_Car._ [_Aside to Glou._] And so, my lord protector, by this means   [bba173] Your lady is forthcoming yet at London. This news, I think, hath turn’d your weapon’s edge;   ·bba175· ’Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour. _Glou._ Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart: Sorrow and grief have vanquish’d all my powers; And, vanquish’d as I am, I yield to thee,   [bba179] Or to the meanest groom.   ·bba180· _King._ O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones, Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!   [bba182] _Queen._ Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest, And look thyself be faultless, thou wert best. _Glou._ Madam, for myself, to heaven I do appeal,   ·bba185· How I have loved my king and commonweal:   [bba186] And, for my wife, I know not how it stands; Sorry I am to hear what I have heard: Noble she is, but if she have forgot Honour and virtue and conversed with such   ·bba190· As, like to pitch, defile nobility, I banish her my bed and company And give her as a prey to law and shame, That hath dishonour’d Gloucester’s honest name. _King._ Well, for this night we will repose us here:   ·bba195· To-morrow toward London back again, To look into this business thoroughly And call these foul offenders to their answers And poise the cause in justice’ equal scales,   [bba199] Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.   [bba200] [_Flourish. Exeunt._ SCENE II. _London._ _The_ DUKE OF YORK’S _garden_. _Enter_ YORK, SALISBURY, _and_ WARWICK. _York._ Now, my good Lords of Salisbury and Warwick, Our simple supper ended, give me leave In this close walk to satisfy myself, In craving your opinion of my title, Which is infallible, to England’s crown.   ·bbb005· _Sal._ My lord, I long to hear it at full.   [bbb006] _War._ Sweet York, begin: and if thy claim be good,   [bbb007] The Nevils are thy subjects to command. _York._ Then thus: Edward the Third, my lords, had seven sons:   ·bbb010· The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales; The second, William of Hatfield, and the third, Lionel Duke of Clarence; next to whom Was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster; The fifth was Edmund Langley, Duke of York;   [bbb015] The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester;   [bbb016] William of Windsor was the seventh and last. Edward the Black Prince died before his father And left behind him Richard, his only son, Who after Edward the Third’s death reign’d as king;   [bbb020] Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt, Crown’d by the name of Henry the Fourth, Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king, Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came,   ·bbb025· And him to Pomfret; where, as all you know,   [bbb026] Harmless Richard was murder’d traitorously.   [bbb027] _War._ Father, the duke hath told the truth;   [bbb028] Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown.