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Than all the rest, discharged me with these words:
‘Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong [110]
And therefore I’ll uncrown him ere’t be long’.

KING EDWARD

Ha? Durst the traitor breathe out so proud words?
Well, I will arm me, being thus forewarned:
They shall have wars and pay for their presumption. -
But say, is Warwick friends with Margaret? [115]

POST

Ay, gracious sovereign, they are so linked in friendship
That young Prince Edward marries Warwick’s daughter.

CLARENCE

Belike the elder: Clarence will have the younger. -
Now, brother king, farewell and sit you fast;
For I will hence to Warwick’s other daughter [120]
That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage
I may not prove inferior to yourself. -
You that love me and Warwick, follow me.

Exit Clarence, and Somerset follows.

GLOUCEST ER

[aside]
Not I; my thoughts aim at a further matter:
I stay not for the love of Edward but the crown. [125]

KING EDWARD

Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick?
Yet am I armed against the worst can happen
And haste is needful in this desp’rate case. -
Pembroke and Stafford, you in our behalf
Go levy men and make prepare for war: [130]
They are already, or quickly will be, landed;
Myself in person will straight follow you.

Exeunt Pembroke and Stafford.
But ere I go, Hastings and Montague,
Resolve my doubt: you twain, of all the rest,
Are near’st to Warwick by blood and by alliance: [135]