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And Warwick rages like a chafed bull: |
Away! for death doth hold us in pursuit. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
Mount you, my lord; towards Berwick post amain: |
Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds |
Having the fearful flying hare in sight, |
With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath, |
And bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful hands, |
Are at our backs; and therefore hence amain. |
EXETER: |
Away! for vengeance comes along with them: |
Nay, stay not to expostulate, make speed; |
Or else come after: I'll away before. |
KING HENRY VI: |
Nay, take me with thee, good sweet Exeter: |
Not that I fear to stay, but love to go |
Whither the queen intends. Forward; away! |
3 KING HENRY VI |
CLIFFORD: |
Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, |
Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. |
O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow |
More than my body's parting with my soul! |
My love and fear glued many friends to thee; |
And, now I fall, thy tough commixture melts. |
Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York, |
The common people swarm like summer flies; |
And whither fly the gnats but to the sun? |
And who shines now but Henry's enemies? |
O Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent |
That Phaethon should cheque thy fiery steeds, |
Thy burning car never had scorch'd the earth! |
And, Henry, hadst thou sway'd as kings should do, |
Or as thy father and his father did, |
Giving no ground unto the house of York, |
They never then had sprung like summer flies; |
I and ten thousand in this luckless realm |
Had left no mourning widows for our death; |
And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace. |
For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air? |
And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity? |
Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds; |
No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight: |
The foe is merciless, and will not pity; |
For at their hands I have deserved no pity. |
The air hath got into my deadly wounds, |
And much effuse of blood doth make me faint. |
Come, York and Richard, Warwick and the rest; |
I stabb'd your fathers' bosoms, split my breast. |
EDWARD: |
Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause, |
And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks. |
Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen, |
That led calm Henry, though he were a king, |
As doth a sail, fill'd with a fretting gust, |
Command an argosy to stem the waves. |
But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them? |
WARWICK: |
No, 'tis impossible he should escape, |
For, though before his face I speak the words |
Your brother Richard mark'd him for the grave: |
And wheresoe'er he is, he's surely dead. |
EDWARD: |
Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave? |
RICHARD: |
A deadly groan, like life and death's departing. |
EDWARD: |
See who it is: and, now the battle's ended, |
If friend or foe, let him be gently used. |
RICHARD: |
Revoke that doom of mercy, for 'tis Clifford; |
Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch |
In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth, |
But set his murdering knife unto the root |
From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring, |
I mean our princely father, Duke of York. |
WARWICK: |
From off the gates of York fetch down the head, |
Your father's head, which Clifford placed there; |
Instead whereof let this supply the room: |
Measure for measure must be answered. |
EDWARD: |
Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house, |
That nothing sung but death to us and ours: |
Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound, |
And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak. |
WARWICK: |
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