QUEEN. I kiss thee, and I bless thee for this thought.
SCENE THE FIFTEENTH.
Enter KING, LANCASTER, RICHARD, FAUCONBRIDGE.
KING. O Lancaster, bid Henry yield some reason,
Why he desires so much the death of Gloster.
HEN. I hear thee, Henry, and I thus reply:
I do desire the death of bastard Gloster,
For that he spends the Treasure of the Crown;
I do desire the death of bastard Gloster,
For that he doth desire to pull me down.
Or were this false (I purpose to be plain),
He loves thee, and for that I him disdain.
HEN. Therein thou shewest a hate-corrupted mind;
To him the more unjust, to me unkind.
QUEEN. He loves you, as his father lov'd his mother.
KING. Fie, fie upon thee, hateful Elinor;
I thought thou hadst been long since scarlet-dyed.
HEN. She is, and therefore cannot change her colour.
RICH. You are too strict; Earl Gloster's fault
Merits not death.