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Where be these warders that they wait not here?
[The Servingmen knock at the gates.]

Open the gates; ’tis Gloucester that calls.

FIRST WARDER

[within]
Who’s there that knocks so imperiously? [5]

FIRST SERVINGMAN

It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.

SECOND WARDER

[within]
Whoe’er he be, you may not be let in.

FIRST SERVINGMAN

Villains, answer you so the Lord Protector?

FIRST WARDER

[within]
The Lord protect him. So we answer him;
We do no otherwise than we are willed. [10]

GLOUCEST ER

Who willed you or whose will stands but mine?
There’s none Protector of the realm but I.
[To Servingmen]
Break up the gates; I’ll be your warrantise.
Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?

Gloucester’s Men rush at the Tower gates, and Woodville the Lieutenant
speaks within.

WOODVILLE

[within]
What noise is this? What traitors have we here? [15]

GLOUCEST ER

Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?
Open the gates; here’s Gloucester that would enter.