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Alas, my Lord, I cannot fight; for Gods sake
pitty my case: the spight of man preuayleth against me.
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O Lord haue mercy vpon me, I shall neuer be able to
fight a blow: O Lord my heart.
Away with them to Prison: and the day of
Combat, shall be the last of. the. next moneth. Come
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Somerset, wee'le see thee sent away.
[Act 1, Scene 4]
Come my Masters, the duch*esse I tell you ex
pects performance of your promises.
Master Hume, we are therefore prouided: will
her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes?
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I, what else? feare you not her courage.
I haue heard her reported to be a Woman of
an inuincible spirit: but it shall be conuenient, Master
Hume, that you be by her aloft, while wee be busie be
low; and so I pray you goe in Gods Name, and leaue vs.
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Mother Iordan, be you prostrate, and grouell on the
Earth; Iohn Southwell reade you, and let vs to our worke.
Well said my Masters, and welcome all: To
this geere, the sooner the better.
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Bullingbrooke or Southwell reades;
Coniouro
te, &c.It Thunders and Lightens
te, &c.
terribly: then the Spirit
riseth.
Asmath, by the eternall God,
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done.
come?
Henryshall depose:
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Discend to Darknesse, and the burning Lake:
False fiend auoide.
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with their Guard, and breake in.
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Staffordtake her to thee.
Buckingham, me thinks you watcht her well:
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Henryshall depose:
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Aio Æacida Romanos vincere posso.
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Albones,
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[Act 2, Scene 1]
Suffolke, with Faulkners hallowing.
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Ioanehad not gone out.
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Card.I
Cloud.
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Tantæne animis Cœlestibus iræ, Church‑men so hot?
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Suffolke, England knowes thine insolence.
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Gloster.
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Gloster,
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Gloster?
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Medice teipsum, Protector see to't well, protect
your selfe.
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racle.
AlbonesShrine,
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bearing the man betweene two in a Chayre.
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Hadst thou been his Mother, thou could'st haue
better told.
Grace.
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Albon:
Symon, come; come offer at my Shrine,
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'Masse, thou lou'dst Plummes well, that would'st
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venture so.
Alas, good Master, my Wife desired some
Damsons, and made me climbe, with danger of my
Life.
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Yes Master, cleare as day, I thanke God and
Saint Albones.
Say'st thou me so: what Colour is this
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Cloake of?
Red Master, Red as Blood.
Why that's well said: What Colour is my
Gowne of?
Black forsooth, Coale‑Black, as Iet.
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of?
Glost. But
many.
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Saunder Simpcoxe, and if it please you, Master.
Saunder, sit there,
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Albonehere hath done a Miracle:
Albones,
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Now Sirrha, if you meane to saue your selfe from Whip
ping, leape me ouer this stoole, and runne away.
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Well Sir, we must haue you finde your Legges.
Sirrha Beadle, whippe him till he leape ouer that same
Stoole.
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Alas Master, what shall I doe? I am not able to
stand.
the Stoole, and runnes away: and they
follow, and cry, A Miracle.
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Humfreyha's done a Miracle to day.
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Buckingham?
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Elianor, the Protectors Wife,
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HenriesLife and Death,
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Gloster, see here the Taincture of thy Nest,
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Glostershonest Name.
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[Act 2, Scene 2]
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Yorkebegin: and if thy clayme be good,
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Neuillsare thy Subiects to command.
Edwardthe third, my Lords, had Seuen Sonnes:
Edwardthe Black‑Prince, Prince of Wales;
Wiliamof Hatfield; and the third,
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Lionel, Duke of Clarence; next to whom,
Iohnof Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster;
Edmond Langley, Duke of Yorke;
Thomasof Woodstock, Duke of Gloster;
Williamof Windsor was the seuenth, and last.
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Edwardthe Black‑Prince dyed before his Father,
Richard, his onely Sonne,
Edwardthe third's death, raign'd as King,
Henry Bullingbrooke, Duke of Lancaster,
Iohnof Gaunt,
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Henrythe fourth,
Richardwas murthered traiterously.
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Lancasterthe Crowne.
Richard, the first Sonnes Heire, being dead,
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Williamof Hatfield dyed without an
Heire.
Phillip, a Daughter,
Edmond Mortimer, Earle of March:
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Edmondhad Issue,
Roger, Earle of March;
Rogerhad Issue,
Edmond, Anne, and
Elianor.
Edmond, in the Reigne of
Bullingbrooke,
Owen Glendour, had beene King;
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Anne,
Richard, Earle of Cambridge,
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Edmond Langley,
Edwardthe thirds fift Sonnes Sonne;
Roger, Earle of March,
Edmond Mortimer,
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Phillip, sole Daughter
Lionel, Duke of Clarence.
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Henrydoth clayme the Crowne from
Iohnof Gaunt,
Yorkeclaymes it from the third:
LionelsIssue fayles, his should not reigne.
