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KING EDWARD IV: |
Suppose they take offence without a cause, |
They are but Lewis and Warwick: I am Edward, |
Your king and Warwick's, and must have my will. |
GLOUCESTER: |
And shall have your will, because our king: |
Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too? |
GLOUCESTER: |
Not I: |
No, God forbid that I should wish them sever'd |
Whom God hath join'd together; ay, and 'twere pity |
To sunder them that yoke so well together. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Setting your scorns and your mislike aside, |
Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey |
Should not become my wife and England's queen. |
And you too, Somerset and Montague, |
Speak freely what you think. |
CLARENCE: |
Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis |
Becomes your enemy, for mocking him |
About the marriage of the Lady Bona. |
GLOUCESTER: |
And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge, |
Is now dishonoured by this new marriage. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeased |
By such invention as I can devise? |
MONTAGUE: |
Yet, to have join'd with France in such alliance |
Would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth |
'Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage. |
HASTINGS: |
Why, knows not Montague that of itself |
England is safe, if true within itself? |
MONTAGUE: |
But the safer when 'tis back'd with France. |
HASTINGS: |
'Tis better using France than trusting France: |
Let us be back'd with God and with the seas |
Which He hath given for fence impregnable, |
And with their helps only defend ourselves; |
In them and in ourselves our safety lies. |
CLARENCE: |
For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves |
To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Ay, what of that? it was my will and grant; |
And for this once my will shall stand for law. |
GLOUCESTER: |
And yet methinks your grace hath not done well, |
To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales |
Unto the brother of your loving bride; |
She better would have fitted me or Clarence: |
But in your bride you bury brotherhood. |
CLARENCE: |
Or else you would not have bestow'd the heir |
Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife's son, |
And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Alas, poor Clarence! is it for a wife |
That thou art malcontent? I will provide thee. |
CLARENCE: |
In choosing for yourself, you show'd your judgment, |
Which being shallow, you give me leave |
To play the broker in mine own behalf; |
And to that end I shortly mind to leave you. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Leave me, or tarry, Edward will be king, |
And not be tied unto his brother's will. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
My lords, before it pleased his majesty |
To raise my state to title of a queen, |
Do me but right, and you must all confess |
That I was not ignoble of descent; |
And meaner than myself have had like fortune. |
But as this title honours me and mine, |
So your dislike, to whom I would be pleasing, |
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