Page 547 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

I will reward you for this venturous deed.
The king and all the peers are here at hand. [10]
Have you laid fair the bed? Is all things well,
According as I gave directions?

FIRST MURDERER

’Tis, my good lord.

SUFFOLK

Away! Be gone.

Exeunt [Murderers].

Sound trumpets. Enter the King, the Queen, Cardinal [Winchester],
Somerset, with Attendants.

KING HENRY

[to Suffolk]
Go, call our uncle to our presence straight: [15]
Say we intend to try his grace today
If he be guilty, as ’tis publishèd.

SUFFOLK

I’ll call him presently, my noble lord.

Exit.

KING HENRY

Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all,
Proceed no straiter ’gainst our Uncle Gloucester [20]
Than from true evidence of good esteem
He be approved in practice culpable.

MARGARET

God forbid any malice should prevail
That faultless may condemn a noble man:
Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion! [25]

KING HENRY

I thank thee, Meg: these words content me much. -
Enter Suffolk.

How now? Why look’st thou pale? Why tremblest thou?