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If with a lady of so high resolve

As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love.

Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me

That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.

King. Whether it be through force of your report,

My noble lord of Suffolk, or for that

My tender youth was never yet attaint

With any passion of inflaming love,

I cannot tell; but this I am assur'd,

I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,

Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,

As I am sick with working of my thoughts.

Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France;

Agree to any covenants, and procure

That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come

To cross the seas to England and be crown'd

King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:

For your expenses and sufficient charge,

Among the people gather up a tenth.

Be gone, I say; for till you do return

I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.

And you, good uncle, banish all offence:

If you do censure me by what you were,

Not what you are, I know it will excuse

This sudden execution of my will.

And so, conduct me, where from company

I may revolve and ruminate my grief.

Glo. Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.

Exit Gloucester [with Exeter].

Suf. Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,

As did the youthful Paris once to Greece;

With hope to find the like event in love,

 92 charge: money to spend

93 gather up a tenth; cf. n.

100 from company: unaccompanied

105 event: outcome 