30692770To win your daughter.

30702771Qu. There is no other waie

30712772Vnlesse thou couldst put on some other shape,

30722773And not be Richard that hath done all this.

31282774King Infer faire Englands peace by this alliance.

31292775Qu. Which she shall purchase with still lasting war.

31302776King Saie that the king which may command intreats.

31312777Qu. That at her hands which the kings king forbids.

31322778King Saie she shalbe a high and mightie Queene.

31332779Qu. To waile the title as her mother doth.

31342780King Saie I wil loue her euerlastinglie.

31352781Qu. But how long shall that title euer last.

31362782King Sweetlie inforce vnto her faire lyues end.

31372783Qu. But how long farely shall her sweet life last?

31382784King So long as heauen and nature lengthens it.

31392785Qu. So long as hell and Richard likes of it.

31402786King Saie I her soueraign am her subiect loue.

31412787Qu. But she your subiect loaths such soueraintie.

31422788King Be eloquent in my behalfe to her.

31432789Qu. An honest tale speeds best being plainlie told.

31442790King Then in plaine termes tell her my louing tale.

31452791Qu. Plaine and not honest is to harsh a stile.

31462792King Madame your reasons are too shallow & too quicke

31472793Qu. O no my reasons are to deepe and dead.

31482794Too deepe and dead poore infants in their graue.

31502795King Harpe not one that string Madam that is past.

31492796Qu. Harpe on it still shall I till hartstrings breake.

31512797King Now by my George, my Garter and my crown.

31522798Qu. Prophand, dishonerd, and the third vsurped.

31532799King I sweare by nothing.

31542800Qu. By nothing, for this is no oath.

31552801The George prophand hath lost his holie honor,

31562802The Garter blemisht pawnd his knightlie vertue,

31572803The crown vsurpt disgrac't his kinglie dignitie,

31582804If something thou wilt sweare to be beleeude,

31592805Sweare then by something that thou hast not wrongd.

31622806King Now by the world.

31632807Qu. Tis ful of thy foule wrongs.