158 C. F. Tucker Brooke, 



If I repaire not what he ruinates : 

 Him as a childe I dayly winne with words, 

 So that for proofe he barely beares the name : 

 I execute, and he sustaines the blame. 



Giue me a look, that when I bend the browes, 



Pale death may walke in furrowes of my face : 



A hand, that with a graspe may gripe world. 



An eare, to heare what my detractors say, 



A royall seate, a scepter, and a crowne : 



That those which doe beholde, thay may become 



As men that stand and gase against the Sunne. 



The plot is laide, and things shall come to passe. 



Where resolution striues for victory." 



" Anioy and Maine, both giuen vnto the French, 



Cold newes for me, for I had hope of France, 



Euen as I haue of fertill England. 



A day will come when Yorke shall claime his owne, 



And therefore I will take the Neuels parts. 



And make a show of loue to proud Duke Humphrey : 



And when I spie aduantage, claime the Crowne, 



For that's the golden marke I seeke to hit : 



Nor shall proud Lancaster vsurpe my right. 



Nor hold the scepter in his childish fist. 



Nor weare the Diademe vpon his head, 



Whose church-like humours fits not for a Crowne : 



Then Yorke be still a while till time do serue. 



Watch thou, and wake when others be asleepe, 



To prie into the secrets of the state, 



Till Henry surfeiting in ioyes of loue. 



With his new bride, and Englands dear bought queene, 



And Humphrey with the Peeres be falne at iarres, 



Then will I raise aloft the milke-white Rose, 



With whose sweete smell the aire shall be perfumde, 



And in my Standard beare the Armes of Yorke, 



To graffle with the House of Lancaster : 



And force perforce, ile make him yeeld the Crowne, 



Whose bookish rule hath puld faire England downe. " 



{Contention, p. 7, 1. 143 - p. 8, 1. 166). 

 In addition to the figures just discussed, there remain four 

 which merit attention : Henry VI, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, 

 Edward IV, and the young Prince Edward. These, in contrast with 



