Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.

[♦] Buck. What says your highness to my just demand?

[♦] K. Rich. As I remember, Henry the Sixth

100 Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,

When Richmond was a little peevish boy.

[♦] A king, perhaps, perhaps,—

[♦] Buck. My lord!

K. Rich. How chance the prophet could not at that time

105 Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?

Buck. My lord, your promise for the earldom,—