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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

141

[Aside] I know not what to say; my title's weak.—
Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir?

2

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

158

[Aside] All will revolt from me, and turn to him.

3

Henry VI, Part III
[II, 2]

Lord Clifford

851

My gracious liege, this too much lenity
And harmful pity must be laid aside.
To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?
Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?
Not his that spoils her young before her face.
Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?
Not he that sets his foot upon her back.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
Ambitious York doth level at thy crown,
Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows:
He, but a duke, would have his son a king,
And raise his issue, like a loving sire;
Thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,
Didst yield consent to disinherit him,
Which argued thee a most unloving father.
Unreasonable creatures feed their young;
And though man's face be fearful to their eyes,
Yet, in protection of their tender ones,
Who hath not seen them, even with those wings
Which sometime they have used with fearful flight,
Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest,
Offer their own lives in their young's defence?
For shame, my liege, make them your precedent!
Were it not pity that this goodly boy
Should lose his birthright by his father's fault,
And long hereafter say unto his child,
'What my great-grandfather and his grandsire got
My careless father fondly gave away'?
Ah, what a shame were this! Look on the boy;
And let his manly face, which promiseth
Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart
To hold thine own and leave thine own with him.

4

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1481

[Aside to CLARENCE] Yea, is it so?
I see the lady hath a thing to grant,
Before the king will grant her humble suit.

5

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence)

1484

[Aside to GLOUCESTER] He knows the game: how true
he keeps the wind!

6

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1486

[Aside to CLARENCE] Silence!

7

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1492

[Aside to CLARENCE] Ay, widow? then I'll warrant
you all your lands,
An if what pleases him shall pleasure you.
Fight closer, or, good faith, you'll catch a blow.

8

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence)

1496

[Aside to GLOUCESTER] I fear her not, unless she
chance to fall.

9

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1498

[Aside to CLARENCE] God forbid that! for he'll
take vantages.

10

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence)

1501

[Aside to GLOUCESTER] I think he means to beg a
child of her.

11

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1503

[Aside to CLARENCE] Nay, whip me then: he'll rather
give her two.

12

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1506

[Aside to CLARENCE] You shall have four, if you'll
be ruled by him.

13

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1511

[Aside to CLARENCE] Ay, good leave have you; for
you will have leave,
Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch.

14

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1529

[Aside to CLARENCE] He plies her hard; and much rain
wears the marble.

15

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence)

1531

[Aside to GLOUCESTER] As red as fire! nay, then
her wax must melt.

16

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1538

[Aside to CLARENCE] The match is made; she seals it
with a curtsy.

17

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1564

[Aside to CLARENCE] The widow likes him not, she
knits her brows.

18

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence)

1566

[Aside to GLOUCESTER] He is the bluntest wooer in
Christendom.

19

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

King Edward IV (Plantagenet)

1568

[Aside] Her looks do argue her replete with modesty;
Her words do show her wit incomparable;
All her perfections challenge sovereignty:
One way or other, she is for a king;
And she shall be my love, or else my queen.—
Say that King Edward take thee for his queen?

20

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1591

[Aside to CLARENCE] The ghostly father now hath done
his shrift.