The first part of the contention of the two famous
19051263Say if thou dare, proud Lord of Warwick
shire,
19061264That I am guiltie in Duke Humphreys death.
19071266VVar. What dares not Warwicke, if fal
se Su
ffolke dare him?
19091267Queene. He dares not calme his contumelious
spirit,
19101268Nor cea
se to be an arrogant controwler,
19111269Though Su
ffolk dare him twentie hundreth times.
19121270VVar. Madame be
still, with reuerence may I
say it,
19131271That euery word you
speake in his defence,
19141272Is
slaunder to your royall Maie
stie.
19151273Suffolke. Blunt witted Lord, ignoble in thy words,
19161274If euer Lady wrongd her Lord
so much,
19171275Thy mother tooke vnto her blamefull bed,
19181276Some
sterne vntutred churle, and noble
stocke
19191277Was graft with crabtree
slip, who
se frute thou art,
19201278And neuer of the Neuels noble race.
19211279VVar. But that the guilt of murther bucklers thee,
19221280And I
should rob the deaths man of his fee,
19231281Quitting thee thereby of ten thou
sand
shames,
19241282And that my
soueraignes pre
sence makes me mute,
19251283I would fal
se murtherous coward on thy knees
19261284Make thee craue pardon for thy pa
ssed
speech,
19271285And
say it was thy mother that thou meants,
19281286That thou thy
selfe was borne in ba
stardie,
19291287And after all this fearefull homage done,
19301288Giue thee thy hire and
send thy
soule to hell,
19311289Pernitious blood-
sucker of
sleeping men.
19321290Suffol. Thou
should
st be waking whil
st I
shead thy blood,
19331291If from this pre
sence thou dare go with me.
19341292VVar. Away euen now, or I will drag thee hence.
19421294 Exet Warwicke and Suffolke, and then all the Commons 19441295 within, cries, downe with Suffolke, downe with Suffolk. 1944.11296 And then enter againe, the Duke of Suffolke and VVar- 19451297 wicke, with their weapons drawne. 19501299Suf. The Traitorous Warwicke with the men of Berry,
19511300Set all vpon me mightie
soueraigne i
The