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Salisbury, kneele we together,
Richard, Englands
King.
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Lancaster:
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BeaufordsPride, at
SomersetsAmbition,
Buckingham, and all the Crew of them,
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Humfrey:
Yorkecan prophecie.
My Lord, breake we off; we know your minde
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at full.
Neuill, this I doe assure my selfe,
Richardshall liue to make the Earle of Warwick
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[Act 2, Scene 3]
with Guard, to banish the duch*esse.
Elianor Cobham,
GlostersWife:
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Iohn Stanly, in the Ile of Man.
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Death.
Elianor, the Law thou seest hath iudged thee,
Humfrey, this dishonor in thine age,
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Humfrey, Duke of Gloster,
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Henrywill to himselfe Protector be,
Humfrey, no lesse belou'd,
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Henrygouerne Englands Realme:
Henry, is my Staffe:
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Henrymade it mine;
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HenryKing, and
MargaretQueen,
Humfrey, Duke of Gloster, scarce himselfe,
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Henrieshand.
ElianorsPride dyes in her youngest dayes.
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to him so much, that hee is drunke; and he enters with a
Drumme before him, and his staffe, with a Sand‑bagge
fastened to it: and at the other Doore his Man, with a
Drumme and Sand‑bagge, and Prentices drinking to him.
Here Neighbour Horner, I drinke to you
in a Cup of Sack; and feare not Neighbor, you shall doe
well enough.
And here Neighbour, here's a Cuppe of
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Charneco.
And here's a Pot of good Double‑Beere
Neighbor: drinke, and feare not your Man.
Let it come yfaith, and Ile pledge you all,
and a figge for Peter.
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Here Peter, I drinke to thee, and be not a
fraid.
Be merry Peter, and feare not thy Master,
Fight for credit of the Prentices.
I thanke you all: drinke, and pray for me, I pray
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you, for I thinke I haue taken my last Draught in this
World. Here Robin, and if I dye, I giue thee my Ap*rne;
and Will, thou shalt haue my Hammer: and here Tom,
take all the Money that I haue. O Lord blesse me, I pray
God, for I am neuer able to deale with my Master, hee
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hath learnt so much sence already.
Come, leaue your drinking, and fall to blowes.
Sirrha, what's thy Name?
Peter forsooth.
Peter? what more?
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Thumpe.
Thumpe? Then see thou thumpe thy Master
well.
Masters, I am come hither as it were vpon
my Mans instigation, to proue him a Knaue, and my selfe
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an honest man: and touching the Duke of Yorke, I will
take my death, I neuer meant him any ill, nor the King,
nor the Queene: and therefore Peter haue at thee with a
downe‑right blow.
Dispatch, this Knaues tongue begins to double
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Sound Trumpets, Alarum to the Combattants.
Hold Peter, hold, I confesse, I confesse Trea
son.
Take away his Weapon: Fellow thanke God,
and the good Wine in thy Masters way.
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O God, haue I ouercome mine Enemies in this
presence? O Peter, thou hast preuayl'd in right.
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[Act 2, Scene 4]
Mourning Cloakes.
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Nell, ill can thy Noble Minde abrooke
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burning in her hand, with the Sherife
and Officers.
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Sherife.
by.
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Gloster, hide thee from their hatefull lookes,
Nell, forget this griefe.
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Gloster, teach me to forget my selfe:
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Humfrey, can I beare this shamefull yoake?
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HumfreyesWife,
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Suffolke, he that can doe all in all
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Yorke, and impious
Beauford, that false Priest,
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Nell, forbeare: thou aymest all awry.
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Nell:
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Nell, I take my leaue: and Master Sherife,
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Iohn Stanlyis appointed now,
Iohn, protect my Lady here?
Grace.
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Iohn, farewell.
well?
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Stanley, I prethee goe, and take me hence,
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HumfreyesLady,
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Stanley, shall we goe?
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Yorke, Buckingham, Salisbury, and Warwicke,
to the Parliament.
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Humfreyis no little Man in England.
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Glousteris a man
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Humfrey.
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Glosteris as innocent,
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Somerset:What Newes from
France?
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Somerset:but Gods will be
done.
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Gloster, know that thou art come too soone,
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Suffolke, thou shalt not see me blush,
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Beaufordsred sparkling eyes blab his hearts mallice,
Suffolkscloudie Brow his stormie hate;
Buckinghamvnburthens with his tongue,
Yorke, that reaches at the Moone,
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Henrythrowes away his Crutch,
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Henry, thy decay I feare.
ment?
Margaret:my heart is drown'd with griefe,
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Humfrey, in thy face I see
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Humfrey, is the houre to come,
Margaretour Queene,
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Glosterscase
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Glosterhe is none.
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Henry, my Lord, is cold in great Affaires,
Glostersshew
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Glostershould be quickly rid the World,
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Yorke, no man aliue, so faine as I.
