THE First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous hou ses of Yorke and Lancaster with the death of the good Duke Humphrey And the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke and the Tragical end of the prowd Cardinall of Winchester with the notable Rebellion of Iacke Cade And the Duke of Yorkes first clayme to the Crowne LONDON Printed by Valentine Simmes for Thomas Millington and are to be sold at his shop vnder S. Peters church in Cornewall 1600 The first part of the Contention of the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster with the death of the good Duke Humphrey Enter at one doore King Henry the sixt and Humphrey Duke of Gloster the Duke of Somerset the Duke of Buckingham Cardinall Bewford and others Enter at the other doore the Duke of Yorke and the Marquesse of Suffolke and Queene Margaret and the Earle of Salisbury and Warwicke Suffolke AS by your high imperiall Maiesties command I had in charge at my depart for France As Procurator for your excellence To marry Princes Margaret for your grace So in the auncient famous Citie Towres In presence of the Kings of France Cyssile The Dukes of Orleance Calaber Brittaine and Alonson Seuen Earles twelue Barons and then the reuerend Bishops I did performe my taske and was espousde And now most humbly on my bended knees In sight of England and her royall Peeres Deliuer vp my title in the Queene Vnto your gracious excellence that are the substance Of that great shadow I did represent The haâ—â—â—â—st gift that euer Marquesse gaue The fairest Queene that euer King possest King Suffolke arise Welcom Queene Margaret to English Henries Court The greatest shew of kindnesse yet we can bestow Is this kind kisse O gracious God of heauen Lend me a heart repleate with thankfulnesse For in this beauteous face thou hast bestowd A world of pleasures to my perplexed soule Queene Th' excessiue loue I beare vnto your grace Forbids me to be lauish of my tongue Lest I should speake more then beseemes a woman Let this suffice my blisse is in your liking And nothing can make poore Margaret miserable Vnlesse the frowne of mightie Englands King King Her lookes did wound but now speech doth pierce Louely Queene Margaret sit downe by my side And vnckle Gloster and you lordly Peeres With one voice welcome my beloued Queene All. Long liue Queene Margaret Englands happinesse Queene We thanke you all Sound Trumpets Suffolke My lord Protector so it please your grace Here are the Articles confirm'd of peace Betweene our soueraigne and the French King Charles Till terme of eighteene months be full expirde Humphrey Inprimis It is agreed between the French king Charles and William de la Poole Marquesse of Suffolk embassador for Henry king of England that the said Henry shal wed and espouse the lady Margaret daughter to Raynard King of Naples Cyssels and Ierusalem and crown her Queen of England ere the 30. of the next moneth Item It is further agreed between them that the Dutches of Anioy and of Maine shal be released and deliuered ouer to the King her sa Duke Humprey left it fall Ki. How now vnkle what 's the matter that you stay so sodenly Hum. Pardon my Lord a sodain qualm came ouer my hart VVhich dimmes mine eies that I can see no more Vnckle of Winchester I pray you reade on Cardinal Item It is further agreed betweene them that the Dutches of Anioy and of Maine shal be released and deliuered ouer to the King her father and she sent ouer of the King of Englands owne proper cost and charges without dowry King They please vs well lord Marquesse kneel down we here create thee first Duke of Suffolke and girt thee with the sword Cosin of Yorke we here discharge your grace from being Regent in the parts of France till terme of 18 months be ful expirde Thankes vnckle Winchester Gloster Yorke and Buckingham Somerset Salsbury and Warwicke VVe thanke you all for this great fauour done In entertainement to my princely Queene Come let vs in and with all speede prouide To see her Coronation be performde Exit King Queene and Suffolke and Duke Humphrey staies all the rest Humph. Braue Peeres of England Pillers of the state To you Duke Humphrey must vnfolde his griefe VVhat did my brother Henry toyle himselfe And waste his subiects for to conquer France And did my brother Bedford spend his time To keepe in awe that stout vnruly Realme And haue not I and mine vnckle Bewford here Done all we could to keepe that land in peace And is all our labors then spent in vaine For Suffolke hethe new made duke that rules the roast Hath giuen away for our King Henries Queene The Dutches of Anioy and same vnto her father Ah lords fatall is this mariage canselling our states Reuersing Monuments of conquered France Vndoing all as none had nere beene done Card. VVhy how now cosin Gloster what needes this As if our King were bound vnto your will And might not do his will