Page 2949 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

If God prevent not, I purpose so. [55]

Y ORK

What seal is that that hangs without thy bosom?
Yea, look’st thou pale? Let me see the writing.

AUMERLE

My lord, ’tis nothing.

Y ORK

No matter, then, who see it.
I will be satisfied. Let me see the writing.

AUMERLE

I do beseech your grace to pardon me. [60]
It is a matter of small consequence
Which for some reasons I would not have seen.

Y ORK

Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.
I fear, I fear -

DUCHESS

What should you fear?
’Tis nothing but some bond that he is entered into [65]
For gay apparel ’gainst the triumph day.

Y ORK

Bound to himself? What doth he with a bond
That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.
Boy, let me see the writing.

AUMERLE

I do beseech you, pardon me. I may not show it. [70]

Y ORK

I will be satisfied. Let me see it, I say.
He plucks it out of his bosom and reads it.

Treason, foul treason! Villain! Traitor! Slave!