[♦] War. What plain proceeding is more plain than this?
Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt,
[55] The fourth son; York claims it from the third.
[♦] Till Lionel’s issue fails, his should not reign:
[♦] It fails not yet, but flourishes in thee
And in thy sons, fair slips of such a stock.
Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together;
60 And in this private plot be we the first
That shall salute our rightful sovereign
With honour of his birthright to the crown.