without your leaue Prowd Protector enuy in thine eies I see The big swolne venome of thy hatefull heart That dare presume gainst that thy soueraigne likes Hum. Nay my Lord t is not my words that troubles you But my presence prowd Prelate as thou art But I le be gone and giue thee leaue to speake Farewell my Lords and say when I am gone I prophecied France would be lost ere long Exit Duke Humphrey Card. There goes our protector in a rage My lords you know he is my great enemy And though he be Protector of the land And thereby couers his deceitfull thoughts For well you see if he but walke the streetes The common people swarme about him straight Crying Iesus blesse your royall excellence With God preserue the good Duke Humphrey And many things besides that are not knowne Which time will bring to light in smooth Duke Humphrey But I will after him and if I can I le lay a plot to heaue him from his seate Exit Cardinal Buck. But let vs watch this haughtie Cardinall Cosen of Somerset be rulde by me Wee le watch Duke Humphrey and the Cardinall too And put them from the marke they faine would hit Som. Thanks cosin Buckingham ioyne thou with me And both of vs with the Duke of Suffolke Wee le quickly heaue Duke Humphrey from his seate Buck. Content come let vs about it straight For either thou or I will be Pâ—â—â—â—ctor Exit Buckingham and Somerset Salsb Pride went before Ambition followes after Whilst these do seeke their owne preferments thus My lords let vs seeke for our countries good Oft haue I heard this haughtie Cardinal Sweare and forsweare himselfe and braue it out More like a Ruffin then a man of church Cosen Yorke the victories thou hast wonne In Ireland Normandie and in France Hath wonne thee immortall praise in England And thou braue Warwicke my thrice valiant sonne Thy simple plainnesse and thy
the elder should succeed before the issue of the yonger then am I lawfull heire vnto the kingdome War What plaine proceedings can be more plaine he claimes it from Lyonel duke of Clarence the third son to Edward the third and Henry from Iohn of Gaunt the fourth son So that til Lyonels issue failes his should not raigne It fails not yet but flourisheth in thee and in thy sons braue slips of such a stocke Then noble father kneele we both togither and in this priuate place be we the first to honor him with birth-right to the Crowne Both Long liue Richard Englands royall King Yorke I thank you both but lords I am not your king vntil this sword be sheathed euen in the heart bloud of the house of Lancaster War Then Yorke aduise thy selfe and take thy time Claime thou the Crowne and set thy standard vp And in the same aduance the milke-white Rose And then to guard it I wil rouse the Beare Inuiron'd with ten thousand ragged-staues To aide and help thee for to win thy right Maugre the proudest lords of Henries bloud That dares deny the right and claime of Yorke For why my mind presageth I shall liue To see the noble Duke of Yorke to be a King Yorke Thanks noble Warwick and York doth hope to see The Earle of Warwicke liue to be the greatest man in England but the King Come le ts goe exeunt omnes Enter King Henry and the Queene Duke Humphrey the Duke of Suffolke and the Duke of Buckingham the Cardinal and dame Elnor Cobham led with the Officers and then enter to them the Duke of Yorke and the Earles of Salsbury and Warwicke King Stand forth dame Elnor Cobham dutches of Gloster heare the sentence pronounced against thee for these treasons that thou hast committed gainst vs our States and Peers First for thy haynous crimes thou shalt two daies in London do penance barefoot in the streetes with a white sheete about thy bodie a wax taper burning in thy hand that done thou shaltbe banished for euer into the I le of Man there to end thy wretched daies and this is our sentence irreuocable Away with her Elnor Euen to my death for I haue liued too long exeunt some with Elnor King Grieue not noble vnckle but be thou glad In that these treasons thus are come to light Lest God had pourde his vengeance on thy head For her offences that thou heldst so deare Humph. Oh gracious Henry giue me leaue awhile To leaue your grace and to depart away For sorrowes teares hath gripte my aged heart And makes the fountaines of mine eies to swell And therefore good my Lord let me depart King With all my heart good vnckle when you please Yet ere thou goest Humphrey resigne thy staffe For Henry will be no more protected The Lord shal be my guide both for my land and me Humph. My staffe yea noble Henry my life and all As erst thy noble father made it mine And euen at willing at thy feet I leaue it As others would ambitiously receiue it And long hereafter when I am dead and gone May honourable peace attend thy throne King Vnkle Gloster stand vp and go in peace No lesse beloued of vs then when Thou wert Protector ouer my land exit Gloster Queene Take