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	<H3>ACT I</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. London. The Parliament-house.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Alarum. Enter YORK, EDWARD, RICHARD, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, WARWICK, and Soldiers</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.1>I wonder how the king escaped our hands.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.2>While we pursued the horsemen of the north,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.3>He slily stole away and left his men:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.4>Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.5>Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.6>Cheer'd up the drooping army; and himself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.7>Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.8>Charged our main battle's front, and breaking in</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.9>Were by the swords of common soldiers slain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.10>Lord Stafford's father, Duke of Buckingham,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.11>Is either slain or wounded dangerously;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.12>I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.13>That this is true, father, behold his blood.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.14>And, brother, here's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.15>Whom I encounter'd as the battles join'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.16>Speak thou for me and tell them what I did.</A><br>
	<p><i>Throwing down SOMERSET's head</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.17>Richard hath best deserved of all my sons.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.18>But is your grace dead, my Lord of Somerset?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>NORFOLK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.19>Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.20>Thus do I hope to shake King Henry's head.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.21>And so do I. Victorious Prince of York,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.22>Before I see thee seated in that throne</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.23>Which now the house of Lancaster usurps,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.24>I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.25>This is the palace of the fearful king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.26>And this the regal seat: possess it, York;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.27>For this is thine and not King Henry's heirs'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.28>Assist me, then, sweet Warwick, and I will;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.29>For hither we have broken in by force.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>NORFOLK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.30>We'll all assist you; he that flies shall die.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.31>Thanks, gentle Norfolk: stay by me, my lords;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.32>And, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night.</A><br>
	<p><i>They go up</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.33>And when the king comes, offer no violence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.34>Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.35>The queen this day here holds her parliament,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.36>But little thinks we shall be of her council:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.37>By words or blows here let us win our right.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.38>Arm'd as we are, let's stay within this house.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.39>The bloody parliament shall this be call'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.40>Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.41>And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.42>Hath made us by-words to our enemies.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.43>Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.44>I mean to take possession of my right.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.45>Neither the king, nor he that loves him best,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.46>The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.47>Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shake his bells.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.48>I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.49>Resolve thee, Richard; claim the English crown.</A><br>
	<p><i>Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.50>My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.51>Even in the chair of state: belike he means,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.52>Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.53>To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.54>Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.55>And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd revenge</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.56>On him, his sons, his favourites and his friends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.57>If I be not, heavens be revenged on me!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.58>The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.59>What, shall we suffer this? let's pluck him down:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.60>My heart for anger burns; I cannot brook it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.61>Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmoreland.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.62>Patience is for poltroons, such as he:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.63>He durst not sit there, had your father lived.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.64>My gracious lord, here in the parliament</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.65>Let us assail the family of York.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.66>Well hast thou spoken, cousin: be it so.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.67>Ah, know you not the city favours them,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.68>And they have troops of soldiers at their beck?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.69>But when the duke is slain, they'll quickly fly.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.70>Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.71>To make a shambles of the parliament-house!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.72>Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words and threats</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.73>Shall be the war that Henry means to use.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.74>Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.75>and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.76>I am thy sovereign.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.77>I am thine.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.78>For shame, come down: he made thee Duke of York.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.79>'Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.80>Thy father was a traitor to the crown.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.81>Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.82>In following this usurping Henry.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.83>Whom should he follow but his natural king?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.84>True, Clifford; and that's Richard Duke of York.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.85>And shall I stand, and thou sit in my throne?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.86>It must and shall be so: content thyself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.87>Be Duke of Lancaster; let him be king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.88>He is both king and Duke of Lancaster;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.89>And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.90>And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.91>That we are those which chased you from the field</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.92>And slew your fathers, and with colours spread</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.93>March'd through the city to the palace gates.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.94>Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.95>And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.96>Plantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.97>Thy kinsman and thy friends, I'll have more lives</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.98>Than drops of blood were in my father's veins.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.99>Urge it no more; lest that, instead of words,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.100>I send thee, Warwick, such a messenger</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.101>As shall revenge his death before I stir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.102>Poor Clifford! how I scorn his worthless threats!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.103>Will you we show our title to the crown?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.104>If not, our swords shall plead it in the field.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.105>What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.106>Thy father was, as thou art, Duke of York;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.107>Thy grandfather, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.108>I am the son of Henry the Fifth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.109>Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.110>And seized upon their towns and provinces.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.111>Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.112>The lord protector lost it, and not I:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.113>When I was crown'd I was but nine months old.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.114>You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.115>Father, tear the crown from the usurper's head.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.116>Sweet father, do so; set it on your head.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.117>Good brother, as thou lovest and honourest arms,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.118>Let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.119>Sound drums and trumpets, and the king will fly.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.120>Sons, peace!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.121>Peace, thou! and give King Henry leave to speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.122>Plantagenet shall speak first: hear him, lords;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.123>And be you silent and attentive too,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.124>For he that interrupts him shall not live.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech56><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.125>Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.126>Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.127>No: first shall war unpeople this my realm;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.128>Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.129>And now in England to our heart's great sorrow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.130>Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.131>My title's good, and better far than his.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech57><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.132>Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech58><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.133>Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech59><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.134>'Twas by rebellion against his king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech60><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.135>[Aside] I know not what to say; my title's weak.--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.136>Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech61><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.137>What then?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech62><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.138>An if he may, then am I lawful king;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.139>For Richard, in the view of many lords,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.140>Resign'd the crown to Henry the Fourth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.141>Whose heir my father was, and I am his.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech63><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.142>He rose against him, being his sovereign,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.143>And made him to resign his crown perforce.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech64><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.144>Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrain'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.145>Think you 'twere prejudicial to his crown?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech65><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.146>No; for he could not so resign his crown</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.147>But that the next heir should succeed and reign.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech66><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.148>Art thou against us, Duke of Exeter?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech67><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.149>His is the right, and therefore pardon me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech68><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.150>Why whisper you, my lords, and answer not?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech69><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.151>My conscience tells me he is lawful king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech70><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.152>[Aside] All will revolt from me, and turn to him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech71><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.153>Plantagenet, for all the claim thou lay'st,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.154>Think not that Henry shall be so deposed.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech72><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.155>Deposed he shall be, in despite of all.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech73><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.156>Thou art deceived: 'tis not thy southern power,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.157>Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.158>Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.159>Can set the duke up in despite of me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech74><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.160>King Henry, be thy title right or wrong,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.161>Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.162>May that ground gape and swallow me alive,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.163>Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech75><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.164>O Clifford, how thy words revive my heart!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech76><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.165>Henry of Lancaster, resign thy crown.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.166>What mutter you, or what conspire you, lords?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech77><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.167>Do right unto this princely Duke of York,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.168>Or I will fill the house with armed men,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.169>And over the chair of state, where now he sits,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.170>Write up his title with usurping blood.</A><br>
	<p><i>He stamps with his foot and the soldiers show themselves</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech78><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.171>My Lord of Warwick, hear me but one word:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.172>Let me for this my life-time reign as king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech79><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.173>Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.174>And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou livest.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech80><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.175>I am content: Richard Plantagenet,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.176>Enjoy the kingdom after my decease.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech81><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.177>What wrong is this unto the prince your son!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech82><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.178>What good is this to England and himself!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech83><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.179>Base, fearful and despairing Henry!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech84><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.180>How hast thou injured both thyself and us!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech85><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.181>I cannot stay to hear these articles.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech86><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.182>Nor I.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech87><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.183>Come, cousin, let us tell the queen these news.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech88><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.184>Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.185>In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech89><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.186>Be thou a prey unto the house of York,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.187>And die in bands for this unmanly deed!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech90><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.188>In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.189>Or live in peace abandon'd and despised!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND, CLIFFORD, and WESTMORELAND</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech91><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.190>Turn this way, Henry, and regard them not.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech92><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.191>They seek revenge and therefore will not yield.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech93><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.192>Ah, Exeter!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech94><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.193> Why should you sigh, my lord?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech95><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.194>Not for myself, Lord Warwick, but my son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.195>Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.196>But be it as it may: I here entail</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.197>The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.198>Conditionally, that here thou take an oath</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.199>To cease this civil war, and, whilst I live,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.200>To honour me as thy king and sovereign,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.201>And neither by treason nor hostility</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.202>To seek to put me down and reign thyself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech96><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.203>This oath I willingly take and will perform.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech97><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.204>Long live King Henry! Plantagenet embrace him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech98><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.205>And long live thou and these thy forward sons!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech99><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.206>Now York and Lancaster are reconciled.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech100><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.207>Accursed be he that seeks to make them foes!</A><br>
	<p><i>Sennet. Here they come down</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech101><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.208>Farewell, my gracious lord; I'll to my castle.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech102><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.209>And I'll keep London with my soldiers.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech103><b>NORFOLK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.210>And I to Norfolk with my followers.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech104><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.211>And I unto the sea from whence I came.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt YORK, EDWARD, EDMUND, GEORGE, RICHARD, WARWICK, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, their Soldiers, and Attendants</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech105><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.212>And I, with grief and sorrow, to the court.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter QUEEN MARGARET and PRINCE EDWARD</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech106><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.213>Here comes the queen, whose looks bewray her anger:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.214>I'll steal away.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech107><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.215> Exeter, so will I.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech108><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.216>Nay, go not from me; I will follow thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech109><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.217>Be patient, gentle queen, and I will stay.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech110><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.218>Who can be patient in such extremes?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.219>Ah, wretched man! would I had died a maid</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.220>And never seen thee, never borne thee son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.221>Seeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.222>Hath he deserved to lose his birthright thus?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.223>Hadst thou but loved him half so well as I,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.224>Or felt that pain which I did for him once,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.225>Or nourish'd him as I did with my blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.226>Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.227>Rather than have that savage duke thine heir</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.228>And disinherited thine only son.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech111><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.229>Father, you cannot disinherit me:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.230>If you be king, why should not I succeed?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech112><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.231>Pardon me, Margaret; pardon me, sweet son:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.232>The Earl of Warwick and the duke enforced me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech113><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.233>Enforced thee! art thou king, and wilt be forced?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.234>I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.235>Thou hast undone thyself, thy son and me;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.236>And given unto the house of York such head</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.237>As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.238>To entail him and his heirs unto the crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.239>What is it, but to make thy sepulchre</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.240>And creep into it far before thy time?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.241>Warwick is chancellor and the lord of Calais;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.242>Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.243>The duke is made protector of the realm;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.244>And yet shalt thou be safe? such safety finds</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.245>The trembling lamb environed with wolves.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.246>Had I been there, which am a silly woman,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.247>The soldiers should have toss'd me on their pikes</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.248>Before I would have granted to that act.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.249>But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honour:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.250>And seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.251>Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.252>Until that act of parliament be repeal'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.253>Whereby my son is disinherited.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.254>The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.255>Will follow mine, if once they see them spread;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.256>And spread they shall be, to thy foul disgrace</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.257>And utter ruin of the house of York.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.258>Thus do I leave thee. Come, son, let's away;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.259>Our army is ready; come, we'll after them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech114><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.260>Stay, gentle Margaret, and hear me speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech115><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.261>Thou hast spoke too much already: get thee gone.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech116><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.262>Gentle son Edward, thou wilt stay with me?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech117><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.263>Ay, to be murder'd by his enemies.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech118><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.264>When I return with victory from the field</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.265>I'll see your grace: till then I'll follow her.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech119><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.266>Come, son, away; we may not linger thus.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt QUEEN MARGARET and PRINCE EDWARD</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech120><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.267>Poor queen! how love to me and to her son</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.268>Hath made her break out into terms of rage!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.269>Revenged may she be on that hateful duke,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.270>Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.271>Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.272>Tire on the flesh of me and of my son!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.273>The loss of those three lords torments my heart:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.274>I'll write unto them and entreat them fair.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.275>Come, cousin you shall be the messenger.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech121><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.276>And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. Sandal Castle.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter RICHARD, EDWARD, and MONTAGUE</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.1>Brother, though I be youngest, give me leave.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.2>No, I can better play the orator.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.3>But I have reasons strong and forcible.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter YORK</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.4>Why, how now, sons and brother! at a strife?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.5>What is your quarrel? how began it first?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.6>No quarrel, but a slight contention.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.7>About what?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.8>About that which concerns your grace and us;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.9>The crown of England, father, which is yours.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.10>Mine boy? not till King Henry be dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.11>Your right depends not on his life or death.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.12>Now you are heir, therefore enjoy it now:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.13>By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.14>It will outrun you, father, in the end.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.15>I took an oath that he should quietly reign.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.16>But for a kingdom any oath may be broken:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.17>I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.18>No; God forbid your grace should be forsworn.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.19>I shall be, if I claim by open war.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.20>I'll prove the contrary, if you'll hear me speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.21>Thou canst not, son; it is impossible.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.22>An oath is of no moment, being not took</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.23>Before a true and lawful magistrate,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.24>That hath authority over him that swears:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.25>Henry had none, but did usurp the place;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.26>Then, seeing 'twas he that made you to depose,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.27>Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.28>Therefore, to arms! And, father, do but think</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.29>How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.30>Within whose circuit is Elysium</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.31>And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.32>Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.33>Until the white rose that I wear be dyed</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.34>Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's heart.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.35>Richard, enough; I will be king, or die.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.36>Brother, thou shalt to London presently,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.37>And whet on Warwick to this enterprise.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.38>Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.39>And tell him privily of our intent.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.40>You Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.41>With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.42>In them I trust; for they are soldiers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.43>Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.44>While you are thus employ'd, what resteth more,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.45>But that I seek occasion how to rise,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.46>And yet the king not privy to my drift,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.47>Nor any of the house of Lancaster?</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.2.48>But, stay: what news? Why comest thou in such post?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.49>The queen with all the northern earls and lords</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.50>Intend here to besiege you in your castle:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.51>She is hard by with twenty thousand men;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.52>And therefore fortify your hold, my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.53>Ay, with my sword. What! think'st thou that we fear them?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.54>Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.55>My brother Montague shall post to London:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.56>Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.57>Whom we have left protectors of the king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.58>With powerful policy strengthen themselves,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.59>And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.60>Brother, I go; I'll win them, fear it not:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.61>And thus most humbly I do take my leave.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	<p><i>Enter JOHN MORTIMER and HUGH MORTIMER</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.2.62>Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer, mine uncles,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.63>You are come to Sandal in a happy hour;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.64>The army of the queen mean to besiege us.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>JOHN MORTIMER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.65>She shall not need; we'll meet her in the field.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.66>What, with five thousand men?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.67>Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.68>A woman's general; what should we fear?</A><br>