Yorkethat hath more reason for his death.
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Humfreyfor the Kings Protector?
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Humfreyprou'd by Reasons to my Liege.
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Suffolke, 'tis resolutely spoke.
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[Act 5, Scene 1]
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Somersetbe sent as Regent thither:
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Yorke, with all his farre‑set pollicie,
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Yorke; sweet
Somersetbe still.
Yorke, hadst thou beene Regent there,
take all.
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shame.
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Yorke, take thou this Taske in hand.
Yorke, that I will see perform'd.
Humfrey.
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Suffolke, you and I must talke of that event.
Yorke.My
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Yorke, or neuer, steele thy fearfull thoughts,
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Iohn Cadeof Ashford,
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Iohn Mortimer.
Cade
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Iohn Mortimer, which now is dead,
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Yorke.
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Humfrey; being dead, as he shall be,
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Henryput apart: the next for me.
[Act 3, Scene 2]
Murther of Duke Humfrey.
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Away, begone.
Cardinall, Suffolke, Somerset, with
Attendants.
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Gloster,
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Nell, these wordes content mee
much.
Suffolke?
Glosteris dead.
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[Act 3, Scene 3]
dead.
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Henryope thine eyes.
Henrycom
fort.
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Gloster'sdead.
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Elianorwas neere thy ioy.
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Elianor.
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Albionswished Coast.
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Ascaniusdid,
Didowould vnfold
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Elinor,
Henryweepes, that thou dost liue so long.
Commons.
HumfreyTraiterously is murdred
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Beaufordsmeanes:
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Henry:
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Humfrieslife:
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body.
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Beaufordhad him in protection,
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Humfriestimelesse death.
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Suffolk? where's your Knife?
Beaufordtearm'd a Kyte? where are his Tallons?
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Humfreyesdeath.
Warwick, if false
Suffolkedare
him?
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Suffolkedare him twentie thousand times.
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NeuilsNoble Race.
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HumfreyesGhost.
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Weapons drawne.
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Warwick, with the men of Bury,
minde.
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Suffolkestraight be done to death,
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Humfreydy'de:
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Suffolkeis;
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of Salisbury.
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Salisburyhath wonne,
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An answer from the King, or wee will all
breake in.
Salisbury, and tell them all from me,
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Suffolkesmeanes.
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Henry, let me pleade for gentle
Suffolke.
Suffolke.
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Warwicke, come good
Warwicke, goe with mee,
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Suffolketake his heauie leaue.
Queene. Fye
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them?
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[1945]
[1950]
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Vauxso fast? What newes I
prethee?
Beaufordis at point of death:
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HumfriesGhost
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[1975]
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[1985]
[1990]
[1995]
Iristhat shall finde thee out.
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Cardinal in bed.
Beaufordto thy
Soueraigne.
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Beauford, it is thy Soueraigne speakes to thee.
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[2015]
[2020]
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[Act 4, Scene 1]
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Walter Whitmoreis thy share.
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Walter Whitmore.
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Gualtieror
Walter, which it is I care not,
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Whitmore, for thy Prisoner is a Prince,
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William de la Pole.
Henriesblood.
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Margaret?
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Poole, Sir
Poole? Lord,
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Humfriesdeath,
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Aniouand
Mainewere sold to France.
Piccardie
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Neuilsall,
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Iunitis nubibus.
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Bargulusthe strong Illyrian Pyrate.
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to thy death.
Pine gelidus timor occupant artus, it is thee I feare.
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Tully. Brutsu Brutus Bastard hand
Iulius Cæsar. Sauage Islanders
Pompeythe Great, and
Suffolkedyes by Pyrats.
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[Act 4, Scene 2]
Come and get thee a sword, though made of a
Lath, they haue bene vp these two dayes.
They haue the more neede to sleepe now then.
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I tell thee, Iacke Cade the Cloathier, meanes to
dresse the Common‑wealth and turne it, and set a new
nap vpon it.
So he had need, for 'tis thred‑bare. Well, I say,
it was neuer merrie world in England, since Gentlemen
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came vp.
O miserable Age: Vertue is not regarded in
Handy‑crafts men.
The Nobilitie thinke scorne to goe in Leather
Aprons.
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Nay more, the Kings Councell are no good
Workemen.
True: and yet it is said, Labour in thy Vocati
on: which is as much to say, as let the Magistrates be la
bouring men; and therefore should we be Magistrates.
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Thou hast hit it: for there's no better signe of a
braue minde, then a hard hand.
I see them, I see them: There's Bests Sonne, the
Tanner of Wingham.
Hee shall haue the skinnes of our enemies, to
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make Dogges Leather of.
And Dicke the Butcher.
Then is sin strucke downe like an Oxe, and ini
quities throate cut like a Calfe.
And Smith the Weauer.
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Argo, their thred of life is spun.
Come, come, let's fall in with them.
and a Sawyer, with infinite numbers.
