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My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick
Shall one day make the Duke of York a king.

Y ORK

And, Neville, this I do assure myself: [80]
Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick
The greatest man in England but the king.

Exeunt.

Scene III IT

Sound trumpets. Enter the King and State: [Margaret, Gloucester,
Suffolk, Buckingham, Winchester. Enter guarded Eleanor, Margery Jourdain,
Southwell, Hume and Bolingbroke, and then enter to them York, Salisbury,

and Warwick].

KING HENRY

Stand forth, Dame Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester’s wife:
In sight of God, and us, your guilt is great:
Receive the sentence of the law for sins
Such as by God’s book are adjudged to death. -
You four, from hence to prison back again; [5]
From thence unto the place of execution:
The witch in Smithfield shall be burnt to ashes,
And you three shall be strangled on the gallows. -
You, madam, for you are more nobly born,
Despoilèd of your honour in your life, [10]
Shall, after three days’ open penance done,
Live in your country here in banishment
With Sir John Stanley in the Isle of Man.

ELEANOR

Welcome is banishment, welcome were my death.

GLOUCEST ER

Eleanor, the law, thou see’st, hath judged thee: [15]
I cannot justify whom the law condemns.

[Exeunt Eleanor and other prisoners, guarded.]
Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
Ah, Humphrey, this dishonour in thine age