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Could I come near your beauty with my nails Exit.
I’d set my ten commandments in your face. [140] Exit.

KING HENRY

Sweet aunt, be quiet; ’twas against her will.

ELEANOR

Against her will! - Good king, look to’t in time:
She’ll pamper thee and dandle thee like a baby.
Though in this place most master wear no breeches,
She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unrevenged. [145]

BUCKINGHAM

Lord Cardinal, I will follow Eleanor,
And listen after Humphrey how he proceeds:
She’s tickled now, her fury needs no spurs,
She’ll gallop far enough to her destruction.

Enter Gloucester.

GLOUCEST ER

Now, lords, my choler being overblown [150]
With walking once about the quadrangle,
I come to talk of commonwealth affairs.
As for your spiteful false objections,
Prove them, and I lie open to the law;
But God in mercy so deal with my soul [155]
As I in duty love my king and country.
But to the matter that we have in hand:
I say, my sovereign, York is meetest man
To be your regent in the realm of France.

SUFFOLK

Before we make election, give me leave [160]
To show some reason, of no little force,
That York is most unmeet of any man.

Y ORK