Wee Iohn Cade, so tearm'd of our supposed Fa
ther.
Or rather of stealing a Cade of Herrings.
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For our enemies shall faile before vs, inspired
with the spirit of putting down Kings and Princes. Com
mand silence.
Silence.
My Father was a Mortimer.
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He was an honest man, and a good Bricklayer.
My mother a Plantagenet.
I knew her well, she was a Midwife.
My wife descended of the Lacies.
She was indeed a Pedlers daughter, & sold many
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Laces.
But now of late, not able to trauell with her
furr'd Packe, she washes buckes here at home.
Therefore am I of an honorable house.
I by my faith, the field is honourable, and there
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was he borne, vnder a hedge: for his Father had neuer a
house but the Cage.
Valiant I am.
A must needs, for beggery is valiant.
I am able to endure much.
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No question of that: for I haue seene him whipt
three Market dayes together.
I feare neither sword, nor fire.
He neede not feare the sword, for his Coate is of
proofe.
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But me thinks he should stand in feare of fire, be
ing burnt i'th hand for stealing of Sheepe.
Be braue then, for your Captaine is Braue, and
Vowes Reformation. There shall be in England, seuen
halfe peny Loaues sold for a peny: the three hoop'd pot,
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shall haue ten hoopes, and I wil make it Fellony to drink
small Beere. All the Realme shall be in Common, and in
Cheapside shall my Palfrey go to grasse: and when I am
King, as King I will be.
God saue your Maiesty.
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I thanke you good people. There shall bee no
mony, all shall eate and drinke on my score, and I will
apparrell them all in one Liuery, that they may agree like
Brothers, and worship me their Lord.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the Lawyers.
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Nay, that I meane to do. Is not this a lamenta
ble thing, that of the skin of an innocent Lambe should
be made Parchment; that Parchment being scribeld ore,
should vndoe a man. Some say the Bee stings, but I say,
'tis the Bees waxe: for I did but seale once to a thing, and
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I was neuer mine owne man since. How now? Who's
there?
The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and
reade, and cast accompt.
O monstrous.
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We tooke him setting of boyes Copies.
Here's a Villaine.
Ha's a Booke in his pocket with red Letters in't
Nay then he is a Coniurer.
Nay, he can make Obligations, and write Court
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hand.
I am sorry for't: The man is a proper man of
mine Honour: vnlesse I finde him guilty, he shall not die.
Come hither sirrah, I must examine thee: What is thy
name?
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Emanuell.
They vse to writ it on the top of Letters: 'Twill
go hard with you.
Let me alone: Dost thou vse to write thy name?
Or hast thou a make to thy selfe, like a honest plain dea
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ling man?
Sir I thanke God, I haue bin so well brought
vp, that I can write my name.
He hath confest: away with him: he's a Villaine
and a Traitor.
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Away with him I say: Hang him with his Pen
and Inke‑horne about his necke.
Where's our Generall?
Heere I am thou particular fellow.
Fly, fly, fly, Sir Humfrey Stafford and his brother
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are hard by, with the Kings Forces.
Stand villaine, stand, or Ile fell thee downe: he
shall be encountred with a man as good as himselfe. He
is but a Knight, is a?
No.
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To equall him I will make my selfe a knight pre
sently; Rise vp Sir Iohn Mortimer. Now haue at him.
with Drum and Soldiers.
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And Adam was a Gardiner.
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And what of that?
Marry, this Edmund Mortimer Earle of March,
married the Duke of Clarence daughter, did he not?
I sir.
By her he had two children at one birth.
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That's false.
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Nay, 'tis too true, therefore he shall be King.
Sir, he made a Chimney in my Fathers house,&
the brickes are aliue at this day to testifie it: therefore
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deny it not.
And will you credit this base Drudges Wordes,
that speakes he knowes not what.
I marry will we: therefore get ye gone.
Iacke Cade, the
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He lyes, for I inuented it my selfe. Go too Sir
rah, tell the King from me, that for his Fathers sake Hen ry the fift, (in whose time, boyes went to Span‑counter
for French Crownes) I am content he shall raigne, but Ile
be Protector ouer him.
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And furthermore, wee'l haue the Lord Sayes
head, for selling the Dukedome of Maine.
And good reason: for thereby is England main'd
And faine to go with a staffe, but that my puissance holds
it vp. Fellow‑Kings, I tell you, that that Lord Say hath
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gelded the Commonwealth, and made it an Eunuch: &
more then that, he can speake French, and therefore hee is
a Traitor.
O grosse and miserable ignorance.
Nay answer if you can: The Frenchmen are our
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enemies: go too then, I ask but this: Can he that speaks
with the tongue of an enemy, be a good Councellour, or
no?
No, no, and therefore wee'l haue his head.
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Cade,
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They are all in order, and march toward vs.
But then are we in order, when we are most out
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of order. Come, march forward.
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Where's Dicke, the Butcher of Ashford?
