,
           ,           ,      ,             ,         ,
      Although | the kite | soar with | unblood|ied beak?
            ,       ,              ,   ,     ,
      Eene so | suspi|cious is / this trag|edy.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
           ,         ,         ,           ,             ,
      Are you | the butch|er, Suf|folk? Where's | your knife?
           ,          ,         ,      ,      2       ,
      Is Beau|fort termed | a kite?| Where are his | talons?
 
SUFFOLK
          ,     T   T     .    T          ,        ,
      I wear | no knife, to slaught|er sleep|ing men,
             ,         ,         ,      ,              ,
      But here's | a venge|ful sword,| rusted | with ease,
             ,          ,       ,         ,   2      ,
      That shall | be scour|ed in | his ranc|orous heart,
             ,        ,         ,          ,        ,
      That sland|ers me | with murd|er's crims|on badge.
       ,     2         T      T     T        ,         ,
      Say, if thou | darst, proud Lord | of War|wick-shire,
           ,        ,            ,    ,           ,
      That I | am faul|ty in / Duke Humph|rey's death.
 
[Exeunt CARDINAL, SOMERSET, and others]
 
WARWICK
             ,          ,               ,      x        ,
      What dares | not^War|wick, if / false Suffolk | dare him?
 
QUEEN MARGARET
           ,           ,         ,     ,   2      x
      He dares | not calm | his cont|umel|ious spirit,
            ,         ,       ,     ,           x
      Nor cease | to be | an ar|rogant | controller,     ??
              ,         ,          ,       ,         ,
      Though Suf|folk dare | him twen|ty thous|and times.
 
WARWICK
       ,           ,            ,         ,       ,
      Madam | be still:| with reve|rence may | I say,
          ,        ,          ,         ,        ,
      For ev|ery word | you speak | in his | behalf,
           ,       ,         ,      ,     ,
      Is sland|er to | your roy|al dig|nity.
 
SUFFOLK
        T     Tx     T       ,      ,      ,      ->
      Blunt-witted lord,| ignob|le in | demea||nor,
       ,    2    ,       ,            ,         ,
      If | ever la|dy wronged | her lord | so much,
           ,        ,       ,         ,        ,
      Thy moth|er took | into | her blame|ful bed
              ,        ,         ,          ,       ,
      Some* stern | untut|ored churl;| and nob|le stock
            ,       .    T    T    T            ,           ,
      Was graft | with crab-tree slip,| whose^fruit | thou art,
           ,      ,        ,        ,       ,
      And nev|er of | the Nev|ils' nob|le race.
 
WARWICK
            ,          ,         ,        ,         ,
      But^that | the guilt | of murd|er buck|lers thee,
          ,           ,          ,         ,        ,
      And I | should rob | the deaths|man of | his fee,
       ,           ,          ,            ,          ,
      Quitting | thee *there|by of | ten^thous|and shames,
            ,         ,            ,         ,          ,
      And that | my sove|reign's pres|ence makes | me mild,
      .   T      T    T    2     ,        ,         ,
      I would, false murd|erous cow|ard, on | thy knee
        ,          ,   ,                 ,         ,
      Make thee | beg pard/on for | thy pas|sed speech,
           ,              ,   ,        ,            ,
      And say,| it was / thy moth|er that | thou meantst,
             ,         ,          ,        ,      ,
      That thou | thyself | was born | in bast|ardy;
           ,      ,           ,       ,        ,
      And aft|er all | this fear|ful hom|age done,
        ,               ,          ,          ,         ,
      Give thee | thy hire,| and send | thy soul | to hell,
          ,         ,     ,            ,        ,
      Perni|cious blood-|sucker | of sleep|ing men.
 
SUFFOLK
             ,         ,         ,         ,          ,
      Thou shall | be wak|ing, while | I shed | thy blood,
           ,          ,                 ,    ,         ,
      If from | this pres|ence thou / darst go | with me.
 
WARWICK
        ,      2   ,       ,          ,           ,
      Away | even^now,| or I | will drag | thee hence:
          ,        ,           ,           ,           ,
      Unworth|y though | thou art,| I'll cope | with thee,
           ,         ,              ,    ,           ,
      And do | some serv|ice to / Duke Humph|rey's ghost.
 
[Exeunt SUFFOLK and WARWICK]
 
KING HENRY VI
             ,          ,     ,       2      ,        ,
      What strong|er breast|plate than a | heart un|tainted?
        ,              ,            ,          ,        ,
      Thrice is | he armed,| that hath | his quar|rel just;
           ,        ,         ,             ,        ,
      And he | but nak|ed, though | locked^up | in steel,
             ,            ,     ,  ,        2     ,
      Whose^con|science with | injust/ice is cor|rupted.
 
