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Enter Edward and Richard [at the one door with drum and Soldiers].
See where they come: I’ll warrant they’ll make it good.

 Enter Clifford [and his son Young Clifford at the other door with drum
                                    and Soldiers].

MARGARET

 And here comes Clifford to deny their bail.

     CLIFFORD

[kneels]
     Health and all happiness to my lord the king!

                                                          [He rises.]

Y ORK

 I thank thee, Clifford. Say, what news with thee? [125]
 Nay, do not fright us with an angry look:
 We are thy sovereign, Clifford, kneel again;
 For thy mistaking so, we pardon thee.

CLIFFORD

 This is my king, York; I do not mistake;
 But thou mistakes me much to think I do. - [130]
 To Bedlam with him! Is the man grown mad?

KING HENRY

 Ay, Clifford; a bedlam and ambitious humour
 Makes him oppose himself against his king.

CLIFFORD

 He is a traitor: let him to the Tower
 And chop away that factious pate of his. [135]

MARGARET

 He is arrested but will not obey:
 His sons, he says, shall give their words for him.

Y ORK

 Will you not, sons?
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