Heere sir.
They fell before thee like Sheepe and Oxen, &
thou behaued'st thy selfe, as if thou hadst beene in thine
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owne Slaughter‑house: Therfore thus will I reward thee,
the Lent shall bee as long againe as it is, and thou shalt
haue a License to kill for a hundred lacking one.
I desire no more.
And to speake truth, thou deseru'st no lesse.
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This Monument of the victory will I beare, and the bo
dies sha1l be dragg'd at my horse heeles, till I do come to
London, where we will haue the Maiors sword born be
fore vs.
If we meane to thriue, and do good, breake open
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the Gaoles, and let out the Prisoners.
Feare not that I warrant thee. Come, let's march
towards London.
[Act 4, Scene 4]
folkes head, the Duke of Buckingham, and the
Lord Say.
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What answer makes your Grace to the Rebells
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Supplication?
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Iacke Cadetheir Generall.
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Say, Iacke Cadehath sworne to
head.
Suffolkesdeath?
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thee.
such haste?
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Iacke Cadeproclaimes himselfe Lord
Mortimer,
Clarencehouse,
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Humfrey Stafford, and his Brothers death,
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Say, the Traitors hateth thee,
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Iacke Cadehath gotten London‑bridge.
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Margaret, God our hope will succor vs.
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[Act 4, Scene 5]
two or three Citizens below.
Iacke Cadeslaine?
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Mathew Goffe.
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[Act 4, Scene 6]
staffe on London stone.
MortimerLord of this City,
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Mortimer.
Iacke Cade, Iacke Cade.
Knocke him downe there.
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If this Fellow be wise, hee'l neuer call yee Iacke Cade more, I thinke he hath a very faire warning.
My Lord, there's an Army gathered together
in Smithfield.
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[Act 4, Scene 7]
Then enter Iacke Cade, with his Company.
So sirs: now go some and pull down the Sauoy:
Others to'th Innes of Court, downe with them all.
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I haue a suite vnto your Lordship.
Bee it a Lordshippe, thou shalt haue it for that
word.
Onely that the Lawes of England may come out
of your mouth.
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Masse 'twill be sore Law then, for he was thrust
in the mouth with a Speare, and 'tis not whole yet.
Nay Iohn, it wil be stinking Law, for his breath
stinkes with eating toasted cheese.
I haue thought vpon it, it shall bee so. Away,
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burne all the Records of the Realme, my mouth shall be
the Parliament of England.
And hence‑forward all things shall be in Com
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mon.
My Lord, a prize, a prize, heeres the Lord Say,
which sold the Townes in France. He that made vs pay
one and twenty Fifteenes, and one shilling to the pound,
the last Subsidie.
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Well, hee shall be beheaded for it ten times:
Ah thou Say, thou Surge, nay thou Buckram Lord, now
art thou within point‑blanke of our Iurisdiction Regall.
What canst thou answer to my Maiesty, for giuing vp of
Normandie vnto Mounsieur Basimecu, the Dolphine of
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France? Be it knowne vnto thee by these presence, euen
the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I am the Beesome
that must sweepe the Court cleane of such filth as thou
art: Thou hast most traiterously corrupted the youth of
the Realme, in erecting a Grammar Schoole: and where
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as before, our Fore‑fathers had no other Bookes but the
Score and the Tally, thou hast caused printing to be vs'd,
and contrary to the King, his Crowne, and Dignity, thou
hast built a Paper‑Mill. It will be prooued to thy Face,
that thou hast men about thee, that vsually talke of a
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Nowne and a Verbe, and such abhominable wordes, as
no Christian eare can endure to heare. Thou hast appoin
ted Iustices of Peace, to call poore men before them, a
bout matters they were not able to answer. Moreouer,
thou hast put them in prison, and because they could not
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reade, thou hast hang'd them, when (indeede) onely for
that cause they have beene most worthy to live. Thou
dost ride in a foot‑cloth, dost thou not?
What of that?
Marry, thou ought'st not to let thy horse weare
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a Cloake, when honester men then thou go in their Hose
and Doublets.
And worke in their shirt to, as my selfe for ex
ample, that am a butcher.
You men of Kent.
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What say you of Kent.
Nothing but this: 'Tis bona terra, mala gens.
Away with him, away with him, he speaks La
tine.
will:
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Cæsarwrit,
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Maine, I lost not
Normandie,
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Folkes?
Giue him a box o'th'eare, and that wil make 'em
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red againe.
Ye shall haue a hempen Candle then, & the help
of hatchet.
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Why dost thou quiuer man?
The Palsie, and not feare prouokes me.
Nay, he noddes at vs, as who should say, Ile be
euen with you. Ile see if his head will stand steddier on
a pole, or no: Take him away, and behead him.
