YORK.
Confirm the crown to me, and to mine heirs,
And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou liv’st.
KING HENRY.
I am content. Richard Plantagenet,
Enjoy the kingdom after my decease.
CLIFFORD.
What wrong is this unto the Prince your son!
WARWICK.
What good is this to England and himself!
WESTMORELAND.
Base, fearful, and despairing Henry!
CLIFFORD.
How hast thou injured both thyself and us!
WESTMORELAND.
I cannot stay to hear these articles.
NORTHUMBERLAND.
Nor I.
CLIFFORD.
Come, cousin, let us tell the Queen these news.
WESTMORELAND.
Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate king,
In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides.