3.1.0.21202 Flourish. Enter [young] King [Henry], [the Dukes of] Exeter [and] Gloucester, [the Bishop of] Winchester, 1203[the Duke of Somerset, [and the Earl of] Suffolk [with red roses], [the Earl of] Warwick, [and] Richard Plantagenet [with white roses]. Gloucester offers 1204 to put up a bill; Winchester snatches it and tears it. Com'st thou with deep premeditated lines?
3.1.21206With written pamphlets studiously devised?
3.1.31207Humphrey of Gloucester, if thou canst accuse,
3.1.41208Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,
3.1.61210As I with sudden, and extemporal speech
3.1.71211Purpose to answer what thou canst object.
Presumptuous priest, this place commands my patience,
3.1.91213Or thou should'st find thou hast dishonored me.
3.1.101214Think not, although in writing I preferred
3.1.111215The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
3.1.121216That therefore I have forged, or am not able
3.1.131217Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen.
3.1.141218No, prelate, such is thy audacious wickedness,
3.1.151219Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks,
3.1.191223Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems
3.1.211225And for thy treachery, what's more manifest?
3.1.221226In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,
3.1.231227As well at London Bridge as at the Tower.
3.1.241228Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,
3.1.251229The King thy sovereign is not quite exempt
3.1.261230From envious malice of thy swelling heart.
Gloucester, I do defy thee. Lords vouchsafe
3.1.291233If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse,
3.1.321236Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?
3.1.331237And for dissension, who preferreth peace
3.1.351239No, my good lords, it is not that offends;
3.1.361240It is not that that hath incensed the Duke.
3.1.371241It is because no one should sway but he,
3.1.391243And that engenders thunder in his breast
3.1.401244And makes him roar these accusations forth.
As good?
Aye, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,
Am I not Protector, saucy priest?
And am not I a prelate of the Church?
Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps,
Unreverent Gloucester.
Thou art reverend
3.1.521256Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.
Rome shall remedy this.
Roam thither then.
My lord, it were your duty to forbear.
Aye, see the bishop be not overborne.
Methinks my lord should be religious,
3.1.581262And know the office that belongs to such.
Methinks his lordship should be humbler,
Yes, when his holy state is touched so near.
State holy or unhallowed, what of that?
Plantagenet, I see, must hold his tongue,
3.1.651269Lest it be said, "Speak, sirrah, when you should;
3.1.661270Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords?"
3.1.671271Else would I have a fling at Winchester.
Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,
3.1.691273The special watchmen of our English weal,
3.1.701274I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,
3.1.731277That two such noble peers as ye should jar.
3.1.741278Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
3.1.761280That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
[Within.] Down with the tawny coats.
What tumult's this?
An uproar, I dare warrant,
3.1.801285Begun through malice of the Bishop's men.
[Within.] Stones, stones.
Oh my good lords, and virtuous Henry,
3.1.841290The Bishop, and the Duke of Gloucester's men,
3.1.861292Have filled their pockets full of pebble stones
3.1.871293And, banding themselves in contrary parts,
3.1.891295That many have their giddy brains knocked out.
3.1.901296Our windows are broke down in every street,
3.1.911297And we, for fear, compelled to shut our shops.
3.1.91.11298 Enter in skirmish, with bloody pates, [Winchester's Servingmen in tawny coats and Gloucester's in blue coats]. We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
3.1.931300To hold your slaught'ring hands, and keep the peace.
3.1.941301Pray, Uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.
Nay, if we be forbidden stones, we'll fall
1303to it with our teeth.
Do what ye dare, we are as resolute.
You of my household, leave this peevish broil,
My lord, we know your grace to be a man
3.1.1051314We and our wives and children all will fight
3.1.1061315And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.
Aye, and the very parings of our nails
Stay, stay, I say.
O, how this discord doth afflict my soul.
3.1.1141324My sighs and tears, and will not once relent?
Yield my lord Protector. Yield Winchester.
3.1.1201330To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.
3.1.1231333Then be at peace, except ye thirst for blood.
He shall submit, or I will never yield.
Compassion on the King commands me stoop,
Behold, my lord of Winchester, the Duke
Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.
Fie, Uncle Beaufort. I have heard you preach
3.1.1351345And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
Sweet King, the Bishop hath a kindly gird.
3.1.1391349What, shall a child instruct you what to do?
Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee
3.1.1411351Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give.
[Aside.] Aye, but I fear me with a hollow heart.
3.1.1431353[To the others.] See here, my friends and loving countrymen,
[Aside.] So help me God, as I intend it not.
O loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,
3.1.1501360[To the Servingmen.] Away my masters, trouble us no more,
3.1.1511361But join in friendship as your lords have done.
Content. I'll to the surgeon's.
And so will I.
And I will see what physic the tavern
1365affords.
Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,
Well urged, my Lord of Warwick; for, sweet prince,
And those occasions, uncle, were of force.
Let Richard be restorèd to his blood.
3.1.1671378So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.
As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.
If Richard will be true, not that all alone
Thy humble servant vows obedience
Stoop then, and set your knee against my foot.
[Richard kneels.]
[Rising.] And so thrive Richard, as thy foes may fall;
3.1.1821393That grudge one thought against your majesty.
Welcome high prince, the mighty Duke of York.
[Aside.] Perish base prince, ignoble Duke of York.
Now will it best avail your majesty
3.1.1861397To cross the seas and to be crowned in France.
When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes,
Your ships already are in readiness.
Aye, we may march in England or in France,
3.1.1951408This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
3.1.2001413So will this base and envious discord breed.
3.1.2041417That "Henry born at Monmouth should win all,