vp the staffe for here it ought to stand Where should it be but in King Henries hand Yorke Please it your maiestie this is the day That was appointed for the combating Betweene the Armourer and his man my Lord And they are ready when your grace doth please King Then call them forth that they may try their rights Enter at one doore the Armourer and his neighbours drinking to him so much that he is drunken and he enters with a drum before him and his staffe with a sand-bagge fastened to is and at the other doore his man with a drum and sand-bag and Prentises drinking to him 1 Neighbor Here neighbor Horner I drink to you in a cup of sack And feare not neighbor you shall do well enough 2 Neigh. And here neighbor here 's a cup of Charneco 3 Neigh. Here 's a pot of good double beere neighbour drinke and be mery and feare not your man Armonrer Let it come yfaith I le pledge you all And a fig for Peter 1 Prentise Here Peter I drinke to thee and be not affeard 2 Pren. Here Peter here 's a pint of Claret wine for thee 3 Pren. And here 's a quart for me and be mery Peter And feare not thy maister fight for credit of the prentises Peter I thanke you all but I le drinke no more Here Robin and if I die here I giue thee my hammer And Will thou shalt haue my aperne and here Tom Take all my mony that I haue O Lord blesse me I pray God for I am neuer able to deale with my master he hath learnd so much fence already Salsb Come leaue your drinking and fall to blowes Sirra what 's thy name Peter Peter forsooth Salsb Peter what more Peter Thump Salsb. Thump then see that thou thump thy master Arm. Here to thee neighbor fil al the pots againe for before we fight look you I will tell you my mind for I am come hither as it were of mans instigation to proue my selfe an honest man Peter a knaue so haue at you Peter with down right blowes as Beuis of Southampton fell vpon Askapart Peter Law you now I told you hee s in his fence already Alarme and Peter hits him on the head and fels him Arm. Hold Peter I confesse treason treason he dies Peter O God I giue thee praise he kneeles downe Pren. Ho well done Peter God saue the King King Go take hence that triator from our sight For by his death we do perceiue his guilt And God in iustice hath reueald to vs The truth and innocence of this poore fellow Which he had thought to haue murthered wrongfully Come fellow follow vs for thy reward exeunt 〈◊〉 Enter Duke Humphrey and his men in mourning cloakes Humph. Sirra what 's a clocke seruing Almost ten my Lord. Humph. Then is that wofull houre hard at hand That my poore lady should come by this way In shamefull penance wandring in the streetes Sweete Nell ill can thy noble mind abrooke The abiect people gazing on thy face With enuious lookes laughing at thy shame That earst did follow thy proud Chariot wheeles When thou didst ride in triumph through the streetes Enter Dame Elnor Cobham barefoote and a white sheete about her with a waxe candle in her hand and verses writen on her back and pind on and accompanied with the Shiriffes of London and sir Iohn Standly and officers with billes and holbards Seruing. My gracious Lord see where my lady comes Please it your grace wee le take her from the Shiriffes Humph. I charge you for your lines stir not a foote Nor offer once to draw a weapon here But let them do
Ay me the King is dead help help my lords Suff. Comfort my Lord gracious Henry comfort King What doth my Lord of Suffolke bid me comfort Came he euen now to sing a Rauens note And thinkes he that the cherping of a Wren By crying comfort through a hollow voice Can satissie my griefes or ease my heart Thou balefull messenger out of my sight For euen in thy eie-balls murther sits Yet do not go come Basaliske And kill the seely gazer with thy lookes Queene Why do you rate my lord of Suffolke thus As if that he had causde Duke Humphreys death The Duke and I too you know were enemies And you had best say that I did murther him King Ah woe is me for wretched Glosters death Queene Be wee for me more wretched then he was What dost thou turne away and hide thy face I am no loathsome leaper looke on me Was I for this nie wrackt vpon the sea And thrice by aukward winds driuen backe from Englands bounds What might it bode but that well foretelling Winds said secke not a scorpions neast Enter the Earles of Warwicke and Salsbury War My lord the Commons like an angry hiue ofbees Run vp and downe caring not whom they sting For good Humphreys death whom they report To be murthered by Suffolke and the Cardinal here King That he is dead good Warwicke is too true But how he died God knowes not Henry War Enter his priuy chamber my lord and view the body Good father stay you with the rude multitude til I returne Salsb. I will sonne exit Salsbury Warwicke drawes the curtaines and shewes Duke Humphrey in his bed King Ah vnckle Gloster heauen receiue thy soule