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YORK:
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Little.
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:
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Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.
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YORK:
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You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:
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Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me;
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Because that I am little, like an ape,
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He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!
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To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,
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He prettily and aptly taunts himself:
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So cunning and so young is wonderful.
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GLOUCESTER:
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My lord, will't please you pass along?
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Myself and my good cousin Buckingham
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Will to your mother, to entreat of her
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To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.
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YORK:
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What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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My lord protector needs will have it so.
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YORK:
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I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Why, what should you fear?
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YORK:
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Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:
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My grandam told me he was murdered there.
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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I fear no uncles dead.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Nor none that live, I hope.
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PRINCE EDWARD:
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An if they live, I hope I need not fear.
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But come, my lord; and with a heavy heart,
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Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Think you, my lord, this little prating York
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Was not incensed by his subtle mother
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To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?
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GLOUCESTER:
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No doubt, no doubt; O, 'tis a parlous boy;
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Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable
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He is all the mother's, from the top to toe.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Well, let them rest. Come hither, Catesby.
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Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend
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As closely to conceal what we impart:
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Thou know'st our reasons urged upon the way;
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What think'st thou? is it not an easy matter
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To make William Lord Hastings of our mind,
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For the instalment of this noble duke
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In the seat royal of this famous isle?
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CATESBY:
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He for his father's sake so loves the prince,
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That he will not be won to aught against him.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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What think'st thou, then, of Stanley? what will he?
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CATESBY:
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He will do all in all as Hastings doth.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Well, then, no more but this: go, gentle Catesby,
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And, as it were far off sound thou Lord Hastings,
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How doth he stand affected to our purpose;
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And summon him to-morrow to the Tower,
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To sit about the coronation.
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If thou dost find him tractable to us,
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Encourage him, and show him all our reasons:
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If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling,
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Be thou so too; and so break off your talk,
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And give us notice of his inclination:
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For we to-morrow hold divided councils,
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Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby,
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His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
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