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QUEEN:
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With signs of war about his aged neck:
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O, full of careful business are his looks!
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Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:
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Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,
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Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.
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Your husband, he is gone to save far off,
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Whilst others come to make him lose at home:
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Here am I left to underprop his land,
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Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:
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Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;
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Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him.
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Servant:
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My lord, your son was gone before I came.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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He was? Why, so! go all which way it will!
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The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,
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And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side.
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Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;
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Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:
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Hold, take my ring.
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Servant:
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My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,
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To-day, as I came by, I called there;
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But I shall grieve you to report the rest.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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What is't, knave?
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Servant:
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An hour before I came, the duchess died.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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God for his mercy! what a tide of woes
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Comes rushing on this woeful land at once!
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I know not what to do: I would to God,
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So my untruth had not provoked him to it,
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The king had cut off my head with my brother's.
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What, are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland?
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How shall we do for money for these wars?
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Come, sister,--cousin, I would say--pray, pardon me.
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Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts
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And bring away the armour that is there.
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Gentlemen, will you go muster men?
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If I know how or which way to order these affairs
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Thus thrust disorderly into my hands,
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Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen:
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The one is my sovereign, whom both my oath
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And duty bids defend; the other again
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Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrong'd,
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Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right.
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Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, I'll
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Dispose of you.
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Gentlemen, go, muster up your men,
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And meet me presently at Berkeley.
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I should to Plashy too;
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But time will not permit: all is uneven,
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And every thing is left at six and seven.
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BUSHY:
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The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,
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But none returns. For us to levy power
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Proportionable to the enemy
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Is all unpossible.
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GREEN:
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Besides, our nearness to the king in love
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Is near the hate of those love not the king.
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BAGOT:
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And that's the wavering commons: for their love
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Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them
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By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.
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BUSHY:
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Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd.
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BAGOT:
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If judgement lie in them, then so do we,
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Because we ever have been near the king.
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GREEN:
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Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol castle:
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The Earl of Wiltshire is already there.
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BUSHY:
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Thither will I with you; for little office
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The hateful commons will perform for us,
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Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.
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Will you go along with us?
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BAGOT:
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No; I will to Ireland to his majesty.
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Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain,
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