	<p><i>A march afar off</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.69>I hear their drums: let's set our men in order,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.70>And issue forth and bid them battle straight.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.71>Five men to twenty! though the odds be great,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.72>I doubt not, uncle, of our victory.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.73>Many a battle have I won in France,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.74>When as the enemy hath been ten to one:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.75>Why should I not now have the like success?</A><br>
	<p><i>Alarum. Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. Field of battle betwixt Sandal Castle and Wakefield.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Alarums. Enter RUTLAND and his Tutor</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>RUTLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.1>Ah, whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.2>Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes!</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CLIFFORD and Soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.3>Chaplain, away! thy priesthood saves thy life.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.4>As for the brat of this accursed duke,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.5>Whose father slew my father, he shall die.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>Tutor</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.6>And I, my lord, will bear him company.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.7>Soldiers, away with him!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>Tutor</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.8>Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.9>Lest thou be hated both of God and man!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit, dragged off by Soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.10>How now! is he dead already? or is it fear</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.11>That makes him close his eyes? I'll open them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>RUTLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.12>So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.13>That trembles under his devouring paws;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.14>And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.15>And so he comes, to rend his limbs asunder.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.16>Ah, gentle Clifford, kill me with thy sword,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.17>And not with such a cruel threatening look.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.18>Sweet Clifford, hear me speak before I die.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.19>I am too mean a subject for thy wrath:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.20>Be thou revenged on men, and let me live.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.21>In vain thou speak'st, poor boy; my father's blood</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.22>Hath stopp'd the passage where thy words should enter.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>RUTLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.23>Then let my father's blood open it again:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.24>He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.25>Had thy brethren here, their lives and thine</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.26>Were not revenge sufficient for me;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.27>No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.28>And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.29>It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.30>The sight of any of the house of York</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.31>Is as a fury to torment my soul;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.32>And till I root out their accursed line</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.33>And leave not one alive, I live in hell.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.34>Therefore--</A><br>
	<p><i>Lifting his hand</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>RUTLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.35>O, let me pray before I take my death!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.36>To thee I pray; sweet Clifford, pity me!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.37>Such pity as my rapier's point affords.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>RUTLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.38>I never did thee harm: why wilt thou slay me?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.39>Thy father hath.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>RUTLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.40> But 'twas ere I was born.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.41>Thou hast one son; for his sake pity me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.42>Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.43>He be as miserably slain as I.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.44>Ah, let me live in prison all my days;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.45>And when I give occasion of offence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.46>Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.47>No cause!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.48>Thy father slew my father; therefore, die.</A><br>
	<p><i>Stabs him</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>RUTLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.49>Di faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae!</A><br>
	<p><i>Dies</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.50>Plantagenet! I come, Plantagenet!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.51>And this thy son's blood cleaving to my blade</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.52>Shall rust upon my weapon, till thy blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.53>Congeal'd with this, do make me wipe off both.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Alarum. Enter YORK</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.1>The army of the queen hath got the field:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.2>My uncles both are slain in rescuing me;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.3>And all my followers to the eager foe</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.4>Turn back and fly, like ships before the wind</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.5>Or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolves.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.6>My sons, God knows what hath bechanced them:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.7>But this I know, they have demean'd themselves</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.8>Like men born to renown by life or death.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.9>Three times did Richard make a lane to me.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.10>And thrice cried 'Courage, father! fight it out!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.11>And full as oft came Edward to my side,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.12>With purple falchion, painted to the hilt</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.13>In blood of those that had encounter'd him:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.14>And when the hardiest warriors did retire,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.15>Richard cried 'Charge! and give no foot of ground!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.16>And cried 'A crown, or else a glorious tomb!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.17>A sceptre, or an earthly sepulchre!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.18>With this, we charged again: but, out, alas!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.19>We bodged again; as I have seen a swan</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.20>With bootless labour swim against the tide</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.21>And spend her strength with over-matching waves.</A><br>
	<p><i>A short alarum within</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.4.22>Ah, hark! the fatal followers do pursue;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.23>And I am faint and cannot fly their fury:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.24>And were I strong, I would not shun their fury:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.25>The sands are number'd that make up my life;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.26>Here must I stay, and here my life must end.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter QUEEN MARGARET, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, and Soldiers</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.4.27>Come, bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.28>I dare your quenchless fury to more rage:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.29>I am your butt, and I abide your shot.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.30>Yield to our mercy, proud Plantagenet.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.31>Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.32>With downright payment, show'd unto my father.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.33>Now Phaethon hath tumbled from his car,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.34>And made an evening at the noontide prick.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.35>My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.36>A bird that will revenge upon you all:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.37>And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.38>Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.39>Why come you not? what! multitudes, and fear?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.40>So cowards fight when they can fly no further;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.41>So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.42>So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.43>Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.44>O Clifford, but bethink thee once again,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.45>And in thy thought o'er-run my former time;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.46>And, if though canst for blushing, view this face,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.47>And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.48>Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.49>I will not bandy with thee word for word,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.50>But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.51>Hold, valiant Clifford! for a thousand causes</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.52>I would prolong awhile the traitor's life.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.53>Wrath makes him deaf: speak thou, Northumberland.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.54>Hold, Clifford! do not honour him so much</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.55>To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.56>What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.57>For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.58>When he might spurn him with his foot away?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.59>It is war's prize to take all vantages;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.60>And ten to one is no impeach of valour.</A><br>
	<p><i>They lay hands on YORK, who struggles</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.61>Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.62>So doth the cony struggle in the net.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.63>So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.64>So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.65>What would your grace have done unto him now?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.66>Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.67>Come, make him stand upon this molehill here,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.68>That raught at mountains with outstretched arms,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.69>Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.70>What! was it you that would be England's king?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.71>Was't you that revell'd in our parliament,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.72>And made a preachment of your high descent?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.73>Where are your mess of sons to back you now?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.74>The wanton Edward, and the lusty George?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.75>And where's that valiant crook-back prodigy,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.76>Dicky your boy, that with his grumbling voice</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.77>Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.78>Or, with the rest, where is your darling Rutland?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.79>Look, York: I stain'd this napkin with the blood</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.80>That valiant Clifford, with his rapier's point,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.81>Made issue from the bosom of the boy;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.82>And if thine eyes can water for his death,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.83>I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.84>Alas poor York! but that I hate thee deadly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.85>I should lament thy miserable state.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.86>I prithee, grieve, to make me merry, York.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.87>What, hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine entrails</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.88>That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.89>Why art thou patient, man? thou shouldst be mad;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.90>And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.91>Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.92>Thou wouldst be fee'd, I see, to make me sport:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.93>York cannot speak, unless he wear a crown.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.94>A crown for York! and, lords, bow low to him:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.95>Hold you his hands, whilst I do set it on.</A><br>
	<p><i>Putting a paper crown on his head</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.4.96>Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.97>Ay, this is he that took King Henry's chair,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.98>And this is he was his adopted heir.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.99>But how is it that great Plantagenet</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.100>Is crown'd so soon, and broke his solemn oath?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.101>As I bethink me, you should not be king</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.102>Till our King Henry had shook hands with death.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.103>And will you pale your head in Henry's glory,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.104>And rob his temples of the diadem,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.105>Now in his life, against your holy oath?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.106>O, 'tis a fault too too unpardonable!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.107>Off with the crown, and with the crown his head;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.108>And, whilst we breathe, take time to do him dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.109>That is my office, for my father's sake.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.110>Nay, stay; lets hear the orisons he makes.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.111>She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.112>Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.113>How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.114>To triumph, like an Amazonian trull,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.115>Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.116>But that thy face is, vizard-like, unchanging,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.117>Made impudent with use of evil deeds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.118>I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.119>To tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.120>Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.121>Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.122>Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.123>Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.124>Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.125>It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.126>Unless the adage must be verified,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.127>That beggars mounted run their horse to death.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.128>'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.129>But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.130>'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.131>The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.132>'Tis government that makes them seem divine;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.133>The want thereof makes thee abominable:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.134>Thou art as opposite to every good</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.135>As the Antipodes are unto us,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.136>Or as the south to the septentrion.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.137>O tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.138>How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.139>To bid the father wipe his eyes withal,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.140>And yet be seen to bear a woman's face?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.141>Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.142>Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.143>Bids't thou me rage? why, now thou hast thy wish:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.144>Wouldst have me weep? why, now thou hast thy will:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.145>For raging wind blows up incessant showers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.146>And when the rage allays, the rain begins.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.147>These tears are my sweet Rutland's obsequies:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.148>And every drop cries vengeance for his death,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.149>'Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.150>Frenchwoman.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.151>Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.152>That hardly can I cheque my eyes from tears.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.153>That face of his the hungry cannibals</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.154>Would not have touch'd, would not have stain'd with blood:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.155>But you are more inhuman, more inexorable,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.156>O, ten times more, than tigers of Hyrcania.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.157>See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.158>This cloth thou dip'dst in blood of my sweet boy,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.159>And I with tears do wash the blood away.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.160>Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.161>And if thou tell'st the heavy story right,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.162>Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.163>Yea even my foes will shed fast-falling tears,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.164>And say 'Alas, it was a piteous deed!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.165>There, take the crown, and, with the crown, my curse;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.166>And in thy need such comfort come to thee</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.167>As now I reap at thy too cruel hand!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.168>Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.169>My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.170>Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.171>I should not for my life but weep with him.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.172>To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.173>What, weeping-ripe, my Lord Northumberland?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.174>Think but upon the wrong he did us all,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.175>And that will quickly dry thy melting tears.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.176>Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death.</A><br>
	<p><i>Stabbing him</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.177>And here's to right our gentle-hearted king.</A><br>
	<p><i>Stabbing him</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>YORK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.178>Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.179>My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee.</A><br>
	<p><i>Dies</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.180>Off with his head, and set it on York gates;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.181>So York may overlook the town of York.</A><br>
	<p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote><p>
	<H3>ACT II</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. A plain near Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>A march. Enter EDWARD, RICHARD, and their power</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.1>I wonder how our princely father 'scaped,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.2>Or whether he be 'scaped away or no</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.3>From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.4>Had he been ta'en, we should have heard the news;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.5>Had he been slain, we should have heard the news;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.6>Or had he 'scaped, methinks we should have heard</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.7>The happy tidings of his good escape.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.8>How fares my brother? why is he so sad?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.9>I cannot joy, until I be resolved</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.10>Where our right valiant father is become.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.11>I saw him in the battle range about;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.12>And watch'd him how he singled Clifford forth.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.13>Methought he bore him in the thickest troop</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.14>As doth a lion in a herd of neat;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.15>Or as a bear, encompass'd round with dogs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.16>Who having pinch'd a few and made them cry,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.17>The rest stand all aloof, and bark at him.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.18>So fared our father with his enemies;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.19>So fled his enemies my warlike father:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.20>Methinks, 'tis prize enough to be his son.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.21>See how the morning opes her golden gates,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.22>And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.23>How well resembles it the prime of youth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.24>Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.25>Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.26>Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.27>Not separated with the racking clouds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.28>But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.29>See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.30>As if they vow'd some league inviolable:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.31>Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.32>In this the heaven figures some event.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.33>'Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.34>I think it cites us, brother, to the field,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.35>That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.36>Each one already blazing by our meeds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.37>Should notwithstanding join our lights together</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.38>And over-shine the earth as this the world.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.39>Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I bear</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.40>Upon my target three fair-shining suns.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.41>Nay, bear three daughters: by your leave I speak it,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.42>You love the breeder better than the male.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.1.43>But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.44>Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.45>Ah, one that was a woful looker-on</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.46>When as the noble Duke of York was slain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.47>Your princely father and my loving lord!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.48>O, speak no more, for I have heard too much.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.49>Say how he died, for I will hear it all.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.50>Environed he was with many foes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.51>And stood against them, as the hope of Troy</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.52>Against the Greeks that would have enter'd Troy.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.53>But Hercules himself must yield to odds;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.54>And many strokes, though with a little axe,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.55>Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.56>By many hands your father was subdued;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.57>But only slaughter'd by the ireful arm</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.58>Of unrelenting Clifford and the queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.59>Who crown'd the gracious duke in high despite,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.60>Laugh'd in his face; and when with grief he wept,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.61>The ruthless queen gave him to dry his cheeks</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.62>A napkin steeped in the harmless blood</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.63>Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.64>And after many scorns, many foul taunts,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.65>They took his head, and on the gates of York</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.66>They set the same; and there it doth remain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.67>The saddest spectacle that e'er I view'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.68>Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.69>Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.70>O Clifford, boisterous Clifford! thou hast slain</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.71>The flower of Europe for his chivalry;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.72>And treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.73>For hand to hand he would have vanquish'd thee.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.74>Now my soul's palace is become a prison:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.75>Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.76>Might in the ground be closed up in rest!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.77>For never henceforth shall I joy again,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.78>Never, O never shall I see more joy!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.79> I cannot weep; for all my body's moisture</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.80>Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.81>Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burthen;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.82>For selfsame wind that I should speak withal</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.83>Is kindling coals that fires all my breast,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.84>And burns me up with flames that tears would quench.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.85>To weep is to make less the depth of grief:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.86>Tears then for babes; blows and revenge for me</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.87>Richard, I bear thy name; I'll venge thy death,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.88>Or die renowned by attempting it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.89>His name that valiant duke hath left with thee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.90>His dukedom and his chair with me is left.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.91>Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.92>Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.93>For chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.94>Either that is thine, or else thou wert not his.</A><br>
