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And yet go current from suspicion. [95]

Enter Stanley Earl of Derby.

ST ANLEY

A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!

KING

I prithee peace; my soul is full of sorrow.

ST ANLEY

I will not rise unless your Highness hear me.

KING

Then say at once what is it thou demand’st.

ST ANLEY

The forfeit, Sovereign, of my servant’s life [100]
Who slew today a riotous gentleman
Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.

KING

Have I a tongue to doom my brother’s death,
And shall that tongue give pardon to a slave?
My brother kill’d no man: his fault was thought, [105]
And yet his punishment was bitter death.
Who sued to me for him? Who, in my wrath,
Kneel’d at my feet and bade me be advis’d?
Who spoke of brotherhood? Who spoke of love?
Who told me how the poor soul did forsake [110]
The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?
Who told me, in the field at Tewkesbury
When Oxford had me down, he rescued me
And said, ‘Dear brother, live and be a king’?
Who told me, when we both lay in the field [115]
Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me
Even in his garments, and did give himself,
All thin and naked, to the numb-cold night?
All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
Sinfully pluck’d, and not a man of you [120]