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Suf. Lady, wherefore talk you so?

Mar. I cry you mercy, 'tis but quid for quo.

Suf. Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose

Your bondage happy to be made a queen?

Mar. To be a queen in bondage is more vile

Than is a slave in base servility;

For princes should be free.

Suf.And so shall you,

If happy England's royal king be free.

Mar. Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?

Suf. I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,

To put a golden sceptre in thy hand

And set a precious crown upon thy head,

If thou wilt condescend to be my—

Mar.What?

Suf.His love.

Mar. I am unworthy to be Henry's wife.

Suf. No, gentle madam; I unworthy am

To woo so fair a dame to be his wife

And have no portion in the choice myself.

How say you, madam, are you so content?

Mar. An if my father please, I am content.

Suf. Then call our captains and our colours forth!

And, madam, at your father's castle walls

We'll crave a parley, to confer with him.

Suf. See, Reignier, see thy daughter prisoner!

Reig.To whom?

Suf.To me.

Reig.Suffolk, what remedy?

I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,

 111 to be: if you were in consequence

132 unapt: disinclined 