	<p><i>March. Enter WARWICK, MONTAGUE, and their army</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.95>How now, fair lords! What fare? what news abroad?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.96>Great Lord of Warwick, if we should recount</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.97>Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.98>Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.99>The words would add more anguish than the wounds.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.100>O valiant lord, the Duke of York is slain!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.101>O Warwick, Warwick! that Plantagenet,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.102>Which held three dearly as his soul's redemption,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.103>Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.104>Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.105>And now, to add more measure to your woes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.106>I come to tell you things sith then befall'n.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.107>After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.108>Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.109>Tidings, as swiftly as the posts could run,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.110>Were brought me of your loss and his depart.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.111>I, then in London keeper of the king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.112>Muster'd my soldiers, gather'd flocks of friends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.113>And very well appointed, as I thought,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.114>March'd toward Saint Alban's to intercept the queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.115>Bearing the king in my behalf along;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.116>For by my scouts I was advertised</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.117>That she was coming with a full intent</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.118>To dash our late decree in parliament</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.119>Touching King Henry's oath and your succession.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.120>Short tale to make, we at Saint Alban's met</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.121>Our battles join'd, and both sides fiercely fought:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.122>But whether 'twas the coldness of the king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.123>Who look'd full gently on his warlike queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.124>That robb'd my soldiers of their heated spleen;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.125>Or whether 'twas report of her success;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.126>Or more than common fear of Clifford's rigour,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.127>Who thunders to his captives blood and death,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.128>I cannot judge: but to conclude with truth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.129>Their weapons like to lightning came and went;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.130>Our soldiers', like the night-owl's lazy flight,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.131>Or like an idle thresher with a flail,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.132>Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.133>I cheer'd them up with justice of our cause,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.134>With promise of high pay and great rewards:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.135>But all in vain; they had no heart to fight,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.136>And we in them no hope to win the day;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.137>So that we fled; the king unto the queen;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.138>Lord George your brother, Norfolk and myself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.139>In haste, post-haste, are come to join with you:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.140>For in the marches here we heard you were,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.141>Making another head to fight again.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.142>Where is the Duke of Norfolk, gentle Warwick?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.143>And when came George from Burgundy to England?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.144>Some six miles off the duke is with the soldiers;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.145>And for your brother, he was lately sent</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.146>From your kind aunt, Duchess of Burgundy,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.147>With aid of soldiers to this needful war.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.148>'Twas odds, belike, when valiant Warwick fled:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.149>Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.150>But ne'er till now his scandal of retire.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.151>Nor now my scandal, Richard, dost thou hear;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.152>For thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.153>Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.154>And wring the awful sceptre from his fist,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.155>Were he as famous and as bold in war</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.156>As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.157>I know it well, Lord Warwick; blame me not:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.158>'Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.159>But in this troublous time what's to be done?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.160>Shall we go throw away our coats of steel,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.161>And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.162>Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.163>Or shall we on the helmets of our foes</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.164>Tell our devotion with revengeful arms?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.165>If for the last, say ay, and to it, lords.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.166>Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.167>And therefore comes my brother Montague.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.168>Attend me, lords. The proud insulting queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.169>With Clifford and the haught Northumberland,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.170>And of their feather many more proud birds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.171>Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.172>He swore consent to your succession,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.173>His oath enrolled in the parliament;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.174>And now to London all the crew are gone,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.175>To frustrate both his oath and what beside</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.176>May make against the house of Lancaster.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.177>Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.178>Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.179>With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.180>Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.181>Will but amount to five and twenty thousand,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.182>Why, Via! to London will we march amain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.183>And once again bestride our foaming steeds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.184>And once again cry 'Charge upon our foes!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.185>But never once again turn back and fly.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.186>Ay, now methinks I hear great Warwick speak:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.187>Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.188>That cries 'Retire,' if Warwick bid him stay.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.189>Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.190>And when thou fail'st--as God forbid the hour!--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.191>Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.192>No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.193>The next degree is England's royal throne;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.194>For King of England shalt thou be proclaim'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.195>In every borough as we pass along;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.196>And he that throws not up his cap for joy</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.197>Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.198>King Edward, valiant Richard, Montague,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.199>Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.200>But sound the trumpets, and about our task.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.201>Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.202>As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.203>I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.204>Then strike up drums: God and Saint George for us!</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.205>How now! what news?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.206>The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.207>The queen is coming with a puissant host;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.208>And craves your company for speedy counsel.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.209>Why then it sorts, brave warriors, let's away.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. Before York.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE EDWARD, CLIFFORD, and NORTHUMBERLAND, with drum and trumpets</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.1>Welcome, my lord, to this brave town of York.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.2>Yonder's the head of that arch-enemy</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.3>That sought to be encompass'd with your crown:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.4>Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.5>Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.6>To see this sight, it irks my very soul.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.7>Withhold revenge, dear God! 'tis not my fault,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.8>Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.9>My gracious liege, this too much lenity</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.10>And harmful pity must be laid aside.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.11>To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.12>Not to the beast that would usurp their den.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.13>Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.14>Not his that spoils her young before her face.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.15>Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.16>Not he that sets his foot upon her back.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.17>The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.18>And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.19>Ambitious York doth level at thy crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.20>Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.21>He, but a duke, would have his son a king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.22>And raise his issue, like a loving sire;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.23>Thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.24>Didst yield consent to disinherit him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.25>Which argued thee a most unloving father.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.26>Unreasonable creatures feed their young;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.27>And though man's face be fearful to their eyes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.28>Yet, in protection of their tender ones,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.29>Who hath not seen them, even with those wings</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.30>Which sometime they have used with fearful flight,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.31>Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.32>Offer their own lives in their young's defence?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.33>For shame, my liege, make them your precedent!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.34>Were it not pity that this goodly boy</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.35>Should lose his birthright by his father's fault,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.36>And long hereafter say unto his child,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.37>'What my great-grandfather and his grandsire got</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.38>My careless father fondly gave away'?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.39>Ah, what a shame were this! Look on the boy;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.40>And let his manly face, which promiseth</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.41>Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.42>To hold thine own and leave thine own with him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.43>Full well hath Clifford play'd the orator,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.44>Inferring arguments of mighty force.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.45>But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.46>That things ill-got had ever bad success?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.47>And happy always was it for that son</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.48>Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.49>I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.50>And would my father had left me no more!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.51>For all the rest is held at such a rate</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.52>As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.53>Than in possession and jot of pleasure.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.54>Ah, cousin York! would thy best friends did know</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.55>How it doth grieve me that thy head is here!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.56>My lord, cheer up your spirits: our foes are nigh,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.57>And this soft courage makes your followers faint.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.58>You promised knighthood to our forward son:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.59>Unsheathe your sword, and dub him presently.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.60>Edward, kneel down.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.61>Edward Plantagenet, arise a knight;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.62>And learn this lesson, draw thy sword in right.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>PRINCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.63>My gracious father, by your kingly leave,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.64>I'll draw it as apparent to the crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.65>And in that quarrel use it to the death.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.66>Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.67>Royal commanders, be in readiness:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.68>For with a band of thirty thousand men</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.69>Comes Warwick, backing of the Duke of York;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.70>And in the towns, as they do march along,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.71>Proclaims him king, and many fly to him:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.72>Darraign your battle, for they are at hand.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.73>I would your highness would depart the field:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.74>The queen hath best success when you are absent.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.75>Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.76>Why, that's my fortune too; therefore I'll stay.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.77>Be it with resolution then to fight.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.78>My royal father, cheer these noble lords</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.79>And hearten those that fight in your defence:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.80>Unsheathe your sword, good father; cry 'Saint George!'</A><br>
	<p><i>March. Enter EDWARD, GEORGE, RICHARD, WARWICK, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, and Soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.81>Now, perjured Henry! wilt thou kneel for grace,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.82>And set thy diadem upon my head;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.83>Or bide the mortal fortune of the field?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.84>Go, rate thy minions, proud insulting boy!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.85>Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.86>Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.87>I am his king, and he should bow his knee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.88>I was adopted heir by his consent:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.89>Since when, his oath is broke; for, as I hear,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.90>You, that are king, though he do wear the crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.91>Have caused him, by new act of parliament,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.92>To blot out me, and put his own son in.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.93>And reason too:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.94>Who should succeed the father but the son?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.95>Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.96>Ay, crook-back, here I stand to answer thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.97>Or any he the proudest of thy sort.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.98>'Twas you that kill'd young Rutland, was it not?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.99>Ay, and old York, and yet not satisfied.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.100>For God's sake, lords, give signal to the fight.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.101>What say'st thou, Henry, wilt thou yield the crown?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.102>Why, how now, long-tongued Warwick! dare you speak?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.103>When you and I met at Saint Alban's last,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.104>Your legs did better service than your hands.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.105>Then 'twas my turn to fly, and now 'tis thine.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.106>You said so much before, and yet you fled.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.107>'Twas not your valour, Clifford, drove me thence.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.108>No, nor your manhood that durst make you stay.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.109>Northumberland, I hold thee reverently.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.110>Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.111>The execution of my big-swoln heart</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.112>Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.113>I slew thy father, call'st thou him a child?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.114>Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.115>As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.116>But ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.117>Have done with words, my lords, and hear me speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.118>Defy them then, or else hold close thy lips.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.119>I prithee, give no limits to my tongue:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.120>I am a king, and privileged to speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.121>My liege, the wound that bred this meeting here</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.122>Cannot be cured by words; therefore be still.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.123>Then, executioner, unsheathe thy sword:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.124>By him that made us all, I am resolved</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.125>that Clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.126>Say, Henry, shall I have my right, or no?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.127>A thousand men have broke their fasts to-day,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.128>That ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.129>If thou deny, their blood upon thy head;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.130>For York in justice puts his armour on.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.131>If that be right which Warwick says is right,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.132>There is no wrong, but every thing is right.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.133>Whoever got thee, there thy mother stands;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.134>For, well I wot, thou hast thy mother's tongue.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.135>But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.136>But like a foul mis-shapen stigmatic,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.137>Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.138>As venom toads, or lizards' dreadful stings.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.139>Iron of Naples hid with English gilt,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.140>Whose father bears the title of a king,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.141>As if a channel should be call'd the sea,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.142>Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.143>To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.144>A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.145>To make this shameless callet know herself.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.146>Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.147>Although thy husband may be Menelaus;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.148>And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wrong'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.149>By that false woman, as this king by thee.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.150>His father revell'd in the heart of France,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.151>And tamed the king, and made the dauphin stoop;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.152>And had he match'd according to his state,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.153>He might have kept that glory to this day;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.154>But when he took a beggar to his bed,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.155>And graced thy poor sire with his bridal-day,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.156>Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower for him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.157>That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of France,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.158>And heap'd sedition on his crown at home.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.159>For what hath broach'd this tumult but thy pride?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.160>Hadst thou been meek, our title still had slept;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.161>And we, in pity of the gentle king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.162>Had slipp'd our claim until another age.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>GEORGE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.163>But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.164>And that thy summer bred us no increase,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.165>We set the axe to thy usurping root;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.166>And though the edge hath something hit ourselves,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.167>Yet, know thou, since we have begun to strike,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.168>We'll never leave till we have hewn thee down,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.169>Or bathed thy growing with our heated bloods.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.170>And, in this resolution, I defy thee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.171>Not willing any longer conference,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.172>Since thou deniest the gentle king to speak.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.173>Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.174>And either victory, or else a grave.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.175>Stay, Edward.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.176>No, wrangling woman, we'll no longer stay:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.177>These words will cost ten thousand lives this day.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. A field of battle between Towton and Saxton, in</h3>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.1>Yorkshire.</A><br>
	<p><i>Alarum. Excursions. Enter WARWICK</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.2>Forspent with toil, as runners with a race,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.3>I lay me down a little while to breathe;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.4>For strokes received, and many blows repaid,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.5>Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their strength,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.6>And spite of spite needs must I rest awhile.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter EDWARD, running</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.7>Smile, gentle heaven! or strike, ungentle death!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.8>For this world frowns, and Edward's sun is clouded.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.9>How now, my lord! what hap? what hope of good?</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter GEORGE</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>GEORGE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.10>Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.11>Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.12>What counsel give you? whither shall we fly?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.13>Bootless is flight, they follow us with wings;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.14>And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter RICHARD</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.15>Ah, Warwick, why hast thou withdrawn thyself?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.16>Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.17>Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's lance;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.18>And in the very pangs of death he cried,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.19>Like to a dismal clangour heard from far,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.20>'Warwick, revenge! brother, revenge my death!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.21>So, underneath the belly of their steeds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.22>That stain'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.23>The noble gentleman gave up the ghost.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.24>Then let the earth be drunken with our blood:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.25>I'll kill my horse, because I will not fly.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.26>Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.27>Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.28>And look upon, as if the tragedy</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.29>Were play'd in jest by counterfeiting actors?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.30>Here on my knee I vow to God above,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.31>I'll never pause again, never stand still,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.32>Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.33>Or fortune given me measure of revenge.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.34>O Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.35>And in this vow do chain my soul to thine!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.36>And, ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.37>I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.38>Thou setter up and plucker down of kings,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.39>Beseeching thee, if with they will it stands</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.40>That to my foes this body must be prey,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.41>Yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.42>And give sweet passage to my sinful soul!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.43>Now, lords, take leave until we meet again,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.44>Where'er it be, in heaven or in earth.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.45>Brother, give me thy hand; and, gentle Warwick,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.46>Let me embrace thee in my weary arms:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.47>I, that did never weep, now melt with woe</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.48>That winter should cut off our spring-time so.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.49>Away, away! Once more, sweet lords farewell.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>GEORGE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.3.50>Yet let us all together to our troops,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.51>And give them leave to fly that will not stay;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.52>And call them pillars that will stand to us;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.53>And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.54>As victors wear at the Olympian games:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.55>This may plant courage in their quailing breasts;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.56>For yet is hope of life and victory.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.3.57>Forslow no longer, make we hence amain.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Excursions. Enter RICHARD and CLIFFORD</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.1>Now, Clifford, I have singled thee alone:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.2>Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.3>And this for Rutland; both bound to revenge,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.4>Wert thou environ'd with a brazen wall.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.5>Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.6>This is the hand that stabb'd thy father York;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.7>And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.8>And here's the heart that triumphs in their death</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.9>And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.10>To execute the like upon thyself;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.11>And so, have at thee!</A><br>
	<p><i>They fight. WARWICK comes; CLIFFORD flies</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.12>Nay Warwick, single out some other chase;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.13>For I myself will hunt this wolf to death.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE V. Another part of the field.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Alarum. Enter KING HENRY VI alone</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.1>This battle fares like to the morning's war,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.2>When dying clouds contend with growing light,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.3>What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.4>Can neither call it perfect day nor night.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.5>Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.6>Forced by the tide to combat with the wind;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.7>Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.8>Forced to retire by fury of the wind:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.9>Sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.10>Now one the better, then another best;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.11>Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.12>Yet neither conqueror nor conquered:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.13>So is the equal of this fell war.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.14>Here on this molehill will I sit me down.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.15>To whom God will, there be the victory!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.16>For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.17>Have chid me from the battle; swearing both</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.18>They prosper best of all when I am thence.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.19>Would I were dead! if God's good will were so;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.20>For what is in this world but grief and woe?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.21>O God! methinks it were a happy life,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.22>To be no better than a homely swain;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.23>To sit upon a hill, as I do now,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.24>To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.25>Thereby to see the minutes how they run,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.26>How many make the hour full complete;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.27>How many hours bring about the day;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.28>How many days will finish up the year;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.29>How many years a mortal man may live.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.30>When this is known, then to divide the times:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.31>So many hours must I tend my flock;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.32>So many hours must I take my rest;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.33>So many hours must I contemplate;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.34>So many hours must I sport myself;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.35>So many days my ewes have been with young;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.36>So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.37>So many years ere I shall shear the fleece:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.38>So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.39>Pass'd over to the end they were created,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.40>Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.41>Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.42>Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.43>To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.44>Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.45>To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.46>O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.47>And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.48>His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.49>His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.50>All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.51>Is far beyond a prince's delicates,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.52>His viands sparkling in a golden cup,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.53>His body couched in a curious bed,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.54>When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him.</A><br>
