Enter the EARLS OF SOMERSET, suffolk, and WARWICK; RICHARD PLANTAGENET, VERNON, and another LAWYER. Plan. Great lords, and gentlemen, what means this silence? Dare no man answer in a case of truth? Suf. Within the Temple hall we were too loud : The garden here is more convenient. Plan. Then say at once, if I maintain'd the truth, Or, else, was wrangling Somerset in the error? Som. Judge you, my lord of Warwick, then be tween us. War. Between two hawks which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs which hath the deeper mouth, 1 Subtilties. Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. Plan. Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance: The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out. Som. And on my side it is so well apparel'd, So clear, so shining, and so evident, That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye. Plan. Since you are tongue-tied, and so loath to speak, In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts. Let him, that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honor of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. War. I love no colors; 1 and, without all color Of base insinuating flattery, I pluck this white rose, with Plantagenet. Suf. I pluck this red rose, with young Somerset ; And say withal, I think he held the right. Ver. Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more, Till you conclude that he, upon whose side Here used ambiguously for tints and deceits. |