[A noise within]
 
QUEEN MARGARET
             ,          ,
      What noise | is this?   \\
 
[Enter SUFFOLK and WARWICK, with their weapons drawn]
 
KING HENRY VI
           ,           ,
      Why how | now* lords?
                                   ,        ,         ,
                            Your wrath|ful weap|ons drawn,
        ,            ,           ,         ,        ,
      Here in | our pres|ence? Dare | you be | so bold?
            ,        ,   2     ,       ,         ,
      Why what | tumult|uous clam|or have | we here?
 
SUFFOLK
            ,    2     ,          ,         ,         x
      The trait|orous War|wick, with | the men | of Bury,
           ,      ,          ,      ,     ,
      Set all | upon | me, migh|ty sov|ereign.
 
SALISBURY
        T    T   .  T          ,            ,           ,
      Sirs stand apart,| the king | shall know | your mind.
        T     T    .   T         ,          ,        ,
      Dread lord, the com|mons send | you word | by me,
          ,      T     Tx       T           ,         ,
      Unless | Lord Suffolk straight | be done | to death,
          ,      ,         ,          ,       x
      Or ban|ished | fair^Eng|land's ter|ritories,
             ,        ,   2      ,          ,            x
      They will | by vi|olence tear | him from | your palace,
           ,        ,           ,        ,           ,
      And tor|ture him | with griev|ous ling|ering death.
            ,        ,          ,           ,         ,
      They say,| by him | the good | Duke^Humph|rey died:
            ,        ,           ,           ,          ,
      They say,| in him | they fear | your high|ness' death;
            ,     T   T    .   T         ,     ,
      And mere | instinct of love | and loy|alty,
        ,             ,        ,     ,        ,
      Free from | a stub|born op|posite | intent,
           x        ,          ,       ,          ,
      As being | thought to | contra|dict your | liking,
        ,            ,   ,                 ,       ,
      Makes them | thus for/ward in | his ban|ishment.
            ,         ,      2       ,     ,       ,
      They say,| in care | of your most | royal | person,
            ,          ,          ,         ,         ,
      That if | your high|ness should | intend | to sleep,
             ,           ,    ,               ,            ,
      And charge,| that no | man should | disturb | your rest,
           ,         ,         ,         ,         ,
      In pain | of your | dislike,| or pain | of death;
           ,        ,         ,    .    T   T  T
      Yet not|withstand|ing such | a strait edict,
        ,             ,         ,           ,        ,
      Were there | a serp|ent seen,| with fork|ed tongue,
            ,      ,         ,            ,    ,
      That sly|ly glid|ed towards | your maj|esty,
           ,         ,     ,     ,           ,
      It were | but nec|essa|ry you | were waked:
        ,    2      ,          ,          ,         ,
      Lest being | suffered | in that | harmful | slumber,
           ,        ,            ,          ,          x
      The mort|al worm | might make | the sleep | eternal:
            ,         ,         ,            ,        ,
      And there|fore do | they cry,| though you | forbid,
             ,           ,            ,           ,        ,
      That they | will guard | you, where | you will,| or no,
             ,      ,   ,               T      Tx    T
      From such | fell serp/ents as | false Suffolk is;
             ,        ,    ,         ,       ,
      With whose | enven|omed | and fat|al sting,
            ,       ,        ,       ,           ,
      Your lov|ing unc|le, twen|ty times | his worth,
            ,         ,       ,       ,         ,
      They say | is shame|fully | bereft | of life.
 
Commons [Within]
An answer from the king, my Lord of Salisbury.
 
SUFFOLK
             ,         ,          ,       ,          ,
      'Tis like | the com|mons, rude | unpol|ished hinds,
              ,          ,        ,          ,     ,
      Could send | such mes|sage to | their sov|ereign:
           ,         ,           ,        ,        ,
      But you,| my lord,| were glad | to be | employed,
           ,           ,         ,   ,         ,
      To show | how quaint | an or|ator | you are.
           ,         ,      ,      x          ,
      But all | the hon|or Sal|isbury | hath won,
       ,          ,             ,       ,     ,
      Is, that | he was | the lord | ambas|sador
        ,             ,         ,       ,         ,
      Sent from | a sort | of tink|ers to | the king.
 
Commons [Within]
An answer from the king, or we will all break in.
 