	<p><i>Alarum. Enter a Son that has killed his father, dragging in the dead body</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>Son</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.55>Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.56>This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.57>May be possessed with some store of crowns;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.58>And I, that haply take them from him now,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.59>May yet ere night yield both my life and them</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.60>To some man else, as this dead man doth me.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.61>Who's this? O God! it is my father's face,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.62>Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.63>O heavy times, begetting such events!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.64>From London by the king was I press'd forth;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.65>My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.66>Came on the part of York, press'd by his master;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.67>And I, who at his hands received my life, him</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.68>Have by my hands of life bereaved him.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.69>Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.70>And pardon, father, for I knew not thee!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.71>My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.72>And no more words till they have flow'd their fill.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.73>O piteous spectacle! O bloody times!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.74>Whiles lions war and battle for their dens,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.75>Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.76>Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.77>And let our hearts and eyes, like civil war,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.78>Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharged with grief.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Father that has killed his son, bringing in the body</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>Father</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.79>Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.80>Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.81>For I have bought it with an hundred blows.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.82>But let me see: is this our foeman's face?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.83>Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.84>Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.85>Throw up thine eye! see, see what showers arise,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.86>Blown with the windy tempest of my heart,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.87>Upon thy words, that kill mine eye and heart!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.88>O, pity, God, this miserable age!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.89>What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.90>Erroneous, mutinous and unnatural,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.91>This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.92>O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.93>And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.94>Woe above woe! grief more than common grief!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.95>O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.96>O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.97>The red rose and the white are on his face,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.98>The fatal colours of our striving houses:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.99>The one his purple blood right well resembles;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.100>The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.101>Wither one rose, and let the other flourish;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.102>If you contend, a thousand lives must wither.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>Son</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.103>How will my mother for a father's death</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.104>Take on with me and ne'er be satisfied!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Father</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.105>How will my wife for slaughter of my son</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.106>Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.107>How will the country for these woful chances</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.108>Misthink the king and not be satisfied!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>Son</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.109>Was ever son so rued a father's death?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>Father</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.110>Was ever father so bemoan'd his son?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.111>Was ever king so grieved for subjects' woe?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.112>Much is your sorrow; mine ten times so much.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>Son</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.113>I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit with the body</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>Father</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.114>These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.115>My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.116>For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.117>My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.118>And so obsequious will thy father be,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.119>Even for the loss of thee, having no more,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.120>As Priam was for all his valiant sons.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.121>I'll bear thee hence; and let them fight that will,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.122>For I have murdered where I should not kill.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit with the body</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.123>Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.124>Here sits a king more woful than you are.</A><br>
	<p><i>Alarums: excursions. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE EDWARD, and EXETER</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.125>Fly, father, fly! for all your friends are fled,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.126>And Warwick rages like a chafed bull:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.127>Away! for death doth hold us in pursuit.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.128>Mount you, my lord; towards Berwick post amain:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.129>Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.130>Having the fearful flying hare in sight,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.131>With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.132>And bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful hands,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.133>Are at our backs; and therefore hence amain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.134>Away! for vengeance comes along with them:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.135>Nay, stay not to expostulate, make speed;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.136>Or else come after: I'll away before.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.137>Nay, take me with thee, good sweet Exeter:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.138>Not that I fear to stay, but love to go</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.139>Whither the queen intends. Forward; away!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VI. Another part of the field.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>A loud alarum. Enter CLIFFORD, wounded</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>CLIFFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.1>Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.2>Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.3>O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.4>More than my body's parting with my soul!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.5>My love and fear glued many friends to thee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.6>And, now I fall, thy tough commixture melts.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.7>Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.8>The common people swarm like summer flies;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.9>And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.10>And who shines now but Henry's enemies?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.11>O Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.12>That Phaethon should cheque thy fiery steeds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.13>Thy burning car never had scorch'd the earth!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.14>And, Henry, hadst thou sway'd as kings should do,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.15>Or as thy father and his father did,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.16>Giving no ground unto the house of York,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.17>They never then had sprung like summer flies;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.18>I and ten thousand in this luckless realm</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.19>Had left no mourning widows for our death;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.20>And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.21>For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.22>And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.23>Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.24>No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.25>The foe is merciless, and will not pity;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.26>For at their hands I have deserved no pity.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.27>The air hath got into my deadly wounds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.28>And much effuse of blood doth make me faint.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.29>Come, York and Richard, Warwick and the rest;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.30>I stabb'd your fathers' bosoms, split my breast.</A><br>
	<p><i>He faints</i></p>
	<p><i>Alarum and retreat. Enter EDWARD, GEORGE, RICHARD, MONTAGUE, WARWICK, and Soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.31>Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.32>And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.33>Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.34>That led calm Henry, though he were a king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.35>As doth a sail, fill'd with a fretting gust,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.36>Command an argosy to stem the waves.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.37>But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.38>No, 'tis impossible he should escape,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.39>For, though before his face I speak the words</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.40>Your brother Richard mark'd him for the grave:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.41>And wheresoe'er he is, he's surely dead.</A><br>
	<p><i>CLIFFORD groans, and dies</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.42>Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.43>A deadly groan, like life and death's departing.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.44>See who it is: and, now the battle's ended,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.45>If friend or foe, let him be gently used.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.46>Revoke that doom of mercy, for 'tis Clifford;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.47>Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.48>In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.49>But set his murdering knife unto the root</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.50>From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.51>I mean our princely father, Duke of York.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.52>From off the gates of York fetch down the head,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.53>Your father's head, which Clifford placed there;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.54>Instead whereof let this supply the room:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.55>Measure for measure must be answered.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.56>Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.57>That nothing sung but death to us and ours:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.58>Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.59>And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.60>I think his understanding is bereft.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.61>Speak, Clifford, dost thou know who speaks to thee?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.62>Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.63>And he nor sees nor hears us what we say.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.64>O, would he did! and so perhaps he doth:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.65>'Tis but his policy to counterfeit,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.66>Because he would avoid such bitter taunts</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.67>Which in the time of death he gave our father.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>GEORGE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.68>If so thou think'st, vex him with eager words.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.69>Clifford, ask mercy and obtain no grace.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.70>Clifford, repent in bootless penitence.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.71>Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>GEORGE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.72>While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.73>Thou didst love York, and I am son to York.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.74>Thou pitied'st Rutland; I will pity thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>GEORGE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.75>Where's Captain Margaret, to fence you now?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.76>They mock thee, Clifford: swear as thou wast wont.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.77>What, not an oath? nay, then the world goes hard</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.78>When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.79>I know by that he's dead; and, by my soul,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.80>If this right hand would buy two hour's life,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.81>That I in all despite might rail at him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.82>This hand should chop it off, and with the</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.83>issuing blood</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.84>Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.85>York and young Rutland could not satisfy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.86>Ay, but he's dead: off with the traitor's head,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.87>And rear it in the place your father's stands.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.88>And now to London with triumphant march,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.89>There to be crowned England's royal king:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.90>From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.91>And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.92>So shalt thou sinew both these lands together;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.93>And, having France thy friend, thou shalt not dread</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.94>The scatter'd foe that hopes to rise again;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.95>For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.96>Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.97>First will I see the coronation;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.98>And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.99>To effect this marriage, so it please my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.100>Even as thou wilt, sweet Warwick, let it be;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.101>For in thy shoulder do I build my seat,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.102>And never will I undertake the thing</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.103>Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.104>Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.105>And George, of Clarence: Warwick, as ourself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.106>Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>RICHARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.107>Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.108>For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.6.109>Tut, that's a foolish observation:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.110>Richard, be Duke of Gloucester. Now to London,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.6.111>To see these honours in possession.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote><p>
	<H3>ACT III</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. A forest in the north of England.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter two Keepers, with cross-bows in their hands</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>First Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.1>Under this thick-grown brake we'll shroud ourselves;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.2>For through this laund anon the deer will come;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.3>And in this covert will we make our stand,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.4>Culling the principal of all the deer.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.5>I'll stay above the hill, so both may shoot.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>First Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.6>That cannot be; the noise of thy cross-bow</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.7>Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.8>Here stand we both, and aim we at the best:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.9>And, for the time shall not seem tedious,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.10>I'll tell thee what befell me on a day</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.11>In this self-place where now we mean to stand.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.12>Here comes a man; let's stay till he be past.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter KING HENRY VI, disguised, with a prayerbook</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.13>From Scotland am I stol'n, even of pure love,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.14>To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.15>No, Harry, Harry, 'tis no land of thine;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.16>Thy place is fill'd, thy sceptre wrung from thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.17>Thy balm wash'd off wherewith thou wast anointed:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.18>No bending knee will call thee Caesar now,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.19>No humble suitors press to speak for right,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.20>No, not a man comes for redress of thee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.21>For how can I help them, and not myself?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>First Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.22>Ay, here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.23>This is the quondam king; let's seize upon him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.24>Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.25>For wise men say it is the wisest course.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.26>Why linger we? let us lay hands upon him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>First Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.27>Forbear awhile; we'll hear a little more.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.28>My queen and son are gone to France for aid;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.29>And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.30>Is thither gone, to crave the French king's sister</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.31>To wife for Edward: if this news be true,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.32>Poor queen and son, your labour is but lost;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.33>For Warwick is a subtle orator,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.34>And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.35>By this account then Margaret may win him;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.36>For she's a woman to be pitied much:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.37>Her sighs will make a battery in his breast;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.38>Her tears will pierce into a marble heart;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.39>The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.40>And Nero will be tainted with remorse,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.41>To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.42>Ay, but she's come to beg, Warwick to give;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.43>She, on his left side, craving aid for Henry,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.44>He, on his right, asking a wife for Edward.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.45>She weeps, and says her Henry is deposed;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.46>He smiles, and says his Edward is install'd;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.47>That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.48>Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.49>Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.50>And in conclusion wins the king from her,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.51>With promise of his sister, and what else,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.52>To strengthen and support King Edward's place.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.53>O Margaret, thus 'twill be; and thou, poor soul,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.54>Art then forsaken, as thou went'st forlorn!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.55>Say, what art thou that talk'st of kings and queens?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.56>More than I seem, and less than I was born to:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.57>A man at least, for less I should not be;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.58>And men may talk of kings, and why not I?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.59>Ay, but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.60>Why, so I am, in mind; and that's enough.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.61>But, if thou be a king, where is thy crown?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.62>My crown is in my heart, not on my head;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.63>Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.64>Nor to be seen: my crown is called content:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.65>A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.66>Well, if you be a king crown'd with content,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.67>Your crown content and you must be contented</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.68>To go along with us; for as we think,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.69>You are the king King Edward hath deposed;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.70>And we his subjects sworn in all allegiance</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.71>Will apprehend you as his enemy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.72>But did you never swear, and break an oath?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.73>No, never such an oath; nor will not now.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.74>Where did you dwell when I was King of England?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>Second Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.75>Here in this country, where we now remain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.76>I was anointed king at nine months old;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.77>My father and my grandfather were kings,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.78>And you were sworn true subjects unto me:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.79>And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>First Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.80>No;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.81>For we were subjects but while you were king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.82>Why, am I dead? do I not breathe a man?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.83>Ah, simple men, you know not what you swear!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.84>Look, as I blow this feather from my face,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.85>And as the air blows it to me again,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.86>Obeying with my wind when I do blow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.87>And yielding to another when it blows,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.88>Commanded always by the greater gust;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.89>Such is the lightness of you common men.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.90>But do not break your oaths; for of that sin</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.91>My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.92>Go where you will, the king shall be commanded;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.93>And be you kings, command, and I'll obey.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>First Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.94>We are true subjects to the king, King Edward.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.95>So would you be again to Henry,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.96>If he were seated as King Edward is.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>First Keeper</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.97>We charge you, in God's name, and the king's,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.98>To go with us unto the officers.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.99>In God's name, lead; your king's name be obey'd:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.100>And what God will, that let your king perform;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.101>And what he will, I humbly yield unto.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. London. The palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and LADY GREY</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.1>Brother of Gloucester, at Saint Alban's field</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.2>This lady's husband, Sir Richard Grey, was slain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.3>His lands then seized on by the conqueror:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.4>Her suit is now to repossess those lands;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.5>Which we in justice cannot well deny,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.6>Because in quarrel of the house of York</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.7>The worthy gentleman did lose his life.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.8>Your highness shall do well to grant her suit;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.9>It were dishonour to deny it her.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.10>It were no less; but yet I'll make a pause.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.11>[Aside to CLARENCE] Yea, is it so?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.12>I see the lady hath a thing to grant,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.13>Before the king will grant her humble suit.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.14>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] He knows the game: how true</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.15>he keeps the wind!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.16>[Aside to CLARENCE] Silence!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.17>Widow, we will consider of your suit;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.18>And come some other time to know our mind.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.19>Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.20>May it please your highness to resolve me now;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.21>And what your pleasure is, shall satisfy me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.22>[Aside to CLARENCE] Ay, widow? then I'll warrant</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.23>you all your lands,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.24>An if what pleases him shall pleasure you.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.25>Fight closer, or, good faith, you'll catch a blow.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.26>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] I fear her not, unless she</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.27>chance to fall.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.28>[Aside to CLARENCE] God forbid that! for he'll</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.29>take vantages.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.30>How many children hast thou, widow? tell me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.31>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] I think he means to beg a</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.32>child of her.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.33>[Aside to CLARENCE] Nay, whip me then: he'll rather</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.34>give her two.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.35>Three, my most gracious lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.36>[Aside to CLARENCE] You shall have four, if you'll</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.37>be ruled by him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.38>'Twere pity they should lose their father's lands.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.39>Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.40>Lords, give us leave: I'll try this widow's wit.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.41>[Aside to CLARENCE] Ay, good leave have you; for</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.42>you will have leave,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.43>Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch.</A><br>
