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I know it well, Lord Warwick; blame me not: |
'Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak. |
But in this troublous time what's to be done? |
Shall we go throw away our coats of steel, |
And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns, |
Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads? |
Or shall we on the helmets of our foes |
Tell our devotion with revengeful arms? |
If for the last, say ay, and to it, lords. |
WARWICK: |
Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out; |
And therefore comes my brother Montague. |
Attend me, lords. The proud insulting queen, |
With Clifford and the haught Northumberland, |
And of their feather many more proud birds, |
Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax. |
He swore consent to your succession, |
His oath enrolled in the parliament; |
And now to London all the crew are gone, |
To frustrate both his oath and what beside |
May make against the house of Lancaster. |
Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong: |
Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself, |
With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March, |
Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure, |
Will but amount to five and twenty thousand, |
Why, Via! to London will we march amain, |
And once again bestride our foaming steeds, |
And once again cry 'Charge upon our foes!' |
But never once again turn back and fly. |
RICHARD: |
Ay, now methinks I hear great Warwick speak: |
Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day, |
That cries 'Retire,' if Warwick bid him stay. |
EDWARD: |
Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean; |
And when thou fail'st--as God forbid the hour!-- |
Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend! |
WARWICK: |
No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York: |
The next degree is England's royal throne; |
For King of England shalt thou be proclaim'd |
In every borough as we pass along; |
And he that throws not up his cap for joy |
Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head. |
King Edward, valiant Richard, Montague, |
Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, |
But sound the trumpets, and about our task. |
RICHARD: |
Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel, |
As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds, |
I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine. |
EDWARD: |
Then strike up drums: God and Saint George for us! |
WARWICK: |
How now! what news? |
Messenger: |
The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me, |
The queen is coming with a puissant host; |
And craves your company for speedy counsel. |
WARWICK: |
Why then it sorts, brave warriors, let's away. |
3 KING HENRY VI |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
Welcome, my lord, to this brave town of York. |
Yonder's the head of that arch-enemy |
That sought to be encompass'd with your crown: |
Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord? |
KING HENRY VI: |
Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck: |
To see this sight, it irks my very soul. |
Withhold revenge, dear God! 'tis not my fault, |
Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow. |
CLIFFORD: |
My gracious liege, this too much lenity |
And harmful pity must be laid aside. |
To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? |
Not to the beast that would usurp their den. |
Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick? |
Not his that spoils her young before her face. |
Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting? |
Not he that sets his foot upon her back. |
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, |
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. |
Ambitious York doth level at thy crown, |
Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows: |
He, but a duke, would have his son a king, |
And raise his issue, like a loving sire; |
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