GLOUCESTER A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin.
YORK A greater gift! O, that's the sword to it.
GLOUCESTER A gentle cousin, were it light enough.
YORK O, then, I see, you will part but with light gifts;
In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay.
GLOUCESTER It is too heavy for your grace to wear.
YORK I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.
GLOUCESTER What, would you have my weapon, little lord?
YORK I would, that I might thank you as you call me.
GLOUCESTER How?
YORK Little.
PRINCE EDWARD My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:
Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.
YORK You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:
Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me;
Because that I am little, like an ape,
He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.
BUCKINGHAM With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!
To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,
He prettily and aptly taunts himself:
So cunning and so young is wonderful.
GLOUCESTER My lord, will't please you pass along?
Myself and my good cousin Buckingham
Will to your mother, to entreat of her
To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.
YORK What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?
PRINCE EDWARD My lord protector needs will have it so.
YORK I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.
GLOUCESTER Why, what should you fear?
YORK Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:
My grandam told me he was murdered there.
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