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King Henry the Sixth, IV. i

Which are so weak of courage and in judgment

That they'll take no offence at our abuse.

K. Edw. Suppose they take offence without a cause,

They are but Lewis and Warwick: I am Edward,

Your king and Warwick's, and must have my will.

Rich. And shall have your will, because our king:

Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

K. Edw. Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?

Rich. Not I:

No, God forbid, that I should wish them sever'd

Whom God hath join'd together; ay, and 'twere pity

To sunder them that yoke so well together.

K. Edw. Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,

Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey

Should not become my wife and England's queen:

And you too, Somerset and Montague,

Speak freely what you think.

Clar. Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis

Becomes your enemy for mocking him

About the marriage of the Lady Bona.

Rich. And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,

Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.

K. Edw. What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeas'd

By such invention as I can devise?

Mont. Yet to have join'd with France in such alliance

Would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth

'Gainst foreign storms, than any home-bred marriage.

Hast. Why, knows not Montague, that of itself

 13 abuse: insult

18 proveth: turns out

24 mislike: displeasure

35 invention: plan 