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<head>DRAMATIS PERSON&AElig;</head>
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<castItem type="role"><role id="k.-edw.">KING EDWARD the Fourth</role></castItem>
<castGroup>
<head rend="braced">sons to the King.</head>
<castItem type="role"><role id="prince.">EDWARD, Prince of Wales</role><roleDesc>afterwards King Edward V</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="york.">RICHARD</role><roleDesc>Duke of York</roleDesc></castItem>
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<castGroup>
<head rend="braced">brothers to the King.</head>
<castItem type="role"><role id="clar.">GEORGE</role><roleDesc>Duke of Clarence</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="glou._k.-rich.">RICHARD</role><roleDesc>Duke of Gloucester afterwards King Richard III</roleDesc></castItem>
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<castItem type="role"><role id="boy.">A young son of Clarence</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="richm.">HENRY, Earl of Richmond</role><roleDesc>afterwards King Henry VII</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="card.">CARDINAL BOURCHIER</role><roleDesc>Archbishop of Canterbury</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="rot.">THOMAS ROTHERHAM</role><roleDesc>Archbishop of York</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="ely.">JOHN MORTON</role><roleDesc>Bishop of Ely</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="buck.">DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="nor.">DUKE OF NORFOLK</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="sur.">EARL OF SURREY</role><roleDesc>his son</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="riv.">EARL RIVERS</role><roleDesc>brother to Elizabeth</roleDesc></castItem>
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<head rend="braced">sons to Elizabeth</head>
<castItem type="role"><role id="dor.">MARQUIS OF DORSET</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="grey.">LORD GREY</role></castItem>
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<castItem type="role"><role id="oxf.">EARL OF OXFORD</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="hast.">LORD HASTINGS</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="stan.">LORD STANLEY</role><roleDesc>called also EARL OF DERBY</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="der.">LORD STANLEY</role><roleDesc>called also EARL OF DERBY</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="lov.">LORD LOVEL</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="vaug.">SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="rat.">SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="cates.">SIR WILLIAM CATESBY</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="cate.">SIR WILLIAM CATESBY</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="tyr.">SIR JAMES TYRREL</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="blunt.">SIR JAMES BLOUNT</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="herb.">SIR WALTER HERBERT</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="brak.">SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY</role><roleDesc>Lieutenant of the Tower</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="chris.">CHRISTOPHER URSWICK</role><roleDesc>a priest.</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="priest.">Another priest</role></castItem>
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<head rend="braced">gentlemen attending on the Lady Anne</head>
<castItem type="role"><roleDesc>TRESSEL</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><roleDesc>BERKELEY</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="gent.">Gentleman</role></castItem>
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<castItem type="role"><role id="may.">Lord Mayor of London.</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="sher.">Sheriff of Wiltshire.</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="q.-eliz.">ELIZABETH</role><roleDesc>queen to King Edward IV</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="q.-mar.">MARGARET</role><roleDesc>widow to King Henry VI</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="duch.">DUCHESS OF YORK</role><roleDesc>mother to King Edward IV</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="anne.">LADY ANNE</role><roleDesc>widow of Edward Prince of Wales son to King Henry VI.; afterwards married to Richard</roleDesc></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="girl."> A young daughter of Clarence (MARGARET PLANTAGENET)</role></castItem>
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<head rend="braced">Ghosts of those murdered by Richard III</head>
<castItem type="role"><role id="ghost-of-g.">Ghost of Grey</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="ghost-of-v.">Ghost of Vaughn</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="ghost-of-r.">Ghost of Rivers</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="ghost.">Ghosts of others murdered by Richard III.</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="ghosts.">Ghosts of others murdered by Richard III.</role></castItem>
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<head rend="braced">murderers.</head>
<castItem type="role"><role id="first.-murd.">First Murderer.</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-murd.">Second Murderer.</role></castItem>
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<head rend="braced">Citizens</head>
<castItem type="role"><role id="cit.">Citizen</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="first-cit.">First Citizen</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-cit.">Second Citizen</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="third.-cit.">Third Citizen</role></castItem>
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<head rend="braced">Messengers</head>
<castItem type="role"><role id="mess.">Messenger</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-mess.">Second Messenger</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="third-mess.">Third Messenger</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="fourth-mess.">Fourth Messenger</role></castItem>
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<castItem type="role"><role id="purs.">a Pursuivant</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="lords.">Lords.</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="scriv.">Scrivener.</role></castItem>
<castItem type="role"><role id="page.">Page</role></castItem>
<castItem type="list">
<roleDesc>Soldiers</roleDesc>
<roleDesc>and others</roleDesc>
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<head>ACT I</head>
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<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">London. A street. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2"/><stage type="entrance">Enter RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, solus.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="3"/><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Now is the winter of our discontent
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="4"/></l><l>Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="5"/></l><l>And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="6"/></l><l>In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="7"/></l><l>Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="8"/></l><l>Our bruised arms hung up for monuments:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="9"/></l><l>Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="10"/></l><l>Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="11"/></l><l>Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="12"/></l><l>And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="13"/></l><l>To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="14"/></l><l>He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="15"/></l><l>To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="16"/></l><l>But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="17"/></l><l>Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="18"/></l><l>I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="19"/></l><l>To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="20"/></l><l>I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="21"/></l><l>Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="22"/></l><l>Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="23"/></l><l>Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="24"/></l><l>And that so lamely and unfashionable
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="25"/></l><l>That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="26"/></l><l>Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="27"/></l><l>Have no delight to pass away the time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="28"/></l><l>Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="29"/></l><l>And descant on mine own deformity:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="30"/></l><l>And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="31"/></l><l>To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="32"/></l><l>I am determined to prove a villain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="33"/></l><l>And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="34"/></l><l>Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="35"/></l><l>By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="36"/></l><l>To set my brother Clarence and the king
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="37"/></l><l>In deadly hate the one against the other:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="38"/></l><l>And if King Edward be as true and just
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="39"/></l><l>As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="40"/></l><l>This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="41"/></l><l>About a prophecy, which says that G
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="42"/></l><l>Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="43"/></l><l>Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here Clarence comes.
<lb ed="F1" n="44"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="45"/></l><l>Brother, good day; what means this armed guard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="46"/></l><l part="I">That waits upon your grace?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="47"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l part="F">His majesty,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Tendering my person's safety, <lb ed="F1" n="48"/>hath appointed
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>This conduct to convey me to the Tower.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="49"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="I">Upon what cause?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="50"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l part="F">Because my name is George.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="51"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="52"/></l><l>He should, for that, commit your godfathers:
<lb ed="G" n="49"/><lb ed="F1" n="53"/></l><l>O, belike his majesty hath some intent
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="54"/></l><l>That you shall be new-christen'd in the Tower.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="55"/></l><l>But what's the matter, Clarence? may I know?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="56"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="57"/></l><l>As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="58"/></l><l>He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="59"/></l><l>And from the cross-row plucks the letter G,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="60"/></l><l>And says a wizard told him that by G
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="61"/></l><l>His issue disinherited should be;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="62"/></l><l>And, for my name of George begins with G,
<lb ed="G" n="59"/><lb ed="F1" n="63"/></l><l>It follows in his thought that I am he.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="64"/></l><l>These, as I learn, and such like toys as these
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="65"/></l><l>Have moved his highness to commit me now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="66"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="67"/></l><l>'Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="68"/></l><l>My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, 'tis she
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="69"/></l><l>That tempers him to this extremity.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="70"/></l><l>Was it not she and that good man of worship,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="71"/></l><l>Anthony Woodvile, her brother there,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="72"/></l><l>That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="73"/></l><l>From whence this present day he is deliver'd?
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="74"/></l><l>We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="75"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>By heaven, I think there's no man is secure
