17901377To Englands king in lawfull marriage.

17911378Queen. And if this go forward all our hope is done.

17921379War. And gratious Madam, in our kings behalfe,

17941380I am commanded with your loue and fauour,

17951381Humblie to kisse your hand and with my tongue,

17961382To tell the passions of my soueraines hart,

17971383Where same late entring at his heedfull eares,

17981384Hath plast thy glorious image and thy vertues.

17991385Queen. King Lewes and Lady Bona heare me speake,

18001386Before you answere Warwike or his words,

18011387For hee it is hath done vs all these wrongs.

18121388War. Iniurious Margaret.

18131389Prince Ed. And why not Queene?

18141390War. Because thy father Henry did vsurpe,

18151391And thou no more art Prince then shee is Queene.

18161392Ox. Then Warwike disanuls great Iohn of Gaunt,

18171393That did subdue the greatest part of Spaine,

18181394And after Iohn of Gaunt wise Henry the fourth,

18191395Whose wisedome was a mirrour to the world.

18201396And after this wise prince Henry the fift,

18211397Who with his prowesse conquered all France,

18221398From these our Henries lineallie discent.

18231399War. Oxford, how haps that in this smooth discourse

18241400You told not how Henry the sixt had lost

18251401All that Henry the fift had gotten.

18261402Me thinkes these peeres of France should smile at that,

18271403But for the rest you tell a pettigree

18281404Of threescore and two yeares a sillie time,

18291405To make prescription for a kingdomes worth.

18301406Oxf. Why Warwike, canst thou denie thy king,

18311407Whom thou obeyedst thirtie and eight yeeres,

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