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Speeches (Lines) for First Serving-Man
in "Henry VI, Part I"

Total: 5

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1

I,3,357

First Warder. [Within] Who's there that knocks so imperiously?

First Serving-Man. It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.


2

I,3,359

Second Warder. [Within] Whoe'er he be, you may not be let in.

First Serving-Man. Villains, answer you so the lord protector?


3

III,1,1317

Henry VI. We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace.
Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.

First Serving-Man. Nay, if we be forbidden stones,
We'll fall to it with our teeth.


4

III,1,1331

Third Serving-Man. My lord, we know your grace to be a man
Just and upright; and, for your royal birth,
Inferior to none but to his majesty:
And ere that we will suffer such a prince,
So kind a father of the commonweal,
To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,
We and our wives and children all will fight
And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.

First Serving-Man. Ay, and the very parings of our nails
Shall pitch a field when we are dead.


5

III,1,1377

Henry VI. O, loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,
How joyful am I made by this contract!
Away, my masters! trouble us no more;
But join in friendship, as your lords have done.

First Serving-Man. Content: I'll to the surgeon's.


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