Page 884 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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KING EDWARD
But, master Mayor, if Henry be your king, [20]
Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York.
MAY OR
True, my good lord, I know you for no less.
KING EDWARD
Why, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom
As being well content with that alone.
GLOUCEST ER
[aside]
But when the fox hath once got in his nose [25]
He’ll soon find means to make the body follow.
HAST INGS
Why, master Mayor, why stand you in a doubt?
Open the gates; we are King Henry’s friends.
MAY OR
Ay, say you so? The gates shall then be opened.
He descends.
GLOUCEST ER
A wise stout captain and soon persuaded! [30]
HAST INGS
The good old man would fain that all were well,
So ’twere not long of him; but, being entered,
I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade
Both him and all his brothers unto reason.
Enter the Mayor [with the keys in his hand] and two Aldermen.
KING EDWARD
So, master Mayor: these gates must not be shut [35]
But in the night or in the time of war.
What, fear not, man, but yield me up the keys,
Takes his keys.