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="76"/></l><l>But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="77"/></l><l>That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="78"/></l><l>Heard ye not what an humble suppliant
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="79"/></l><l>Lord Hastings was to her for his delivery?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="80"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Humbly complaining to her deity
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="81"/></l><l>Got my lord chamberlain his liberty.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="82"/></l><l>I'll tell you what; I think it is our way,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="83"/></l><l>If we will keep in favor with the king,
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="84"/></l><l>To be her men and wear her livery:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="85"/></l><l>The jealous o'erworn widow and herself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="86"/></l><l>Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="87"/></l><l>Are mighty gossips in this monarchy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="88"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>I beseech your graces both to pardon me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="89"/></l><l>His majesty hath straitly given in charge
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="90"/></l><l>That no man shall have private conference,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="91"/></l><l>Of what degree soever, with his brother.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="92"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
<lb ed="G" n="89"/><lb ed="F1" n="93"/></l><l>You may partake of any thing we say:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="94"/></l><l>We speak no treason, man: we say the king
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="95"/></l><l>Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="96"/></l><l>Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="97"/></l><l>We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="98"/></l><l>A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="99"/></l><l>And that the queen's kindred are made gentlefolks:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="100"/></l><l>How say you, sir? can you deny all this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="101"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>With this, my lord, myself have nought to <lb ed="F1" n="102"/>do.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="103"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Naught to do with Mistress Shore! <lb ed="F1" n="104"/>I tell thee, fellow,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>He that doth naught with her, <lb ed="F1" n="105"/>excepting one,
<lb ed="G" n="100"/></l><l>Were best he do it secretly, alone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="106"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>What one, my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="107"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Her husband, knave: wouldst thou betray me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="108"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>I beseech your grace <lb ed="F1" n="109"/>to pardon me, and withal
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Forbear <lb ed="F1" n="110"/>your conference with the noble duke.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="111"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="112"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>We are the queen's abjects, and must obey.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="113"/></l><l>Brother, farewell: I will unto the king;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="114"/></l><l>And whatsoever you will employ me in,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="115"/></l><l>Were it to call King Edward's widow sister.
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="116"/></l><l>I will perform it to enfranchise you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="117"/></l><l>Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="118"/></l><l>Touches me deeper than you can imagine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="119"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>I know it pleaseth neither of us well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="120"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Well, your imprisonment shall not be long;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="121"/></l><l>I will deliver you, or else lie for you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="122"/></l><l part="I">Meantime, have patience.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="123"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l part="F">I must perforce. Farewell.
<stage>[Exeunt Clarence, Brakenbury, and Guard.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="124"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="125"/></l><l>Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="126"/></l><l>That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="127"/></l><l>If heaven will take the present at our hands.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="128"/></l><l>But who comes here?   the new-deliver'd Hastings?
<lb ed="F1" n="129"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LORD HASTINGS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="130"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Good time of day unto my gracious lord!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="131"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>As much unto my good lord chamberlain!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="132"/></l><l>Well are you welcome to the open air.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="133"/></l><l>How hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="134"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="135"/></l><l>But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="136"/></l><l>That were the cause of my imprisonment.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="137"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too;
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="138"/></l><l>For they that were your enemies are his,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="139"/></l><l>And have prevail'd as much on him as you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="140"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>More pity that the eagle should be mew'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="141"/></l><l>While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="142"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>What news abroad?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="143"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>No news so bad abroad as this at home;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="144"/></l><l>The king is sickly, weak and melancholy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="145"/></l><l>And his physicians fear him mightily.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="146"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="147"/></l><l>O, he hath kept an evil diet long,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="148"/></l><l>And overmuch consumed his royal person:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="149"/></l><l>'Tis very grievous to be thought upon.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="150"/></l><l>What, is he in his bed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="151"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>He is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="152"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Go you before, and I will follow you.
<lb ed="F1" n="153"/><stage>[Exit Hastings.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="154"/></l><l>He cannot live, I hope; and must not die
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="155"/></l><l>Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="156"/></l><l>I'll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="157"/></l><l>With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="158"/></l><l>And, if I fail not in my deep intent,
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="159"/></l><l>Clarence hath not another day to live:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="160"/></l><l>Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="161"/></l><l>And leave the world for me to bustle in!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="162"/></l><l>For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="163"/></l><l>What though I kill'd her husband and her father?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="164"/></l><l>The readiest way to make the wench amends
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="165"/></l><l>Is to become her husband and her father:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="166"/></l><l>The which will I: not all so much for love
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="167"/></l><l>As for another secret close intent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="168"/></l><l>By marrying her which I must reach unto.
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="169"/></l><l>But yet I run before my horse to market:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="170"/></l><l>Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="171"/></l><l>When they are gone, then must I count my gains.
                                  <stage>[Exit. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="172"/>
<stage type="setting">The same. Another street. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="173"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the corpse of KING HENRY the Sixth, Gentlemen with halberds to guard it; <lb ed="F1" n="174"/>LADY ANNE being the mourner.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="175"/><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Set down, set down your honorable load,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="176"/></l><l>If honor may be shrouded in a hearse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="177"/></l><l>Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="178"/></l><l>The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="179"/></l><l>Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="180"/></l><l>Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="181"/></l><l>Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="182"/></l><l>Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="183"/></l><l>To hear the lamentations of Poor Anne,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="184"/></l><l>Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="185"/></l><l>Stabb'd by the selfsame hand that made these wounds!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="186"/></l><l>Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="187"/></l><l>I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="188"/></l><l>Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="189"/></l><l>Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="190"/></l><l>Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="191"/></l><l>More direful hap betide that hated wretch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="192"/></l><l>That makes us wretched by the death of thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="193"/></l><l>Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="194"/></l><l>Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="195"/></l><l>If ever he have child, abortive be it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="196"/></l><l>Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="197"/></l><l>Whose ugly and unnatural aspect
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="198"/></l><l>May fright the hopeful mother at the view;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="199"/></l><l>And that be heir to his unhappiness!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="200"/></l><l>If ever he have wife, let her be made
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="201"/></l><l>As miserable by the death of him
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="202"/></l><l>As I am made by my poor lord and thee!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="203"/></l><l>Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="204"/></l><l>Taken from Paul's to be interred there;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="205"/></l><l>And still, as you are weary of the weight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="206"/></l><l>Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.
<lb ed="F1" n="207"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="208"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="209"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>What black magician conjures up this fiend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="210"/></l><l>To stop devoted charitable deed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="211"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="212"/></l><l>I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="213"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Gent.</speaker><l>My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.

