135 Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir?
York. What then?
[♦] K. Hen. An if he may, then am I lawful king;
For Richard, in the view of many lords,
Resign’d the crown to Henry the Fourth,
140 Whose heir my father was, and I am his.
York. He rose against him, being his sovereign,
[♦] And made him to resign his crown perforce.
War. Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrain’d,
[♦] Think you ’twere prejudicial to his crown?