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SOMERSET: |
At Southam I did leave him with his forces, |
And do expect him here some two hours hence. |
WARWICK: |
Then Clarence is at hand, I hear his drum. |
SOMERSET: |
It is not his, my lord; here Southam lies: |
The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick. |
WARWICK: |
Who should that be? belike, unlook'd-for friends. |
SOMERSET: |
They are at hand, and you shall quickly know. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Go, trumpet, to the walls, and sound a parle. |
GLOUCESTER: |
See how the surly Warwick mans the wall! |
WARWICK: |
O unbid spite! is sportful Edward come? |
Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced, |
That we could hear no news of his repair? |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates, |
Speak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee, |
Call Edward king and at his hands beg mercy? |
And he shall pardon thee these outrages. |
WARWICK: |
Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence, |
Confess who set thee up and pluck'd thee own, |
Call Warwick patron and be penitent? |
And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York. |
GLOUCESTER: |
I thought, at least, he would have said the king; |
Or did he make the jest against his will? |
WARWICK: |
Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift? |
GLOUCESTER: |
Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give: |
I'll do thee service for so good a gift. |
WARWICK: |
'Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Why then 'tis mine, if but by Warwick's gift. |
WARWICK: |
Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight: |
And weakling, Warwick takes his gift again; |
And Henry is my king, Warwick his subject. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
But Warwick's king is Edward's prisoner: |
And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this: |
What is the body when the head is off? |
GLOUCESTER: |
Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast, |
But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten, |
The king was slily finger'd from the deck! |
You left poor Henry at the Bishop's palace, |
And, ten to one, you'll meet him in the Tower. |
EDWARD: |
'Tis even so; yet you are Warwick still. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Come, Warwick, take the time; kneel down, kneel down: |
Nay, when? strike now, or else the iron cools. |
WARWICK: |
I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, |
And with the other fling it at thy face, |
Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Sail how thou canst, have wind and tide thy friend, |
This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair |
Shall, whiles thy head is warm and new cut off, |
Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood, |
'Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more.' |
WARWICK: |
O cheerful colours! see where Oxford comes! |
OXFORD: |
Oxford, Oxford, for Lancaster! |
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