Farewell poore Henries ioy now thou art gone War Now by his soule that tooke our shape vpon him To free vs from his fathers dreadful curse I am resolu'd that violent hands were laid Vpon the life of this famous Duke Suff. A dreadfull oath sworne with a solemne tongue What instance giues Lord Warwicke for these wordes War Oft haue I seene a timely parted ghost Of ashie semblance pale and bloudlesse But loe the bloud is setled in the face More better coloured then when he liude His well proportioned beard made rough and sterne His fingers spread abroad as one that graspt for life Yet was by strength surprisde the least of these are probable It cannot chuse but he was murthered Queene Suffolke and the Cardinall had him in charge And they I trust sir are no murtherers War Yea but t was well knowne they were not his friends And t is well seene he found some enemies Card. But haue you no greater proofes then these War Who sees a heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees hard by a butcher with an axe But wil suspect t was he that made the slaughter Who finds the partrige in the puttockes neast But will imagine how the bird came there Although the Kite soare with vnbloudy beake Euen so suspitious is this Tragedie Queene Are you the Kite Bewford where 's your talants Is Suffolke the butcher where 's his Knife Suff. I weare no Knife to slaughter sleeping men But here 's a vengefull sword rusted with case That shall be scoured in his 〈…〉 heart That slanders me with murthers crimson badge Say if thou dare prowd Lord of Warwickshire That I am guilty in Duke Humphreys death exit Cardinall War What dares not Warwick if false Suffolk dare him Queene He dares not calme his contumelious spirit Nor cease to be an arrogant controwler Though Suffolke dare him twentie hundreth times War Madame be ye still with reuerence may I say it That euery word you speake in his defence Is slaunder to your royall maiestie Suff. Blunt witted lord ignoble in thy words If euer Lady wrongd her lord so much Thy mother tooke vnto her blamefull bed Some sterne vntutred churle and noble stocke Was graft with crab-tree slip whose fruite thou art And neuer of the Neuils noble race War But that the guilt of murther bucklers thee And I should rob the deaths man of his fee Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames And that my soueraignes presence makes me mute I would false murtherous coward on thy knees Make thee craue pardon for thy passed speech And say it was thy mother that thou meantst That thou thy selfe wast borne in bastardy And after all this fearefull homage done Giue thee thy hyre and send thy soule to hell Pernitious bloud-sucker of sleeping men Suff. Thou shouldst be waking whilst I shead thy bloud If from this presence thou dare go with me War Away euen now or I will drag thee hence Warwicke pulls him out Exit Warwicke and Suffolke and then all the Commons within cries downe with Suffolke downe with Suffolke And then enter againe the duke of Suffolke and Warwicke with their weapons drawne King Why how now lords Suff. The traiterous Warwicke with the men of Berry Set al vpon me mightie soueraigne The commons againe cries downe with Suffolke downe with Suffolke And enter from them the Earle of Salisbury Salsb My Lord the Commons sends you word by me That vnlesse false Suffolk here be done to death Or banished faire Englands territories That they will erre from your highnesse person They say by him the good Duke Humphrey died They say by him they feare the ruine of the Realme And therefore if you loue your subiects weale They wish you to banish him from forth the land Suff. Indeed t is like the Commons rude vnpolisht hinds Would send such message to their soueraigne But you my lord were glad to be imployd To trie how quaint an Orator you were But all the honor Salsbury hath got Is that he was the Lord Embassadour Sent from a sort of tinkars to the King The Commons cries an answere from the King my Lord of Salsbury King Good Salsbury go backe againe to them Tell them we thanke them for all their louing care And had not I beene cited thus by their meanes My selfe had done it therefore here I sweare If Suffolke be found to breathe in any place Where I haue rule but three daies more he dies exit Salsbury Queene Oh Henry reuerse the doome of gentle Suffolkes banishment King Vngentle Queene to cal him gentle Suffolke Speake not for him for in England he shall not rest If I say I may relent but if I sweare it is irreuocable Come Warwicke and go thou in with me For I haue great matters to impart to thee exit King and Warwicke manet Queene and Suffolke Queene Hell fire and vengeance go along with you There 's two of you the diuell make the third Fre womanish man canst thou not curse thy enemies Suff. A plague vpon them wherefore should I curse them Could curses kill as do the Mandrakes groanes I would inuent as many bitter termes Deliuered strongly through my fixed teeth With twice so many signes of deadly hate As leane facde Enuy in her loathsome caue My tongue should
