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 Bish.This falls out well, and at the last I hope To see this heretike die in a rope.

Scroop.Once more my Lord of Cambridge make rehersal, How you do stand intiteled to the Crowne, The deeper shall we print it in our mindes, And euery man the better be resolu'de, When he perceiues his quarrell to be iust.

Cam.Then thus Lord Scroope, sir Thomas Gray, & you Mounsieur de Chartres, agent for the French, This Lionell Duke of Clarence, as I said, Third sonne of Edward (Englands King) the third Had issue Phillip his sole daughter and heyre, Which Phillip afterward was giuen in marriage, To Edmund Mortimer the Earle of March, And by him had a son cald Roger Mortimer, Which Roger likewise had of his discent, Edmund, Roger, Anne, and Elianor, Two daughters and two sonnes, but those three Dide without issue, Anne that did suruiue, And now was left her fathers onely heyre, My fortune was to marry, being too By my grandfather of King Edwardes line, So of his sirname, I am calde you know, Richard Plantagenet, my father was, Edward the Duke of Yorke, and son and heyre To Edmund Langley, Edward the third's first sonne.

ScroopSo that it seemes your claime comes by your wife, As lawfull heyre to Roger Mortimer, The son of Edmund, which did marry Phillip Daughter and heyre to Lyonell Duke of Clarence.

Cam.True, for this Harry, and his father both Harry the first, as plainely doth appeare, Are false intruders, and vsurp the Crowne. For when yong Richard was at Pomfret slaine, In