Page 281 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

I cry you mercy, ’tis but quid for quo.

SUFFOLK

Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose [110]
Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?

MARGARET

To be a queen in bondage is more vile
Than is a slave in base servility;
For princes should be free.

SUFFOLK

And so shall you
If happy England’s royal king be free. [115]

MARGARET

Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?

SUFFOLK

I’ll undertake to make thee Henry’s queen,
To put a golden sceptre in thy hand
And set a precious crown upon thy head,
If thou wilt condescend to be my -

MARGARET

What? [120]

SUFFOLK

His love.

MARGARET

I am unworthy to be Henry’s wife.

SUFFOLK

No, gentle madam, I unworthy am
To woo so fair a dame to be his wife,
And have no portion in the choice myself. [125]
How say you, madam, are ye so content?

MARGARET