Page 497 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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MARGARET
‘For my Lord Protector’? Are your supplications to his lordship? Let me see
them: what is thine?
FIRST PETITIONER
Mine is, and’t please your grace, against [15] John Goodman, my lord
cardinal’s man, for keeping my house and lands and wife and all from me.
SUFFOLK
Thy wife too? That’s some wrong indeed. - What’s yours? What’s here!
[Reads] ‘Against the Duke of Suffolk, for enclosing the commons of
Melford.’ How [20] now, sir knave!
SECOND PETITIONER
Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.
PET ER
[giving his petitions]
Against my master Thomas Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was
rightful [25] heir to the crown.
MARGARET
What say’st thou? Did the Duke of York say he was rightful heir to the
crown?
PET ER
That my master was? No, forsooth: my master said that he was, and that
the king was an usurper. [30]
SUFFOLK
Who is there?
Enter Servant
Take this fellow in, and send for his master with a pursuivant presently. -
We’ll hear more of your matter before the king.
Exit [Servant with Peter].
MARGARET
And as for you that love to be protected [35]
Under the wings of our Protector’s grace,
Begin your suits anew, and sue to him.