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I feele remorse in my selfe with his words: but
Ile bridle it: he shall dye, and it bee but for pleading so
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well for his life. Away with him, he has a Familiar vn
der his Tongue, he speakes not a Gods name. Goe, take
him away I say, and strike off his head presently, and then
breake into his Sonne in Lawes house, Sir Iames Cromer,
and strike off his head, and bring them both vppon two
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poles hither.
It shall be done.
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Away with him, and do as I command ye: the
proudest Peere in the Realme, shall not weare a head on
his shoulders, vnlesse he pay me tribute; there shall not
a maid be married, but she shall pay to me her Mayden
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head ere they haue it: Men shall hold of mee in Capite.
And we charge and command, that their wiues be as free
as heart can wish, or tongue can tell.
My Lord,
When shall we go to Cheapside, and take up commodi
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ties vpon our billes?
Marry presently.
O braue.
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and all his rabblement.
Vp Fish‑streete, downe Saint Magnes corner,
kill and knocke downe, throw them into Thames:
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Cade, we come Ambassadors from the King
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God saue the King, God saue the King.
What Buckingham and Clifford are ye so braue?
And you base Pezants, do ye beleeue him, will you needs
be hang'd with your Pardons about your neckes
my sword therefore broke through London gates, that
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you should leaue me at the White‑heart in Southwarke.
I thought ye would neuer haue giuen out these Armes til
you had recouered your ancient
all Recreants and Dastards, and delight to liue in slauerie
to the Nobility. Let them breake your backes with bur
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thens, take your houses ouer your heads, rauish your
Wiues and Daughters before your faces. For me, I will
make shift for one, and so Gods Cursse light vppon you
all.
Cade,
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Cade.
Cadethe sonne of
Henrythe fift,
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Villiagovnto all they meete.
Cadesmiscarry,
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Henryhath mony, you are strong and manly:
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Was euer Feather so lightly blowne too & fro,
As this multitude? The name of Henry the fift, hales them
to an hundred mischiefes, and makes them leaue mee de
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solate. I see them lay their heades together to surprize
me. My sword make way for me, for heere is no staying:
in despight of the diuels and hell, haue through the verie
middest of you, and heauens and honor be witnesse, that
no wan to resolution in mee, but onely my Followers
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base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake mee to
my heeles.
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[Act 4, Scene 9]
Somerset on the Tarras.
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Cadesurpris'd?
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Neckes.
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Henrythough he be infortunate,
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distrest,
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Edmundto the Tower,
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Somersetwe will commit thee thither,
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[Act 4, Scene 10]
Fye on Ambitions: fie on my selfe, that haue a
sword, and yet am ready to famish. These fiue daies haue
I hid me in these Woods, and durst not peepe out, for all
the Country is laid for me: but now am I so hungry, that
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if I might haue a Lease of my life for a thousand yeares, I
could stay no longer. Wherefore on a Bricke wall haue
I climb'd into this Garden, to see if I can eate Grasse, or
picke a Sallet another while, which is not amisse to coole
a mans stomacke this hot weather: and I think this word
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Sallet was borne to do me good: for many a time but for
a Sallet, my braine‑pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill;
and many a time when I haue beene dry, & brauely mar
ching, it hath serued me insteede of a quart pot to drinke
in: and now the word Sallet must serue me to feed on.
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Heere's the Lord of the soile come to seize me
for a stray, for entering his Fee‑simple without leaue. A
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Villaine, thou wilt betray me, and get a 1000. Crownes
of the King by carrying my head to him, but Ile make
thee eate Iron like an Ostridge, and swallow my Sword
like a great pin ere thou and I part.
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Braue thee? I by the best blood that ever was
broach'd, and beard thee to. Looke on mee well, I haue
eate no meate these fiue dayes, yet come thou and thy
fiue men, and if I doe not leaue you all as dead as a doore
naile, I pray God I may never eate grasse more.
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Alexander Idenan Esquire of Kent,
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By my Valour: the most compleate Champi
on that euer I heard. Steele, if thou turne the edge, or
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cut not out the burly bon'd Clowne in chines of Beefe,
ere thou sleepe in thy Sheath, I beseech Ioue on my knees
thou mayst be turned to Hobnailes.
O I am slaine, Famine and no other hath slaine me, let ten
thousand diuelles come against me, and giue me but the
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ten meales I haue lost, and I'de defie them all. Wither
Garden, and be henceforth a burying place to all that do
dwell in this house, because the unconquered soule of
Cade is fled.
Cadethat I haue slain, that monstrous traitor?
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Iden farewell, and be proud of thy victory: Tell
Kent from me, she hath lost her best man, and exhort all
the World to be Cowards: For I that neuer feared any,
am vanquished by Famine, not by Valour.
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Drum and Colours.
Henrieshead.
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Santa Maiestas! who would not buy thee deere?
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Humfreyof Buckingham, I accept thy greeting.
Henry, our dread Liege,
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Aiax Telamonius,
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Henrybe more weake, and I more strong.
