• Studied so long, sat in the council-house,

How France and Frenchmen might be kept in

awe?

And hath his highness in his infancy

'Been crown'd in Paris, in despite of foes;

And shall these labors and these honors die?

Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,
Your deeds of war, and all our counsel die?

O peers of England, shameful is this league!

Fatal this marriage! cancelling your fame; 'Blotting your names from books of memory; 'Rasing the characters of your renown;

Defacing monuments of conquer'd France;

'Undoing all, as all had never been.

"Car. Nephew, what means this passionate discourse?

"This peroration with such circumstance? 1
"For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it still.
"Glos. Ay, uncle, we will keep it, if we can;
"But now it is impossible we should :
Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,
'Hath given the duchies of Anjou and Maine
"Unto the poor king Reignier, whose large style
Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.

"Sal. Now, by the death of him that died for all, "These counties were the keys of Normandy :

:

1 This speech crowded with so many circumstances of aggravation.

But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son? ' War. For grief that they are past recovery:

For, were there hope to conquer them again,

My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no

tears.

Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both;

Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer:

And are the cities, that I got with wounds,

Deliver'd up again with peaceful words? 'Mort Dieu !

"York. For Suffolk's duke-may he be suffocate, "" That dims the honor of this warlike isle ! "France should have torn and rent my very heart, "Before I would have yielded to this league.

'I never read but England's kings have had

Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives:
And our king Henry gives away his own,

• To match with her that brings no vantages.
"Glos. A proper jest, and never heard before,
"That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth,

For costs and charges in transporting her!

She should have stay'd in France, and starved in France,

"Before

"Car. My lord of Gloster, now you grow too

hot:

It was the pleasure of my lord the king.

"Glos. My lord of Winchester, I know your

mind:

'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,

But 'tis my presence that doth trouble you.

Rancor will out.

Proud prelate, in thy face

I see thy fury: if I longer stay,

• We shall begin our ancient bickerings.1Lordings, farewell; and say, when I am gone, I prophesied France will be lost ere long.

Car. So, there goes our protector in a rage. "Tis known to you, he is mine enemy,

""

'Nay, more, an enemy unto you all;

"And no great friend, I fear me, to the king. Consider, lords, he is the next of blood,

"

[Exit.

"And heir apparent to the English crown. "Had Henry got an empire by his marriage, "And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west, "There's reason he should be displeased at it. "Look to it, lords; let not his smoothing words "Bewitch your hearts; be wise, and circumspect. 'What though the common people favor him,

'Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice''Jesu maintain your royal excellence!'

'With—' God preserve the good duke Humphrey !' I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss,

He will be found a dangerous protector.

"Buck. Why should he then protect our sove

reign,

"He being of age to govern of himself?—

Cousin of Somerset, join you with me,

Skirmishings, wranglings.

'And all together, with the duke of Suffolk,— We'll quickly hoise duke Humphrey from his

seat.

"Car. This weighty business will not brook

delay:

"I'll to the duke of Suffolk presently.

[Exit.

Som. Cousin of Buckingham, though Humphrey's pride

And greatness of his place be grief to us, 'Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal: 'His insolence is more intolerable

'Than all the princes in the land beside.

If Gloster be displaced, he 'll be protector.

Buck. Or thou, or I, Somerset, will be protector. Despite duke Humphrey or the cardinal.

[Exeunt Buckingham and Somerset. Sal. Pride went before, ambition follows him. • While these do labor for their own preferment, 'Behoves it us to labor for the realm.

'I never saw but Humphrey duke of Gloster

Did bear him like a noble gentleman.

Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal

More like a soldier than a man o' the church,

As stout and proud as he were lord of all,—

'Swear like a ruffian, and demean himself

· Unlike the ruler of a commonweal.

Warwick, my son, the comfort of my age!

Thy deeds, thy plainness, and thy housekeeping,

Hath won the greatest favor of the commons,

'Excepting none but good duke Humphrey

And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland,

:

• Thy late exploits done in the heart of France, When thou wert regent for our sovereign;— Have made thee fear'd and honor'd of the people. 'Join we together, for the public good,

In what we can, to bridle and suppress

'The pride of Suffolk and the cardinal,

'With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition;

'And, as we may, cherish duke Humphrey's deeds,

While they do tend the profit of the land.

"War. So God help Warwick, as he loves the land,

"And common profit of his country!

"York. And so says York, for he hath greatest

cause.

'Sal. Then let's make haste away, and look unto the main.

War. Unto the main! O father, Maine is lost; 'That Maine, which by main force Warwick did

win,

"And would have kept, so long as breath did last. Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant

Maine;

Which I will win from France, or else be slain.

[Exeunt Warwick and Salisbury.

York. Anjou and Maine are given to the French;

"Paris is lost; the state of Normandy

"Stands on a tickle 1 point, now they are gone :

1 For ticklish.