KING HENRY VI
          ,      x          ,          ,          ,
      Go Sal|isbury,| and tell | them all | from me,
          ,           ,           ,       ,        ,
      I thank | them for | their tend|er lov|ing care;
           ,       ,          ,      ,        ,
      And had | I not | been cit|ed so | by them,
           ,       ,        ,         ,       ,
      Yet did | I pur|pose as | they do | entreat:
            ,           ,           ,      ,      ,
      For sure,| my thoughts | do hour|ly proph|esy,
            ,        ,        ,         ,           ,
      Mischance | unto | my state | by Suf|folk's means.
            ,         ,        ,     ,       ,
      And there|fore by | His maj|esty | I swear,
             ,        ,      ,    ,      ,
      Whose far | unworth|y dep|uty | I am,
           ,            ,         ,        ,         ,
      He shall | not breathe | infec|tion in | this air,
            ,       ,   ,                  ,         ,
      But three | days long/er, on | the pain | of death.
 
[Exit SALISBURY]
 
QUEEN MARGARET
          ,       ,         ,          ,         x
      Oh Hen|ry, let | me plead | for gent|le Suffolk.
 
KING HENRY VI
         ,        ,          ,         ,         x
      Ungent|le queen,| to call | him gent|le Suffolk.
           ,       ,         ,           ,          ,
      No more | I say:| if thou | dost plead | for him,
             ,         ,         ,        ,        ,
      Thou wilt | but add | increase | unto | my wrath.
          ,         ,        ,            ,         ,
      Had I | but said,| I would | have kept | my word;
            ,        ,         ,      ,   2  ,
      But when | I swear,| it is | irrev|ocable:
          ,        ,            ,            ,            ,
      If aft|er three | days'^space | thou here | beest^found,
         ,       ,          ,       ,      ,
      On an|y ground | that I | am rul|er of,
            ,            ,        ,       ,          ,
      The world | shall not | be rans|om for | thy life.
            ,          ,           ,         ,         ,
      Come^War|wick, come | good* War|wick, go | with me,
          ,      ,    ,                ,         ,
      I have | great mat/ters to | impart | to thee.
 
[Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET and SUFFOLK]
 
QUEEN MARGARET
           ,           ,       ,      ,          ,
      Mischance | and sor|row go | along | with you,
         T     T  T    ,           ,       ,
      Heart's discon|tent, and | sour af|fliction,
           ,   ,             ,         ,     ,
      Be play|fellows | to keep | you comp|any:
               ,        ,         ,       ,        ,
      There's two | of you,| the dev|il make | a third,
       .    T    T   T           ,      ,           ,
      And threefold venge|ance tend | upon | your steps.
 
SUFFOLK
        T      Tx     T            ,   ,     ,
      Cease, gentle queen,| these^ex|ecra|tions,
           ,         ,         ,         ,       ,
      And let | thy Suf|folk take | his hea|vy leave.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
       T    Tx    T              ,    ,         ,
      Fie coward wom|an, and / soft-heart|ed wretch,
             ,           x          ,           ,    ,
      Hast^thou | not spirit | to curse | thine en|emy?
 
SUFFOLK
           ,       ,            ,     ,        2      ,
      A plague | upon | them: where|fore should I | curse them?
             ,        ,         ,     .   T    T      T
      Would curs|es kill,| as doth | the mandrake's groan,
          ,         ,        ,         ,         ,
      I would | invent | as bit|ter-search|ing terms,
            ,          ,          ,     ,         ,
      As cursed,| as harsh,| and hor|rible | to hear,
         ,          ,         ,          ,       ,
      Deliv|ered strong|ly through | my fix|ed teeth,
             ,        ,      ,          ,       ,
      With full | as ma|ny signs | of dead|ly hate,
           ,     ,    ,               ,          ,
      As lean-|faced En/vy in | her loath|some cave.
            ,              ,       ,         ,         ,
      My tongue | should stum|ble in | mine^earn|est words,
             ,             ,        ,         ,        ,
      Mine^eyes | should spark|le like | the beat|en flint,
           ,         ,         ,        ,         ,
      My hair | be fixed | on end,| as one | distract;
       T     Tx    T              ,         ,          ,
      Aye, every joint | should seem | to curse | and ban,
          ,      ,        ,          ,             ,
      And ev|en now | my burd|ened heart | would break
                  ,    ,            ,       ,           ,
      Should I / not curse | them. pois|on be | their drink.
        T     T     .    T          ,    2     ,           ,
      Gall, worse than gall,| the daint|iest that | they taste:
              ,         ,         ,         ,         ,
      Their sweet|est shade,| a grove | of cyp|ress trees:
              ,         ,          ,    2    ,      ,
      Their chief|est pros|pect, murd|ering bas|ilisks:
              ,        ,          ,         ,          ,
      Their soft|est touch,| as smart | as liz|ards'^stings:
             ,         ,        ,        ,           ,
      Their mus|ic, fright|ful as | the serp|ent's hiss,
           ,         ,       T     T   .   T         ,
      And bod|ing screech-|owls, make the con|cert full.
       T   .    T   T              ,   ,        ,
      All the foul ter|rors in / dark-seat|ed hell--
 
