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                 Act IL Scene V


             THE TOWER OF LONDON.


      MOR TIMER, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, &c.

        Mor/z)ner.-Dire(t mine arms I may embrace his neck,
       And in his bosom spend my latter gasp:
       0, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,
       That I may kindly give one fainting kiss.
       And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,
       Why didst thou say, of late thou wert despised?
        P/an/ageneL-First, lean thine aged back
       And, in that ease, I'll tell thee my disease.
       This day, in argument upon a case,
       Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me;
       Among which terms he used his lavish tongue
       And did upbraid me with my father's death:
       Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,
       Else with the like I had requited him.
       Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,
       In honour of a true Plantagenet
       And for alliance sake, declare the cause
       My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.

                                        against mine arm;

          Painted by 7AMES NOR THCO TE, R. A.