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WARWICK: |
The bloody parliament shall this be call'd, |
Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king, |
And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice |
Hath made us by-words to our enemies. |
YORK: |
Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute; |
I mean to take possession of my right. |
WARWICK: |
Neither the king, nor he that loves him best, |
The proudest he that holds up Lancaster, |
Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shake his bells. |
I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares: |
Resolve thee, Richard; claim the English crown. |
KING HENRY VI: |
My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits, |
Even in the chair of state: belike he means, |
Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer, |
To aspire unto the crown and reign as king. |
Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father. |
And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd revenge |
On him, his sons, his favourites and his friends. |
NORTHUMBERLAND: |
If I be not, heavens be revenged on me! |
CLIFFORD: |
The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel. |
WESTMORELAND: |
What, shall we suffer this? let's pluck him down: |
My heart for anger burns; I cannot brook it. |
KING HENRY VI: |
Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmoreland. |
CLIFFORD: |
Patience is for poltroons, such as he: |
He durst not sit there, had your father lived. |
My gracious lord, here in the parliament |
Let us assail the family of York. |
NORTHUMBERLAND: |
Well hast thou spoken, cousin: be it so. |
KING HENRY VI: |
Ah, know you not the city favours them, |
And they have troops of soldiers at their beck? |
EXETER: |
But when the duke is slain, they'll quickly fly. |
KING HENRY VI: |
Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart, |
To make a shambles of the parliament-house! |
Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words and threats |
Shall be the war that Henry means to use. |
Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne, |
and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet; |
I am thy sovereign. |
YORK: |
I am thine. |
EXETER: |
For shame, come down: he made thee Duke of York. |
YORK: |
'Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was. |
EXETER: |
Thy father was a traitor to the crown. |
WARWICK: |
Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown |
In following this usurping Henry. |
CLIFFORD: |
Whom should he follow but his natural king? |
WARWICK: |
True, Clifford; and that's Richard Duke of York. |
KING HENRY VI: |
And shall I stand, and thou sit in my throne? |
YORK: |
It must and shall be so: content thyself. |
WARWICK: |
Be Duke of Lancaster; let him be king. |
WESTMORELAND: |
He is both king and Duke of Lancaster; |
And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain. |
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