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the tree Shall yield the other in the right opinion。 SOMERSET。 Good
Master Vernon; it is well objected; If I have fewest; I subscribe in silence。
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PLANTAGENET。 And I。 VERNON。 Then; for the truth and plainness of
the case; I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here; Giving my verdict on
the white rose side。 SOMERSET。 Prick not your finger as you pluck it off;
Lest; bleeding; you do paint the white rose red; And fall on my side so;
against your will。 VERNON。 If I; my lord; for my opinion bleed; Opinion
shall be surgeon to my hurt And keep me on the side where still I am。
SOMERSET。 Well; well; come on; who else? LAWYER。 'To Somerset'
Unless my study and my books be false; The argument you held was
wrong in you; In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too。 PLANTAGENET。
Now; Somerset; where is your argument? SOMERSET。 Here in my
scabbard; meditating that Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red。
PLANTAGENET。 Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses; For
pale they look with fear; as witnessing The truth on our side。 SOMERSET。
No; Plantagenet; 'Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks Blush for pure
shame to counterfeit our roses; And yet thy tongue will not confess thy
error。 PLANTAGENET。 Hath not thy rose a canker; Somerset?
SOMERSET。 Hath not thy rose a thorn; Plantagenet? PLANTAGENET。
Ay; sharp and piercing; to maintain his truth; Whiles thy consuming canker
eats his falsehood。 SOMERSET。 Well; I'll find friends to wear my
bleeding roses; That shall maintain what I have said is true; Where false
Plantagenet dare not be seen。 PLANTAGENET。 Now; by this maiden
blossom in my hand; I scorn thee and thy fashion; peevish boy。 SUFFOLK。
Turn not thy scorns this way; Plantagenet。 PLANTAGENET。 Proud Pole; I
will; and scorn both him and thee。 SUFFOLK。 I'll turn my part thereof into
thy throat。 SOMERSET。 Away; away; good William de la Pole! We grace
the yeoman by conversing with him。 WARWICK。 Now; by God's will;
thou wrong'st him; Somerset; His grandfather was Lionel Duke of
Clarence; Third son to the third Edward; King of England。 Spring crestless
yeomen from so deep a root? PLANTAGENET。 He bears him on the
place's privilege; Or durst not for his craven heart say thus。 SOMERSET。
By Him that made me; I'll maintain my words On any plot of ground in
Christendom。 Was not thy father; Richard Earl of Cambridge; For treason
executed in our late king's days? And by his treason stand'st not thou
attainted; Corrupted; and exempt from ancient gentry? His trespass yet
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lives guilty in thy blood; And till thou be restor'd thou art a yeoman。
PLANTAGENET。 My father was attached; not attainted; Condemn'd to die
for treason; but no traitor; And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset;
Were growing time once ripened to my will。 For your partaker Pole; and
you yourself; I'll note you in my book of memory To scourge you for this
apprehension。 Look to it well; and say you are well warn'd。 SOMERSET。
Ay; thou shalt find us ready for thee still; And know us by these colours
for thy foes For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear。
PLANTAGENET。 And; by my soul; this pale and angry rose; As
cognizance of my blood…drinking hate; Will I for ever; and my faction;
wear; Until it wither with me to my grave; Or flourish to the height of my
degree。 SUFFOLK。 Go forward; and be chok'd with thy ambition! And so
farewell until I meet thee next。 Exit SOMERSET。 Have with thee; Pole。
Farewell; ambitious Richard。 Exit PLANTAGENET。 How I am brav'd; and
must perforce endure it! WARWICK。 This blot that they object against
your house Shall be wip'd out in the next Parliament; Call'd for the truce of
Winchester and Gloucester; And if thou be not then created York; I will
not live to be accounted Warwick。 Meantime; in signal of my love to thee;
Against proud Somerset and William Pole; Will I upon thy party wear this
rose; And here I prophesy: this brawl to…day; Grown to this faction in the
Temple Garden; Shall send between the Red Rose and the White A
thousand souls to death and deadly night。 PLANTAGENET。 Good Master
Vernon; I am bound to you That you on my behalf would pluck a flower。
VERNON。 In your behalf still will I wear the same。 LAWYER。 And so
will I。 PLANTAGENET。 Thanks; gentle sir。 Come; let us four to dinner。 I
dare say This quarrel will drink blood another day。 Exeunt
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SCENE 5。
The Tower of London
Enter MORTIMER; brought in a chair; and GAOLERS
MORTIMER。 Kind keepers of my weak decaying age; Let dying
Mortimer here rest himself。 Even like a man new haled from the rack; So
fare my limbs with long imprisonment; And these grey locks; the
pursuivants of death; Nestor…like aged in an age of care; Argue the end of
Edmund Mortimer。 These eyes; like lamps whose wasting oil is spent; Wax
dim; as drawing to their exigent; Weak shoulders; overborne with
burdening grief; And pithless arms; like to a withered vine That droops his
sapless branches to the ground。 Yet are these feet; whose strengthless stay
is numb; Unable to support this lump of clay; Swift…winged with desire to
get a grave; As witting I no other comfort have。 But tell me; keeper; will
my nephew come? FIRST KEEPER。 Richard Plantagenet; my lord; will
come。 We sent unto the Temple; unto his chamber; And answer was
return'd that he will come。 MORTIMER。 Enough; my soul shall then be
satisfied。 Poor gentleman! his wrong doth equal mine。 Since Henry
Monmouth first began to reign; Before whose glory I was great in arms;
This loathsome sequestration have I had; And even since then hath
Richard been obscur'd; Depriv'd of honour and inheritance。 But now the
arbitrator of despairs; Just Death; kind umpire of men's miseries; With
sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence。 I would his troubles likewise
were expir'd; That so he might recover what was lost。
Enter RICHARD PLANTAGENET
FIRST KEEPER。 My lord; your loving nephew now is come。
MORTIMER。 Richard Plantagenet; my friend; is he come?
PLANTAGENET。 Ay; noble uncle; thus ignobly us'd; Your nephew; late
despised Richard; comes。 MORTIMER。 Direct mine arms I may embrace
his neck And in his bosom spend my latter gasp。 O; tell me when my lips
do touch his cheeks; That I may kindly give one fainting kiss。 And now
declare; sweet stem from York's great stock; Why didst thou say of late
thou wert despis'd? PLANTAGENET。 First; lean thine aged back against
mine arm; And; in that ease; I'll tell thee my disease。 This day; in argument
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upon a case; Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me; Among
which terms he us'd his lavish tongue And did upbraid me with my father's
death; Which obloquy set bars before my tongue; Else with the like I had
requited him。 Therefore; good uncle; for my father's sake; In honour of a
true Plantagenet; And for alliance sake; declare the cause My father; Earl
of Cambridge; lost his head。 MORTIMER。 That cause; fair nephew; that
imprison'd me And hath detain'd me all my flow'ring youth Within a
loathsome dungeon; there to pine; Was cursed instrument of his decease。
PLANTAGENET。 Discover more at large what cause that was; For I am
ignorant and cannot guess。 MORTIMER。 I will; if that my fading breath
permit And death approach not ere my tale be done。 Henry the Fourth;
grandfather to this king; Depos'd his nephew Richard; Edward's son; The
first…begotten and the lawful heir Of Edward king; the third of that descent;
During whose