	<p><i>GLOUCESTER and CLARENCE retire</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.44>Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.45>Ay, full as dearly as I love myself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.46>And would you not do much to do them good?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.47>To do them good, I would sustain some harm.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.48>Then get your husband's lands, to do them good.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.49>Therefore I came unto your majesty.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.50>I'll tell you how these lands are to be got.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.51>So shall you bind me to your highness' service.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.52>What service wilt thou do me, if I give them?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.53>What you command, that rests in me to do.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.54>But you will take exceptions to my boon.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.55>No, gracious lord, except I cannot do it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.56>Ay, but thou canst do what I mean to ask.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.57>Why, then I will do what your grace commands.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.58>[Aside to CLARENCE] He plies her hard; and much rain</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.59>wears the marble.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.60>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] As red as fire! nay, then</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.61>her wax must melt.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.62>Why stops my lord, shall I not hear my task?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.63>An easy task; 'tis but to love a king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.64>That's soon perform'd, because I am a subject.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.65>Why, then, thy husband's lands I freely give thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.66>I take my leave with many thousand thanks.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.67>[Aside to CLARENCE] The match is made; she seals it</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.68>with a curtsy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.69>But stay thee, 'tis the fruits of love I mean.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.70>The fruits of love I mean, my loving liege.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.71>Ay, but, I fear me, in another sense.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.72>What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.73>My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.74>That love which virtue begs and virtue grants.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.75>No, by my troth, I did not mean such love.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.76>Why, then you mean not as I thought you did.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.77>But now you partly may perceive my mind.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.78>My mind will never grant what I perceive</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.79>Your highness aims at, if I aim aright.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.80>To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.81>To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.82>Why, then thou shalt not have thy husband's lands.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.83>Why, then mine honesty shall be my dower;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.84>For by that loss I will not purchase them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.85>Therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech56><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.86>Herein your highness wrongs both them and me.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.87>But, mighty lord, this merry inclination</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.88>Accords not with the sadness of my suit:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.89>Please you dismiss me either with 'ay' or 'no.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech57><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.90>Ay, if thou wilt say 'ay' to my request;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.91>No if thou dost say 'no' to my demand.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech58><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.92>Then, no, my lord. My suit is at an end.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech59><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.93>[Aside to CLARENCE] The widow likes him not, she</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.94>knits her brows.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech60><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.95>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] He is the bluntest wooer in</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.96>Christendom.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech61><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.97>[Aside] Her looks do argue her replete with modesty;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.98>Her words do show her wit incomparable;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.99>All her perfections challenge sovereignty:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.100>One way or other, she is for a king;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.101>And she shall be my love, or else my queen.--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.102>Say that King Edward take thee for his queen?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech62><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.103>'Tis better said than done, my gracious lord:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.104>I am a subject fit to jest withal,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.105>But far unfit to be a sovereign.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech63><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.106>Sweet widow, by my state I swear to thee</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.107>I speak no more than what my soul intends;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.108>And that is, to enjoy thee for my love.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech64><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.109>And that is more than I will yield unto:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.110>I know I am too mean to be your queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.111>And yet too good to be your concubine.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech65><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.112>You cavil, widow: I did mean, my queen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech66><b>LADY GREY</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.113>'Twill grieve your grace my sons should call you father.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech67><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.114>No more than when my daughters call thee mother.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.115>Thou art a widow, and thou hast some children;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.116>And, by God's mother, I, being but a bachelor,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.117>Have other some: why, 'tis a happy thing</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.118>To be the father unto many sons.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.119>Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech68><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.120>[Aside to CLARENCE] The ghostly father now hath done</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.121>his shrift.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech69><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.122>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] When he was made a shriver,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.123>'twas for shift.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech70><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.124>Brothers, you muse what chat we two have had.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech71><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.125>The widow likes it not, for she looks very sad.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech72><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.126>You'll think it strange if I should marry her.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech73><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.127>To whom, my lord?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech74><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.128> Why, Clarence, to myself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech75><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.129>That would be ten days' wonder at the least.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech76><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.130>That's a day longer than a wonder lasts.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech77><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.131>By so much is the wonder in extremes.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech78><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.132>Well, jest on, brothers: I can tell you both</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.133>Her suit is granted for her husband's lands.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Nobleman</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech79><b>Nobleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.134>My gracious lord, Henry your foe is taken,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.135>And brought your prisoner to your palace gate.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech80><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.136>See that he be convey'd unto the Tower:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.137>And go we, brothers, to the man that took him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.138>To question of his apprehension.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.139>Widow, go you along. Lords, use her honourably.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech81><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.140>Ay, Edward will use women honourably.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.141>Would he were wasted, marrow, bones and all,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.142>That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.143>To cross me from the golden time I look for!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.144>And yet, between my soul's desire and me--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.145>The lustful Edward's title buried--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.146>Is Clarence, Henry, and his son young Edward,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.147>And all the unlook'd for issue of their bodies,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.148>To take their rooms, ere I can place myself:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.149>A cold premeditation for my purpose!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.150>Why, then, I do but dream on sovereignty;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.151>Like one that stands upon a promontory,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.152>And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.153>Wishing his foot were equal with his eye,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.154>And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.155>Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.156>So do I wish the crown, being so far off;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.157>And so I chide the means that keeps me from it;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.158>And so I say, I'll cut the causes off,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.159>Flattering me with impossibilities.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.160>My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.161>Unless my hand and strength could equal them.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.162>Well, say there is no kingdom then for Richard;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.163>What other pleasure can the world afford?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.164>I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.165>And deck my body in gay ornaments,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.166>And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.167>O miserable thought! and more unlikely</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.168>Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.169>Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.170>And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.171>She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.172>To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.173>To make an envious mountain on my back,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.174>Where sits deformity to mock my body;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.175>To shape my legs of an unequal size;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.176>To disproportion me in every part,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.177>Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear-whelp</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.178>That carries no impression like the dam.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.179>And am I then a man to be beloved?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.180>O monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.181>Then, since this earth affords no joy to me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.182>But to command, to cheque, to o'erbear such</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.183>As are of better person than myself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.184>I'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.185>And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.186>Until my mis-shaped trunk that bears this head</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.187>Be round impaled with a glorious crown.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.188>And yet I know not how to get the crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.189>For many lives stand between me and home:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.190>And I,--like one lost in a thorny wood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.191>That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.192>Seeking a way and straying from the way;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.193>Not knowing how to find the open air,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.194>But toiling desperately to find it out,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.195>Torment myself to catch the English crown:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.196>And from that torment I will free myself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.197>Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.198>Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.199>And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.200>And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.201>And frame my face to all occasions.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.202>I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.203>I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.204>I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.205>Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.206>And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.207>I can add colours to the chameleon,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.208>Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.209>And set the murderous Machiavel to school.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.210>Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.211>Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. France. KING LEWIS XI's palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Flourish. Enter KING LEWIS XI, his sister BONA, his Admiral, called BOURBON, PRINCE EDWARD, QUEEN MARGARET, and OXFORD. KING LEWIS XI sits, and riseth up again</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.1>Fair Queen of England, worthy Margaret,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.2>Sit down with us: it ill befits thy state</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.3>And birth, that thou shouldst stand while Lewis doth sit.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.4>No, mighty King of France: now Margaret</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.5>Must strike her sail and learn awhile to serve</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.6>Where kings command. I was, I must confess,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.7>Great Albion's queen in former golden days:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.8>But now mischance hath trod my title down,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.9>And with dishonour laid me on the ground;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.10>Where I must take like seat unto my fortune,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.11>And to my humble seat conform myself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.12>Why, say, fair queen, whence springs this deep despair?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.13>From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.14>And stops my tongue, while heart is drown'd in cares.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.15>Whate'er it be, be thou still like thyself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.16>And sit thee by our side:</A><br>
	<p><i>Seats her by him</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.3.17>Yield not thy neck</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.18>To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.19>Still ride in triumph over all mischance.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.20>Be plain, Queen Margaret, and tell thy grief;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.21>It shall be eased, if France can yield relief.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.22>Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.23>And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.24>Now, therefore, be it known to noble Lewis,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.25>That Henry, sole possessor of my love,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.26>Is of a king become a banish'd man,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.27>And forced to live in Scotland a forlorn;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.28>While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.29>Usurps the regal title and the seat</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.30>Of England's true-anointed lawful king.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.31>This is the cause that I, poor Margaret,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.32>With this my son, Prince Edward, Henry's heir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.33>Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.34>And if thou fail us, all our hope is done:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.35>Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.36>Our people and our peers are both misled,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.37>Our treasures seized, our soldiers put to flight,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.38>And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.39>Renowned queen, with patience calm the storm,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.40>While we bethink a means to break it off.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.41>The more we stay, the stronger grows our foe.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.42>The more I stay, the more I'll succor thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.43>O, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.44>And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow!</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter WARWICK</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.45>What's he approacheth boldly to our presence?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.46>Our Earl of Warwick, Edward's greatest friend.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.47>Welcome, brave Warwick! What brings thee to France?</A><br>
	<p><i>He descends. She ariseth</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.48>Ay, now begins a second storm to rise;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.49>For this is he that moves both wind and tide.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.50>From worthy Edward, King of Albion,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.51>My lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.52>I come, in kindness and unfeigned love,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.53>First, to do greetings to thy royal person;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.54>And then to crave a league of amity;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.55>And lastly, to confirm that amity</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.56>With a nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.57>That virtuous Lady Bona, thy fair sister,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.58>To England's king in lawful marriage.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.59>[Aside] If that go forward, Henry's hope is done.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.60>[To BONA] And, gracious madam, in our king's behalf,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.61>I am commanded, with your leave and favour,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.62>Humbly to kiss your hand, and with my tongue</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.63>To tell the passion of my sovereign's heart;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.64>Where fame, late entering at his heedful ears,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.65>Hath placed thy beauty's image and thy virtue.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.66>King Lewis and Lady Bona, hear me speak,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.67>Before you answer Warwick. His demand</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.68>Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.69>But from deceit bred by necessity;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.70>For how can tyrants safely govern home,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.71>Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.72>To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.73>That Henry liveth still: but were he dead,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.74>Yet here Prince Edward stands, King Henry's son.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.75>Look, therefore, Lewis, that by this league and marriage</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.76>Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.77>For though usurpers sway the rule awhile,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.78>Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.79>Injurious Margaret!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.80>And why not queen?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.81>Because thy father Henry did usurp;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.82>And thou no more are prince than she is queen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.83>Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.84>Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.85>And, after John of Gaunt, Henry the Fourth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.86>Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.87>And, after that wise prince, Henry the Fifth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.88>Who by his prowess conquered all France:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.89>From these our Henry lineally descends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.90>Oxford, how haps it, in this smooth discourse,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.91>You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.92>All that which Henry Fifth had gotten?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.93>Methinks these peers of France should smile at that.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.94>But for the rest, you tell a pedigree</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.95>Of threescore and two years; a silly time</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.96>To make prescription for a kingdom's worth.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.97>Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.98>Whom thou obeyed'st thirty and six years,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.99>And not bewray thy treason with a blush?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.100>Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.101>Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.102>For shame! leave Henry, and call Edward king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.103>Call him my king by whose injurious doom</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.104>My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.105>Was done to death? and more than so, my father,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.106>Even in the downfall of his mellow'd years,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.107>When nature brought him to the door of death?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.108>No, Warwick, no; while life upholds this arm,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.109>This arm upholds the house of Lancaster.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.110>And I the house of York.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.111>Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, and Oxford,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.112>Vouchsafe, at our request, to stand aside,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.113>While I use further conference with Warwick.</A><br>
	<p><i>They stand aloof</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.114>Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.115>Now Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.116>Is Edward your true king? for I were loath</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.117>To link with him that were not lawful chosen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.118>Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.119>But is he gracious in the people's eye?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.120>The more that Henry was unfortunate.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.121>Then further, all dissembling set aside,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.122>Tell me for truth the measure of his love</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.123>Unto our sister Bona.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.124>Such it seems</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.125>As may beseem a monarch like himself.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.126>Myself have often heard him say and swear</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.127>That this his love was an eternal plant,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.128>Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.129>The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.130>Exempt from envy, but not from disdain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.131>Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.132>Now, sister, let us hear your firm resolve.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>BONA</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.133>Your grant, or your denial, shall be mine:</A><br>
	<p><i>To WARWICK</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.3.134>Yet I confess that often ere this day,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.135>When I have heard your king's desert recounted,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.136>Mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.137>Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward's;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.138>And now forthwith shall articles be drawn</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.139>Touching the jointure that your king must make,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.140>Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.141>Draw near, Queen Margaret, and be a witness</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.142>That Bona shall be wife to the English king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.143>To Edward, but not to the English king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.144>Deceitful Warwick! it was thy device</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.145>By this alliance to make void my suit:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.146>Before thy coming Lewis was Henry's friend.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.147>And still is friend to him and Margaret:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.148>But if your title to the crown be weak,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.149>As may appear by Edward's good success,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.150>Then 'tis but reason that I be released</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.151>From giving aid which late I promised.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.152>Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.153>That your estate requires and mine can yield.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.154>Henry now lives in Scotland at his ease,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.155>Where having nothing, nothing can he lose.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.156>And as for you yourself, our quondam queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.157>You have a father able to maintain you;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.158>And better 'twere you troubled him than France.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.159>Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick, peace,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.160>Proud setter up and puller down of kings!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.161>I will not hence, till, with my talk and tears,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.162>Both full of truth, I make King Lewis behold</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.163>Thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.164>For both of you are birds of selfsame feather.</A><br>
	<p><i>Post blows a horn within</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.165>Warwick, this is some post to us or thee.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Post</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.166>[To WARWICK] My lord ambassador, these letters are for you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.167>Sent from your brother, Marquess Montague:</A><br>
	<p><i>To KING LEWIS XI</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.3.168>These from our king unto your majesty:</A><br>
	<p><i>To QUEEN MARGARET</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.3.169>And, madam, these for you; from whom I know not.</A><br>
	<p><i>They all read their letters</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.170>I like it well that our fair queen and mistress</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.171>Smiles at her news, while Warwick frowns at his.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.172>Nay, mark how Lewis stamps, as he were nettled:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.173>I hope all's for the best.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.174>Warwick, what are thy news? and yours, fair queen?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.175>Mine, such as fill my heart with unhoped joys.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.176>Mine, full of sorrow and heart's discontent.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.177>What! has your king married the Lady Grey!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.178>And now, to soothe your forgery and his,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.179>Sends me a paper to persuade me patience?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.180>Is this the alliance that he seeks with France?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.181>Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.182>I told your majesty as much before:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.183>This proveth Edward's love and Warwick's honesty.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.184>King Lewis, I here protest, in sight of heaven,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.185>And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.186>That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.187>No more my king, for he dishonours me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.188>But most himself, if he could see his shame.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.189>Did I forget that by the house of York</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.190>My father came untimely to his death?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.191>Did I let pass the abuse done to my niece?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.192>Did I impale him with the regal crown?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.193>Did I put Henry from his native right?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.194>And am I guerdon'd at the last with shame?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.195>Shame on himself! for my desert is honour:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.196>And to repair my honour lost for him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.197>I here renounce him and return to Henry.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.198>My noble queen, let former grudges pass,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.199>And henceforth I am thy true servitor:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.200>I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.201>And replant Henry in his former state.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.202>Warwick, these words have turn'd my hate to love;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.203>And I forgive and quite forget old faults,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.204>And joy that thou becomest King Henry's friend.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.205>So much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.206>That, if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.207>With some few bands of chosen soldiers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.208>I'll undertake to land them on our coast</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.209>And force the tyrant from his seat by war.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.210>'Tis not his new-made bride shall succor him:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.211>And as for Clarence, as my letters tell me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.212>He's very likely now to fall from him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.213>For matching more for wanton lust than honour,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.214>Or than for strength and safety of our country.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech56><b>BONA</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.215>Dear brother, how shall Bona be revenged</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.216>But by thy help to this distressed queen?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech57><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.217>Renowned prince, how shall poor Henry live,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.218>Unless thou rescue him from foul despair?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech58><b>BONA</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.219>My quarrel and this English queen's are one.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech59><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.220>And mine, fair lady Bona, joins with yours.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech60><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.221>And mine with hers, and thine, and Margaret's.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.222>Therefore at last I firmly am resolved</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.223>You shall have aid.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech61><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.224>Let me give humble thanks for all at once.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech62><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.225>Then, England's messenger, return in post,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.226>And tell false Edward, thy supposed king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.227>That Lewis of France is sending over masquers</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.228>To revel it with him and his new bride:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.229>Thou seest what's past, go fear thy king withal.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech63><b>BONA</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.230>Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.231>I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech64><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.232>Tell him, my mourning weeds are laid aside,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.233>And I am ready to put armour on.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech65><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.234>Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.235>And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.236>There's thy reward: be gone.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit Post</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech66><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.237>But, Warwick,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.238>Thou and Oxford, with five thousand men,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.239>Shall cross the seas, and bid false Edward battle;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.240>And, as occasion serves, this noble queen</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.241>And prince shall follow with a fresh supply.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.242>Yet, ere thou go, but answer me one doubt,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.243>What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech67><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.244>This shall assure my constant loyalty,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.245>That if our queen and this young prince agree,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.246>I'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.247>To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech68><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.248>Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.249>Son Edward, she is fair and virtuous,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.250>Therefore delay not, give thy hand to Warwick;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.251>And, with thy hand, thy faith irrevocable,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.252>That only Warwick's daughter shall be thine.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech69><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.253>Yes, I accept her, for she well deserves it;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.254>And here, to pledge my vow, I give my hand.</A><br>
