Page 866 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

KING EDWARD

Suppose they take offence without a cause,
They are but Lewis and Warwick: I am Edward, [15]
Your king and Warwick’s, and must have my will.

GLOUCEST ER

And shall have your will because our king -
Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

KING EDWARD

Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?

GLOUCEST ER

Not I, no: [20]
God forbid that I should wish them severed
Whom God hath joined together; ay, and ’twere pity
To sunder them that yoke so well together.

KING EDWARD

Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,
Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey [25]
Should not become my wife and England’s queen. -
And you too, Somerset and Montague,
Speak freely what you think.

CLARENCE

Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis
Becomes your enemy for mocking him [30]
About the marriage of the Lady Bona.

GLOUCEST ER

And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,
Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.

KING EDWARD

What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeased
By such invention as I can devise? [35]

MONT AGUE

Yet to have joined with France in such alliance