<lb ed="G" n="39"/><lb ed="F1" n="214"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Unmanner'd dog! <lb ed="F1" n="215"/>stand thou, when I command:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="216"/></l><l>Advance thy halberd higher than my breast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="217"/></l><l>Or, by Saint Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="218"/></l><l>And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="219"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>What, do you tremble? are you all afraid?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="220"/></l><l>Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="221"/></l><l>And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="222"/></l><l>Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="223"/></l><l>Thou hadst but power over his mortal body,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="224"/></l><l>His soul thou canst not have; therefore, be gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="225"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.

<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="226"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Foul devil, <lb ed="F1" n="227"/>for God's sake, hence, and trouble us not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="228"/></l><l>For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="229"/></l><l>Fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="230"/></l><l>If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="231"/></l><l>Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="232"/></l><l>O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry's wounds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="233"/></l><l>Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="234"/></l><l>Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="235"/></l><l>For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="236"/></l><l>From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells;
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="237"/></l><l>Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="238"/></l><l>Provokes this deluge most unnatural.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="239"/></l><l>O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="240"/></l><l>O earth, which this blood drink'st  revenge his death!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="241"/></l><l>Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="242"/></l><l>Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="243"/></l><l>As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="244"/></l><l>Which his hell-govern'd arm hath butchered!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="245"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Lady, you know no rules of charity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="246"/></l><l>Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="247"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="248"/></l><l>No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="249"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="250"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="251"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>More wonderful, when angels are so angry.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="252"/></l><l>Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="253"/></l><l>Of these supposed evils, to give me leave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="254"/></l><l>By circumstance, but to acquit myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="255"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="256"/></l><l>For these known evils, but to give me leave,
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="257"/></l><l>By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="258"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="259"/></l><l>Some patient leisure to excuse myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="260"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Fouler than heart can think thee, <lb ed="F1" n="261"/>thou canst make
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>No excuse current, <lb ed="F1" n="262"/>but to hang thyself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="263"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>By such despair, I should accuse myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="264"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="265"/></l><l>For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="266"/></l><l>Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="267"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="I">Say that I slew them not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="268"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="F">Why, then they are not dead:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="269"/></l><l>But dead they are, and, devilish slave, by thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="270"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="I">I did not kill your husband.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="271"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="F">Why, then he is alive.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="272"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward's hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="273"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>In thy foul throat thou liest: <lb ed="F1" n="274"/>Queen Margaret saw
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="275"/></l><l>Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="276"/></l><l>The which thou once didst bend against her breast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="277"/></l><l>But that thy brothers beat aside the point.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="278"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="279"/></l><l>Which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="280"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="281"/></l><l>Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="282"/></l><l part="I">Didst thou not kill this king?

<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="283"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="F">I grant ye.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="284"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Dost grant me, hedgehog?   <lb ed="F1" n="285"/>then, God grant me too
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="286"/></l><l>Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="287"/></l><l>O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="288"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="289"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="290"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Let him thank me, that holp to send him <lb ed="F1" n="291"/>thither;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="292"/></l><l>For he was fitter for that place than earth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="293"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>And thou unfit for any place but hell.

<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="294"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="295"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="I">Some dungeon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="296"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="F">Your bed-chamber.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="297"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Ill rest betide the chamber where thou liest!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="298"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>So will it, madam, till I lie with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="299"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>I hope so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="300"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="301"/></l><l>To leave this keen encounter of our wits.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="302"/></l><l>And fall somewhat into a slower method,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="303"/></l><l>Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="304"/></l><l>Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="305"/></l><l>As blameful as the executioner?

