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''3. Watch.'' Ay, but give me worship and quietness;

I like it better than a dangerous honour.

If Warwick knew in what estate he stands,

'Tis to be doubted he would waken him.

1. Watch. Unless our halberds did shut up his passage.

2. Watch. Ay; wherefore else guard we his royal tent,

But to defend his person from night-foes?

War. This is his tent; and see where stand his guard.

Courage, my masters! honour now or never!

But follow me, and Edward shall be ours.

1. Watch. Who goes there?

2. Watch. Stay, or thou diest.

Som.What are they that fly there?

War. Richard and Hastings: let them go; here is the duke.

K. Edw. The duke! Why, Warwick, when we parted,

Thou call'dst me king!

 16 worship and quietness: honorable quiet

18 in stands: Edward's situation

19 doubted: feared

22 S. d. French Soldiers; cf. n. 