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BUCKINGHAM:
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Are all things fitting for that royal time?
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DERBY:
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It is, and wants but nomination.
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BISHOP OF ELY:
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To-morrow, then, I judge a happy day.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Who knows the lord protector's mind herein?
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Who is most inward with the royal duke?
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BISHOP OF ELY:
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Your grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Who, I, my lord I we know each other's faces,
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But for our hearts, he knows no more of mine,
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Than I of yours;
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Nor I no more of his, than you of mine.
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Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.
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HASTINGS:
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I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;
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But, for his purpose in the coronation.
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I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'd
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His gracious pleasure any way therein:
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But you, my noble lords, may name the time;
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And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,
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Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part.
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BISHOP OF ELY:
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Now in good time, here comes the duke himself.
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GLOUCESTER:
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My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.
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I have been long a sleeper; but, I hope,
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My absence doth neglect no great designs,
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Which by my presence might have been concluded.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Had not you come upon your cue, my lord
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William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part,--
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I mean, your voice,--for crowning of the king.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder;
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His lordship knows me well, and loves me well.
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HASTINGS:
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I thank your grace.
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GLOUCESTER:
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My lord of Ely!
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BISHOP OF ELY:
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My lord?
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GLOUCESTER:
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When I was last in Holborn,
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I saw good strawberries in your garden there
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I do beseech you send for some of them.
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BISHOP OF ELY:
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Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you.
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Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,
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And finds the testy gentleman so hot,
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As he will lose his head ere give consent
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His master's son, as worshipful as he terms it,
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Shall lose the royalty of England's throne.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Withdraw you hence, my lord, I'll follow you.
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DERBY:
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We have not yet set down this day of triumph.
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To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden;
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For I myself am not so well provided
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As else I would be, were the day prolong'd.
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BISHOP OF ELY:
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Where is my lord protector? I have sent for these
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strawberries.
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HASTINGS:
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His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day;
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There's some conceit or other likes him well,
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When he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit.
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I think there's never a man in Christendom
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That can less hide his love or hate than he;
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For by his face straight shall you know his heart.
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DERBY:
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What of his heart perceive you in his face
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By any likelihood he show'd to-day?
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