<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="306"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="307"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Your beauty was the cause of that effect;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="308"/></l><l>Your beauty, which did haunt me in my sleep
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="309"/></l><l>To undertake the death of all the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="310"/></l><l>So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="311"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="312"/></l><l>These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="313"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>These eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="314"/></l><l>You should not blemish it, if I stood by:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="315"/></l><l>As all the world is cheered by the sun,
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="316"/></l><l>So I by that; it is my day, my life.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="317"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="318"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Curse not thyself, fair creature; <lb ed="F1" n="319"/>thou art both.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="320"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>I would I were, to be revenged on thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="321"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>It is a quarrel most unnatural.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="322"/></l><l>To be revenged on him that loveth you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="323"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>It is a quarrel just and reasonable,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="324"/></l><l>To be revenged on him that slew my husband.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="325"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="326"/></l><l>Did it to help thee to a better husband.

<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="327"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>His better doth not breathe upon the earth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="328"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>He lives that loves thee better than he could.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="329"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="I">Name him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="330"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="M">Plantagenet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="331"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="F">Why, that was he.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="332"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>The selfsame name, but one of better nature.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="333"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="I">Where is he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="334"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="F">Here. <stage>[She spitteth at him.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="335"/></l><l>Why dost thou spit at me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="336"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="337"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Never came poison from so sweet a place.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="338"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="339"/></l><l>Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.

<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="340"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="341"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="342"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I would they were, that I might die at once;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="343"/></l><l>For now they kill me with a living death.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="344"/></l><l>Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="345"/></l><l>Shamed their aspect with store of childish drops:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="346"/></l><l>These eyes, which never shed remorseful tear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="347"/></l><l>No, when my father York and Edward wept,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="348"/></l><l>To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="349"/></l><l>When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="350"/></l><l>Nor when thy warlike father, like a child,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="351"/></l><l>Told the sad story of my father's death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="352"/></l><l>And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="353"/></l><l>That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="354"/></l><l>Like trees bedash'd with rain: in that sad time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="355"/></l><l>My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="356"/></l><l>And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="357"/></l><l>Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="358"/></l><l>I never sued to friend nor enemy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="359"/></l><l>My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing words;
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="360"/></l><l>But, now thy beauty is proposed my fee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="361"/></l><l>My proud heart sues and prompts my tongue to speak.
<lb ed="F1" n="362"/><stage>[She looks scornfully at him. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="363"/></l><l>Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="364"/></l><l>For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="365"/></l><l>If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="366"/></l><l>Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="367"/></l><l>Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="368"/></l><l>And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="369"/></l><l>I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="370"/></l><l>And humbly beg the death upon my knee.
<lb ed="F1" n="371"/><stage>[He lays his breast open: she offers at it  with his sword.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="372"/></l><l>Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry,
<lb ed="G" n="181"/><lb ed="F1" n="373"/></l><l>But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="374"/></l><l>Nay, now dispatch; 'twas I that stabb'd young Edward,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="375"/></l><l>But 'twas thy heavenly face that set me on.
<lb ed="F1" n="376"/><stage>[Here she lets fall the sword.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="377"/></l><l>Take up the sword again, or take up me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="378"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="379"/></l><l>I will not be the executioner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="380"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="381"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="I">I have already.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="382"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="F">Tush, that was in thy rage:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="383"/></l><l>Speak it again, and, even with the word,
<lb ed="G" n="190"/><lb ed="F1" n="384"/></l><l>That hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="385"/></l><l>Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="386"/></l><l>To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="387"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>I would I knew thy heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="388"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>'Tis figured in my tongue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="389"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>I fear me both are false

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="390"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Then never man was true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="391"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Well, well, put up your sword.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="392"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Say, then, my peace is made.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="393"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>That shall you know hereafter.

<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="394"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>But shall I live in hope?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="395"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>All men, I hope, live so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="396"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Vouchsafe to wear this ring.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>To take is not to give.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="397"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="398"/></l><l>Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="399"/></l><l>Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="400"/></l><l>And if thy poor devoted suppliant may
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="401"/></l><l>But beg one favor at thy gracious hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="402"/></l><l>Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.

<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="403"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>What is it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="404"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>That it would please thee leave these sad designs
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="405"/></l><l>To him that hath more cause to be a mourner,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="406"/></l><l>And presently repair to Crosby Place;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="407"/></l><l>Where, after I have solemnly interr'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="408"/></l><l>At Chertsey monastery this noble king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="409"/></l><l>And wet his grave with my repentant tears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="410"/></l><l>I will with all expedient duty see you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="411"/></l><l>For divers unknown reasons, I beseech you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="412"/></l><l>Grant me this boon.

<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="413"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>With all my heart; and much it joys me too,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="414"/></l><l>To see you are become so penitent.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="415"/></l><l>Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="416"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="I">Bid me farewell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="417"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="F">'Tis more than you deserve;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="418"/></l><l>But since you teach me how to flatter you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="419"/></l><l>Imagine I have said farewell already.
<lb ed="F1" n="420"/><stage>[Exeunt Lady Anne, Tressel, and Berkeley.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="I">Sirs, take up the corse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="421"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Gent.</speaker><l part="F">Towards Chertsey, noble lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="422"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>No, to White-Friars; there attend my coming.
<lb ed="F1" n="423"/><stage>[Exeunt all but Gloucester. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="424"/></l><l>Was ever woman in this humor woo'd?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="425"/></l><l>Was ever woman in this humor won?
<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="426"/></l><l>I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="427"/></l><l>What! I, that kill'd her husband and his father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="428"/></l><l>To take her in her heart's extremest hate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="429"/></l><l>With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="430"/></l><l>The bleeding witness of her hatred by;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="431"/></l><l>Having God, her conscience, and these bars against me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="432"/></l><l>And I nothing to back my suit at all,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="433"/></l><l>But the plain devil and dissembling looks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="434"/></l><l>And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="435"/></l><l>Ha!
<lb ed="G" n="240"/><lb ed="F1" n="436"/></l><l>Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="437"/></l><l>Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="438"/></l><l>Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="439"/></l><l>A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="440"/></l><l>Framed in the prodigality of nature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="441"/></l><l>Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="442"/></l><l>The spacious world cannot again afford:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="443"/></l><l>And will she yet debase her eyes on me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="444"/></l><l>That cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="445"/></l><l>And made her widow to a woful bed?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="446"/></l><l>On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety?
<lb ed="G" n="251"/><lb ed="F1" n="447"/></l><l>On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="448"/></l><l>My dukedom to a beggarly denier,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="449"/></l><l>I do mistake my person all this while:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="450"/></l><l>Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="451"/></l><l>Myself to be a marvellous proper man.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="452"/></l><l>I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="453"/></l><l>And entertain some score or two of tailors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="454"/></l><l>To study fashions to adorn my body:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="455"/></l><l>Since I am crept in favor with myself,
<lb ed="G" n="260"/><lb ed="F1" n="456"/></l><l>I will maintain it with some little cost.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="457"/></l><l>But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="458"/></l><l>And then return lamenting to my love.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="459"/></l><l>Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="460"/></l><l>That I may see my shadow as I pass. <stage>[Exit.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="461"/>
<stage type="setting">The palace. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="462"/><stage type="entrance">Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, LORD RIVERS, <lb ed="F1" n="463"/>and LORD GREY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="464"/><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Have patience, madam: there's no doubt his majesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="465"/></l><l>Will soon recover his accustom'd health.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="466"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>In that you brook it ill, it makes him worse:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="467"/></l><l>Therefore, for God's sake, entertain good comfort,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="468"/></l><l>And cheer his grace with quick and merry words.

