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You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act IV Scene 1

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1

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Earl of Suffolk

735

No marvel, an it like your majesty,
My lord protector's hawks do tower so well;
They know their master loves to be aloft,
And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.

2

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 5]

(stage directions)

2586

[Enter SCALES upon the Tower, walking.]
Then enter two or three Citizens below]

3

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 5]

First Citizen

2589

No, my lord, nor likely to be slain; for they have
won the bridge, killing all those that withstand
them: the lord mayor craves aid of your honour from
the Tower, to defend the city from the rebels.

4

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 5]

Lord Scales

2593

Such aid as I can spare you shall command;
But I am troubled here with them myself;
The rebels have assay'd to win the Tower.
But get you to Smithfield, and gather head,
And thither I will send you Matthew Goffe;
Fight for your king, your country and your lives;
And so, farewell, for I must hence again.

5

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 6]

Jack Cade

2617

Come, then, let's go fight with them; but first, go
and set London bridge on fire; and, if you can, burn
down the Tower too. Come, let's away.

6

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 9]

Henry VI

2866

Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distress'd.
Like to a ship that, having 'scaped a tempest,
Is straightway calm'd and boarded with a pirate:
But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed;
And now is York in arms to second him.
I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,
And ask him what's the reason of these arms.
Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower;
And, Somerset, we'll commit thee thither,
Until his army be dismiss'd from him.

7

Henry VI, Part II
[V, 1]

Duke of Buckingham

3015

That is too much presumption on thy part:
But if thy arms be to no other end,
The king hath yielded unto thy demand:
The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.

8

Henry VI, Part II
[V, 1]

Lord Clifford

3123

He is a traitor; let him to the Tower,
And chop away that factious pate of his.

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