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  • A Monologue from the play "Henry VI Part 1" by William Shakespeare
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Character Exeter
Gender Male
Age Range(s) Adult (36-50), Senior (>50)
Type of monologue / Character is Persuasive, Descriptive, Talking to the audience
Type Dramatic
Period Renaissance
Genre Historical, Drama
Description Exeter comments on England's political situation
Location ACT III, Scene I

Summary

After Henry VI becomes king, various quarrels between English nobles plague the kingdom, one between Gloucester and Winchester and the other between Richard Plantagenet and Somerset.

In the first scene of Act III, King Henry VI urges Gloucester and WInchester to stop fighting and restores Richard Plantagenet his hereditary rights. The king leaves for France and after everybody has left Exeter, an English lord, comments on the scene.

He argues that the truce between Gloucester and Winchester won't last long and that all these disagreements between the lords will destroy the kingdom. He thinks that an old prophesy will come true, that is Henry V will win everything and Henry VI will lose it all. He hopes that the king will die before that happens.

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Excerpt
EXETER
Ay, we may march in England or in France,
Not seeing what is likely to ensue.
This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forged love
And will at last break out into a flame:
As fester'd members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.
And now I fear that fatal prophecy
Which in the time of Henry named the Fifth
Was in the mouth of every sucking babe;
That Henry born at Monmouth should win all
And Henry born at Windsor lose all:
Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
His days may finish ere that hapless time.

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