2 PETITIONER.
Come back, fool! This is the Duke of Suffolk and not my Lord Protector.
SUFFOLK.
How now, fellow; wouldst anything with me?
1 PETITIONER.
I pray, my lord, pardon me, I took ye for my Lord Protector.
QUEEN MARGARET.
[Reading.] “To my Lord Protector.” Are your supplications to his lordship? Let me see them. What is thine?
1 PETITIONER.
Mine is, an ’t please your grace, against John Goodman, my Lord Cardinal’s man, for keeping my house and lands, and wife and all, from me.
SUFFOLK.
Thy wife too! That’s some wrong, indeed.—What’s yours?—What’s here! [Reads.] Against the Duke of Suffolk for enclosing the commons of Melford. How now, sir knave!
2 PETITIONER.
Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.
PETER.
[Giving his petition.] Against my master, Thomas Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was rightful heir to the crown.
QUEEN MARGARET.
What sayst thou? Did the Duke of York say he was rightful heir to the crown?
PETER.
That my master was? No, forsooth, my master said that he was, and that the King was an usurper.