I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,--
BUCKINGHAM What, my gracious lord?
PRINCE EDWARD An if I live until I be a man,
I'll win our ancient right in France again,
Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.
GLOUCESTER [Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.
[Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL]
BUCKINGHAM Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of York.
PRINCE EDWARD Richard of York! how fares our loving brother?
YORK Well, my dread lord; so must I call you now.
PRINCE EDWARD Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:
Too late he died that might have kept that title,
Which by his death hath lost much majesty.
GLOUCESTER How fares our cousin, noble Lord of York?
YORK I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,
You said that idle weeds are fast in growth
The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
GLOUCESTER He hath, my lord.
YORK And therefore is he idle?
GLOUCESTER O, my fair cousin, I must not say so.
YORK Then is he more beholding to you than I.
GLOUCESTER He may command me as my sovereign;
But you have power in me as in a kinsman.
YORK I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.
GLOUCESTER My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart.
PRINCE EDWARD A beggar, brother?
YORK Of my kind uncle, that I know will give;
And being but a toy, which is no grief to give.
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