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Henry VI, Part II
[I, 2] |
Eleanor |
334 |
Yes, my good lord, I'll follow presently.
[Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Messenger]
Follow I must; I cannot go before,
While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind.
Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,
I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks
And smooth my way upon their headless necks;
And, being a woman, I will not be slack
To play my part in Fortune's pageant.
Where are you there? Sir John! nay, fear not, man,
We are alone; here's none but thee and I.
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Henry VI, Part II
[I, 2] |
Father John Hume |
364 |
Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;
Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!
Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:
The business asketh silent secrecy.
Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:
Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.
Yet have I gold flies from another coast;
I dare not say, from the rich cardinal
And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,
Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,
They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,
Have hired me to undermine the duchess
And buz these conjurations in her brain.
They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'
Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.
Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near
To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.
Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last
Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,
And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:
Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.
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Henry VI, Part II
[I, 3] |
Earl of Suffolk |
407 |
Thy wife, too! that's some wrong, indeed. What's
yours? What's here!
[Reads]
'Against the Duke of Suffolk, for enclosing the
commons of Melford.' How now, sir knave!
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4 |
Henry VI, Part II
[I, 3] |
Second Petitioner |
412 |
Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.
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5 |
Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1] |
Earl of Suffolk |
753 |
No malice, sir; no more than well becomes
So good a quarrel and so bad a peer.
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6 |
Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1] |
Duke of Gloucester |
893 |
Well, sir, we must have you find your legs. Sirrah
beadle, whip him till he leap over that same stool.
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7 |
Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1] |
Simpcox's Wife |
903 |
Alas, sir, we did it for pure need.
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8 |
Henry VI, Part II
[II, 3] |
Henry VI |
1044 |
Stand forth, Dame Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester's wife:
In sight of God and us, your guilt is great:
Receive the sentence of the law for sins
Such as by God's book are adjudged to death.
You four, from hence to prison back again;
From thence unto the place of execution:
The witch in Smithfield shall be burn'd to ashes,
And you three shall be strangled on the gallows.
You, madam, for you are more nobly born,
Despoiled of your honour in your life,
Shall, after three days' open penance done,
Live in your country here in banishment,
With Sir John Stanley, in the Isle of Man.
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Henry VI, Part II
[II, 3] |
Queen Margaret |
1072 |
I see no reason why a king of years
Should be to be protected like a child.
God and King Henry govern England's realm.
Give up your staff, sir, and the king his realm.
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10 |
Henry VI, Part II
[II, 4] |
Sheriff |
1238 |
An't please your grace, here my commission stays,
And Sir John Stanley is appointed now
To take her with him to the Isle of Man.
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11 |
Henry VI, Part II
[II, 4] |
Duke of Gloucester |
1241 |
Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?
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12 |
Henry VI, Part II
[II, 4] |
Duke of Gloucester |
1243 |
Entreat her not the worse in that I pray
You use her well: the world may laugh again;
And I may live to do you kindness if
You do it her: and so, Sir John, farewell!
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Henry VI, Part II
[III, 2] |
Earl of Suffolk |
1864 |
Why, Warwick, who should do the duke to death?
Myself and Beaufort had him in protection;
And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers.
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14 |
Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 1] |
First Gentleman |
2174 |
I'll give it, sir; and therefore spare my life.
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Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 1] |
Captain |
2226 |
Pool! Sir Pool! lord!
Ay, kennel, puddle, sink; whose filth and dirt
Troubles the silver spring where England drinks.
Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth
For swallowing the treasure of the realm:
Thy lips that kiss'd the queen shall sweep the ground;
And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey's death,
Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain,
Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again:
And wedded be thou to the hags of hell,
For daring to affy a mighty lord
Unto the daughter of a worthless king,
Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem.
By devilish policy art thou grown great,
And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged
With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart.
By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France,
The false revolting Normans thorough thee
Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy
Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts,
And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home.
The princely Warwick, and the Nevils all,
Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain,
As hating thee, are rising up in arms:
And now the house of York, thrust from the crown
By shameful murder of a guiltless king
And lofty proud encroaching tyranny,
Burns with revenging fire; whose hopeful colours
Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine,
Under the which is writ 'Invitis nubibus.'
The commons here in Kent are up in arms:
And, to conclude, reproach and beggary
Is crept into the palace of our king.
And all by thee. Away! convey him hence.
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Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2] |
Clerk of Chatham |
2405 |
Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up
that I can write my name.
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17 |
Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2] |
Michael |
2415 |
Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his
brother are hard by, with the king's forces.
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Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2] |
Jack Cade |
2421 |
To equal him, I will make myself a knight presently.
[Kneels]
Rise up Sir John Mortimer.
[Rises]
Now have at him!
[Enter SIR HUMPHREY and WILLIAM STAFFORD, with]
drum and soldiers]
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Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2] |
Sir Humphrey Stafford |
2444 |
Ay, sir.
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20 |
Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2] |
Smith the Weaver |
2454 |
Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and
the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.
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