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,—