Page 486 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

[Gloucester lets it fall.]

KING HENRY

Uncle, how now?

GLOUCEST ER

Pardon me, gracious lord,
Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
And dimmed mine eyes that I can read no further.

KING HENRY

Uncle of Winchester, I pray read on. [55]

WINCHEST ER

Item, It is further agreed between them... That the duchies of Anjou and
Maine... [reading] ‘shall be released and delivered to the king her father,
and she sent over of the king of England’s own proper cost and charges,
without having any dowry’. [60]

KING HENRY

They please us well. - Lord Marquess, kneel down:
We here create thee the first Duke of Suffolk,
And gird thee with the sword. - Cousin of York,
We here discharge your grace from being regent
I’th’ parts of France, till term of eighteen months [65]
Be full expired. - Thanks, Uncle Winchester,
Gloucester, York, Buckingham, Somerset,
Salisbury, and Warwick.
We thank you all for this great favour done
In entertainment to my princely queen. [70]
Come, let us in, and with all speed provide
To see her coronation be performed.

Exit King Henry, Margaret and Suffolk.
[Gloucester stays all] the rest.

GLOUCEST ER

Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,
To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief -
Your grief, the common grief of all the land. [75]
What, did my brother Henry spend his youth,