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God bless your grace with health and happy days!
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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I thank you, good my lord; and thank you all.
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I thought my mother, and my brother York,
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Would long ere this have met us on the way
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Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not
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To tell us whether they will come or no!
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BUCKINGHAM:
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And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord.
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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Welcome, my lord: what, will our mother come?
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HASTINGS:
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On what occasion, God he knows, not I,
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The queen your mother, and your brother York,
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Have taken sanctuary: the tender prince
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Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,
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But by his mother was perforce withheld.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Fie, what an indirect and peevish course
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Is this of hers! Lord cardinal, will your grace
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Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York
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Unto his princely brother presently?
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If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,
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And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.
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CARDINAL:
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My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory
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Can from his mother win the Duke of York,
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Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate
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To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
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We should infringe the holy privilege
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Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land
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Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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You are too senseless--obstinate, my lord,
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Too ceremonious and traditional
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Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,
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You break not sanctuary in seizing him.
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The benefit thereof is always granted
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To those whose dealings have deserved the place,
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And those who have the wit to claim the place:
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This prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it;
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And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:
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Then, taking him from thence that is not there,
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You break no privilege nor charter there.
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Oft have I heard of sanctuary men;
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But sanctuary children ne'er till now.
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CARDINAL:
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My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once.
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Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?
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HASTINGS:
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I go, my lord.
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.
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Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,
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Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?
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GLOUCESTER:
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Where it seems best unto your royal self.
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If I may counsel you, some day or two
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Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:
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Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit
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For your best health and recreation.
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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I do not like the Tower, of any place.
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Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?
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BUCKINGHAM:
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He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;
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Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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Is it upon record, or else reported
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Successively from age to age, he built it?
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Upon record, my gracious lord.
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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But say, my lord, it were not register'd,
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Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
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As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,
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Even to the general all-ending day.
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GLOUCESTER:
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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What say you, uncle?
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GLOUCESTER:
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