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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.
    1790To Englands king in lawfull marriage.
    Queen. And if this go forward all our hope is done.
    War. And gratious Madam, in our kings behalfe,
    I am commanded with your loue and fauour,
    1795Humblie to kisse your hand and with my tongue,
    To tell the passions of my soueraines hart,
    Where same late entring at his heedfull eares,
    Hath plast thy glorious image and thy vertues.
    Queen. King Lewes and Lady Bona heare me speake,
    1800Before you answere Warwike or his words,
    For hee it is hath done vs all these wrongs.
    War. Iniurious Margaret.
    Prince Ed. And why not Queene?
    War. Because thy father Henry did vsurpe,
    1815And thou no more art Prince then shee is Queene.
    Ox. Then Warwike disanuls great Iohn of Gaunt,
    That did subdue the greatest part of Spaine,
    And after Iohn of Gaunt wise Henry the fourth,
    Whose wisedome was a mirrour to the world.
    1820And after this wise prince Henry the fift,
    Who with his prowesse conquered all France,
    From these our Henries lineallie discent.
    War. Oxford, how haps that in this smooth discourse
    You told not how Henry the sixt had lost
    1825All that Henry the fift had gotten.
    Me thinkes these peeres of France should smile at that,
    But for the rest you tell a pettigree
    Of threescore and two yeares a sillie time,
    To make prescription for a kingdomes worth.
    1830Oxf. Why Warwike, canst thou denie thy king,
    Whom thou obeyedst thirtie and eight yeeres,
    D And