| ACT IV SCENE IX | Kenilworth Castle. | |
| | Sound Trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEENMARGARET, and SOMERSET, on the terrace | |
| KING HENRY VI | Was ever king that joy'd an earthly throne, | |
| | And could command no more content than I? | |
| | No sooner was I crept out of my cradle | |
| | But I was made a king, at nine months old. | 5 |
| | Was never subject long'd to be a king | |
| | As I do long and wish to be a subject. | |
| | Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD | |
| BUCKINGHAM | Health and glad tidings to your majesty! | |
| KING HENRY VI | Why, Buckingham, is the traitor Cade surprised? | |
| | Or is he but retired to make him strong? | 10 |
| | Enter below, multitudes, with halters abouttheir necks | |
| CLIFFORD | He is fled, my lord, and all his powers do yield; | |
| | And humbly thus, with halters on their necks, | |
| | Expect your highness' doom of life or death. | |
| KING HENRY VI | Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates, | |
| | To entertain my vows of thanks and praise! | 15 |
| | Soldiers, this day have you redeemed your lives, | |
| | And show'd how well you love your prince and country: | |
| | Continue still in this so good a mind, | |
| | And Henry, though he be infortunate, | |
| | Assure yourselves, will never be unkind: | 20 |
| | And so, with thanks and pardon to you all, | |
| | I do dismiss you to your several countries. | |
| ALL | God save the king! God save the king! | |
| | Enter a Messenger | |
| Messenger | Please it your grace to be advertised | |
| | The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland, | 25 |
| | And with a puissant and a mighty power | |
| | Of gallowglasses and stout kerns | |
| | Is marching hitherward in proud array, | |
| | And still proclaimeth, as he comes along, | |
| | His arms are only to remove from thee | 30 |
| | The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms traitor. | |
| KING HENRY VI | Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distress'd. | |
| | Like to a ship that, having 'scaped a tempest, | |
| | Is straightway calm'd and boarded with a pirate: | |
| | But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed; | 35 |
| | And now is York in arms to second him. | |
| | I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him, | |
| | And ask him what's the reason of these arms. | |
| | Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower; | |
| | And, Somerset, we'll commit thee thither, | 40 |
| | Until his army be dismiss'd from him. | |
| SOMERSET | My lord, | |
| | I'll yield myself to prison willingly, | |
| | Or unto death, to do my country good. | |
| KING HENRY VI | In any case, be not too rough in terms; | 45 |
| | For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language. | |
| BUCKINGHAM | I will, my lord; and doubt not so to deal | |
| | As all things shall redound unto your good. | |
| KING HENRY VI | Come, wife, let's in, and learn to govern better; | |
| | For yet may England curse my wretched reign. | 50 |
| | Flourish. Exeunt | |
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