sir God help me Humphrey How camâ—st thou lame Poore man With falling off on a plum-tree Humphrey Wart thou blind and would clime plum-trees Poore man Neuer but once sir in all my life My wife did long for plums Humphrey But tell me wart thou borne blind Poore man Yea truly sir Woman Yea indeed sir he was borne blind Humphrey What art thou his mother Woman His wife sir Humphrey Hadst thou beene his mother Thou couldst haue better told Why let me see I thinke thou canst not see yet Poore man Yes truly master as cleere as day Humphrey Saist thou so what colour 's his cloake Poore man Why red maister as red as bloud Humphrey And his cloake Poore man Why that 's greene Humphrey And what colour 's his hose Poore man Yellow maister yellow as gold Humphrey And what colours my gowne Poore man Blacke sir as blacke as ieat King Then belike he knowes what colour ieat is on Suffolke And I think ieat did he neuer see Humph. But cloakes and gownes ere this day many a one But tell me sirra what 's my name Poore man Alas master I know not Humphrey What 's his name Poore man I know not Humphrey Nor his poore No truly sir Hum. Nor his name poore No indeed master Hum. What 's thine owne name poore Sander and it please you maister Hum. Then Sander sit there the lyingest knaue in Christendome If thou hadst been borne blind thou mightst aswell haue knowne all our names as thus to name the seuerall colours we do weare Sight may distinguish of colours but sodainly to nominate them all it is impossible My lords same Albons here hath done a miracle and would you not thinke his cunning to be great that could restore this cripple to his legs againe poore man Oh maister I would you could Humphrey My maisters of Saint Albons Haue you not Beadles in your Towne And things called whips Mayor Yes my lord if it please your grace Hum. Then send for one presently Mayor Sirra go fetch the Beadle hither straight exit one Hum. Now fetch me a stoole hither by and by Now sirra if you meane to saue your selfe from whipping Leape me ouer this stoole and runne away Enter Beadle poore Alas master I am not able to stand alone You go about to torture me in vaine Hum. Well sir we must haue you find your legs Sirra Beadle whip him til he leape ouer that same stoole Beadle I will my Lord come on sirra off with your doublet quickly poore Alas master what shall I do I am not able to stand After the beadle hath hit him one girke he leapes ouer the stoole and runs away and they run after him crying a miracle a miracle Hum. A miracle a miracle let him be taken againe and whipt through euery market Towne till he comes at Barwicke where he was borne Maior It shal be done my Lord. exit Mayor Suff. My lord Protector hath done wonders to day He hath made the blind to see and the halt to go Hum. Yea but you did greater wonders when you made whole Dukedomes flie in a day Witnesse France King Haue done I say and let me heare no more of that Enter the Duke of Buckingham What newes brings Duke Humphrey of Buckingham Buck Ill newes for some my lord and this it is That prowd dame Elnor our Protectors wife Hath plotted Treasons gainst the King and Peeres By witchcrafts sorceries and coniurings Who by such meanes did raise a spirit vp To tell her what hap should betide the state But ere they had finisht their diuellish drift By Yorke and my selfe they were all surprizde And here 's the answer the diuell did make to them King First of the King what shall become of him Reads The Duke yet liues that Henry shall depose Yet him out liue and die a violent death Gods wil be done in all What fate awaits the Duke of Suffolke By water shall he die and take his end Suff. By water must the duke of Suffolke diet It must be so or els the diuell doth lie King Let Somerset shun castles For safer shall he be vpon the sandy plaines Then where castles mounted stand Car. Here 's good stuffe how now my lord protector This newes I thinke hath turnde your weapons point I am in doubt you le scarcely keepe your promise Humph. Forbeare ambitious prelate to vrge my griefe And pardon me my gracious soueraigne For here I sweare vnto your maiesty That I am guiltlesle of these hainous crimes Which my ambitious wife hath falsly done And for she would betray her soueraigne lord There renounce her from my bed and boord And leaue her open for the law to iudge Vnlesse she cleere her selfe of this foule deed King Come my lords this night wee le lodge in S. Albons And to morrow we will ride to London And trie the vtmost of these treasons forth Come vnkle Gloster along with vs My mind doth tell me thou art innocent exeunt omnes Enter the Duke of Yorke and the Earles of Salsbury and Warwicke Yorke My lords our simple supper ended thus Let me reueale