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| <H3>SCENE IV. Paris. The palace.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK, EXETER, VERNON BASSET, and others. To them with his Soldiers, TALBOT</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>My gracious prince, and honourable peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Hearing of your arrival in this realm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>I have awhile given truce unto my wars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>To do my duty to my sovereign:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>In sign, whereof, this arm, that hath reclaim'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>To your obedience fifty fortresses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Twelve cities and seven walled towns of strength,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>And with submissive loyalty of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Ascribes the glory of his conquest got</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>First to my God and next unto your grace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>That hath so long been resident in France?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=16>Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>When I was young, as yet I am not old,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>I do remember how my father said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>A stouter champion never handled sword.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Long since we were resolved of your truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Your faithful service and your toil in war;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Yet never have you tasted our reward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Because till now we never saw your face:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Therefore, stand up; and, for these good deserts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>And in our coronation take your place.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but VERNON and BASSET</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>Now, sir, to you, that were so hot at sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Disgracing of these colours that I wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>In honour of my noble Lord of York:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>Yes, sir; as well as you dare patronage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>The envious barking of your saucy tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=35>Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>Why, what is he? as good a man as York.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=37>Hark ye; not so: in witness, take ye that.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Strikes him</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>That whoso draws a sword, 'tis present death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>But I'll unto his majesty, and crave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>I may have liberty to venge this wrong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=44>Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>And, after, meet you sooner than you would.</A><br> | |
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