The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Humphrey._ A Parlament and our consent neuer craude
Therein before. This is sodeine. [dah055]
Well, we will be there.
_Exet. Herald._
Maister Sheriffe, I pray proceede no further against my
Lady, then the course of law extendes.
_Sheriffe._ Please it your grace, my office here doth end,
And I must deliuer her to sir Iohn Standly, [dah060]
To be conducted into the Ile of Man.
_Humphrey._ Must you sir Iohn conduct my Lady?
_Standly._ _I_ my gratious Lord, for so it is decreede, [dah063]
And _I_ am so commanded by the King.
_Humph._ _I_ pray you sir Iohn, vse her neare the worse, [dah065]
In that _I_ intreat you to vse her well.
The world may smile againe and I may liue,
To do you fauour if you do it her,
And so sir Iohn farewell.
_Elnor._ What gone my Lord, and bid me not farwell? [dah070]
_Humph._ Witnesse my bleeding heart, I cannot stay to speake.
_Exet Hnmphrey_ and his men.
_Elnor._ Then is he gone, is noble Gloster gone,
And doth Duke Humphrey now forsake me too?
Then let me haste from out faire Englands boundes,
Come Standly come, and let vs haste away. ·dah075·
_Standly._ Madam lets go vnto some house hereby, [dah076]
Where you may shift your selfe before we go.
_Elnor._ Ah good sir Iohn, my shame cannot be hid,
Nor put away with casting off my sheete:
But come let vs go, maister Sheriffe farewell, ·dah080·
Thou hast but done thy office as thou shoulst. [dah081]
_Exet omnes._
SCENE IX.
Enter to the Parlament.
Enter two Heralds before, then the Duke of _Buckingham_, and the Duke
of _Suffolke_, and then the Duke of _Yorke_, and the _Cardinall_ of
_Winchester_, and then the King and the Oueene, and then the Earle of
_Salisbury_, and the Earle of _Warwicke_.
_King._ I wonder our vnkle Gloster staies so long. [dai001]
_Queene._ Can you not see, or will you not perceiue, [dai002]
How that ambitious Duke doth vse himselfe?
The time hath bene, but now that time is past. [dai004]
That none so humble as Duke Humphrey was. ·dai005·
But now let one meete him euen in the morne,
When euery one will giue the time of day,
And he will neither moue nor speake to vs. [dai008]
See you not how the Commons follow him [dai009]
In troupes, crying, God saue the good Duke Humphrey, ·dai010·
And with long life, Iesus preserue his grace, [dai011]
Honouring him as if he were their King. [dai012]
Gloster is no litle man in England,
And if he list to stir commotions,
Tys likely that the people will follow him. ·dai015·
My Lord, if you imagine there is no such thing,
Then let it passe, and call it a womans feare. [dai017]
My Lord of Suffolke, Buckingham, and Yorke,
Disproue my Alligations if you can, [dai019]
And by your speeches, if you can reproue me, ·dai020·
I will subscribe and say, I wrong’d the Duke.
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