Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me
That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.
KING. Whether it be through force of your re-

port,

My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that
My tender youth was never yet attaint
With any passion of inflaming love,
I cannot tell; but this I am assured,

I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,

Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
As I am sick with working of my thoughts.

Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France;
Agree to any covenants, and procure

That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
To cross the seas to Engand, and be crown'd
King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:
For your expenses and sufficient charge,
Among the people gather up a tenth.
Be gone, I say; for, till you do return,
I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
And you, good uncle, banish all offence:
If you do censure me by what you were,
Not what you are, I know it will excuse
This sudden execution of my will.

And so, conduct me where, from company,

I may revolve and ruminate my grief.

[Exit.

GLOU. Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.

[Exeunt Gloucester and Exeter.

81 attaint] touched. Cf. V, iii, 183, supra: “taint with love."

97 censure] judge.

SUF. Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes, As did the youthful Paris once to Greece, With hope to find the like event in love, But prosper better than the Trojan did. Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king; But I will rule both her, the king and realm.

[Exit.

104-106 the youthful Paris] Paris's visit to Greece resulted in his winning Helen's love.