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| <H3>SCENE I. London. The palace.</h3> |
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| <i>Sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER</i> |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=1>Have you perused the letters from the pope,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=2>The emperor and the Earl of Armagnac?</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=3>I have, my lord: and their intent is this:</A><br> |
| <A NAME=4>They humbly sue unto your excellence</A><br> |
| <A NAME=5>To have a godly peace concluded of</A><br> |
| <A NAME=6>Between the realms of England and of France.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=7>How doth your grace affect their motion?</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=8>Well, my good lord; and as the only means</A><br> |
| <A NAME=9>To stop effusion of our Christian blood</A><br> |
| <A NAME=10>And 'stablish quietness on every side.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=11>Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought</A><br> |
| <A NAME=12>It was both impious and unnatural</A><br> |
| <A NAME=13>That such immanity and bloody strife</A><br> |
| <A NAME=14>Should reign among professors of one faith.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=15>Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect</A><br> |
| <A NAME=16>And surer bind this knot of amity,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=17>The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=18>A man of great authority in France,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=19>Proffers his only daughter to your grace</A><br> |
| <A NAME=20>In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=21>Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young!</A><br> |
| <A NAME=22>And fitter is my study and my books</A><br> |
| <A NAME=23>Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=24>Yet call the ambassador; and, as you please,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=25>So let them have their answers every one:</A><br> |
| <A NAME=26>I shall be well content with any choice</A><br> |
| <A NAME=27>Tends to God's glory and my country's weal.</A><br> |
| <p><i>Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER in Cardinal's habit, a Legate and two Ambassadors</i></p> |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>EXETER</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=28>What! is my Lord of Winchester install'd,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=29>And call'd unto a cardinal's degree?</A><br> |
| <A NAME=30>Then I perceive that will be verified</A><br> |
| <A NAME=31>Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=32>'If once he come to be a cardinal,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=33>He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=34>My lords ambassadors, your several suits</A><br> |
| <A NAME=35>Have been consider'd and debated on.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=36>And therefore are we certainly resolved</A><br> |
| <A NAME=37>To draw conditions of a friendly peace;</A><br> |
| <A NAME=38>Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean</A><br> |
| <A NAME=39>Shall be transported presently to France.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=40>And for the proffer of my lord your master,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=41>I have inform'd his highness so at large</A><br> |
| <A NAME=42>As liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=43>Her beauty and the value of her dower,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=44>He doth intend she shall be England's queen.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=45>In argument and proof of which contract,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=46>Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=47>And so, my lord protector, see them guarded</A><br> |
| <A NAME=48>And safely brought to Dover; where inshipp'd</A><br> |
| <A NAME=49>Commit them to the fortune of the sea.</A><br> |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER and Legate</i></p> |
| <A NAME=50>CARDINAL</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=51>Stay, my lord legate: you shall first receive</A><br> |
| <A NAME=52>The sum of money which I promised</A><br> |
| <A NAME=53>Should be deliver'd to his holiness</A><br> |
| <A NAME=54>For clothing me in these grave ornaments.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>Legate</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=55>I will attend upon your lordship's leisure.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=56>CARDINAL</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=57>[Aside] Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=58>Or be inferior to the proudest peer.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=59>Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive</A><br> |
| <A NAME=60>That, neither in birth or for authority,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=61>The bishop will be overborne by thee:</A><br> |
| <A NAME=62>I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=63>Or sack this country with a mutiny.</A><br> |
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