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"Head you! No I" "Will you betray us?" "It is not easy to betray twenty thousand men; if ye rise merely to free yourselves from a corn-tax and England from the Woodvilles, I see no treason in your revolt." "I understand you, Lord Montagu," said Robin, with a stern and half- scornful smile, "you are not above thriving by our danger; but we need now no lord and baron, we will suffice for ourselves.
I humbly thank him, and shall sleep the lighter for the fardel's loss. Now, mark me, Montagu: our kinsman, Lord Fitzhugh's son, and young Henry Nevile, aided by old Sir John Copiers, meditate a fierce and well-timed assault upon the Woodvilles. Do thou keep neuter, neither help nor frustrate it. Howsoever it end, it will answer our views, and shake our enemies."
It must bring the king to his senses; must prove to him how odious the mushroom race of the Woodvilles, and drive him for safety and for refuge to Montagu and Warwick. Let the storm blow, we will guide the blast. In this world man must make use of man."
"Is it possible," cried Raoul de Fulke, "that we have heard aright, noble earl? And has Edward IV. suffered the base Woodvilles to triumph over the bulwark of his realm?" "Knights and gentles!" said Warwick, with a bitter smile, "is it so uncommon a thing that men in peace should leave the battle-axe and brand to rust?
These Woodvilles! and yet they may live to move not wrath but pity. "Her children would mount the throne that our right hands built," said Montagu, sullenly. "Ah, think you so? you rejoice me! I had feared that the barons might, that the commons would, that the Church must, pronounce the unhappy truth, that but you look amazed, my lord! Alas, my boyish years are too garrulous!"
"Kinsman," said he, "spur on, with ten of my little company, to join the king. Report to me if any of the Woodvilles be in his camp near Coventry." "Whither shall I send the report?" "To my castle of Warwick." Marmaduke bowed his head, and, accustomed to the brevity of the earl's speech, proceeded to the task enjoined him. Warwick next summoned his second squire.
It was a luxury so penetrating and powerful that it affected him like an opiate. Such questions as military and moral duty floated swiftly away, and he slept the sleep of youth and a good heart. Breakfast was almost a repetition of supper. The army cook prepared and served it, and the Woodvilles remained invisible.
Methinks he spared me rather, because, without me, an enterprise which has shaken the Woodvilles from their roots around the throne, and given back England to the Neviles, had been nipped in the bud! Your brother is a deep thinker!" "I grieve to hear thee speak thus of the Lord Montagu.
Throughout 1466 the English court was the field for a diplomatic struggle between Charles and Lewis. Warwick pressed Margaret's marriage with one of the French princes. The marriage with Charles was backed by the Woodvilles. Edward bore himself between the two parties with matchless perfidy.
He was the reverse of grateful for service yielded, yet he was warm in protecting those on whom service was conferred. He was resolved not to give up the Woodvilles, and after a short self-commune, he equally determined not to risk his crown and life by persevering in resistance to the demand for their downfall.
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