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London. The Tower.
[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLARENCE, WARWICK, SOMERSET, HENRY OF
RICHMOND, OXFORD, MONTAGUE, and Lieutenant of the Tower]
KING HENRY VI
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Master | lieuten|ant, now | that God | and
friends
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Have shak|en Ed|ward from | the reg|al seat,
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And turned | my cap|tive state | to lib|erty,
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My fear | to hope,| my sor|rows un|to joys,
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At our | enlarge|ment what | are thy / due fees?
LIEUTENANT
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Subjects | may chal|lenge noth|ing of | their
sove||reigns
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But,| if a hum|ble pra|yer may | prevail,
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I then | crave pard/on of | your maj|esty.
KING HENRY VI
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For what,| lieuten|ant? For / well us|ing me?
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Nay, be thou | sure, I'll | well re|quite thy |
kindness.
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For that it | made my im|prison|ment, a |
pleasure:
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Aye, such a pleas|ure, as | encaged birds
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Conceive;| when aft|er ma|ny moo|dy thoughts,
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At last,| by notes | of household har|mony,
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They quite | forget | their loss | of lib|erty.
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But War|wick, aft|er God,| thou setst | me free,
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And chief|ly there|fore, I | thank^God,| and
thee,
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He was | the auth|or, thou | the inst|rument:
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Therefore,| that I | may con|quer for|tune's
spite,
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By liv|ing low,| where for|tune cannot | hurt me,
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And that | the peo|ple of | this bles|sed land
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May not | be pun|ished with | my thwart|ing
stars,
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Warwick,| although | my head | still wear | the
crown,
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I here | resign | my gov|ernment | to thee,
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For thou | art for|tunate | in all | thy deeds.
WARWICK
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Your grace | hath still | been famed | for
vir|tuous,
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And now | may seem | as wise | as vir|tuous,
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By spy|ing and | avoi|ding for|tune's malice,
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For few | men* right|ly temp|er with | the stars:
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Yet in | this one | thing^let | me blame | your
grace,
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For choos|ing me | when Clar|ence is | in place.
CLARENCE
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No^War|wick, thou | art worth|y of | the sway,
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To whom | the heavens | in thy | nativ|ity,
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Adjudged | an ol|ive branch,| and laur|el crown,
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As like|ly to | be blest | in peace | and war:
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And there|fore I / yield thee | my free |
consent.
WARWICK
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And I choose Clar|ence on|ly for | protect||or.
KING HENRY VI
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War|wick and Clar|ence, give | me both | your
hands:
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Now join | your hands,| and with | your hands |
your hearts,
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That no | dissen|sion hind|er gov|ernment:
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I make | you both | protect|ors of | this land,
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While^I | myself | will lead | a priv|ate life,
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And in | devo|tion spend | my lat|ter days,
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To sin's | rebuke,| and my | creat|or's praise.
WARWICK
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What ans|wers Clar|ence to | his sove|reign's
will?
CLARENCE
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That he | consents,| if War|wick yield | consent,
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For on | thy for|tune I | repose | myself.
WARWICK
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Why then,| though loath,| yet must | I be |
content:
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We'll yoke | togeth|er, like | a doub|le shad||ow
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To Hen|ry's bo|dy, and | supply | his place;
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I mean,| in bear|ing weight | of gov|ernment,
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While he | enjoys | the hon|or, and | his ease.
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And Clar|ence, now | then it is | more than |
needful,
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Forthwith | that Ed|ward be | pronounced | a
traitor,
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And all | his lands | and goods | be con|fiscate.
CLARENCE
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What else?| And that | succes|sion be |
deter||mined.
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Aye,| therein | Clarence shall | not want his
part.
KING HENRY VI
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But with | the first,| of all | your chief |
affairs,
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Let me | entreat |(for I | command | no more)
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That Marg|aret | your queen,| and my son | Edward,
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Be sent | for, to | return | from France | with
speed:
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For till | I see | them here,| by doubt|ful fear,
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My joy | of lib|erty | is half | eclipsed.
CLARENCE
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It shall | be done,| my sove|reign, with / all
speed.
KING HENRY VI
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My Lord | of Som|erset,| what youth | is that,
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Of whom | you seem | to have | so tend|er care?
SOMERSET
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My liege,| it is young | Henry,| earl of |
Richmond.
KING HENRY VI
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Come* hith|er, Eng|land's hope: \\
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If secret powers suggest but truth
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To my | divin|ing thoughts, \\
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This pret|ty lad | will prove | our count|ry's
bliss.
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His looks | are full | of peace|ful maj|esty,
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His head | by na|ture framed | to wear | a crown,
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His hand | to wield | a scep|ter, and | himself
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Likely | in time | to bless | a reg|al throne:
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Make much of him,| my lords;| for this | is he
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Must^help | you more,| than you | are hurt | by
me.
[Enter a Post]
WARWICK
What news, my friend?
POST
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That Ed|ward is | escaped | from your | brother,
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And fled |(as he / hears since)| to Burg|undy.
WARWICK
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Unsav|ory news:| but how | made he | escape?
POST
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He was con|veyed by | Richard | Duke of |
Gloucester,
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And the / Lord Hast|ings, who | attend|ed him
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In sec|ret am|bush, on | the for|est side,
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And from | the bish|op's hunts|men res|cued him:
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For hunt|ing was | his dai|ly ex|ercise.
WARWICK
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My broth|er was / too care|less of | his charge.
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But let | us hence,| my sove|reign, to | provide
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A salve | for an|y sore,| that may | betide.
[Exeunt all but SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, and OXFORD]
SOMERSET
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My lord,| I like | not of this | flight of |
Edward's:
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For doubt|less Burg|undy | will yield | him help,
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And we | shall have / more wars | before it | be
long.
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As Hen|ry's late | presag|ing proph|ecy
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Did glad | my heart,| with hope | of this young |
Richmond:
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So doth^my | heart mis|give me, in | these
conflicts,
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What may | befall | him, to / his harm | and
ours.
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Therefore,| Lord^Ox|ford, to | prevent | the
worst,
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Forthwith | we'll send | him hence | to
Brit|tany,
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Till storms | be past | of civ|il en|mity.
OXFORD
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Aye: for | if Ed|ward re|possess | the crown,
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'Tis like | that Rich|mond, with | the rest,|
shall down.
SOMERSET
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It shall | be so:| he shall | to Brit|tany.
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Come there|fore, let's about | it spee|dily.
[Exeunt]