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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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1

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

20

Richard hath best deserved of all my sons.
But is your grace dead, my Lord of Somerset?

2

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

34

Thanks, gentle Norfolk: stay by me, my lords;
And, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night.

3

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

47

Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute;
I mean to take possession of my right.

4

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

56

My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,
Even in the chair of state: belike he means,
Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer,
To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.
Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father.
And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd revenge
On him, his sons, his favourites and his friends.

5

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Earl of Westmoreland

65

What, shall we suffer this? let's pluck him down:
My heart for anger burns; I cannot brook it.

6

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Lord Clifford

68

Patience is for poltroons, such as he:
He durst not sit there, had your father lived.
My gracious lord, here in the parliament
Let us assail the family of York.

7

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

76

Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart,
To make a shambles of the parliament-house!
Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words and threats
Shall be the war that Henry means to use.
Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne,
and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet;
I am thy sovereign.

8

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

85

'Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was.

9

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

91

And shall I stand, and thou sit in my throne?

10

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Earl of Northumberland

100

Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief;
And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.

11

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Earl of Westmoreland

102

Plantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,
Thy kinsman and thy friends, I'll have more lives
Than drops of blood were in my father's veins.

12

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

131

Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,
Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?
No: first shall war unpeople this my realm;
Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,
And now in England to our heart's great sorrow,
Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?
My title's good, and better far than his.

13

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?

14

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

144

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,
Whose heir my father was, and I am his.

15

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Earl of Warwick

150

Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrain'd,
Think you 'twere prejudicial to his crown?

16

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

156

Why whisper you, my lords, and answer not?

17

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Duke of Exeter

157

My conscience tells me he is lawful king.

18

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Lord Clifford

166

King Henry, be thy title right or wrong,
Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence:
May that ground gape and swallow me alive,
Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father!

19

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

170

O Clifford, how thy words revive my heart!

20

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Henry VI

179

My Lord of Warwick, hear me but one word:
Let me for this my life-time reign as king.