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COURTENAY. So yet am I, / Unless my friends and mirrors lie to me, / A goodlier-looking fellow than this Philip. / Pah! / The Queen is ill advised: shall I turn traitor? / They've almost talked me into it: yet the word / Affrights me somewhat: to be such a one / As Harry Bolingbroke hath a lure in it. / Good now, my Lady Queen, tho' by your age, / And by your looks you are not worth the having, / Yet by your crown you are. ["Seeing" ELIZABETH. / The Princess there? / If I tried her and la she's amorous. / Have we not heard of her in Edward's time, / Her freaks and frolics with the late Lord Admiral? / I do believe she'd yield. I should be still / A party in the state; and then, who knows
ELIZABETH. What are you musing on, my Lord of Devon?