	<p><i>He gives his hand to WARWICK</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech70><b>KING LEWIS XI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.255>Why stay we now? These soldiers shall be levied,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.256>And thou, Lord Bourbon, our high admiral,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.257>Shalt waft them over with our royal fleet.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.258>I long till Edward fall by war's mischance,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.259>For mocking marriage with a dame of France.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt all but WARWICK</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech71><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.260>I came from Edward as ambassador,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.261>But I return his sworn and mortal foe:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.262>Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.263>But dreadful war shall answer his demand.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.264>Had he none else to make a stale but me?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.265>Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.266>I was the chief that raised him to the crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.267>And I'll be chief to bring him down again:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.268>Not that I pity Henry's misery,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.269>But seek revenge on Edward's mockery.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote><p>
	<H3>ACT IV</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. London. The palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, SOMERSET, and MONTAGUE</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.1>Now tell me, brother Clarence, what think you</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.2>Of this new marriage with the Lady Grey?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.3>Hath not our brother made a worthy choice?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.4>Alas, you know, 'tis far from hence to France;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.5>How could he stay till Warwick made return?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.6>My lords, forbear this talk; here comes the king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.7>And his well-chosen bride.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.8>I mind to tell him plainly what I think.</A><br>
	<p><i>Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, attended; QUEEN ELIZABETH, PEMBROKE, STAFFORD, HASTINGS, and others</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.9>Now, brother of Clarence, how like you our choice,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.10>That you stand pensive, as half malcontent?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.11>As well as Lewis of France, or the Earl of Warwick,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.12>Which are so weak of courage and in judgment</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.13>That they'll take no offence at our abuse.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.14>Suppose they take offence without a cause,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.15>They are but Lewis and Warwick: I am Edward,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.16>Your king and Warwick's, and must have my will.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.17>And shall have your will, because our king:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.18>Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.19>Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.20>Not I:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.21>No, God forbid that I should wish them sever'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.22>Whom God hath join'd together; ay, and 'twere pity</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.23>To sunder them that yoke so well together.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.24>Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.25>Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.26>Should not become my wife and England's queen.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.27>And you too, Somerset and Montague,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.28>Speak freely what you think.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.29>Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.30>Becomes your enemy, for mocking him</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.31>About the marriage of the Lady Bona.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.32>And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.33>Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.34>What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeased</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.35>By such invention as I can devise?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.36>Yet, to have join'd with France in such alliance</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.37>Would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.38>'Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.39>Why, knows not Montague that of itself</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.40>England is safe, if true within itself?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.41>But the safer when 'tis back'd with France.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.42>'Tis better using France than trusting France:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.43>Let us be back'd with God and with the seas</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.44>Which He hath given for fence impregnable,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.45>And with their helps only defend ourselves;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.46>In them and in ourselves our safety lies.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.47>For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.48>To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.49>Ay, what of that? it was my will and grant;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.50>And for this once my will shall stand for law.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.51>And yet methinks your grace hath not done well,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.52>To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.53>Unto the brother of your loving bride;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.54>She better would have fitted me or Clarence:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.55>But in your bride you bury brotherhood.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.56>Or else you would not have bestow'd the heir</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.57>Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife's son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.58>And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.59>Alas, poor Clarence! is it for a wife</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.60>That thou art malcontent? I will provide thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.61>In choosing for yourself, you show'd your judgment,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.62>Which being shallow, you give me leave</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.63>To play the broker in mine own behalf;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.64>And to that end I shortly mind to leave you.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.65>Leave me, or tarry, Edward will be king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.66>And not be tied unto his brother's will.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.67>My lords, before it pleased his majesty</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.68>To raise my state to title of a queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.69>Do me but right, and you must all confess</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.70>That I was not ignoble of descent;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.71>And meaner than myself have had like fortune.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.72>But as this title honours me and mine,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.73>So your dislike, to whom I would be pleasing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.74>Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.75>My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.76>What danger or what sorrow can befall thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.77>So long as Edward is thy constant friend,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.78>And their true sovereign, whom they must obey?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.79>Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.80>Unless they seek for hatred at my hands;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.81>Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.82>And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.83>[Aside] I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Post</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.84>Now, messenger, what letters or what news</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.85>From France?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.86>My sovereign liege, no letters; and few words,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.87>But such as I, without your special pardon,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.88>Dare not relate.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.89>Go to, we pardon thee: therefore, in brief,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.90>Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.91>What answer makes King Lewis unto our letters?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.92>At my depart, these were his very words:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.93>'Go tell false Edward, thy supposed king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.94>That Lewis of France is sending over masquers</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.95>To revel it with him and his new bride.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.96>Is Lewis so brave? belike he thinks me Henry.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.97>But what said Lady Bona to my marriage?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.98>These were her words, utter'd with mad disdain:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.99>'Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.100>I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.101>I blame not her, she could say little less;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.102>She had the wrong. But what said Henry's queen?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.103>For I have heard that she was there in place.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.104>'Tell him,' quoth she, 'my mourning weeds are done,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.105>And I am ready to put armour on.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.106>Belike she minds to play the Amazon.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.107>But what said Warwick to these injuries?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.108>He, more incensed against your majesty</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.109>Than all the rest, discharged me with these words:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.110>'Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.111>And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.112>Ha! durst the traitor breathe out so proud words?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.113>Well I will arm me, being thus forewarn'd:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.114>They shall have wars and pay for their presumption.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.115>But say, is Warwick friends with Margaret?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.116>Ay, gracious sovereign; they are so link'd in</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.117>friendship</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.118>That young Prince Edward marries Warwick's daughter.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.119>Belike the elder; Clarence will have the younger.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.120>Now, brother king, farewell, and sit you fast,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.121>For I will hence to Warwick's other daughter;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.122>That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.123>I may not prove inferior to yourself.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.124>You that love me and Warwick, follow me.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit CLARENCE, and SOMERSET follows</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.125>[Aside] Not I:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.126>My thoughts aim at a further matter; I</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.127>Stay not for the love of Edward, but the crown.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.128>Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.129>Yet am I arm'd against the worst can happen;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.130>And haste is needful in this desperate case.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.131>Pembroke and Stafford, you in our behalf</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.132>Go levy men, and make prepare for war;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.133>They are already, or quickly will be landed:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.134>Myself in person will straight follow you.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt PEMBROKE and STAFFORD</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.1.135>But, ere I go, Hastings and Montague,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.136>Resolve my doubt. You twain, of all the rest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.137>Are near to Warwick by blood and by alliance:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.138>Tell me if you love Warwick more than me?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.139>If it be so, then both depart to him;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.140>I rather wish you foes than hollow friends:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.141>But if you mind to hold your true obedience,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.142>Give me assurance with some friendly vow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.143>That I may never have you in suspect.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.144>So God help Montague as he proves true!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.145>And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.146>Now, brother Richard, will you stand by us?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.147>Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand you.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.148>Why, so! then am I sure of victory.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.149>Now therefore let us hence; and lose no hour,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.150>Till we meet Warwick with his foreign power.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. A plain in Warwickshire.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter WARWICK and OXFORD, with French soldiers</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.1>Trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes well;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.2>The common people by numbers swarm to us.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CLARENCE and SOMERSET</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.2.3>But see where Somerset and Clarence come!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.4>Speak suddenly, my lords, are we all friends?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.5>Fear not that, my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.6>Then, gentle Clarence, welcome unto Warwick;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.7>And welcome, Somerset: I hold it cowardice</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.8>To rest mistrustful where a noble heart</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.9>Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.10>Else might I think that Clarence, Edward's brother,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.11>Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.12>But welcome, sweet Clarence; my daughter shall be thine.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.13>And now what rests but, in night's coverture,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.14>Thy brother being carelessly encamp'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.15>His soldiers lurking in the towns about,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.16>And but attended by a simple guard,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.17>We may surprise and take him at our pleasure?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.18>Our scouts have found the adventure very easy:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.19>That as Ulysses and stout Diomede</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.20>With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' tents,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.21>And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.22>So we, well cover'd with the night's black mantle,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.23>At unawares may beat down Edward's guard</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.24>And seize himself; I say not, slaughter him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.25>For I intend but only to surprise him.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.26>You that will follow me to this attempt,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.27>Applaud the name of Henry with your leader.</A><br>
	<p><i>They all cry, 'Henry!'</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.2.28>Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.29>For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. Edward's camp, near Warwick.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter three Watchmen, to guard KING EDWARD IV's tent</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>First Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.1>Come on, my masters, each man take his stand:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.2>The king by this is set him down to sleep.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.3>What, will he not to bed?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>First Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.4>Why, no; for he hath made a solemn vow</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.5>Never to lie and take his natural rest</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.6>Till Warwick or himself be quite suppress'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.7>To-morrow then belike shall be the day,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.8>If Warwick be so near as men report.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>Third Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.9>But say, I pray, what nobleman is that</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.10>That with the king here resteth in his tent?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>First Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.11>'Tis the Lord Hastings, the king's chiefest friend.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Third Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.12>O, is it so? But why commands the king</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.13>That his chief followers lodge in towns about him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.14>While he himself keeps in the cold field?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>Second Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.15>'Tis the more honour, because more dangerous.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>Third Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.16>Ay, but give me worship and quietness;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.17>I like it better than a dangerous honour.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.18>If Warwick knew in what estate he stands,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.19>'Tis to be doubted he would waken him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>First Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.20>Unless our halberds did shut up his passage.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>Second Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.21>Ay, wherefore else guard we his royal tent,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.22>But to defend his person from night-foes?</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter WARWICK, CLARENCE, OXFORD, SOMERSET, and French soldiers, silent all</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.23>This is his tent; and see where stand his guard.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.24>Courage, my masters! honour now or never!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.25>But follow me, and Edward shall be ours.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>First Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.26>Who goes there?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>Second Watchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.27>Stay, or thou diest!</A><br>
	<p><i>WARWICK and the rest cry all, 'Warwick! Warwick!' and set upon the Guard, who fly, crying, 'Arm! arm!' WARWICK and the rest following them</i></p>
	<p><i>The drum playing and trumpet sounding, reenter WARWICK, SOMERSET, and the rest, bringing KING EDWARD IV out in his gown, sitting in a chair. RICHARD and HASTINGS fly over the stage</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.28>What are they that fly there?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.29>Richard and Hastings: let them go; here is The duke.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.30> The duke! Why, Warwick, when we parted,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.31>Thou call'dst me king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.32>Ay, but the case is alter'd:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.33>When you disgraced me in my embassade,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.34>Then I degraded you from being king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.35>And come now to create you Duke of York.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.36>Alas! how should you govern any kingdom,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.37>That know not how to use ambassadors,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.38>Nor how to be contented with one wife,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.39>Nor how to use your brothers brotherly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.40>Nor how to study for the people's welfare,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.41>Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.42>Yea, brother of Clarence, are thou here too?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.43>Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.44>Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.45>Of thee thyself and all thy complices,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.46>Edward will always bear himself as king:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.47>Though fortune's malice overthrow my state,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.48>My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.49>Then, for his mind, be Edward England's king:</A><br>
	<p><i>Takes off his crown</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.3.50>But Henry now shall wear the English crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.51>And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.52>My Lord of Somerset, at my request,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.53>See that forthwith Duke Edward be convey'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.54>Unto my brother, Archbishop of York.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.55>When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.56>I'll follow you, and tell what answer</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.57>Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.58>Now, for a while farewell, good Duke of York.</A><br>
	<p><i>They lead him out forcibly</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.59>What fates impose, that men must needs abide;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.60>It boots not to resist both wind and tide.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit, guarded</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.61>What now remains, my lords, for us to do</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.62>But march to London with our soldiers?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.63>Ay, that's the first thing that we have to do;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.64>To free King Henry from imprisonment</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.65>And see him seated in the regal throne.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. London. The palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and RIVERS</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>RIVERS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.1>Madam, what makes you in this sudden change?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.2>Why brother Rivers, are you yet to learn</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.3>What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>RIVERS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.4>What! loss of some pitch'd battle against Warwick?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.5>No, but the loss of his own royal person.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>RIVERS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.6>Then is my sovereign slain?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.7>Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.8>Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.9>Or by his foe surprised at unawares:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.10>And, as I further have to understand,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.11>Is new committed to the Bishop of York,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.12>Fell Warwick's brother and by that our foe.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>RIVERS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.13>These news I must confess are full of grief;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.14>Yet, gracious madam, bear it as you may:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.15>Warwick may lose, that now hath won the day.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.16>Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.17>And I the rather wean me from despair</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.18>For love of Edward's offspring in my womb:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.19>This is it that makes me bridle passion</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.20>And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.21>Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.22>And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.23>Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.24>King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>RIVERS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.25>But, madam, where is Warwick then become?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.26>I am inform'd that he comes towards London,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.27>To set the crown once more on Henry's head:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.28>Guess thou the rest; King Edward's friends must down,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.29>But, to prevent the tyrant's violence,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.30>For trust not him that hath once broken faith,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.31>I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.32>To save at least the heir of Edward's right:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.33>There shall I rest secure from force and fraud.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.34>Come, therefore, let us fly while we may fly:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.35>If Warwick take us we are sure to die.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE V. A park near Middleham Castle In Yorkshire.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and STANLEY</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.1>Now, my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.2>Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.3>Into this chiefest thicket of the park.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.4>Thus stands the case: you know our king, my brother,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.5>Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.6>He hath good usage and great liberty,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.7>And, often but attended with weak guard,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.8>Comes hunting this way to disport himself.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.9>I have advertised him by secret means</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.10>That if about this hour he make his way</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.11>Under the colour of his usual game,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.12>He shall here find his friends with horse and men</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.13>To set him free from his captivity.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter KING EDWARD IV and a Huntsman with him</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>Huntsman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.14>This way, my lord; for this way lies the game.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.15>Nay, this way, man: see where the huntsmen stand.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.16>Now, brother of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and the rest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.17>Stand you thus close, to steal the bishop's deer?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.18>Brother, the time and case requireth haste:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.19>Your horse stands ready at the park-corner.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.20>But whither shall we then?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.21>To Lynn, my lord,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.22>And ship from thence to Flanders.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.23>Well guess'd, believe me; for that was my meaning.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.24>Stanley, I will requite thy forwardness.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.25>But wherefore stay we? 'tis no time to talk.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.26>Huntsman, what say'st thou? wilt thou go along?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>Huntsman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.27>Better do so than tarry and be hang'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.28>Come then, away; let's ha' no more ado.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.5.29>Bishop, farewell: shield thee from Warwick's frown;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.5.30>And pray that I may repossess the crown.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VI. London. The Tower.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLARENCE, WARWICK, SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, OXFORD, MONTAGUE, and Lieutenant of the Tower</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.1>Master lieutenant, now that God and friends</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.2>Have shaken Edward from the regal seat,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.3>And turn'd my captive state to liberty,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.4>My fear to hope, my sorrows unto joys,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.5>At our enlargement what are thy due fees?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>Lieutenant</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.6>Subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.7>But if an humble prayer may prevail,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.8>I then crave pardon of your majesty.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.9>For what, lieutenant? for well using me?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.10>Nay, be thou sure I'll well requite thy kindness,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.11>For that it made my imprisonment a pleasure;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.12>Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.13>Conceive when after many moody thoughts</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.14>At last by notes of household harmony</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.15>They quite forget their loss of liberty.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.16>But, Warwick, after God, thou set'st me free,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.17>And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.18>He was the author, thou the instrument.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.19>Therefore, that I may conquer fortune's spite</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.20>By living low, where fortune cannot hurt me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.21>And that the people of this blessed land</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.22>May not be punish'd with my thwarting stars,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.23>Warwick, although my head still wear the crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.24>I here resign my government to thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.25>For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.26>Your grace hath still been famed for virtuous;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.27>And now may seem as wise as virtuous,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.28>By spying and avoiding fortune's malice,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.29>For few men rightly temper with the stars:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.30>Yet in this one thing let me blame your grace,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.31>For choosing me when Clarence is in place.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.32>No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.33>To whom the heavens in thy nativity</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.34>Adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.35>As likely to be blest in peace and war;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.36>And therefore I yield thee my free consent.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.37>And I choose Clarence only for protector.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.38>Warwick and Clarence give me both your hands:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.39>Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.40>That no dissension hinder government:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.41>I make you both protectors of this land,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.42>While I myself will lead a private life</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.43>And in devotion spend my latter days,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.44>To sin's rebuke and my Creator's praise.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.45>What answers Clarence to his sovereign's will?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.46>That he consents, if Warwick yield consent;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.47>For on thy fortune I repose myself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.48>Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.49>We'll yoke together, like a double shadow</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.50>To Henry's body, and supply his place;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.51>I mean, in bearing weight of government,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.52>While he enjoys the honour and his ease.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.53>And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.54>Forthwith that Edward be pronounced a traitor,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.55>And all his lands and goods be confiscate.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.56>What else? and that succession be determined.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.57>Ay, therein Clarence shall not want his part.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.58>But, with the first of all your chief affairs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.59>Let me entreat, for I command no more,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.60>That Margaret your queen and my son Edward</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.61>Be sent for, to return from France with speed;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.62>For, till I see them here, by doubtful fear</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.63>My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.64>It shall be done, my sovereign, with all speed.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.65>My Lord of Somerset, what youth is that,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.66>Of whom you seem to have so tender care?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.67>My liege, it is young Henry, earl of Richmond.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.68>Come hither, England's hope.</A><br>
