Sound a Sennet. Enter the KING, DUKE HUMPHREY of Gloucester, CARDINAL BEAUFORT, BUCKINGHAM, YORK,SOMERSET, SALISBURY, WARWICK, and the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.

[♦] King. For my part, noble lords, I care not which;

100 Or Somerset or York, all’s one to me.

York. If York have ill demean’d himself in France,

[♦] Then let him be denay’d the regentship.

Som. If Somerset be unworthy of the place,

Let York be regent; I will yield to him.

105 War. Whether your grace be worthy, yea or no,

Dispute not that: York is the worthier.

Car. Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak.