Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter King Henry, Duke Humphry, Salisbury, Warwick, and beaufort, on the one fide: the Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other. Suf.* A S by your high imperial Majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, To marry Princefs Marg'ret for your Grace; In prefence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne, Alanfon, In fight of England and her lordly peers, [prefenting the Queen to the King. To your most gracious hand; that are the substance Of that great fhadow I did represent; The happiest gift that ever Marquis gave, K. Henry. Suffolk, arife. Welcome, Queen Margaret; I can express no kinder fign of love, Than this kind kifs. O Lord, that lend'st me life, For thou haft giv'n me in this beauteous face, If fympathy of love unite our thoughts. 2. Mar. Great King of England, and my gracious The mutual conf'rence that my mind hath had, [Lord, By day, by night, waking, and in my dreams, In courtly company, or at my beads, With you mine alder lieviest Sovereign; Vide Hall's Chronicle, fol. 66. year 23. init. Mr Pope. [fpeech, K. Henry. Her fight did ravifh, but her grace in Her words y clad with wifdom's majesty, Make me from wond'ring fall to weeping joys, Such is the fulness of my heart's content. Lords, with one chearful voice welcome my love. All kneel. Long live Queen Marg'ret, England's happiness! 2. Marg. We thank you all. [Flourish. Suf. My Lord Protector, fo it please your Grace, Here are the articles of contracted peace, Between our Sovereign and the French King Charles, For eighteen months concluded by confent, Glo. [reads.] Imprimis, It is agreed between the French King Charles, and William de la Pole Marquis of Suffolk, Ambafador for Henry King of England, that the faid Henry fhall efpoufe the Lady Margaret, daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia, and Jerufalem, and crown her Queen of England, ere the thirtieth of May next enfuing. Item, That the duchy of Anjou, and the county of Maine, fhall be releafed and delivered to the King her father. [Lets fall the paper. K. Henry. Uncle, how now? Some fudden qualm hath ftruck me to the heart, K. Henry, Uncle of Winchester, I pray read on. Win. Item, That the duchies of Anjou and Maine fall be releafed and delivered to the King her father, and fhe fent over of the King of England's own proper coft and charges, without having any dowry. K. Henry. They pleafe us well. Lord Marquis, kneel you down; We here create thee the firft Duke of Suffolk, We thank you for all this great favour done,. Come, let us in, and with all speed provide [Exeunt King, Queen, and Suffolk, SCENE II. Manent the rest. Glo Brave Peers of England, pillars of the ftate, Duke Humphry muft unload his grief, To you Your grief the common grief of all the land. In winter's cold, and fummer's parching heat, Have you yourselves, Somerfet, Buckingham, How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe ? Crowned in Paris, in defpight of foes? And fhall thefe labours and thefe honours die ! Car. Nephew, what means this paffionate difcourfe? This peroration with fuch circumstances? For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it ftill. Glo. Ay, uncle, we will keep it if we can: But now it is impoffible we should. Suffolk, the new-made Duke, that rules the roaft, Agrees not with the leannefs of his purse. Sal. Now, by the death of him who dy'd for all, Thefe counties were the keys of Normandy. But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant fon ? War. For grief that they are palt recovery. For were there hope to conquer them again, My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.Anjou and Maine! myfelf did win them both. Those provinces thefe arms of mine did conquer. And are the cities that I got with wounds, Delivered up again with peaceful words ?: * York. France fhould have torn and rent my very heart, Before I would have yielded to this league. I never read, but England's Kings have had She fhould have ftaid in France, and starv'd in France, Car. My Lord of Glo'fter, now ye grow too hot := It was the pleasure of my Lord the King. Glo. My Lord of Winchester, I know your mind. We shall begin our ancient bickerings. And no great friend, I fear me, to the King. peaceful words? York. For Suffolk's Duke, may he be fuffocate, That dans the honour of this warlike ifle! Erance fhould have torn, &c. [Exin Had Henry got an empire by his marriage, With, God preferve the good Duke Humphry! Buck. Why fhould he then protect our Sovereign, We'll quickly hoift Duke Humphry from his feat. [Exit. Som. Coufin of Buckingham, though Humphry's. And greatness of his place, be grief to us, [pride, [Exe. Buckingham and Somerfet.. Sal. Pride went before, ambition follows him. While thefe do labour for their own preferment, Bekoves it us to labour for the realm. I never faw, but Humphry Duke of Glo'fter. More like a foldier, than a man o' th' church,, Warwick my fon, the comfort of my age e! Thy deeds, thy plainnefs, and thy houfe-keeping, Have won the greatest favour of the commons, Excepting none but good Duke Humphry. |