RED. I-I-I r-r-run as f-f-fast as I-I ca-ca-can run, I wa-warrant ye.
SCENE THE THIRTY-THIRD.
Enter a Signet,[539] first two Heralds, after them LEICESTER, with a sceptre, LANCASTER, with a crown imperial on a cushion: after them HENRY THE ELDER, bare-headed, bearing a sword and a globe: after him YOUNG HENRY, crowned: ELINOR, the Mother-Queen, crowned: YOUNG QUEEN crowned: HENRY THE ELDER places his son, the two Queens on either hand, himself at his feet, LEICESTER and LANCASTER below him.
HEN. Herald, fetch Lancaster and Leicester coronets,
Suffer no marquis, earl, nor countess enter,
Except their temples circled are in gold.
[He delivers coronets to LEICESTER and LANCASTER.
Shew them our viceroys: by our will controll'd,
As at a coronation, every peer
Appears in all his pomp; so at this feast,
Held for our birthright, let them be adorn'd,
Let Gloster be brought in, crowned like an earl. [Exit HERALD.
This day we'll have no parley of his death,
But talk of jouissance and gleeful mirth.
Let Skink come in; give him a baron's seat.
High is his spirit, his deserts are great.
KING. You wrong the honour of nobility
To place a robber in a baron's stead.
QUEEN. It's well ye term him not a murderer.
KING. Had I misterm'd him?
QUEEN. Ay, that had you, Henry.
He did a piece of justice at my bidding.
KING. Who made you a justice?
HEN. I, that had the power.