Suf. How now, fellow, would'ft any thing with me? 1 Pet. I pray, my lord, pardon me; I took ye for my lord Protector. Q. Mar. To my lord Protector. [reading] Are your fupplications to his lordship? let me fee them; what is thine? 1 Pet. Mine is, an't please your Grace, against John Goodman, my lord Cardinal's man, for keeping my houfe and lands, and wife, and all from me. Suf. Thy wife too? that's fome wrong, indeed. What's yours? what's here? [Reads.] Against the Duke of Suffolk, for inclofing the Commons of Long Melford. How now, Sir Knave? 2 Pet. Alas, Sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole Township. Suf. [reads.] Against my mafter, Thomas Horner, for faying, that the Duke of York was rightful heir to the Crown. Q. Mar. What! did the Duke of York fay, he was rightful heir to the crown? Peter. That my mafter was? no, forfooth; my mafter faid, that he was; and that the King was an Ufurper. Suf. Who is there? -Take this fellow in, and fend for his Mafter with a Purfuivant, prefently; we'll hear more of your matter before the King. [Exit Peter guarded. Q. Mar. And as for you, that love to be protected Under the wings of our Protector's Grace. Begin your fuits anew, and fue to him. [Tears the Supplications. Away, base cullions: Suffolk, let them go. [Exeunt Petitioners. Q. Mar. My lord of Suffolk, fay, is this the guife? And And must be made a Subject to a Duke? To number Ave Maries on his beads; Suf. Madam, be patient; as I was the cause QMar. Befide the proud Protector, have we Th' imperious Churchman; Somerset, Buckingham, Suf. And he of these, that can do most of all, Q. Mar. Not all these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud Dame, the lord Protector's wife: She fweeps it through the Court with troops of ladies, More like an Empress than Duke Humphry's wife. Strangers in Court do take her for the Queen; She bears a Duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. Shall I not live to be aveng'd on her? Contemptuous, bafe-born, Callot as fhe is, She vaunted 'mongst her minions t'other day, The very train of her worst wearing gown Was better worth than all my father's lands; 'Till Suffolk gave two Dukedoms for his daughter! Suf. Madam, myfelf have lim'd a bush for her, And And plac'd a quire of fuch enticing birds, Yet muft we join with him and with the lords, So, one by one, we'll weed them all at laft ; SCENE VI. To them enter King Henry, Duke Humphry, Cardinal, Buckingham, York, Salisbury, Warwick, and the Dutchess of Gloucester. K. Henry. For my part, noble Lords, I care not which, Or Somerset, or York, all's one to me. York. If York have ill demean'd himself in France, Then let him be deny'd the Regentship. Som. If Somerset be unworthy of the Place, Let York be Regent, I will yield to him. War. Whether your Grace be worthy, yea or no, Car. Ambitious Warwick, let thy Betters speak. Sal. Peace, Son; and fhew fome reason, Buckingbam, Why Somerset should be preferr'd in this. Q. Mar. Because the King, forfooth, will have it fo. To give his Cenfure: thefe are no woman's matters. your Grace Glo. Madam, I am Protector of the Realm, And, at his Pleasure, will refign my Place. Suf. Suf. Refign it then, and leave thine infolence. Car. The Commons haft thou rack'd; the Clergy's bags Are lank and lean with thy extortions. Som. Thy fumptuous buildings, and thy wife's attire, Have coft a mafs of publick treasury. Q. Mar. Thy fale of offices and towns in France, [Exit Glo. Give me my fan; what, minion? can ye not? [She gives the Dutchess a box on the ear. I cry you mercy, Madam; was it you? Elean. Was't I? yea, I it was, proud French-woman : Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd fet my ten commandments in your face. K. Henry. Sweet aunt, be quiet; 'twas against her will. Elean. Against her will, good King? look to't in time, She'll hamper thee and dandle thee like a baby: Though in this place most Master wears no breeches, She fhall not ftrike Dame Eleanor unrevenged. [Exit Eleanor. Buck. Lord Cardinal, I'll follow Eleanor, And liften after Humphry, how he proceeds: She's tickled now, her fume can need no fpurs; She'll gallop faft enough to her deftruction. [Exit Buckingham. SCENE SCENE VII. Re-enter Duke Humphry. Glo. Now, lords, my choler being over-blown York. I'll tell thee, Suffolk, why I am unmeet War. That I can witness, and a fouler fact Suf. Peace, head-ftrong Warwick. War. Image of pride, why fhould I hold my peace! Enter Horner the Armourer, and his Man Peter, guarded. Suf. Because here is a man accus'd of treason:Pray God, the Duke of York excufe himself! York. Doth any one accuse York for a traitor? K. Henry. What mean'ft thou, Suffolk? tell me, 'what are these? Suf. Please it your Majefty, this is the man, That doth accuse his master of high treason: His words were thefe;" that Richard Duke of York "Was rightful heir unto the English Crown; "And |