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"This foolish parody of an army was more like a courtly progress. All they needed was a fool in cap and bells and God help them, that had that in Henry."

Hal Percy to the Duke of York "Is it civil war that you speak of? I cannot believe that your Grace can find that so disagreeable after all your efforts these past five years to bring about just that."

"The magnitude of each consummation could stay with them for days. For the rest they were content to stay within sight and sound of each other; to look, to smite, to touch and then to consummate that touching. And so the summer burnt itself out into sombre bronze days." Yep, and now Harry comes home.

"King Henry he Sixth of England and Second of France blinked nervously as Lancaster Herald Bawled out his long and mostly mythical list of titles...God be praised, Henry though, that he had forsaken silk hose for a seemly robe. Yesterday the sight of his uncle's bulging thighs had turned him sick with shame. Henry judged vanity of dress to be the worst of sins."

"I should hate you but I don't. Being a Percy just doesn't seem a good enough reason. A man must be judged by what he is, not his blood, and I've enough of yours and you've enough of mine for me to be confused...But Beaufort blood. That's another thing."

"Well, I resent the fact that your father holds land that should be mine. I resent the fact that he hacked off my grandfather's head and kept it on London Bridge for ten years. And most of all I resent the fact that I was forced to marry you to get back what was already mine."

"They were together again, the lion and his wild unruly cub. None would ever part them now."