vnto your honors here The right and title of the house of Yorke To Englands Crowne by lineall descent War Then Yorke begin and if thy claime be good The Neuills are thy subiects to commaund Yorke Then thus my lords Edward the third had seuen sonnes The first was Edward the blacke Prince Prince of Wales The second was Edmund of Langley Duke of Yorke The third was Lyonell Duke of Clarence The fourth was Iohn of Gaunt The Duke of Lancaster The fifth was Roger Mortemer Earle of March The sixt was sir Thomas of Woodstocke William of Winsore was the seuenth and last Now Edward the black prince he died before his father left behinde him Richard that afterwards was King crowned by the name of Richard the second and he died without an heire Edmund of Langly duke of Yorke died and left behind him two daughters Anne and Elinor Lyonel duke of Clarence died and left behind Alice Anne and Elinor that was after married to my father and by her I claime the Crowne as the true heyre to Lyonell Duke of Clarence the third sonne to Edward the third Now sir In the time of Richards raigne Henry of Bullenbrooke sonne and heire to Iohn of Gaunt the Duke of Lancaster fourth son to Edward the third he claimde the crown deposde the mirthful King and as you both know in Pomphret Castle harmles Richard was shamefully murthered and so by Richards death came the house of Lancaster vnto the Crowne Sals Sauing your tale my lord as I haue heard in the raigne of Bullenbrook the Duke of York did claime the Crown and but for Owen Glendor had bin King Yorke True but so it fortuned then by meanes of that monstrous rebell Glendor the noble Duke of Yorke was done to death and so euer since the heires of Iohn of Gaunt haue possessed the Crowne But if the issue of
their office as they should Elnor Come you my Lord to see my open shame Ah Gloster now thou doest penance too See how the giddie people looke at thee Shaking their heads and pointing at thee here Go get thee gone and hide thee from their sights And in thy pent vp studie rue my shame And ban thine enemies Ah mine and thine Hum. Ah Nell sweet Nell forget this extreame griefe And beare it patiently to ease thy heart Elnor Ah Gloster teach me to forget my selfe For whilst I thinke I am thy wedded wife Then thought of this doth kill my wofull heart The ruthlesse flints do cut my tender feete And when I start the cruell people laugh And bids me be aduised how I tread And thus with burning Tapor in my hand Malde vp in shame with papers on my backe Ah Gloster can I endure this and liue Sometime I le say I am Duke Humphreys wife And he a Prince Protector of the land But so he rulde and such a Prince he was As he stood by whilst I his forlorne Dutches Was led with shame and made a laughing stocke To euery idle rascall follower Hum. My louely Nell what wouldst thou haue me do Should I attempt to reseue thee from hence I should incurre the danger of the law And thy disgrace would not be shadowed so Elnor Be thou milde and stir not at my disgrace Vntill the axe of death hang ouen thy head As shortly sure it will For Suffolke he The new made Duke that may do al in all With her that loues him so and hates vs all And impious Yorke and Beuiford that false priest Haue all lymde bushes to betray thy wings And flie thou how thou can they will intangle thee Enter a Herald of Armes Herald I summon your grace vnto his highnes Parlament holden at saint Edmunds bury the first of the next month Humph. A Parlament and our consent neuer craude Therein before This is so deine Well we will be there exit Herald Maister Shiriffe I pray proceede no further against my lady then the course of law extends Shiriffe Please it your grace my office here doth end And I must deliuer her to sir Iohn Standly To be conducted into the I le of Man Humph. Must you sir Iohn conduct my lady Standly Yea my gracious lord for so it is decreede And I am so commaunded by the King Humph. I pray you sir Iohn vse her nere the worse In that I intreat you to vse her well The world may smile againe and I may liue To do you fauor if you do it her And so sir Iohn farewell Elnor What gone my lord and bid not me farewell Hum. Witnesse my bleeding heart I cannot stay to speake exit Humphrey and his men Elnor Then is he gone is noble Gloster gone And doth duke Humphrey now forsake me too Then let me haste from out faire Englands boundes Comâ— Standloy come and let vs haste away Standly Madame le ts go vnto some house here by Where you may shift yourselfe before we goe Elnor Ah good sir Iohn my shame cannot be hid Nor put away with casting off my sheete But come let vs go master Shiriffe farewell Thou hast but done thy office as thou shouldst exeunt omnes Enter to the Parlament Enter two Heralds before then the Duke of Buckingham and the Duke of Suffolke and then the Duke of Yorke and the Cardinall of Winchester and then the King and Queene and