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WARWICK:
And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget
That we are those which chased you from the field
And slew your fathers, and with colours spread
March'd through the city to the palace gates.
NORTHUMBERLAND:
Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief;
And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.
WESTMORELAND:
Plantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,
Thy kinsman and thy friends, I'll have more lives
Than drops of blood were in my father's veins.
CLIFFORD:
Urge it no more; lest that, instead of words,
I send thee, Warwick, such a messenger
As shall revenge his death before I stir.
WARWICK:
Poor Clifford! how I scorn his worthless threats!
YORK:
Will you we show our title to the crown?
If not, our swords shall plead it in the field.
KING HENRY VI:
What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown?
Thy father was, as thou art, Duke of York;
Thy grandfather, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March:
I am the son of Henry the Fifth,
Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop
And seized upon their towns and provinces.
WARWICK:
Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all.
KING HENRY VI:
The lord protector lost it, and not I:
When I was crown'd I was but nine months old.
RICHARD:
You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose.
Father, tear the crown from the usurper's head.
EDWARD:
Sweet father, do so; set it on your head.
MONTAGUE:
Good brother, as thou lovest and honourest arms,
Let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus.
RICHARD:
Sound drums and trumpets, and the king will fly.
YORK:
Sons, peace!
KING HENRY VI:
Peace, thou! and give King Henry leave to speak.
WARWICK:
Plantagenet shall speak first: hear him, lords;
And be you silent and attentive too,
For he that interrupts him shall not live.
KING HENRY VI:
Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,
Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?
No: first shall war unpeople this my realm;
Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,
And now in England to our heart's great sorrow,
Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?
My title's good, and better far than his.
WARWICK:
Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king.
KING HENRY VI:
Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown.
YORK:
'Twas by rebellion against his king.
KING HENRY VI:
YORK:
What then?
KING HENRY VI:
An if he may, then am I lawful king;
For Richard, in the view of many lords,
Resign'd the crown to Henry the Fourth,
Whose heir my father was, and I am his.
YORK:
He rose against him, being his sovereign,
And made him to resign his crown perforce.