<lb ed="F1" n="469"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="470"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>If he were dead, what would betide of me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="471"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>No other harm but loss of such a lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="472"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>The loss of such a lord includes all harm.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="473"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>The heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="474"/></l><l>To be your comforter when he is gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="475"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Oh, he is young and his minority
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="476"/></l><l>Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="477"/></l><l>A man that loves not me, nor none of you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="478"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Is it concluded he shall be protector?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="479"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>It is determined, not concluded yet:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="480"/></l><l>But so it must be, if the king miscarry.
<lb ed="F1" n="481"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BUCKINGHAM and DERBY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="482"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="483"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Good time of day unto your royal grace!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="484"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>God make your majesty joyful as you have been!

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="485"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="486"/></l><l>To your good prayers will scarcely say amen.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="487"/></l><l>Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she's your wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="488"/></l><l>And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="489"/></l><l>I hate not you for her proud arrogance.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="490"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>I do beseech you, either not believe
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="491"/></l><l>The envious slanders of her false accusers;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="492"/></l><l>Or, if she be accused in true report,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="493"/></l><l>Bear with her weakness, which, I think, proceeds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="494"/></l><l>From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="495"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="496"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>But now the Duke of Buckingham and I
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="497"/></l><l>Are come from visiting his majesty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="498"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>What likelihood of his amendment, lords?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="499"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Madam, good hope; his grace speaks cheerfully.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="500"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>God grant him health! Did you confer with him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="501"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Madam, we did: he desires to make atonement
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="502"/></l><l>Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and yours brothers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="503"/></l><l>And betwixt them and my lord chamberlain;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="504"/></l><l>And sent to warn them to his royal presence.

<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="505"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Would all were well! but that will never be
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="506"/></l><l>I fear our happiness is at the highest.
<lb ed="F1" n="507"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and DORSET.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="508"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="509"/></l><l>Who are they that complain unto the king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="510"/></l><l>That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="511"/></l><l>By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="512"/></l><l>That fill his ears with such dissentious rumors.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="513"/></l><l>Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="514"/></l><l>Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="515"/></l><l>Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="516"/></l><l>I must be held a rancorous enemy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="517"/></l><l>Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="518"/></l><l>But thus his simple truth must be abused
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="519"/></l><l>By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="520"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="521"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="522"/></l><l>When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="523"/></l><l>Or thee? or thee? or any of your faction?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="524"/></l><l>A plague upon you all!   His royal person,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="525"/></l><l>Whom God preserve better than you would wish!--
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="526"/></l><l>Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="527"/></l><l>But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="528"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="529"/></l><l>The king, of his own royal disposition,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="530"/></l><l>And not provoked by any suitor else;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="531"/></l><l>Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="532"/></l><l>Which in your outward actions shows itself
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="533"/></l><l>Against my kindred, brothers, and myself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="534"/></l><l>Makes him to send; that thereby he may gather
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it.

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="535"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="536"/></l><l>That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="537"/></l><l>Since every Jack became a gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="538"/></l><l>There's many a gentle person made a Jack.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="539"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Gloucester;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="540"/></l><l>You envy my advancement and my friends':
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="541"/></l><l>God grant we never may have need of you!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="542"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Meantime, God grants that we have need of you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="543"/></l><l>Our brother is imprison'd by your means,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="544"/></l><l>Myself disgraced, and the nobility
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="545"/></l><l>Held in contempt; whilst many fair promotions
<lb ed="G" n="81"/><lb ed="F1" n="546"/></l><l>Are daily given to ennoble those
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="547"/></l><l>That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="548"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>By Him that raised me to this careful height
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="549"/></l><l>From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="550"/></l><l>I never did incense his majesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="551"/></l><l>Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="552"/></l><l>An earnest advocate to plead for him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="553"/></l><l>My lord, you do me shameful injury,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="554"/></l><l>Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="555"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>You may deny that you were not the cause
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="556"/></l><l>Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="557"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>She may, my lord, for--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="558"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="559"/></l><l>She may do more, sir, than denying that:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="560"/></l><l>She may help you to many fair preferments,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="561"/></l><l>And then deny her aiding hand therein,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="562"/></l><l>And lay those honors on your high deserts.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="563"/></l><l>What may she not?   She may, yea, marry, may she,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="564"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>What, marry, may she?

