Is not this a lamentable thing

The first thing we do, let's kill all the Wall Street bankers

So the Duke of York was no fanboy of Henry VI. There weren't a whole lot of Henry VI fanboys anyway. Henry VI wasn't even his own fanboy. I mean, how do you live up to a father like Henry V? You don't. You sit in your room and study the Bible all day and let your advisors and counsellors do all  the dirty work of running a country.

Meanwhile, the ambitious York convinces Jack Cade to arrange a rebellion of the underclasses and before you know it, you've got Occupy London Bridge on your hands. Cade riles up the public, which helps York's case against Henry VI, but then Cade makes love to this employment and things escalate far past the point of a hippie drum circle. The famous line about "Let's kill all the lawyers" isn't Cade's, but immediately precedes his rather modern sentiment regarding law and bureaucracy that can make us nod our heads even today.

This snippet is uber-brief only because my next speech is a meaty monster, and one I've been drooling over for a while now. Stay tuned, kids.


King Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Sc. II
Jack Cade:  Is not this a lamentable thing,
that of the skin of an innocent lamb be made parchment?
That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?
Some say the bee stings, but I say, 'tis the bee's wax;
for I did seal but once to a thing, and was never mine own man since.