Kevin Gilmond

John McManus
Shakespeare
Phrasing
1) As I was banished,
I was banished
Hereford;
2) But
As I come,
I come for Lancaster.
3) And noble uncle
I beseech your grace
Look on my wrongs
With an indifferent eye;
4) You are my father,
For methinks in you I see old Gaunt,
Alive;
5) O,
Then my father,
Will you permit that
I should stand condemned
6) A wondering vagabond;
My rights and royalties
Pluckd
From my arms perforce
And given away
Wherefore was I born?
7) If that my cousin king
Be king of England,
It must be granted that I

Am duke of Lancaster.
8) You have a son,
Aumerle,
My noble cousin
9) Had you first died
And he been thus trod down,
He should have found Uncle Gaunt
A father.
To rouse his wrongs and chase them
Into the bay.
10) I am denied
To sue
My livery here,
And yet
My letters-patents
Give me leave.
11) My fathers goods
Are all distrained
And sold,
And these and all
Are all amiss employed.
12) And I challenge law:
Attorneys are denied me;
And therefore,
Personally
I lay my claim to my inheritance
Of free descent.