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Henry,
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Cade,
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Cade, whom I in combat slew.
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Cade? Great God, how iust art thou?
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Alexander Iden, that's my name,
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Iden, kneele downe, rise vp a Knight:
Idenliue to merit such a bountie,
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AchillesSpeare
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Clifford, bid him come amaine,
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Naples, Englands bloody Scourge,
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Cliffordto deny their baile.
Clifford: Say, what newes with thee?
Clifford, kneele againe;
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Salisbury.
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selues:
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NeuilsCrest,
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canst tell.
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Medeayong
Absirtisdid.
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Æneasold
Anchysesbeare,
Æneasbare a liuing loade;
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Albons, Somerset
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Margaret
stay.
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and Soldiers, with Drum & Colours.
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Richard.
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[Act 1, Scene 4]
Come my Masters, the duch*esse I tell you ex
pects performance of your promises.
Master Hume, we are therefore prouided: will
her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes?
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I, what else? feare you not her courage.
I haue heard her reported to be a Woman of
an inuincible spirit: but it shall be conuenient, Master
Hume, that you be by her aloft, while wee be busie be
low; and so I pray you goe in Gods Name, and leaue vs.
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Mother Iordan, be you prostrate, and grouell on the
Earth; Iohn Southwell reade you, and let vs to our worke.
Well said my Masters, and welcome all: To
this geere, the sooner the better.
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Bullingbrooke or Southwell reades;
Coniouro
te, &c.It Thunders and Lightens
te, &c.
terribly: then the Spirit
riseth.
Asmath, by the eternall God,
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done.
come?
Henryshall depose:
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Discend to Darknesse, and the burning Lake:
False fiend auoide.
with their Guard, and breake in.
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Staffordtake her to thee.
Buckingham, me thinks you watcht her well:
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Henryshall depose:
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Aio Æacida Romanos vincere posso.
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Albones,
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><div type="scene" n="4" rend="notPresent"> <head type="supplied">[Act 1, Scene 4]</head> <stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter the Witch, the two Priests, and Bullingbrooke.</stage> <sp who="#F-2h6-hum"> <speaker rend="italic">Hume.</speaker> <p n="586">Come my Masters, the duch*esse I tell you ex <lb n="587"/>pects performance of your promises.</p> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-bol"> <speaker rend="italic">Bulling.</speaker> <p n="588">Master<hi rend="italic">Hume</hi>, we are therefore prouided: will <lb n="589"/>her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes?</p> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-hum"> <speaker rend="italic">Hume.</speaker> <p n="590">I, what else? feare you not her courage.</p> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-bol"> <speaker rend="italic">Bulling.</speaker> <p n="591">I haue heard her reported to be a Woman of <lb n="592"/>an inuincible spirit: but it shall be conuenient, Master <lb n="593"/> <hi rend="italic">Hume</hi>, that you be by her aloft, while wee be busie be <lb n="594"/>low; and so I pray you goe in Gods Name, and leaue vs.<stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exit Hume.</stage> <lb n="595"/>Mother<hi rend="italic">Iordan</hi>, be you prostrate, and grouell on the <lb n="596"/>Earth;<hi rend="italic">Iohn Southwell</hi>reade you, and let vs to our worke.</p> </sp> <stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Elianor aloft.</stage> <sp who="#F-2h6-ele"> <speaker rend="italic">Elianor.</speaker> <p n="597">Well said my Masters, and welcome all: To <lb n="598"/>this geere, the sooner the better.</p> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-bol"> <speaker rend="italic">Bullin.</speaker> <l n="599">Patience, good Lady, Wizards know their times:</l> <l n="600">Deepe Night, darke Night, the silent of the Night,</l> <l n="601">The time of Night when Troy was set on fire,</l> <l n="602">The time when Screech‑owles cry, and Bandogs howle,</l> <l n="603">And Spirits walke, and Ghosts breake vp their Graues;</l> <l n="604">That time best fits the worke we haue in hand.</l> <l n="605">Madame, sit you, and feare not: whom wee rayse,</l> <l n="606">Wee will make fast within a hallow'd Verge.</l> </sp> <stage rend="italic center" type="business">Here doe the Ceremonies belonging, and make the Circle, <lb/>Bullingbrooke or Southwell reades;<hi rend="roman">Coniouro <lb/>te, &c.