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- HENRY THE SIXTH PART 3
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- Act 4 Scene 4
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- With the drummer playing and trumpeter sounding, enter the Earl of
- Warwick, the Duke of Somerset, and the rest bringing King Edward out in
- his gown, sitting in a chair. Richard Duke of Gloucester and Lord Hastings
- flies over the stage
- l1l Somerset What are they that fly there?
- l2l Warwick Richard and Hastingsùlet them go. Here is the Duke.
- l3l King Edward ôThe Dukeö! Why, Warwick, when we parted,
- l4l Thou calledst me king.
- Warwick Ay, but the case is altered.
- l5l When you disgraced me in my embassade,
- l6l Then I degraded you from being king,
- l7l And come now to create you Duke of York.
- l8l Alas, how should you govern any kingdom
- l9l That know not how to use ambassadors,
- l10l Nor how to be contented with one wife,
- l11l Nor how to use your brothers brotherly,
- l12l Nor how to study for the peopleÆs welfare,
- l13l Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies?
- King Edward (seeing George)
- l14l Yea, brother of Clarence, art thou here too?
- l15l Nay, then, I see that Edward needs must down.
- l16l Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance,
- l17l Of thee thyself and all thy complices,
- l18l Edward will always bear himself as king.
- l19l Though fortuneÆs malice overthrow my state,
- l20l My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
- l21l Warwick Then, for his mind, be Edward EnglandÆs king.
- (Warwick takes off Edgar's crown)
- l22l But Henry now shall wear the English crown,
- l23l And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow.
- l24l My lord of Somerset, at my request,
- l25l See that, forthwith, Duke Edward be conveyed
- l26l Unto my brother, Archbishop of York.
- l27l When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows,
- l28l IÆll follow you, and tell what answer
- l29l Louis and the Lady Bona send to him.
- l30l Now for a while farewell, good Duke of York.
- (They begin to lead Edward out forcibly)
- l31l King Edward What fates impose, that men must needs abide.
- l32l It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
- (Exeunt some with Edward)
- l33l Oxford What now remains, my lords, for us to do
- l34l But march to London with our soldiers?
- l35l Warwick Ay, thatÆs the first thing that we have to doù
- l36l To free King Henry from imprisonment
- l37l And see him seated in the regal throne.
- (Exeunt)
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