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Throughout the play, the Duke of York has remained loyal to the throne first, no matter which nephew sits on it (whether Richard II or Henry Bolingbroke, now Henry IV). He describes to his wife the procession into London with the two cousins--once as a victor about to be coronated, the other as a prisoner who abdicated his throne. York also discovers the problematic loyalties of his son, the Duke of Aumerle, who was a part of a plot to overthrow Henry and reinstate Richard (called the 鈥淓piphany
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DUCHESS OF YORK My lord, you told me you would tell the rest,
When weeping made you break the story off,
of our two cousins coming into London.
DUKE OF YORK Where did I leave?
DUCHESS OF YORK At that sad stop, my lord,
Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops
Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.
DUKE OF YORK
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