	<p><i>Lays his hand on his head</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.6.69>If secret powers</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.70>Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.71>This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.72>His looks are full of peaceful majesty,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.73>His head by nature framed to wear a crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.74>His hand to wield a sceptre, and himself</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.75>Likely in time to bless a regal throne.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.76>Make much of him, my lords, for this is he</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.77>Must help you more than you are hurt by me.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Post</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.78>What news, my friend?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.79>That Edward is escaped from your brother,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.80>And fled, as he hears since, to Burgundy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.81>Unsavoury news! but how made he escape?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>Post</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.82>He was convey'd by Richard Duke of Gloucester</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.83>And the Lord Hastings, who attended him</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.84>In secret ambush on the forest side</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.85>And from the bishop's huntsmen rescued him;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.86>For hunting was his daily exercise.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.87>My brother was too careless of his charge.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.88>But let us hence, my sovereign, to provide</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.89>A salve for any sore that may betide.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt all but SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, and OXFORD</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.90>My lord, I like not of this flight of Edward's;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.91>For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.92>And we shall have more wars before 't be long.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.93>As Henry's late presaging prophecy</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.94>Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.95>So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.96>What may befall him, to his harm and ours:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.97>Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.98>Forthwith we'll send him hence to Brittany,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.99>Till storms be past of civil enmity.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.100>Ay, for if Edward repossess the crown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.101>'Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.6.102>It shall be so; he shall to Brittany.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.6.103>Come, therefore, let's about it speedily.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VII. Before York.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and Soldiers</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.1>Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.2>Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.3>And says that once more I shall interchange</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.4>My waned state for Henry's regal crown.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.5>Well have we pass'd and now repass'd the seas</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.6>And brought desired help from Burgundy:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.7>What then remains, we being thus arrived</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.8>From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.9>But that we enter, as into our dukedom?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.10>The gates made fast! Brother, I like not this;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.11>For many men that stumble at the threshold</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.12>Are well foretold that danger lurks within.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.13>Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.14>By fair or foul means we must enter in,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.15>For hither will our friends repair to us.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.16>My liege, I'll knock once more to summon them.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter, on the walls, the Mayor of York, and his Brethren</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>Mayor</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.17>My lords, we were forewarned of your coming,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.18>And shut the gates for safety of ourselves;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.19>For now we owe allegiance unto Henry.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.20>But, master mayor, if Henry be your king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.21>Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Mayor</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.22>True, my good lord; I know you for no less.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.23>Why, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.24>As being well content with that alone.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.25>[Aside] But when the fox hath once got in his nose,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.26>He'll soon find means to make the body follow.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.27>Why, master mayor, why stand you in a doubt?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.28>Open the gates; we are King Henry's friends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>Mayor</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.29>Ay, say you so? the gates shall then be open'd.</A><br>
	<p><i>They descend</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.30>A wise stout captain, and soon persuaded!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.31>The good old man would fain that all were well,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.32>So 'twere not 'long of him; but being enter'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.33>I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.34>Both him and all his brothers unto reason.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter the Mayor and two Aldermen, below</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.35>So, master mayor: these gates must not be shut</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.36>But in the night or in the time of war.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.37>What! fear not, man, but yield me up the keys;</A><br>
	<p><i>Takes his keys</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.7.38>For Edward will defend the town and thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.39>And all those friends that deign to follow me.</A><br>
	<p><i>March. Enter MONTGOMERY, with drum and soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.40>Brother, this is Sir John Montgomery,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.41>Our trusty friend, unless I be deceived.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.42>Welcome, Sir John! But why come you in arms?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.43>To help King Edward in his time of storm,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.44>As every loyal subject ought to do.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.45>Thanks, good Montgomery; but we now forget</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.46>Our title to the crown and only claim</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.47>Our dukedom till God please to send the rest.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.48>Then fare you well, for I will hence again:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.49>I came to serve a king and not a duke.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.50>Drummer, strike up, and let us march away.</A><br>
	<p><i>The drum begins to march</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.51>Nay, stay, Sir John, awhi le, and we'll debate</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.52>By what safe means the crown may be recover'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.53>What talk you of debating? in few words,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.54>If you'll not here proclaim yourself our king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.55>I'll leave you to your fortune and be gone</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.56>To keep them back that come to succor you:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.57>Why shall we fight, if you pretend no title?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.58>Why, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.59>When we grow stronger, then we'll make our claim:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.60>Till then, 'tis wisdom to conceal our meaning.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.61>Away with scrupulous wit! now arms must rule.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.62>And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.63>Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.64>The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.65>Then be it as you will; for 'tis my right,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.66>And Henry but usurps the diadem.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.67>Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.68>And now will I be Edward's champion.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>HASTINGS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.69>Sound trumpet; Edward shall be here proclaim'd:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.70>Come, fellow-soldier, make thou proclamation.</A><br>
	<p><i>Flourish</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>Soldier</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.71>Edward the Fourth, by the grace of God, king of</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.72>England and France, and lord of Ireland, & c.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.73>And whosoe'er gainsays King Edward's right,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.74>By this I challenge him to single fight.</A><br>
	<p><i>Throws down his gauntlet</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>All</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.75>Long live Edward the Fourth!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.7.76>Thanks, brave Montgomery; and thanks unto you all:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.77>If fortune serve me, I'll requite this kindness.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.78>Now, for this night, let's harbour here in York;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.79>And when the morning sun shall raise his car</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.80>Above the border of this horizon,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.81>We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.82>For well I wot that Henry is no soldier.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.83>Ah, froward Clarence! how evil it beseems thee</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.84>To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.85>Yet, as we may, we'll meet both thee and Warwick.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.86>Come on, brave soldiers: doubt not of the day,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.7.87>And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VIII. London. The palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, WARWICK, MONTAGUE, CLARENCE, EXETER, and OXFORD</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.1>What counsel, lords? Edward from Belgia,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.2>With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.3>Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.4>And with his troops doth march amain to London;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.5>And many giddy people flock to him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.6>Let's levy men, and beat him back again.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.7>A little fire is quickly trodden out;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.8>Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.9>In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.10>Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.11>Those will I muster up: and thou, son Clarence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.12>Shalt stir up in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.13>The knights and gentlemen to come with thee:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.14>Thou, brother Montague, in Buckingham,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.15>Northampton and in Leicestershire, shalt find</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.16>Men well inclined to hear what thou command'st:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.17>And thou, brave Oxford, wondrous well beloved,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.18>In Oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.19>My sovereign, with the loving citizens,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.20>Like to his island girt in with the ocean,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.21>Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.22>Shall rest in London till we come to him.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.23>Fair lords, take leave and stand not to reply.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.24>Farewell, my sovereign.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.25>Farewell, my Hector, and my Troy's true hope.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.26>In sign of truth, I kiss your highness' hand.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.27>Well-minded Clarence, be thou fortunate!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.28>Comfort, my lord; and so I take my leave.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.29>And thus I seal my truth, and bid adieu.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.30>Sweet Oxford, and my loving Montague,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.31>And all at once, once more a happy farewell.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.32>Farewell, sweet lords: let's meet at Coventry.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt all but KING HENRY VI and EXETER</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.33>Here at the palace I will rest awhile.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.34>Cousin of Exeter, what thinks your lordship?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.35>Methinks the power that Edward hath in field</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.36>Should not be able to encounter mine.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.37>The doubt is that he will seduce the rest.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.38>That's not my fear; my meed hath got me fame:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.39>I have not stopp'd mine ears to their demands,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.40>Nor posted off their suits with slow delays;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.41>My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.42>My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.43>My mercy dried their water-flowing tears;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.44>I have not been desirous of their wealth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.45>Nor much oppress'd them with great subsidies.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.46>Nor forward of revenge, though they much err'd:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.47>Then why should they love Edward more than me?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.48>No, Exeter, these graces challenge grace:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.49>And when the lion fawns upon the lamb,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.50>The lamb will never cease to follow him.</A><br>
	<p><i>Shout within. 'A Lancaster! A Lancaster!'</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>EXETER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.51>Hark, hark, my lord! what shouts are these?</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, and soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.52>Seize on the shame-faced Henry, bear him hence;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.53>And once again proclaim us King of England.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.54>You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.55>Now stops thy spring; my sea sha$l suck them dry,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.56>And swell so much the higher by their ebb.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.57>Hence with him to the Tower; let him not speak.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt some with KING HENRY VI</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.8.58>And, lords, towards Coventry bend we our course</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.59>Where peremptory Warwick now remains:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.60>The sun shines hot; and, if we use delay,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.61>Cold biting winter mars our hoped-for hay.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.8.62>Away betimes, before his forces join,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.63>And take the great-grown traitor unawares:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.8.64>Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote><p>
	<H3>ACT V</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. Coventry.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter WARWICK, the Mayor of Coventry, two Messengers, and others upon the walls</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.1>Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.2>How far hence is thy lord, mine honest fellow?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>First Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.3>By this at Dunsmore, marching hitherward.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.4>How far off is our brother Montague?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.5>Where is the post that came from Montague?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.6>By this at Daintry, with a puissant troop.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter SIR JOHN SOMERVILLE</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.7>Say, Somerville, what says my loving son?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.8>And, by thy guess, how nigh is Clarence now?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.9>At Southam I did leave him with his forces,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.10>And do expect him here some two hours hence.</A><br>
	<p><i>Drum heard</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.11>Then Clarence is at hand, I hear his drum.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.12>It is not his, my lord; here Southam lies:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.13>The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.14>Who should that be? belike, unlook'd-for friends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.15>They are at hand, and you shall quickly know.</A><br>
	<p><i>March: flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, and soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.16>Go, trumpet, to the walls, and sound a parle.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.17>See how the surly Warwick mans the wall!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.18>O unbid spite! is sportful Edward come?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.19>Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.20>That we could hear no news of his repair?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.21>Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.22>Speak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.23>Call Edward king and at his hands beg mercy?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.24>And he shall pardon thee these outrages.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.25>Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.26>Confess who set thee up and pluck'd thee own,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.27>Call Warwick patron and be penitent?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.28>And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.29>I thought, at least, he would have said the king;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.30>Or did he make the jest against his will?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.31>Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.32>Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.33>I'll do thee service for so good a gift.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.34>'Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.35>Why then 'tis mine, if but by Warwick's gift.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.36>Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.37>And weakling, Warwick takes his gift again;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.38>And Henry is my king, Warwick his subject.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.39>But Warwick's king is Edward's prisoner:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.40>And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.41>What is the body when the head is off?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.42>Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.43>But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.44>The king was slily finger'd from the deck!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.45>You left poor Henry at the Bishop's palace,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.46>And, ten to one, you'll meet him in the Tower.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.47>'Tis even so; yet you are Warwick still.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.48>Come, Warwick, take the time; kneel down, kneel down:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.49>Nay, when? strike now, or else the iron cools.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.50>I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.51>And with the other fling it at thy face,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.52>Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.53>Sail how thou canst, have wind and tide thy friend,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.54>This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.55>Shall, whiles thy head is warm and new cut off,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.56>Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.57>'Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more.'</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter OXFORD, with drum and colours</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.58>O cheerful colours! see where Oxford comes!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.59>Oxford, Oxford, for Lancaster!</A><br>
	<p><i>He and his forces enter the city</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.60>The gates are open, let us enter too.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.61>So other foes may set upon our backs.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.62>Stand we in good array; for they no doubt</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.63>Will issue out again and bid us battle:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.64>If not, the city being but of small defence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.65>We'll quickly rouse the traitors in the same.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.66>O, welcome, Oxford! for we want thy help.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter MONTAGUE with drum and colours</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.67>Montague, Montague, for Lancaster!</A><br>
	<p><i>He and his forces enter the city</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.68>Thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.69>Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.70>The harder match'd, the greater victory:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.71>My mind presageth happy gain and conquest.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter SOMERSET, with drum and colours</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.72>Somerset, Somerset, for Lancaster!</A><br>
	<p><i>He and his forces enter the city</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.73>Two of thy name, both Dukes of Somerset,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.74>Have sold their lives unto the house of York;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.75>And thou shalt be the third if this sword hold.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CLARENCE, with drum and colours</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.76>And lo, where George of Clarence sweeps along,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.77>Of force enough to bid his brother battle;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.78>With whom an upright zeal to right prevails</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.79>More than the nature of a brother's love!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.80>Come, Clarence, come; thou wilt, if Warwick call.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.81>Father of Warwick, know you what this means?</A><br>
	<p><i>Taking his red rose out of his hat</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.1.82>Look here, I throw my infamy at thee</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.83>I will not ruinate my father's house,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.84>Who gave his blood to lime the stones together,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.85>And set up Lancaster. Why, trow'st thou, Warwick,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.86>That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.87>To bend the fatal instruments of war</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.88>Against his brother and his lawful king?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.89>Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.90>To keep that oath were more impiety</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.91>Than Jephthah's, when he sacrificed his daughter.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.92>I am so sorry for my trespass made</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.93>That, to deserve well at my brother's hands,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.94>I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.95>With resolution, wheresoe'er I meet thee--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.96>As I will meet thee, if thou stir abroad--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.97>To plague thee for thy foul misleading me.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.98>And so, proud-hearted Warwick, I defy thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.99>And to my brother turn my blushing cheeks.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.100>Pardon me, Edward, I will make amends:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.101>And, Richard, do not frown upon my faults,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.102>For I will henceforth be no more unconstant.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.103>Now welcome more, and ten times more beloved,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.104>Than if thou never hadst deserved our hate.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.105>Welcome, good Clarence; this is brotherlike.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.106>O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.107>What, Warwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.108>Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.109>Alas, I am not coop'd here for defence!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.110>I will away towards Barnet presently,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.111>And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou darest.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.112>Yes, Warwick, Edward dares, and leads the way.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.113>Lords, to the field; Saint George and victory!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt King Edward and his company. March. Warwick and his company follow</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. A field of battle near Barnet.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Alarum and excursions. Enter KING EDWARD IV, bringing forth WARWICK wounded</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.1>So, lie thou there: die thou, and die our fear;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.2>For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.3>Now, Montague, sit fast; I seek for thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.4>That Warwick's bones may keep thine company.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.5>Ah, who is nigh? come to me, friend or foe,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.6>And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.7>Why ask I that? my mangled body shows,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.8>My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.9>That I must yield my body to the earth</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.10>And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.11>Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.12>Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.13>Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.14>Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.15>And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.16>These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.17>Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.18>To search the secret treasons of the world:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.19>The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.20>Were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.21>For who lived king, but I could dig his grave?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.22>And who durst mine when Warwick bent his brow?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.23>Lo, now my glory smear'd in dust and blood!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.24>My parks, my walks, my manors that I had.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.25>Even now forsake me, and of all my lands</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.26>Is nothing left me but my body's length.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.27>Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.28>And, live we how we can, yet die we must.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter OXFORD and SOMERSET</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.29>Ah, Warwick, Warwick! wert thou as we are.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.30>We might recover all our loss again;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.31>The queen from France hath brought a puissant power:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.32>Even now we heard the news: ah, could'st thou fly!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.33>Why, then I would not fly. Ah, Montague,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.34>If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.35>And with thy lips keep in my soul awhile!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.36>Thou lovest me not; for, brother, if thou didst,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.37>Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.38>That glues my lips and will not let me speak.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.39>Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.40>Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.41>And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.42>And said 'Commend me to my valiant brother.'</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.43>And more he would have said, and more he spoke,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.44>Which sounded like a clamour in a vault,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.45>That mought not be distinguished; but at last</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.46>I well might hear, delivered with a groan,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.47>'O, farewell, Warwick!'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>WARWICK</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.48>Sweet rest his soul! Fly, lords, and save yourselves;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.49>For Warwick bids you all farewell to meet in heaven.</A><br>
