PEMBROKE.  Then I, as one that am the tongue of these,  To sound the purposes of all their hearts,  Both for myself and them  -  but, chief of all,  Your safety, for the which myself and them  Bend their best studies, heartily request  Th' enfranchisement of Arthur, whose restraint  Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent  To break into this dangerous argument:  If what in rest you have in right you hold,  Why then your fears  -  which, as they say, attend  The steps of wrong  -  should move you to mew up  Your tender kinsman, and to choke his days  With barbarous ignorance, and deny his youth  The rich advantage of good exercise?  That the time's enemies may not have this  To grace occasions, let it be our suit  That you have bid us ask his liberty;  Which for our goods we do no further ask  Than whereupon our weal, on you depending,  Counts it your weal he have his liberty.

Then I As One That Am the Tongue of These

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