Page 792 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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RICHARD
Sound drums and trumpets and the king will fly.
Y ORK
Sons, peace!
KING HENRY
Peace, thou, and give King Henry leave to speak! [120]
WARWICK
Plantagenet shall speak first: hear him, lords,
And be you silent and attentive too,
For he that interrupts him shall not live.
KING HENRY
Think’st thou that I will leave my kingly throne
Wherein my grandsire and my father sat? [125]
No: first shall war unpeople this my realm;
Ay, and their colours, often borne in France -
And now in England to our heart’s great sorrow -
Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?
My title’s good and better far than his. [130]
WARWICK
Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king.
KING HENRY
Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown.
Y ORK
’Twas by rebellion against his king.
KING HENRY
[aside]
I know not what to say, my title’s weak. -
Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir? [135]
Y ORK
What then?
