_York._ And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure. Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee: Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.   ·aed085· _Puc._ Then lead me hence; with whom I leave my curse: May never glorious sun reflex his beams   [aed087] Upon the country where you make abode; But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till mischief and despair   ·aed090· Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!   [aed091] [_Exit, guarded._ _York._ Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes, Thou foul accursed minister of hell!   [aed093] _Enter_ CARDINAL BEAUFORT, Bishop of Winchester, _attended_. _Car._ Lord regent, I do greet your excellence   [aed094] With letters of commission from the king.   ·aed095· For know, my lords, the states of Christendom, Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils, Have earnestly implored a general peace Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French;   [aed099] And here at hand the Dauphin and his train   [aed100] Approacheth, to confer about some matter.   [aed101] _York._ Is all our travail turn’d to this effect?   [aed102] After the slaughter of so many peers, So many captains, gentlemen and soldiers, That in this quarrel have been overthrown   ·aed105· And sold their bodies for their country’s benefit, Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace? Have we not lost most part of all the towns, By treason, falsehood and by treachery, Our great progenitors had conquered?   ·aed110· O, Warwick, Warwick! I foresee with grief The utter loss of all the realm of France. _War._ Be patient, York: if we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.   [aed115] _Enter_ CHARLES, ALENÇON, Bastard, REIGNIER, _and others_. _Char._ Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed That peaceful truce shall be proclaim’d in France, We come to be informed by yourselves   [aed118] What the conditions of that league must be. _York._ Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes   ·aed120· The hollow passage of my poison’d voice,   [aed121] By sight of these our baleful enemies. _Car._ Charles, and the rest, it is enacted thus: That, in regard King Henry gives consent, Of mere compassion and of lenity,   ·aed125· To ease your country of distressful war, And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace, You shall become true liegemen to his crown: And, Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear To pay him tribute, and submit thyself,   ·aed130· Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him, And still enjoy thy regal dignity. _Alen._ Must he be then as shadow of himself?   [aed133] Adorn his temples with a coronet, And yet, in substance and authority,   ·aed135· Retain but privilege of a private man? This proffer is absurd and reasonless.