12301243Will you permit that I shall stand condemnd

12311244A wandering vagabond, my rights and royalties

12321245Pluckt from my armes perforce; and giuen away

12331246To vpstart vnthrifts? wherefore was I borne?

12341247If that my cousin King be King in England,

12351248It must be granted I am duke of Lancaster:

12361249You haue a sonne, Aumerle, my noble cousin,

12371250Had you first died, and he bin thus trod downe,

12381251He should haue found his vncle Gaunt a father,

12391252To rowze his wrongs and chase them to the baie.

12401253I am denyed to sue my Liuery here,

12411254And yet my letters pattents giue me leaue.

12421255My fathers goods are all distrainde and sold,

12431256And these, and all, are all amisse employed.

12441257What would you haue me do? I am a subiect;

12451258And I challenge law, Atturnies are denied me,

12461259And therefore personally I lay my claime

12471260To my inheritance of free descent.

12481261North. The noble Duke hath bin too much abused.

12491262Rosse It stands your Grace vpon to do him right.

12501263Willo. Base men by his endowments are made great.

12511264Yorke My Lords of England, let me tell you this:

12521265I haue had feeling of my cousins wrongs,

12531266And labourd all I could to do him right:

12541267But in this kind to come, in brauing armes

12551268Be his owne caruer, and cut out his way,

12561269To finde out right wyth wrong it may not be:

12571270And you that do abette him in this kinde,

12581271Cherish rebellion, and are rebells all.

12591272North. The noble Duke hath sworne his comming is,

12601273But for his owne; and for the right of that,

12611274We al haue strongly sworne to giue him ayde:

12621275And let him neuer see ioy that breakes that oath.

12631276Yorke Wel wel, I see the issue of these armes,

12641277I cannot mend it I must needes confesse,

12651278Because my power is weake and all ill left:

12661279But if I could, by him that gaue me life,