</hi>It Thunders and Lightens <lb/>terribly: then the Spirit <lb/>riseth.</stage> <sp who="#F-2h6-spi"> <speaker rend="italic">Spirit.</speaker> <l rend="italic" n="607">Ad sum.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-jou"> <speaker rend="italic">Witch.</speaker> <l n="608"> <hi rend="italic">Asmath</hi>, by the eternall God,</l> <l n="609">Whose name and power thou tremblest at,</l> <l n="610">Answere that I shall aske: for till thou speake,</l> <l n="611">Thou shalt not passe from hence.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-spi"> <speaker rend="italic">Spirit.</speaker> <l n="612">Aske what thou wilt; that I had sayd, and <lb/>done.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-bol"> <speaker rend="italic">Bulling.</speaker> <l n="613">First of the King: What shall of him be <lb/>come?</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-spi"> <speaker rend="italic">Spirit.</speaker> <l n="614">The Duke yet liues, that<hi rend="italic">Henry</hi>shall depose:</l> <l n="615">But him out‑liue, and dye a violent death.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-bol"> <speaker rend="italic">Bulling.</speaker> <l n="616">What fates await the Duke of Suffolke?</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-spi"> <speaker rend="italic">Spirit.</speaker> <l n="617">By Water shall he dye, and take his end.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-bol"> <speaker rend="italic">Bulling.</speaker> <l n="618">What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-spi"> <speaker rend="italic">Spirit.</speaker> <l n="619">Let him shun Castles,</l> <l n="620">Safer shall he be vpon the sandie Plaines,</l> <l n="621">Then where Castles mounted stand.</l> <l n="622">Haue done, for more I hardly can endure.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-bol"> <speaker rend="italic">Bulling.</speaker> <p n="623">Discend to Darknesse, and the burning Lake: <lb n="624"/>False fiend auoide.</p> </sp> <stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="mixed">Thunder and Lightning. Exit Spirit.</stage> <cb n="2"/> <stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter the Duke of Yorke and the Duke of Buckingham <lb/>with their Guard, and breake in.</stage> <sp who="#F-2h6-pla"> <speaker rend="italic">Yorke.</speaker> <l n="625">Lay hands vpon these Traytors, and their trash:</l> <l n="626">Beldam I thinke we watcht you at an ynch.</l> <l n="627">What Madame, are you there? the King & Commonweale</l> <l n="628">Are deepely indebted for this peece of paines;</l> <l n="629">My Lord Protector will, I doubt it not,</l> <l n="630">See you well guerdon'd for these good deserts.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-ele"> <speaker rend="italic">Elianor.</speaker> <l n="631">Not halfe so bad as thine to Englands King,</l> <l n="632">Iniurious Duke, that threatest where's no cause.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-buc"> <speaker rend="italic">Buck.</speaker> <l n="633">True Madame, none at all: what call you this<c rend="italic">?</c> </l> <l n="634">Away with them, let them be clapt vp close,</l> <l n="635">And kept asunder: you Madame shall with vs.</l> <l n="636"> <hi rend="italic">Stafford</hi>take her to thee.</l> <l n="637">Wee'le see your Trinkets here all forth‑comming.</l> <l n="638">All away.</l> </sp> <stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exit.</stage> <sp who="#F-2h6-pla"> <speaker rend="italic">Yorke.</speaker> <l n="639">Lord<hi rend="italic">Buckingham</hi>, me thinks you watcht her well:</l> <l n="640">A pretty Plot, well chosen to build vpon.</l> <l n="641">Now pray my Lord, let's see the Deuils Writ.</l> <l n="642">What haue we here?</l> <stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="business">Reades.</stage> <l rend="italic" n="643">The Duke yet liues, that<hi rend="roman">Henry</hi>shall depose:</l> <l rend="italic" n="644">But him out‑liue, and dye a violent death.</l> <l n="645">Why this is iust,<hi rend="italic">Aio Æacida Romanos vincere posso.</hi> </l> <l n="646">Well, to the rest:</l> <l n="647">Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolke?</l> <l rend="italic" n="648">By Water shall he dye, and take his end.</l> <l n="649">What shall betide the Duke of Somerset?</l> <l rend="italic" n="650">Let him shunne Castles,</l> <l rend="italic" n="651">Safer shall he be vpon the sandie Plaines,</l> <l rend="italic" n="652">Then where Castles mounted stand.</l> <l n="653">Come, come, my Lords,</l> <l n="654">These Oracles are hardly attain'd,</l> <l n="655">And hardly vnderstood.</l> <l n="656">The King is now in progresse towards Saint<hi rend="italic">Albones</hi>,</l> <l n="657">With him, the Husband of this louely Lady:</l> <l n="658">Thither goes these Newes,</l> <l n="659">As fast as Horse can carry them:</l> <l n="660">A sorry Breakfast for my Lord Protector.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-buc"> <speaker rend="italic">Buck.</speaker> <l n="661">Your Grace shal giue me leaue, my Lord of York,</l> <l n="662">To be the Poste, in hope of his reward.</l> </sp> <sp who="#F-2h6-pla"> <speaker rend="italic">Yorke.</speaker> <l n="663">At your pleasure, my good Lord.</l> <l n="664">Who's within there, hoe?</l> <stage rend="italic center" type="business">Enter a Seruingman.</stage> <l n="665">Inuite my Lords of Salisbury and Warwick</l> <l n="666">To suppe with me to morrow Night. Away.</l> </sp> <stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exeunt.</stage></div>
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