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="565"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>What, marry, may she! marry with a king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="566"/></l><l>A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="567"/></l><l>I wis your grandam had a worser match.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="568"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="569"/></l><l>Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="570"/></l><l>By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="571"/></l><l>With those gross taunts I often have endured.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="572"/></l><l>I had rather be a country servant-maid
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="573"/></l><l>Than a great queen, with this condition,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="574"/></l><l>To be thus taunted, scorn'd, and baited at:
<stage type="entrance">Enter QUEEN MARGARET, behind.</stage>
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="575"/></l><l>Small joy have I in being England's queen.
<lb ed="F1" n="576"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="577"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>And lessen'd be that small, God, I beseech thee!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="578"/></l><l>Thy honor, state and seat is due to me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="579"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>What! threat you me with telling of the king?
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="580"/></l><l>I will avouch in presence of the king:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="581"/></l><l>I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="582"/></l><l>'Tis time to speak; <lb ed="F1" n="583"/>my pains are quite forgot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="584"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Out, devil! <lb ed="F1" n="585"/>I remember them too well:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="586"/></l><l>Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower,
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="587"/></l><l>And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="588"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Ere you were queen, <lb ed="F1" n="589"/>yea, or your husband king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="590"/></l><l>I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="591"/></l><l>A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="592"/></l><l>A liberal rewarder of his friends:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="593"/></l><l>To royalise his blood I spilt mine own.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="594"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Yea, and much better blood <lb ed="F1" n="595"/>than his or thine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="596"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>In all which time you and your husband Grey
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="597"/></l><l>Were factious for the house of Lancaster;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="598"/></l><l>And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="599"/></l><l>In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain?
<lb ed="G" n="131"/><lb ed="F1" n="600"/></l><l>Let me put in your minds, if you forget,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="601"/></l><l>What you have been ere now, and what you are;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="602"/></l><l>Withal, what I have been, and what I am.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="603"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>A murderous villain, and so still thou art.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="604"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="605"/></l><l>Yea, and forswore himself,--which Jesu pardon!--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="606"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Which God revenge!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="607"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>To fight on Edward's party for the crown;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="608"/></l><l>And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up.
<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="609"/></l><l>I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="610"/></l><l>Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="611"/></l><l>I am too childish-foolish for this world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="612"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="613"/></l><l>Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="614"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="615"/></l><l>Which here you urge to prove us enemies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="616"/></l><l>We follow'd then our lord, our lawful king:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="617"/></l><l>So should we you, if you should be our king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="618"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>If I should be!   I had rather be a pedlar:
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="619"/></l><l>Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!

<lb ed="G" n="151"/><lb ed="F1" n="620"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>As little joy, my lord, as you suppose
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="621"/></l><l>You should enjoy, were you this country's king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="622"/></l><l>As little joy may you suppose in me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="623"/></l><l>That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="624"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>A little joy enjoys the queen thereof;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="625"/></l><l>For I am she, and altogether joyless.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="626"/></l><l>I can no longer hold me patient.<stage>[Advancing.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="627"/></l><l>Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="628"/></l><l>In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="629"/></l><l>Which of you trembles not that looks on me?
<lb ed="G" n="161"/><lb ed="F1" n="630"/></l><l>If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="631"/></l><l>Yet that by you deposed, you quake like rebels?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="632"/></l><l>O gentle villain, do not turn away!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="633"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="634"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="635"/></l><l>That will I make before I let thee go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="636"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Wert thou not banished on pain of death?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="637"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>I was; but I do find more pain in banishment
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="638"/></l><l>Than death can yield me here by my abode.
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="639"/></l><l>A husband and a son thou owest to me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="640"/></l><l>And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="641"/></l><l>The sorrow that I have, by right is yours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="642"/></l><l>And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="643"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>The curse my noble father laid on thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="644"/></l><l>When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="645"/></l><l>And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="646"/></l><l>And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="647"/></l><l>Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="648"/></l><l>His curses, then from bitterness of soul
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="649"/></l><l>Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="650"/></l><l>And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="651"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>So just is God, to right the innocent.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="652"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="653"/></l><l>And the most merciless that e'er was heard of!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="654"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="655"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><l>No man but prophesied revenge for it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="656"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="657"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>What! were you snarling all before I came.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="658"/></l><l>Ready to catch each other by the throat,
<lb ed="G" n="190"/><lb ed="F1" n="659"/></l><l>And turn you all your hatred now on me?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="660"/></l><l>Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="661"/></l><l>That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="662"/></l><l>Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="663"/></l><l>Could all but answer for that peevish brat?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="664"/></l><l>Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="665"/></l><l>Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="666"/></l><l>If not by war, by surfeit die your king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="667"/></l><l>As ours by murder, to make him a king!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="668"/></l><l>Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales,
<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="669"/></l><l>For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales,
<lb ed="G" n="201"/><lb ed="F1" n="670"/></l><l>Die in his youth by like untimely violence!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="671"/></l><l>Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="672"/></l><l>Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="673"/></l><l>Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="674"/></l><l>And see another, as I see thee now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="675"/></l><l>Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="676"/></l><l>Long die thy happy days before thy death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="677"/></l><l>And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="678"/></l><l>Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen!
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="679"/></l><l>Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="680"/></l><l>And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="681"/></l><l>Was stabb'd with bloody daggers:   God, I pray him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="682"/></l><l>That none of you may live your natural age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="683"/></l><l>But by some unlook'd accident cut off!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="684"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="685"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="686"/></l><l>If heaven have any grievous plague in store
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="687"/></l><l>Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="688"/></l><l>O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="689"/></l><l>And then hurl down their indignation
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="690"/></l><l>On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="691"/></l><l>The worm of Conscience still begnaw thy soul!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="692"/></l><l>Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="693"/></l><l>And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="694"/></l><l>No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="695"/></l><l>Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="696"/></l><l>Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="697"/></l><l>Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="698"/></l><l>Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity
<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="699"/></l><l>The slave of nature and the son of hell!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="700"/></l><l>Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="701"/></l><l>Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="702"/></l><l>Thou rag of honor! thou detested--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="703"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="I">Margaret.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="704"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l part="Y">Richard!

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="Y">Ha!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="705"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l part="F">I call thee not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="706"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="707"/></l><l>That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="708"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Why, so I did; but look'd for no reply.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="709"/></l><l>O, let me make the period to my curse!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="710"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>'Tis done by me, and ends in 'Margaret.'

