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GLOUCESTER:
KING EDWARD IV:
Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?
LADY GREY:
Ay, full as dearly as I love myself.
KING EDWARD IV:
And would you not do much to do them good?
LADY GREY:
To do them good, I would sustain some harm.
KING EDWARD IV:
Then get your husband's lands, to do them good.
LADY GREY:
Therefore I came unto your majesty.
KING EDWARD IV:
I'll tell you how these lands are to be got.
LADY GREY:
So shall you bind me to your highness' service.
KING EDWARD IV:
What service wilt thou do me, if I give them?
LADY GREY:
What you command, that rests in me to do.
KING EDWARD IV:
But you will take exceptions to my boon.
LADY GREY:
No, gracious lord, except I cannot do it.
KING EDWARD IV:
Ay, but thou canst do what I mean to ask.
LADY GREY:
Why, then I will do what your grace commands.
GLOUCESTER:
CLARENCE:
LADY GREY:
Why stops my lord, shall I not hear my task?
KING EDWARD IV:
An easy task; 'tis but to love a king.
LADY GREY:
That's soon perform'd, because I am a subject.
KING EDWARD IV:
Why, then, thy husband's lands I freely give thee.
LADY GREY:
I take my leave with many thousand thanks.
GLOUCESTER:
KING EDWARD IV:
But stay thee, 'tis the fruits of love I mean.
LADY GREY:
The fruits of love I mean, my loving liege.
KING EDWARD IV:
Ay, but, I fear me, in another sense.
What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get?
LADY GREY:
My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers;
That love which virtue begs and virtue grants.
KING EDWARD IV:
No, by my troth, I did not mean such love.
LADY GREY:
Why, then you mean not as I thought you did.
KING EDWARD IV:
But now you partly may perceive my mind.
LADY GREY:
My mind will never grant what I perceive
Your highness aims at, if I aim aright.
KING EDWARD IV:
To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
LADY GREY:
To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.
KING EDWARD IV:
Why, then thou shalt not have thy husband's lands.