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Yor.

Oh my Liege, pardon me if you please, if not

I pleas'd not to be pardon'd, am content with all:

Seeke you to seize, and gripe into your hands

The Royalties and Rights of banish'd Herford?

Is not Gaunt dead? And doth not Herford liue?

Was not Gaunt iust? and is not Harry true?

Did not the one deserue □o haue an heyre?

Is not his heyre a well‑deseruing sonne?

Take Herfords rights away, and take from time

His Charters, and his customarie rights:

Let not to morrow then insue to day,

Be not thy selfe. For how art thou a King

But by faire sequence and succession?

Now afore God, God forbid I say true,

If you do wrongfully seize Herfords right,

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