Give thy sister to the heir of Burgundy, and forgive me if I depart to my castle of Middleham." Edward, stung by the sharpness of this reply, was about to answer as became his majesty of king, when Warwick more deliberately resumed: "Yet think well; Henry of Windsor is thy prisoner, but his cause lives in Margaret and his son.

There is but one power in Europe that can threaten thee with aid to the Lancastrians; that power is France.

Make Louis thy friend and ally, and thou givest peace to thy life and thy lineage; make Louis thy foe, and count on plots and stratagems and treason, uneasy days and sleepless nights.

Already thou hast lost one occasion to secure that wiliest and most restless of princes, in rejecting the hand of the Princess Bona.

Happily, this loss now can be retrieved.