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  • Title: Henry VI, Part 3 (Octavo 1, 1595)

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    Author: William Shakespeare
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    Henry VI, Part 3 (Octavo 1, 1595)

    Yorke, and Henrie the Sixt.
    Keeper. I but thou talkest as if thou wert a king thy selfe.
    Hen. Why so I am in mind though not in shew.
    Keeper. And if thou be a king where is thy crowne?
    1460Hen. My crowne is in my hart, not on my head.
    My crowne is calde content, a crowne that
    Kings doe seldome times enioy.
    Keeper. And if thou be a king crownd with content,
    1465Your crowne content and you, must be content
    To go with vs vnto the officer, for as we thinke
    You are our quondam king, K. Edward hath deposde,
    And therefore we charge you in Gods name & the kings
    1495To go along with vs vnto the officers.
    Hen. Gods name be fulfild, your kings name be
    Obaide, and be you kings, command and Ile obay. Exeunt Omnes.
    1500Enter king Edward, Clarence, and Gloster, Montague,
    Hastings, and the Lady Gray.
    K Edw. Brothers of Clarence, and of Glocester,
    This ladies husband heere sir Richard Gray,
    At the battaile of saint Alkones did lose his life,
    His lands then were seazed on by the conqueror.
    1505Her sute is now to repossesse those lands,
    And sith in quarrell of the house of Yorke,
    The noble gentleman did lose his life,
    In honor we cannot denie her sute.
    Glo. Your highnesse shall doe well to grant it then.
    1510K Edw I, so I will, but yet Ile make a pause.
    Glo. I, is the wind in that doore?
    Clarence, I see the Lady hath some thing to grant,
    Before the king will grant her humble sute.
    Cla. He knows the game, how well he keepes the wind.
    K Edw.