Page 490 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal;
His insolence is more intolerable
Than all the princes in the land beside:
If Gloucester be displaced, he’ll be Protector.

BUCKINGHAM

Or thou or I, Somerset, will be Protector, [175]
Despite Duke Humphrey or the cardinal.

Exeunt Buckingham and Somerset.

SALISBURY

Pride went before, Ambition follows him.
While these do labour for their own preferment
Behoves it us to labour for the realm. [180]
I never saw but Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester,
Did bear him like a noble gentleman.
Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal -
More like a soldier than a man o’th’ church,
As stout and proud as he were lord of all - [185]
Swear like a ruffian, and demean himself
Unlike the ruler of a commonweal. -
Warwick, my son, the comfort of my age,
Thy deeds, thy plainness, and thy housekeeping
Hath won the greatest favour of the commons, [190]
Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey. -
And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland
In bringing them to civil discipline,
Thy late exploits done in the heart of France
When thou wert regent for our sovereign, [195]
Have made thee feared and honoured of the people. -
Join we together for the public good,
In what we can, to bridle and suppress
The pride of Suffolk and the cardinal
With Somerset’s and Buckingham’s ambition; [200]
And, as we may, cherish Duke Humphrey’s deeds,
While they do tend the profit of the land.

WARWICK

So God help Warwick, as he loves the land
And common profit of his country.