Will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground!

[20] I beseech your majesty, give me leave to go;

[♦] Sorrow would solace and mine age would ease.

[♦] King. Stay, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester: ere thou go,

Give up thy staff: Henry will to himself

Protector be; and God shall be my hope,

25 My stay, my guide and lanthorn to my feet:

And go in peace, Humphrey, no less beloved

Than when thou wert protector to thy king.

Queen. I see no reason why a king of years