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London. The palace.
[Enter KING HENRY VI with a supplication, and the QUEEN with SUFFOLK'S head,
BUCKINGHAM and Lord SAY]
QUEEN MARGARET
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Oft^have | I heard | that grief | softens | the
mind,
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And makes | it fear|ful and | degen|erate,
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Think there/fore on | revenge,| and cease | to
weep.
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But who | can cease | to weep,| and look | on
this.
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Here may*| his head | lie on | my throb|bing
breast:
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But where's | the bo|dy that | I should |
embrace?
BUCKINGHAM
What answer makes your grace to the rebels' supplication?
KING HENRY VI
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I'll send | some ho|ly bish|op to | entreat:
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For God | forbid,| so ma|ny simp|le souls
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Should per|ish by | the sword.| And I | myself,
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Rather | than bloo|dy war | shall cut | them
short,
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Will par|ley with / Jack Cade | their gen|eral.
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But stay,| I'll read | it ov|er once | again.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Ah bar|barous vil|lains: hath | this love|ly
face,
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Ruled like a wand|ering plan|et ov|er me,
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And could | it not | enforce | them to | relent,
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That^were | unworth|y to | behold | the same.
KING HENRY VI
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Lord^Say,| Jack^Cade | hath sworn | to have | thy
head.
SAY
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Aye, but | I hope | your high|ness shall / have
his.
KING HENRY VI
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How now | madam? \\
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Still la|menting and | mourning | for Suf|folk's
death?
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I fear | me (love)| if that | I had | been dead,
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Thou wouldst | not have | mourned so | much for |
me.
QUEEN MARGARET
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No my love, I should not mourn, but die for thee.
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[Enter a Messenger]
KING HENRY VI
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How now?| What news?| Why comst | thou in / such
haste?
MESSENGER
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The reb|els are | in South|wark: fly | my lord:
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Jack^Cade | proclaims | himself | Lord^Mort|imer,
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Descend|ed from | the Duke | of Clar|ence' house,
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And calls | your grace | usurp|er, op|enly,
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And vows | to crown | himself | in West|minster.
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His ar|my is | a rag|ged mult|itude
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Of hinds | and peas|ants, rude | and mer|ciless:
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Sir Humph|rey Staf|ford, and | his broth|er's
death,
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Hath given | them heart | and cour|age to |
proceed:
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All schol|ars, law|yers, court|iers, gent|lemen,
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They call | false caterpillars,| and intend |
their death. ??
KING HENRY VI
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O grace|less men:| they know | not* what | they
do.
BUCKINGHAM
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My gra|cious lord,| return | to Kil|lingworth,
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Until | a power | be raised | to put | them down.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Ah were | the Duke | of Suf|folk now | alive,
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These Kent|ish reb|els would | be soon |
appeased.
KING HENRY VI
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Lord | Say,| the trait|ors hat|eth thee,
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Therefore | away | with us | to Kil|lingworth.
SAY
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So might your | grace's | person | be in |
danger:
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The sight | of me | is od|ious in | their eyes:
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And there|fore in | this ci|ty will | I stay,
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And live | alone | as sec|ret as | I may.
[Enter another Messenger]
MESSENGER
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Jack | Cade | hath got|ten Lon|don bridge.
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The cit|izens | fly and for|sake their | houses:
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The ras|cal peo|ple, thirst|ing aft|er prey,
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Join with | the trait|or, and | they joint|ly
swear
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To spoil | the ci|ty, and | your roy|al court.
BUCKINGHAM
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Then ling|er not | my lord,| away,| take^horse.
KING HENRY VI
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Come^Marg|aret, God | our hope | will suc|cor us.
QUEEN MARGARET
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My hope | is gone,| now Suf|folk is | deceased.
KING HENRY VI
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Farewell | my lord,| trust^not | the Kent|ish
reb||els.
BUCKINGHAM
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Trust | nobody | for fear | you be | betrayed.
SAY
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The trust | I have,| is in | mine in|nocence,
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And there|fore am | I bold | and res|olute.
[Exeunt]