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King Henry the Sixth, I. i

Undoing all, as all had never been.

Car. Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,

This peroration with such circumstance?

For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it still.

Glo. Ay, uncle; we will keep it, if we can;

But now it is impossible we should.

Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,

Hath given the duchies of Anjou and Maine

Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style

Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.

Sal. Now, by the death of him who died for all,

These counties were the keys of Normandy.

But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son?

War. For grief that they are past recovery:

For, were there hope to conquer them again,

My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.

Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both;

Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer:

And are the cities, that I got with wounds,

Deliver'd up again with peaceful words?

Mort Dieu!

York. For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate,

That dims the honour of this warlike isle!

France should have torn and rent my very heart

Before I would have yielded to this league.

I never read but England's kings have had

Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives;

And our King Henry gives away his own,

To match with her that brings no vantages.

Glo. A proper jest, and never heard before,

That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth

 106 This so detailed harangue

110 rules the roast: domineers

112 large style: inflated title

120 Cf. n.

125 For: as for; cf. n.

132 no vantages: nothing but herself

134 fifteenth; cf. n. 