Queen. How fares my gracious lord?

[♦] Suf. Comfort, my sovereign! gracious Henry, comfort!

King. What, doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?

40 Came he right now to sing a raven’s note,

[♦] Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers;

And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,

By crying comfort from a hollow breast,

Can chase away the first-conceived sound?

45 Hide not thy poison with such sugar’d words;

Lay not thy hands on me; forbear, I say;