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King Henry the Sixth, I. i
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Undoing all, as all had never been. 104

Car. Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,
This peroration with such circumstance?
For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it still.

Glo. Ay, uncle; we will keep it, if we can; 108
But now it is impossible we should.
Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,
Hath given the duchies of Anjou and Maine
Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style 112
Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.

Sal. Now, by the death of him who died for all,
These counties were the keys of Normandy.
But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son? 116

War. For grief that they are past recovery:
For, were there hope to conquer them again,
My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.
Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both; 120
Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer:
And are the cities, that I got with wounds,
Deliver'd up again with peaceful words?
Mort Dieu! 124

York. For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate,
That dims the honour of this warlike isle!
France should have torn and rent my very heart
Before I would have yielded to this league. 128
I never read but England's kings have had
Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives;
And our King Henry gives away his own,
To match with her that brings no vantages. 132

Glo. A proper jest, and never heard before,
That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth

106 This so detailed harangue
110 rules the roast: domineers
112 large style: inflated title
120 Cf. n.
125 For: as for; cf. n.
132 no vantages: nothing but herself
134 fifteenth; cf. n.