WARWICK.
By heaven, I will not, though your majesty
Did bid me run upon your sword and die.
KING EDWARD.
Say that my grief is no way medicinable
But by the loss and bruising of thine honour.
WARWICK.
If nothing but that loss may vantage you,
I would accompt that loss my vantage too.
KING EDWARD.
Thinkst that thou canst unswear thy oath again?
WARWICK.
I cannot; nor I would not, if I could.
KING EDWARD.
But, if thou dost, what shall I say to thee?
WARWICK.
What may be said to any perjured villain,
That breaks the sacred warrant of an oath.
KING EDWARD.
What wilt thou say to one that breaks an oath?
WARWICK.
That he hath broke his faith with God and man,
And from them both stands excommunicate.
KING EDWARD.
What office were it, to suggest a man
To break a lawful and religious vow?