QUEEN MARGARET
         ,       ,    ,                     ,          ,
      Enough | sweet Suf/folk, thou | tormentst | thyself,
         2         ,      ,         ,         T  .   T     T
      And these* dread | curses,| like the | sun against glass,
           ,       ,       ,      ,       ,
      Or like | an ov|ercharg|ed gun,| recoil,
            ,          ,          ,      ,         ,
      And turn | the force | of them | upon | thyself.
 
SUFFOLK
            ,        ,          ,         ,         ,
      You bade | me ban,| and will | you bid | me leave?
            ,          ,          ,       ,          ,
      Now* by | the ground | that I | am ban|ished from,
        ,              ,       ,       ,          ,
      Well could | I curse | away | a wint|er's night,
               ,        ,      ,       ,        ,
      Though stand|ing nak|ed on | a mount|ain top,
             ,        ,           ,             ,     ,
      Where bit|ing cold | would nev|er let / grass grow,
            ,         ,       ,        ,          ,
      And think | it but | a min|ute spent | in sport.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
          ,      2    ,            ,       ,             ,
      Oh let | me entreat | thee cease.| Give me | thy hand,
           ,        ,         ,         ,         ,
      That^I | may dew | it with | my mourn|ful tears:
           ,          ,        ,       ,           ,
      Nor let | the rain | of heav|en wet | this place,
           ,      ,        ,       ,      ,
      To wash | away | my woe|ful mon|uments.
       ,                 ,         ,       ,         ,
      Oh, could | this kiss | be print|ed in | thy hand,
             ,              ,       ,            ,         ,
      That thou | mightst^think | upon | these* by | the seal,
                ,        ,         ,             ,            ,
      Through whom | a thous|and sighs | are breathed | for thee.
          ,           ,         ,         ,         ,
      So get | thee gone,| that I | may know | my grief,
            ,         ,              ,          ,        ,
      'Tis but | surmised,| whiles^thou | art stand|ing by,
          ,          ,           ,        ,       ,
      As one | that surf|eits, think|ing on | a want:
          ,        ,           ,        ,        ,
      I will | repeal | thee, or | be well | assured,
         ,        ,       ,     ,        ,
      Advent|ure to | be ban|ished | myself:
           ,     ,       ,       ,           ,
      And ban|ished | I am,| if but | from thee.
       T    T    T      2    ,      ,         ,
      Go, speak not | to me; ev|en now | be gone.
          ,        ,      2    ,            ,            ,
      Oh go | not yet.| Even thus | two* friends | condemned,
          ,           ,          ,           ,          ,
      Embrace,| and kiss,| and take | ten* thous|and leaves,
       ,           ,         ,          ,          ,
      Loather | a hund|red times | to part | than die;
           ,          ,          ,         ,           ,
      Yet now | farewell,| and fare|well life | with thee.
 
SUFFOLK
        ,              ,        ,      ,    ,
      Thus is | poor* Suf|folk ten | times ban/ished,
        ,    2        ,           T     T      T          ,
      Once by the | king, and | three times thrice | by thee.
            ,          ,        ,           ,            ,
      'Tis not | the land | I care | for, wert | thou thence,
         ,       ,        ,     ,       ,
      A wild|erness | is pop|ulous | enough,
          ,        ,           x       ,     ,
      So Suf|folk had | thy heaven|ly comp|any:
            ,           ,      ,              ,         ,
      For where | thou art,| there is | the world | itself,
           ,        ,        ,        ,         ,
      With ev|ery seve|ral pleas|ure in | the world:
            ,       T   T   T     ,    ,
      And where | thou art not,| deso|lation.
         ,         ,      ,             ,          ,
      I can | no more:| live thou | to joy | thy life,
          ,        ,          ,           ,           ,
      Myself | no joy | in nought,| but that | thou livst.
 
[Enter VAUX]
 
QUEEN MARGARET
        ,    2         ,         ,            ,       ,
      Whither goes | Vaux so | fast? What | news I | prithee?
 