<lb ed="G" n="240"/><lb ed="F1" n="711"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="712"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="713"/></l><l>Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="714"/></l><l>Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="715"/></l><l>Fool, fool! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="716"/></l><l>The time will come when thou shalt wish for me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="717"/></l><l>To help thee curse that poisonous bunch-back'd toad.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="718"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="719"/></l><l>Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="720"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine.

<lb ed="G" n="250"/><lb ed="F1" n="721"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="722"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>To serve me well, you all should do me duty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="723"/></l><l>Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="724"/></l><l>O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="725"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><l>Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="726"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Peace, master marquess, you are malapert:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="727"/></l><l>Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="728"/></l><l>O, that your young nobility could judge
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="729"/></l><l>What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="730"/></l><l>They that stand high have many blasts to shake them;
<lb ed="G" n="260"/><lb ed="F1" n="731"/></l><l>And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

<lb ed="G" n="261"/><lb ed="F1" n="732"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, <lb ed="F1" n="733"/>marquess.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="734"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><l>It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="735"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="736"/></l><l>Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="737"/></l><l>And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="738"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="739"/></l><l>Witness my son, now in the shade of death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="740"/></l><l>Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="741"/></l><l>Hath in eternal darkness folded up.
<lb ed="G" n="270"/><lb ed="F1" n="742"/></l><l>Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="743"/></l><l>O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="744"/></l><l>As it was won with blood, lost be it so!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="745"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Have done! for shame, if not for charity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="746"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Urge neither charity nor shame to me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="747"/></l><l>Uncharitably with me have you dealt,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="748"/></l><l>And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="749"/></l><l>My charity is outrage, life my shame;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="750"/></l><l>And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="751"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Have done, have done.

<lb ed="G" n="280"/><lb ed="F1" n="752"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>O princely Buckingham, I'll kiss thy hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="753"/></l><l>In sign of league and amity with thee:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="754"/></l><l>Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="755"/></l><l>Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="756"/></l><l>Nor thou within the compass of my curse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="757"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Nor no one here; for curses never pass
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="758"/></l><l>The lips of those that breathe them in the air.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="759"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>I'll not believe but they ascend the sky,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="760"/></l><l>And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="761"/></l><l>O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!
<lb ed="G" n="290"/><lb ed="F1" n="762"/></l><l>Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="763"/></l><l>His venom tooth will rankle to the death:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="764"/></l><l>Have not to do with him, beware of him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="765"/></l><l>Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="766"/></l><l>And all their ministers attend on him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="767"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="768"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="769"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>What, dost thou scorn me <lb ed="F1" n="770"/>for my gentle counsel?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="771"/></l><l>And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="772"/></l><l>O, but remember this another day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="773"/></l><l>When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,
<lb ed="G" n="301"/><lb ed="F1" n="774"/></l><l>And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="775"/></l><l>Live each of you the subjects to his hate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="776"/></l><l>And he to yours, and all of you to God's!
                               <stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="777"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="778"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="779"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="780"/></l><l>She hath had too much wrong; and I repent
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="781"/></l><l>My part thereof that I have done to her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="782"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>I never did her any, to my knowledge.

<lb ed="G" n="310"/><lb ed="F1" n="783"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>But you have all the vantage of her wrong.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="784"/></l><l>I was too hot to do somebody good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="785"/></l><l>That is too cold in thinking of it now.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="786"/></l><l>Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="787"/></l><l>He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="788"/></l><l>God pardon them that are the cause of it!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="789"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="790"/></l><l>To pray for them that have done scathe to us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="791"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>So do I ever: <stage>[Aside]</stage>being well advised
<lb ed="F1" n="792"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="793"/></l><l>For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.
<lb ed="F1" n="794"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CATESBY.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="320"/><lb ed="F1" n="795"/></l></sp><sp who="cates."><speaker>Cates.</speaker><l>Madam, his majesty doth call for you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="796"/></l><l>And for your grace; and you, my noble lords.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="797"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="798"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Madam, we will attend your grace.
                          <lb ed="F1" n="799"/><stage>[Exeunt all but Gloucester.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="800"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="801"/></l><l>The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="802"/></l><l>I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="803"/></l><l>Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="804"/></l><l>I do beweep to many simple gulls;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="805"/></l><l>Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;
<lb ed="G" n="330"/><lb ed="F1" n="806"/></l><l>And say it is the queen and her allies
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="807"/></l><l>That stir the king against the duke my brother.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="808"/></l><l>Now, they believe it; and withal whet me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="809"/></l><l>To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="810"/></l><l>But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="811"/></l><l>Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="812"/></l><l>And thus I clothe my naked villany
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="813"/></l><l>With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="814"/></l><l>And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
<lb ed="F1" n="815"/><stage type="entrance">Enter two Murderers.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="816"/></l><l>But, soft! here come my executioners.
<lb ed="G" n="340"/><lb ed="F1" n="817"/></l><l>How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="818"/></l><l>Are you now going to dispatch this deed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="819"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="820"/></l><l>That we may be admitted where he is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="821"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Well thought upon; I have it here about me.
<stage>[Gives the warrant. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="822"/></l><l>When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="823"/></l><l>But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="824"/></l><l>Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="825"/></l><l>For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="826"/></l><l>May move your hearts to pity if you mark him.

