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We charge you, in God’s name and the king’s,
To go with us unto the officers.

KING HENRY

In God’s name lead; your king’s name be obeyed:
And what God will, that let your king perform;
And what He will, I humbly yield unto. [100]

Exeunt.

Scene II IT

Enter King Edward, [Richard, Duke of] Gloucester, [George, Duke of]
Clarence, and Lady [Elizabeth] Grey.

KING EDWARD

Brother of Gloucester, at Saint Alban’s field
This lady’s husband, Sir Richard Grey, was slain,
His lands then seized on by the conqueror.
Her suit is now to repossess those lands
Which we in justice cannot well deny [5]
Because in quarrel of the house of York,
The worthy gentleman did lose his life.

GLOUCEST ER

Your highness shall do well to grant her suit:
It were dishonour to deny it her.

KING EDWARD

It were no less, but yet I’ll make a pause. [10]

GLOUCEST ER

[aside to Clarence]
Yea, is it so?
I see the lady hath a thing to grant
Before the king will grant her humble suit.

CLARENCE

He knows the game: how true he keeps the wind!