VAUX
          ,     ,      ,        ,     ,
      To sig|nify | unto | his maj|esty,
            ,    2     ,        ,        ,          ,
      That card|inal Beau|fort^is | at point | of death:
           ,      ,       ,         ,           x
      For sud|denly | a griev|ous sick|ness took him,
             ,           ,          ,           ,          ,
      That makes | him gasp,| and stare,| and catch | the air,
           ,        ,         ,        ,         ,
      Blasphem|ing God,| and curs|ing men | on earth.
            ,         ,         ,          ,           ,
      Sometime | he talks,| as if | Duke^Humph|rey's ghost
            ,         ,          ,         ,           ,
      Were by | his side:| sometime,| he calls | the king,
            ,        ,        ,        ,       ,
      And whisp|ers to | his pil|low, as | to him,
           ,        ,       ,      ,        ,
      The sec|rets of | his ov|ercharg|ed soul,
          ,        ,         ,         ,    ,
      And I | am sent | to tell | his maj|esty,
           ,      ,         ,        ,         ,
      That ev|en now | he cries | aloud | for him.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
           ,          ,      ,        ,         ,
      Go tell | this hea|vy mes|sage to | the king.
 
[Exit VAUX]
       T   T    T      2       ,            ,          ,
      Aye me! What | is this world?| What news | are these!
            ,           ,     ,   2       T      T    T
      But where|fore grieve | I at an | hour's poor loss,
        ,       ,         , ,         ,     ,
      Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure?    ????
           ,     ,         ,        ,          ,
      Why on|ly Suf|folk mourn | I not | for thee?
            ,          ,          ,          ,         ,
      And with | the south|ern clouds,| contend | in tears?
         ,      2         ,          ,      ,              ,
      Theirs for the | earth's in|crease, mine / for my | sorrows.
           ,           ,           ,            ,           x
      Now get | thee hence,| the king | thou knowst | is coming,   ??
           ,         ,         ,         ,          ,
      If thou | be found | by me,| thou art | but dead.
 
SUFFOLK
         ,       ,           ,       ,        ,
      If I | depart | from thee,| I can|not live,
           ,         ,         ,           ,         ,
      And in | thy sight | to die,| what were | it else,
            ,        ,         ,       ,        ,
      But like | a pleas|ant slum|ber in | thy lap?
             ,          ,           ,       ,        ,
      Here could | I breathe | my soul | into | the air,
           ,         ,       ,         ,       ,
      As mild | and gent|le as | the crad|le-babe,
       ,            ,         ,        ,           ,
      Dying | with moth|er's dug | between | its lips:
              ,          ,          ,         ,       ,
      Where from | thy sight,| I should | be rag|ing mad,
           ,     ,          ,              ,          ,
      And cry | out for | thee to | close^up | mine^eyes:
           ,           ,          ,         ,         ,
      To have | thee with | thy lips | to stop | my mouth:
             ,            ,        ,        ,        ,
      So shouldst | thou eith|er turn | my fly|ing soul,
       ,  2            ,          ,     ,        ,
      Or I should | breathe it | so in|to thy | body,
            ,         ,          ,       ,    ,
      And then | it lived | in sweet | Ely|sium.
          ,         ,          ,        ,         ,
      To die | by thee,| were but | to die | in jest,
             ,        ,          ,         ,           ,
      From thee | to die,| were tor|ture more | than death:
          ,         ,        ,          ,        ,
      Oh let | me stay,| befall | what may | befall.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
        ,       ,     ,        2      ,    2     ,
      Away:| though part/ing be a | fretful cor|rosive,
          ,      ,      ,       ,         ,
      It is | appli|ed to | a death|ful wound.
            ,       T      Tx     T         ,           ,
      To France | sweet Suffolk: let | me hear | from thee:
            ,      ,          ,                ,       ,
      For where|soere | thou art | in this / world's globe,
             ,        ,      ,            ,          ,
      I'll have | an Ir|is that | shall find | thee out.
 
SUFFOLK
         ,
      I go.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
                 ,         ,            ,    oo
           And take | my heart | with thee.|
 
SUFFOLK
         ,        ,        ,        ,           ,
      A jew|el locked | into | the woe|fullst cask,
            ,     ,         ,        ,          ,
      That ev|er did | contain | a thing | of worth,
       x            ,         ,        ,       ,
      Even as | a split|ted bark,| so sund|er we:
            ,         ,        ,
      This way | fall I | to death.
 
QUEEN MARGARET
                                          ,         ,
                                    This way | for me.
 
[Exeunt severally]

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