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To whom I will retail my conquest won, [335]
And she shall be sole victoress, Caesar’s Caesar.
ELIZABET H
What were I best to say? Her father’s brother
Would be her lord? Or shall I say her uncle?
Or he that slew her brothers and her uncles?
Under what title shall I woo for thee, [340]
That God, the law, my honour, and her love
Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?
KING RICHARD
Infer fair England’s peace by this alliance.
ELIZABET H
Which she shall purchase with still-lasting war.
KING RICHARD
Tell her the King, that may command, entreats. [345]
ELIZABET H
That, at her hands, which the King’s King forbids.
KING RICHARD
Say she shall be a high and mighty queen.
ELIZABET H
To vail the title, as her mother doth.
KING RICHARD
Say I will love her everlastingly.
ELIZABET H
But how long shall that title ‘ever’ last? [350]
KING RICHARD
Sweetly in force, until her fair life’s end.
ELIZABET H
