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RICHARD

Armed as we are, let’s stay within this house.

WARWICK

The Bloody Parliament shall this be called,
Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king [40]
And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice
Hath made us by-words to our enemies.

Y ORK

Then leave me not. - My lords, be resolute:
I mean to take possession of my right.

WARWICK

Neither the king nor he that loves him best, [45]
The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,
Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shake his bells.
I’ll plant Plantagenet: root him up who dares.
Resolve thee, Richard: claim the English crown.

[York seats himself on the throne.]

Flourish. Enter King Henry, Clifford, Northumberland, Westmorland,
Exeter, and the rest [, with red roses in their hats].

KING HENRY

My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits [50]
Even in the chair of state. Belike he means,
Backed by the power of Warwick that false peer,
To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.
Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father,
And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vowed revenge [55]
On him, his sons, his favourites, and his friends.

NORT HUMBERLAND

If I be not, heavens be revenged on me!

CLIFFORD

The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel.

WEST MORLAND