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This is his tent; and see where stand his guard. |
Courage, my masters! honour now or never! |
But follow me, and Edward shall be ours. |
First Watchman: |
Who goes there? |
Second Watchman: |
Stay, or thou diest! |
SOMERSET: |
What are they that fly there? |
WARWICK: |
Richard and Hastings: let them go; here is The duke. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
The duke! Why, Warwick, when we parted, |
Thou call'dst me king. |
WARWICK: |
Ay, but the case is alter'd: |
When you disgraced me in my embassade, |
Then I degraded you from being king, |
And come now to create you Duke of York. |
Alas! how should you govern any kingdom, |
That know not how to use ambassadors, |
Nor how to be contented with one wife, |
Nor how to use your brothers brotherly, |
Nor how to study for the people's welfare, |
Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies? |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Yea, brother of Clarence, are thou here too? |
Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down. |
Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance, |
Of thee thyself and all thy complices, |
Edward will always bear himself as king: |
Though fortune's malice overthrow my state, |
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. |
WARWICK: |
Then, for his mind, be Edward England's king: |
But Henry now shall wear the English crown, |
And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow. |
My Lord of Somerset, at my request, |
See that forthwith Duke Edward be convey'd |
Unto my brother, Archbishop of York. |
When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows, |
I'll follow you, and tell what answer |
Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him. |
Now, for a while farewell, good Duke of York. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; |
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. |
OXFORD: |
What now remains, my lords, for us to do |
But march to London with our soldiers? |
WARWICK: |
Ay, that's the first thing that we have to do; |
To free King Henry from imprisonment |
And see him seated in the regal throne. |
3 KING HENRY VI |
RIVERS: |
Madam, what makes you in this sudden change? |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
Why brother Rivers, are you yet to learn |
What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward? |
RIVERS: |
What! loss of some pitch'd battle against Warwick? |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
No, but the loss of his own royal person. |
RIVERS: |
Then is my sovereign slain? |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner, |
Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard |
Or by his foe surprised at unawares: |
And, as I further have to understand, |
Is new committed to the Bishop of York, |
Fell Warwick's brother and by that our foe. |
RIVERS: |
These news I must confess are full of grief; |
Yet, gracious madam, bear it as you may: |
Warwick may lose, that now hath won the day. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay. |
And I the rather wean me from despair |
For love of Edward's offspring in my womb: |
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