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ACT IV IT

Scene I IT

Enter as to the Parliament Bolingbroke with the Lords Aumerle,
Northumberland, Percy, Fitzwater, Surrey, [the Bishop of] Carlisle, [the]

Abbot of Westminster, [another Lord,] Herald, officers and Bagot.

BOLINGBROKE

Call forth Bagot.
Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind
What thou dost know of noble Gloucester’s death,
Who wrought it with the King, and who performed
The bloody office of his timeless end. [5]

BAGOT

Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.

BOLINGBROKE

Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.

BAGOT

My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue
Scorns to unsay what once it hath delivered.
In that dead time when Gloucester’s death was plotted [10]
I heard you say “Is not my arm of length,
That reacheth from the restful English court
As far as Calais to mine uncle’s head?”.
Amongst much other talk that very time
I heard you say that you had rather refuse [15]
The offer of an hundred thousand crowns
Than Bolingbroke’s return to England,
Adding withal how blest this land would be
In this your cousin’s death.

AUMERLE