Page 849 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

LADY GREY

To tell you plain I had rather lie in prison. [70]

KING EDWARD

Why then, thou shalt not have thy husband’s lands.

LADY GREY

Why then, mine honesty shall be my dower:
For by that loss I will not purchase them.

KING EDWARD

Therein thou wrong’st thy children mightily.

LADY GREY

Herein your highness wrongs both them and me. [75]
But, mighty lord, this merry inclination
Accords not with the sadness of my suit:
Please you dismiss me either with ay or no.

KING EDWARD

Ay, if thou wilt say ‘Ay’ to my request;
No, if thou dost say ‘No’ to my demand. [80]

LADY GREY

Then no, my lord. My suit is at an end.

GLOUCEST ER

[aside to Clarence]
The widow likes him not: she knits her brows.

CLARENCE

[aside to Gloucester]
He is the bluntest wooer in christendom.

KING EDWARD

[aside]
Her looks doth argue her replete with modesty;
Her words doth show her wit incomparable; [85]
All her perfections challenge sovereignty:
One way - or other - she is for a king