PRIOR. O, Warman hath betray'd me! woe is me!
_Enter_ JOHN, QUEEN, CHESTER, SALISBURY.
JOHN. Hence with that Prior! sirrah, do not speak:
My eyes are full of wrath, my heart of wreak.[216]
Let Leicester come: his haught heart, I am sure,
Will check the kingly course we undertake.
[_Exeunt cum_ PRIOR.
_Enter_ LEICESTER, _drum and ancient_.
JOHN. Welcome from war, thrice noble Earl of Leicester,
Unto our court: welcome, most valiant earl.
LEI. Your court in England, and King Richard gone!
A king in England, and the king from home!
This sight and salutations are so strange,
That what I should I know not how to speak.
JOHN. What would you say? speak boldly, we entreat.
LEI. It is not fear, but wonder, bars my speech.
I muse to see a mother and a queen,
Two peers so great as Salisbury and Chester,
Sit and support proud usurpation,
And see King Richard's crown worn by Earl John.
QUEEN. He sits as viceroy and a[s] substitute.
CHES. He must and shall resign, when Richard comes.
SAL. Chester, he will, without your must and shall.
LEI. Whether he will or no, he shall resign.
JOHN. You know your own will, Leicester, but not mine.
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