then the Earle of Salisbury and the Earle of Warwicke King I wonder our vnckle Gloster staies so long Queene Can you not see or will you not perceiue How that ambitious duke doth vse himselfe The time hath beene but now that time is past That none so humble as Duke Humphrey was But now let one meete him euen in the mome When euery one will giue the time of day And he will neither moue nor speake to vs See you not the Commons follow him In troupes crying God saue the good Duke Humphrey And with long life Iesus preserue his grace Honoring him as if he were a King Gloster is no little man in England And if he list to stir commotions T is likely that the people will follow him My lord if you imagine there is no such thing Then let it passe and call it a womans feare My lord of Suffolke Buckingham and Yorke Disproue my allegations if you can And by your speeches if you can reproue me I will subscribe and say I wrong de the Duke Suffolke Well hath your grace foreseene into that Duke And if I had beene licenst first to speake I thinke I should haue told your graces tale Smooth runs the brooke whereas the streame is deepest No no my soueraigne Gloster is a man Vnsounded yet and full of deepe deceit Enter the Duke of Somerset King Welcome Lord Somerset what newes from France Somer Cold newes my lord and this it is That all your holds and Townes within those Territories Is ouer come my Lord and all is lost King Cold newes indeede Lord Somerset But Gods will be done Yorke Cold newes for me for I had hope of France Euen as I haue of fertill England Enter Duke Humphrey Humph. Pardon my liege that I haue staid so long Suffolke Nay Gloster know that thou art come too soon Vnlesse thou proue more loyall then thou art We do arrest thee on high treason here Humph. Why Suffolkes duke thou shalt not see me blush Nor change my countenance for thine arrest Whereof am I guiltie who are my accusers York T is thought my lord your grace tooke bribes from France And stopt the souldiers of their pay By which his maiestie hath lost all France Humph. Is it but thought so and who are they that think so So God help me as I haue watcht the night Euer intending good for England still That pennie that euer I tooke from France Be brought against me at the iudgement day I neuer robd the souldiers of their pay Many a pound of mine owne proper cost Haue I sent ouer for the souldiers wants Because I would not racke the needie Commons Car. In your Protectorship you did deuise Strange torments for offendors by which meanes England hath beene defamde by tyrannie Hum. Why t is well knowne that whilst I was protector Pittie was all the fault that was in me A murtherer or foule felonious theefe That robs and murthers seely passengers I torturd aboue the rate of common law Suffolke Tush my lord these be things of no account But greater matters are laid vnto your charge I do arrest thee on high treason here And commit thee to my good Lord Cardinall Vntill such time as thou canst cleere thy selfe King Good vnckle obey to his arrest I haue no doubt but thou shalt cleere thy selfe My conscience tels me thou are innocent Humph. Ah gracious Henry these daies are dangerous And would my death might end these miseries And stay their moodes for good King Henries sake But
I am made the Prologue to their play And thousands more must follow after me That dreads not yet their liues destruction Suffolkes hatefull tongue blabs his hearts malice Gewfords firie eies shewes his enuious mind Buckinghams prowd lookes bewraies his cruel thoughts And dogged Yorke that leuells at the Moone Whose ouerweening arme I haue held backe All you haue ioynd to betray me thus And you my gracious lady and Soueraigne mistris Causelesse haue laid complaints vpon my head I shall not want false witnesses inow That so amongst you you may haue my life The prouerb no doubt will be well performde A staffe is quickly found to beate a dog Suffolke Doth he not twit our Soueraigne lady here As if that shee with ignominious wrong Had subornd or hyred some to sweare against his life Queene Yea but I can giue the loser leaue to speake Humph. Far truer spoke then ment I loose indeed Beshrew the winners hearts they play me false Buck. Hee le wrest the sence and keep vs here al day My Lord of Winchester see him sent away Card. Who 's within there take in Duke Humphrey And see him garded sure within my house Humph. O! thus king Henry casts away his crouch Before his legs can beare his body vp And puts his watchfull shepheard from his side Whilst wolues stand snarring who shal bite him first Farewel my soueraigne long maist thou enioy Thy fathers happie daies free from annoy Exit Humphrey with the Cardinals men King My lords what to your wisedomes shall seeme best Do and vndo as if our selfe were here Queene What wil your highnesse leaue the Parlament King Yea Margaret my heart is killed with griefe