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HENRY PERCY:
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There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,
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Mann'd with three hundred men, as I have heard;
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And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour;
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None else of name and noble estimate.
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NORTHUMBERLAND:
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Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby,
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Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues
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A banish'd traitor: all my treasury
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Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enrich'd
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Shall be your love and labour's recompense.
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LORD ROSS:
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Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord.
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LORD WILLOUGHBY:
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And far surmounts our labour to attain it.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor;
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Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,
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Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?
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NORTHUMBERLAND:
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It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess.
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LORD BERKELEY:
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My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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My lord, my answer is--to Lancaster;
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And I am come to seek that name in England;
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And I must find that title in your tongue,
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Before I make reply to aught you say.
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LORD BERKELEY:
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Mistake me not, my lord; 'tis not my meaning
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To raze one title of your honour out:
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To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,
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From the most gracious regent of this land,
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The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on
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To take advantage of the absent time
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And fright our native peace with self-born arms.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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I shall not need transport my words by you;
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Here comes his grace in person. My noble uncle!
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DUKE OF YORK:
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Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,
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Whose duty is deceiveable and false.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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My gracious uncle--
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DUKE OF YORK:
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Tut, tut!
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Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:
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I am no traitor's uncle; and that word 'grace.'
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In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
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Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs
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Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground?
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But then more 'why?' why have they dared to march
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So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,
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Frighting her pale-faced villages with war
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And ostentation of despised arms?
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Comest thou because the anointed king is hence?
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Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind,
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And in my loyal bosom lies his power.
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Were I but now the lord of such hot youth
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As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself
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Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,
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From forth the ranks of many thousand French,
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O, then how quickly should this arm of mine.
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Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee
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And minister correction to thy fault!
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:
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On what condition stands it and wherein?
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DUKE OF YORK:
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Even in condition of the worst degree,
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In gross rebellion and detested treason:
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Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come
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Before the expiration of thy time,
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In braving arms against thy sovereign.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford;
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But as I come, I come for Lancaster.
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And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace
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Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye:
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You are my father, for methinks in you
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I see old Gaunt alive; O, then, my father,
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Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd
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