Page 883 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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Come, therefore, let’s about it speedily.
Exeunt.
Scene VII IT
Flourish. Enter [King] Edward, Gloucester, Hastings, and [a troop of
Hollanders with a Drummer].
KING EDWARD
Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
Yet thus far Fortune maketh us amends
And says that once more I shall interchange
My wanèd state for Henry’s regal crown.
Well have we passed and now repassed the seas [5]
And brought desirèd help from Burgundy.
What then remains, we being thus arrived
From Ravenspurgh Haven before the gates of York,
But that we enter, as into our dukedom?
[Hastings knocks on the gates.]
GLOUCEST ER
The gates made fast? Brother, I like not this. [10]
For many men that stumble at the threshold
Are well foretold that danger lurks within.
KING EDWARD
Tush man, abodements must not now affright us.
By fair or foul means we must enter in
For hither will our friends repair to us. [15]
HAST INGS
My liege, I’ll knock once more, to summon them.
[He knocks and the Drummer sounds.]
Enter on the walls, the Mayor of York, and his brethren [the Aldermen].
MAY OR
My lords, we were forewarnèd of your coming
And shut the gates for safety of ourselves,
For now we owe allegiance unto Henry.
