JOHN. Welcome from war, thrice noble Earl of Leicester,
Unto our court: welcome, most valiant earl.
LEI. Your court in England, and King Richard gone!
A king in England, and the king from home!
This sight and salutations are so strange,
That what I should I know not how to speak.
JOHN. What would you say? speak boldly, we entreat.
LEI. It is not fear, but wonder, bars my speech.
I muse to see a mother and a queen,
Two peers so great as Salisbury and Chester,
Sit and support proud usurpation,
And see King Richard's crown worn by Earl John.
QUEEN. He sits as viceroy and a substitute.
CHES. He must and shall resign, when Richard comes.
SAL. Chester, he will, without your must and shall.
LEI. Whether he will or no, he shall resign.
JOHN. You know your own will, Leicester, but not mine.
LEI. Tell me among ye, where is reverend Ely,
Left by our dread king as his deputy?