Where I may sit and sigh in endlesse mone For who 's a traitor Gloster he is none exit King Salsbury and Warwicke Queene Then sit we downe againe my lord Cardinall Suffolke Buckingham Yorke and Somerset Let vs consult of prowd duke Humphries fall In mine opinion it were good he dide For safetie of our King and common wealth Suffolke And so thinke I madame for as you know If our King Henry had shooke hands with death Duke Humphrey then would looke to be our King And it may be by pollicie he workes To bring to passe the thing which now we doubt The foxe barkes not when he would steale the lamb But if we take him ere he do the deede We should not question if that he should liue No let him die in that he is a foxe Lest that in liuing he offend vs more Car. Then let him die before the Commons know For feare that they do rise in Armes for him York Then do it sodainly my Lords Suff. Let that be my lord Cardinalls charge and mine Car. Agreed for hee 's already kept within my house Enter a Messenger Queene How now sirra what newes Messen Madame I bring you newes from Ireland The wilde Onele my lord is vp in Armes With troupes of Irish Kernes that vncontrold Do plant themselues within the English pale And burne and spoile the Country as they go Queen What redresse shall we haue for this my Lords Yorke T were very good that my Lord of Somerset That fortunate champion were sent ouer To keepe in awe the stubborne Irishmen He did so much good when he was in France Somer Had Yorke beene there with all his far fetcht Pollicies he might haue lost as much as I. Yorke Yea for Yorke would haue lost his life before That should haue reuolted from Englands rule Somer Yea so thou might'st and yet haue gouernd worse then I. Yorke What worse then nought then a shame take all Somer Shame on thy selfe that wisheth shame Queene Somerset for beare good Yorke be patient And do thou take in hand to crosse the seas With troupes of armed men to quell the pride Of those ambitious Irish that rebell Yorke Well Madame sith your grace is so content Let me haue some bands of chosen souldiers And Yorke shall trie his fortune gainst those Kernes Queene Yorke thou shalt my lord of Buckingham Let it be your charge to muster vp such souldiers As shall suffice him in these needfull warres Buck. Madame I wil and leuie such a band As soone shal ouercome those Irish rebells But Yorke where shal those souldiers stay for thee Yorke At Bristow I will expect them ten daies hence Buck. Then thither shall they come and so farewell exit Buckingham Yorke Adiew my Lord of Buckingham Queene Suffolke remember what you haue to do And you Lord Cardinal concerning Duke Humphrey T were good that you did see to it in time Come let vs go that it may be performde exeunt omnes manet Yorke Yorke Now Yorke bethinke thy selfe and rouse thee vp Take time whilst it is offered thee so faire Lest when thou wouldst thou canst not it attaine T was men I lackt and now they giue them me And now whilst I am busie in Ireland I haue seduede a head strong Kentish man Iohn Cade of Ashford Vnder the title of sir Iohn Mortimer To raise commotion and by that meanes I shall perceiue how the common people Do affect the claime and house of Yorke Then if he haue successe in his affaires From Ireland then comes Yorke againe To reape the haruest which that coystril sowed Now if he should be taken and condemnd Hee le nere confesse that I did set him on And therefore ere I go I le send him word To put in practise and to gather head That so soone as I am gone he may begin To rise in Armes with troupes of country swaines To help him to performe this enterprize And then Duke Humprhey he well made away None then can stop the light to Englands crowne But York can tame and headlong pul them down exit York Then the curtaines being drawne Duke Humphrey is discouered in his bed and two men lying on his brest and smothering him in his bed and then enter the Duke of Suffolke to them Suff. How now sirs what haue you dispatcht him One Yea my Lord he is dead I warrant you Suff. Then see the clothes laid smooth about him stil That when the King comes he may perceiue No other but that he dide of his owne accord 2 All things is hansome now my Lord. Suff. Then draw the curtaines againe and get you gone And you shal haue your firm reward anon exeunt murderers Then enter the King and Queene the Duke of Buckingham and the Duke of Somerset and the Cardinall King My lord of Suffolke go call our vnckle Gloster Tell him this day we will that he do cleare himselfe Suff. I will my Lord. exit Suffolke King And good my lords proceed no further against our vnkle Gloster Then by iust proofe you can affirme For as the sucking child or harmlesse lamb So is he innocent of treason to our state Enter Suffolke How now Suffolke where 's our vnckle Suff. Dead in his bed my Lord Gloster is dead The King falls in a swoone Queene