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?