	<p><i>Dies</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.50>Away, away, to meet the queen's great power!</A><br>
	<p><i>Here they bear away his body. Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. Another part of the field.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV in triumph; with GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and the rest</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.1>Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.2>And we are graced with wreaths of victory.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.3>But, in the midst of this bright-shining day,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.4>I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.5>That will encounter with our glorious sun,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.6>Ere he attain his easeful western bed:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.7>I mean, my lords, those powers that the queen</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.8>Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.9>And, as we hear, march on to fight with us.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.10>A little gale will soon disperse that cloud</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.11>And blow it to the source from whence it came:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.12>The very beams will dry those vapours up,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.13>For every cloud engenders not a storm.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.14>The queen is valued thirty thousand strong,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.15>And Somerset, with Oxford fled to her:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.16>If she have time to breathe be well assured</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.17>Her faction will be full as strong as ours.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.18>We are advertised by our loving friends</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.19>That they do hold their course toward Tewksbury:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.20>We, having now the best at Barnet field,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.21>Will thither straight, for willingness rids way;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.22>And, as we march, our strength will be augmented</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.23>In every county as we go along.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.24>Strike up the drum; cry 'Courage!' and away.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. Plains near Tewksbury.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>March. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE EDWARD, SOMERSET, OXFORD, and soldiers</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.1>Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.2>But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.3>What though the mast be now blown overboard,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.4>The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.5>And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.6>Yet lives our pilot still. Is't meet that he</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.7>Should leave the helm and like a fearful lad</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.8>With tearful eyes add water to the sea</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.9>And give more strength to that which hath too much,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.10>Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.11>Which industry and courage might have saved?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.12>Ah, what a shame! ah, what a fault were this!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.13>Say Warwick was our anchor; what of that?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.14>And Montague our topmost; what of him?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.15>Our slaughter'd friends the tackles; what of these?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.16>Why, is not Oxford here another anchor?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.17>And Somerset another goodly mast?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.18>The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.19>And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.20>For once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.21>We will not from the helm to sit and weep,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.22>But keep our course, though the rough wind say no,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.23>From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.24>As good to chide the waves as speak them fair.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.25>And what is Edward but ruthless sea?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.26>What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.27>And Richard but a ragged fatal rock?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.28>All these the enemies to our poor bark.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.29>Say you can swim; alas, 'tis but a while!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.30>Tread on the sand; why, there you quickly sink:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.31>Bestride the rock; the tide will wash you off,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.32>Or else you famish; that's a threefold death.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.33>This speak I, lords, to let you understand,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.34>If case some one of you would fly from us,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.35>That there's no hoped-for mercy with the brothers</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.36>More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.37>Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.38>'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.39>Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.40>Should, if a coward heard her speak these words,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.41>Infuse his breast with magnanimity</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.42>And make him, naked, foil a man at arms.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.43>I speak not this as doubting any here</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.44>For did I but suspect a fearful man</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.45>He should have leave to go away betimes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.46>Lest in our need he might infect another</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.47>And make him of like spirit to himself.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.48>If any such be here--as God forbid!--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.49>Let him depart before we need his help.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.50>Women and children of so high a courage,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.51>And warriors faint! why, 'twere perpetual shame.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.52>O brave young prince! thy famous grandfather</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.53>Doth live again in thee: long mayst thou live</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.54>To bear his image and renew his glories!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.55>And he that will not fight for such a hope.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.56>Go home to bed, and like the owl by day,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.57>If he arise, be mock'd and wonder'd at.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.58>Thanks, gentle Somerset; sweet Oxford, thanks.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.59>And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.60>Prepare you, lords, for Edward is at hand.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.61>Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.62> I thought no less: it is his policy</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.63>To haste thus fast, to find us unprovided.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.64>But he's deceived; we are in readiness.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.65>This cheers my heart, to see your forwardness.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.66>Here pitch our battle; hence we will not budge.</A><br>
	<p><i>Flourish and march. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.67>Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.68>Which, by the heavens' assistance and your strength,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.69>Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.70>I need not add more fuel to your fire,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.71>For well I wot ye blaze to burn them out</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.72>Give signal to the fight, and to it, lords!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.73>Lords, knights, and gentlemen, what I should say</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.74>My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.75>Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.76>Therefore, no more but this: Henry, your sovereign,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.77>Is prisoner to the foe; his state usurp'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.78>His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.79>His statutes cancell'd and his treasure spent;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.80>And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.81>You fight in justice: then, in God's name, lords,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.82>Be valiant and give signal to the fight.</A><br>
	<p><i>Alarum. Retreat. Excursions. Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE V. Another part of the field.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and soldiers; with QUEEN MARGARET, OXFORD, and SOMERSET, prisoners</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.1>Now here a period of tumultuous broils.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.2>Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.3>For Somerset, off with his guilty head.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.4>Go, bear them hence; I will not hear them speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>OXFORD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.5>For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>SOMERSET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.6>Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt Oxford and Somerset, guarded</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.7>So part we sadly in this troublous world,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.8>To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.9>Is proclamation made, that who finds Edward</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.10>Shall have a high reward, and he his life?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.11>It is: and lo, where youthful Edward comes!</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter soldiers, with PRINCE EDWARD</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.12>Bring forth the gallant, let us hear him speak.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.13>What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.14>Edward, what satisfaction canst thou make</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.15>For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.16>And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.17>Speak like a subject, proud ambitious York!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.18>Suppose that I am now my father's mouth;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.19>Resign thy chair, and where I stand kneel thou,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.20>Whilst I propose the selfsame words to thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.21>Which traitor, thou wouldst have me answer to.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.22>Ah, that thy father had been so resolved!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.23>That you might still have worn the petticoat,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.24>And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lancaster.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.25>Let AEsop fable in a winter's night;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.26>His currish riddles sort not with this place.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.27>By heaven, brat, I'll plague ye for that word.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.28>Ay, thou wast born to be a plague to men.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.29>For God's sake, take away this captive scold.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.30>Nay, take away this scolding crookback rather.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.31>Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.32>Untutor'd lad, thou art too malapert.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.33>I know my duty; you are all undutiful:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.34>Lascivious Edward, and thou perjured George,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.35>And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.36>I am your better, traitors as ye are:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.37>And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.38>Take that, thou likeness of this railer here.</A><br>
	<p><i>Stabs him</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.39>Sprawl'st thou? take that, to end thy agony.</A><br>
	<p><i>Stabs him</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.40>And there's for twitting me with perjury.</A><br>
	<p><i>Stabs him</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.41>O, kill me too!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.42>Marry, and shall.</A><br>
	<p><i>Offers to kill her</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.43>Hold, Richard, hold; for we have done too much.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.44>Why should she live, to fill the world with words?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.45>What, doth she swoon? use means for her recovery.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.46>Clarence, excuse me to the king my brother;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.47>I'll hence to London on a serious matter:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.48>Ere ye come there, be sure to hear some news.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.49>What? what?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.50>The Tower, the Tower.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.51>O Ned, sweet Ned! speak to thy mother, boy!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.52>Canst thou not speak? O traitors! murderers!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.53>They that stabb'd Caesar shed no blood at all,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.54>Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.55>If this foul deed were by to equal it:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.56>He was a man; this, in respect, a child:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.57>And men ne'er spend their fury on a child.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.58>What's worse than murderer, that I may name it?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.59>No, no, my heart will burst, and if I speak:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.60>And I will speak, that so my heart may burst.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.61>Butchers and villains! bloody cannibals!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.62>How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.63>You have no children, butchers! if you had,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.64>The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.65>But if you ever chance to have a child,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.66>Look in his youth to have him so cut off</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.67>As, deathmen, you have rid this sweet young prince!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.68>Away with her; go, bear her hence perforce.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.69>Nay, never bear me hence, dispatch me here,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.70>Here sheathe thy sword, I'll pardon thee my death:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.71>What, wilt thou not? then, Clarence, do it thou.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.72>By heaven, I will not do thee so much ease.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.73>Good Clarence, do; sweet Clarence, do thou do it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.74>Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.75>Ay, but thou usest to forswear thyself:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.76>'Twas sin before, but now 'tis charity.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.77>What, wilt thou not? Where is that devil's butcher,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.78>Hard-favour'd Richard? Richard, where art thou?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.79>Thou art not here: murder is thy alms-deed;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.80>Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.81>Away, I say; I charge ye, bear her hence.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.82>So come to you and yours, as to this Prince!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit, led out forcibly</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.83>Where's Richard gone?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.84>To London, all in post; and, as I guess,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.85>To make a bloody supper in the Tower.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.86>He's sudden, if a thing comes in his head.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.87>Now march we hence: discharge the common sort</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.88>With pay and thanks, and let's away to London</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.89>And see our gentle queen how well she fares:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.90>By this, I hope, she hath a son for me.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VI. London. The Tower.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter KING HENRY VI and GLOUCESTER, with the Lieutenant, on the walls</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.1>Good day, my lord. What, at your book so hard?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.2>Ay, my good lord:--my lord, I should say rather;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.3>'Tis sin to flatter; 'good' was little better:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.4>'Good Gloucester' and 'good devil' were alike,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.5>And both preposterous; therefore, not 'good lord.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.6>Sirrah, leave us to ourselves: we must confer.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit Lieutenant</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.7>So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.8>So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.9>And next his throat unto the butcher's knife.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.10>What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.11>Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.12>The thief doth fear each bush an officer.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.13>The bird that hath been limed in a bush,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.14>With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.15>And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.16>Have now the fatal object in my eye</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.17>Where my poor young was limed, was caught and kill'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.18>Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.19>That taught his son the office of a fowl!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.20>An yet, for all his wings, the fool was drown'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.21>I, Daedalus; my poor boy, Icarus;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.22>Thy father, Minos, that denied our course;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.23>The sun that sear'd the wings of my sweet boy</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.24>Thy brother Edward, and thyself the sea</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.25>Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.26>Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.27>My breast can better brook thy dagger's point</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.28>Than can my ears that tragic history.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.29>But wherefore dost thou come? is't for my life?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.30>Think'st thou I am an executioner?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.31>A persecutor, I am sure, thou art:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.32>If murdering innocents be executing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.33>Why, then thou art an executioner.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.34>Thy son I kill'd for his presumption.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.35>Hadst thou been kill'd when first thou didst presume,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.36>Thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.37>And thus I prophesy, that many a thousand,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.38>Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.39>And many an old man's sigh and many a widow's,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.40>And many an orphan's water-standing eye--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.41>Men for their sons, wives for their husbands,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.42>And orphans for their parents timeless death--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.43>Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.44>The owl shriek'd at thy birth,--an evil sign;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.45>The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.46>Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempest shook down trees;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.47>The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.48>And chattering pies in dismal discords sung.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.49>Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.50>And, yet brought forth less than a mother's hope,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.51>To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.52>Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.53>Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.54>To signify thou camest to bite the world:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.55>And, if the rest be true which I have heard,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.56>Thou camest--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.57>I'll hear no more: die, prophet in thy speech:</A><br>
	<p><i>Stabs him</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.6.58>For this amongst the rest, was I ordain'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.59>Ay, and for much more slaughter after this.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.60>God forgive my sins, and pardon thee!</A><br>
	<p><i>Dies</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.6.61>What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.62>Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.63>See how my sword weeps for the poor king's death!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.64>O, may such purple tears be alway shed</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.65>From those that wish the downfall of our house!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.66>If any spark of life be yet remaining,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.67>Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither:</A><br>
	<p><i>Stabs him again</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.6.68>I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.69>Indeed, 'tis true that Henry told me of;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.70>For I have often heard my mother say</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.71>I came into the world with my legs forward:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.72>Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.73>And seek their ruin that usurp'd our right?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.74>The midwife wonder'd and the women cried</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.75>'O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.76>And so I was; which plainly signified</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.77>That I should snarl and bite and play the dog.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.78>Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.79>Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.80>I have no brother, I am like no brother;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.81>And this word 'love,' which graybeards call divine,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.82>Be resident in men like one another</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.83>And not in me: I am myself alone.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.84>Clarence, beware; thou keep'st me from the light:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.85>But I will sort a pitchy day for thee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.86>For I will buz abroad such prophecies</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.87>That Edward shall be fearful of his life,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.88>And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.89>King Henry and the prince his son are gone:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.90>Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.91>Counting myself but bad till I be best.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.92>I'll throw thy body in another room</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.6.93>And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit, with the body</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VII. London. The palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, QUEEN ELIZABETH, CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, a Nurse with the young Prince, and Attendants</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.1>Once more we sit in England's royal throne,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.2>Re-purchased with the blood of enemies.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.3>What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.4>Have we mow'd down, in tops of all their pride!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.5>Three Dukes of Somerset, threefold renown'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.6>For hardy and undoubted champions;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.7>Two Cliffords, as the father and the son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.8>And two Northumberlands; two braver men</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.9>Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.10>With them, the two brave bears, Warwick and Montague,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.11>That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.12>And made the forest tremble when they roar'd.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.13>Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.14>And made our footstool of security.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.15>Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.16>Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles and myself</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.17>Have in our armours watch'd the winter's night,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.18>Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.19>That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.20>And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.21>[Aside] I'll blast his harvest, if your head were laid;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.22>For yet I am not look'd on in the world.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.23>This shoulder was ordain'd so thick to heave;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.24>And heave it shall some weight, or break my back:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.25>Work thou the way,--and thou shalt execute.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.26>Clarence and Gloucester, love my lovely queen;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.27>And kiss your princely nephew, brothers both.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.28>The duty that I owe unto your majesty</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.29>I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.30>Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.31>And, that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.32>Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit.</A><br>
	<p><i>Aside</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.7.33>And cried 'all hail!' when as he meant all harm.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.34>Now am I seated as my soul delights,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.35>Having my country's peace and brothers' loves.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CLARENCE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.36>What will your grace have done with Margaret?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.37>Reignier, her father, to the king of France</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.38>Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerusalem,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.39>And hither have they sent it for her ransom.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.7.40>Away with her, and waft her hence to France.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.41>And now what rests but that we spend the time</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.42>With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.43>Such as befits the pleasure of the court?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.44>Sound drums and trumpets! farewell sour annoy!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.7.45>For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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