<lb ed="G" n="350"/><lb ed="F1" n="827"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Tush!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="828"/></l><l>Talkers are no good doers: be assured
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="829"/></l><l>We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="830"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes <lb ed="F1" n="831"/>drop tears:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="832"/></l><l>I like you, lads; about your business straight;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="833"/></l><l part="I">Go, go, dispatch.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="834"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l part="F">We will, my noble lord.
                           <stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="835"/>
<stage type="setting">London.   The Tower.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="836"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY.  </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="837"/><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>Why looks your grace so heavily to-day?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="838"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>O, I have pass'd a miserable night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="839"/></l><l>So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="840"/></l><l>That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="841"/></l><l>I would not spend another such a night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="842"/></l><l>Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="843"/></l><l>So full of dismal terror was the time!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="844"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>What was your dream?   I long to hear you tell it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="845"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="846"/></l><l>And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="847"/></l><l>And, in my company, my brother Gloucester;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="848"/></l><l>Who from my cabin tempted me to walk
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="849"/></l><l>Upon the hatches: thence we looked toward England,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="850"/></l><l>And cited up a thousand fearful times,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="851"/></l><l>During the wars of York and Lancaster
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="852"/></l><l>That had befall'n us. As we paced along
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="853"/></l><l>Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="854"/></l><l>Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="855"/></l><l>Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="856"/></l><l>Into the tumbling billows of the main.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="857"/></l><l>Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="858"/></l><l>What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="859"/></l><l>What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="860"/></l><l>Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="861"/></l><l>Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="862"/></l><l>Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="863"/></l><l>Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="864"/></l><l>All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="865"/></l><l>Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="866"/></l><l>Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,
<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="867"/></l><l>As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="868"/></l><l>Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="869"/></l><l>And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="870"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>Had you such leisure in the time of death
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="871"/></l><l>To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="872"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Methought I had; and often did I strive
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="873"/></l><l>To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="874"/></l><l>Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="875"/></l><l>To seek the empty, vast and wandering air;
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="876"/></l><l>But smother'd it within my panting bulk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="877"/></l><l>Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="878"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>Awaked you not with this sore agony?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="879"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>O, no, my dream was lengthen'd after life;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="880"/></l><l>O, then began the tempest to my soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="881"/></l><l>Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="882"/></l><l>With that grim ferryman which poets write of,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="883"/></l><l>Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="884"/></l><l>The first that there did greet my stranger soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="885"/></l><l>Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="886"/></l><l>Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="887"/></l><l>Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="888"/></l><l>And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="889"/></l><l>A shadow like an angel, with bright hair
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="890"/></l><l>Dabbled in blood; and he squeak'd out aloud,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="891"/></l><l>'Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="892"/></l><l>That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="893"/></l><l>Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="894"/></l><l>With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="895"/></l><l>Environ'd me about, and howled in mine ears
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="896"/></l><l>Such hideous cries, that with the very noise
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="897"/></l><l>I trembling awaked, and for a season after
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="898"/></l><l>Could not believe but that I was in hell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="899"/></l><l>Such terrible impression made the dream.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="900"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="901"/></l><l>I promise you, I am afraid to hear you tell it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="902"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>O Brakenbury, I have done those things,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="903"/></l><l>Which now bear evidence against my soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="904"/></l><l>For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="905"/></l><l>O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="906"/></l><l>But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="907"/></l><l>Yet execute thy wrath in me alone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="908"/></l><l>O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="909"/></l><l>I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="910"/></l><l>My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="911"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest!
<stage>[Clarence sleeps. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="912"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="913"/></l><l>Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="914"/></l><l>Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="915"/></l><l>Princes have but their titles for their glories,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="916"/></l><l>An outward honor for an inward toil;
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="917"/></l><l>And, for unfelt imagination,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="918"/></l><l>They often feel a world of restless cares:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="919"/></l><l>So that, betwixt their titles and low names,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="920"/></l><l>There's nothing differs but the outward fame.
<lb ed="F1" n="921"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the two Murderers.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="922"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Ho! who's here?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="923"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>In God's name what are you, and how came <lb ed="F1" n="924"/>you hither?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="925"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>I would speak with Clarence,
<lb ed="G"/>and I came hither <lb ed="F1" n="926"/>on my legs.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="927"/></p></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>Yea, are you so brief?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="928"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>O sir, it is better to be brief
<lb ed="G"/>than tedious. <lb ed="F1" n="929"/>Show him our commission; talk
<lb ed="G"/>no more.
<stage>[Brakenbury reads it.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="930"/></p></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>I am in this, commanded to deliver
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="931"/></l><l>The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="932"/></l><l>I will not reason what is meant hereby,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="933"/></l><l>Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="934"/></l><l>Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="935"/></l><l>I'll to the king; and signify to him
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="936"/></l><l>That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="937"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Do so, it is a point of <reg orig="wis-dom:">wisdom:</reg>
<lb ed="F1" n="938"/><lb ed="G" n="100"/>fare you well.  <stage>[Exit Brakenbury. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="939"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>What, shall we stab him as he
<lb ed="G"/>sleeps?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="940"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>No; then he will say 'twas
<lb ed="G"/>done cowardly, when he wakes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="941"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>When he wakes! why, fool, he
<lb ed="G"/>shall never wake till the <lb ed="F1" n="942"/>judgement-day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="943"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Why, then he will say we
<lb ed="G"/>stabbed him sleeping.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="944"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>The urging of that word 'judgement'
<lb ed="G" n="110"/>hath bred a <lb ed="F1" n="945"/>kind of remorse in me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="946"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>What, art thou afraid?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="947"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>Not to kill him, having a <reg orig="war-rant">warrant</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>for it; <lb ed="F1" n="948"/>but to be damned for killing him,
<lb ed="G"/>from which <lb ed="F1" n="949"/>no warrant can defend us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="950"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>I thought thou hadst been
<lb ed="G"/>resolute.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="951"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>So I am, to let him live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="952"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Back to the Duke of <reg orig="Glouces-ter,">Gloucester,</reg>
<lb ed="G" n="119"/>tell him so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="953"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>I pray thee, stay a while: <lb ed="F1" n="954"/>I
<lb ed="G"/>hope my holy humor will change; <lb ed="F1" n="955"/>'twas wont
<lb ed="G"/>to hold me but while one would tell twenty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="956"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>How dost thou feel thyself
<lb ed="G"/>now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="957"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>'Faith, some certain dregs of
<lb ed="G"/>conscience are yet within <lb ed="F1" n="958"/>me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="959"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Remember our reward, when
<lb ed="G"/>the deed is done.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="960"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>'Zounds, he dies: I had forgot
<lb ed="G" n="129"/>the reward.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="961"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Where is thy conscience now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="962"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>In the Duke of Gloucester's purse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="963"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>So when he opens his purse to
<lb ed="G"/>give us our reward, <lb ed="F1" n="964"/>thy conscience flies out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="965"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>Let it go; there's few or none
<lb ed="G"/>will <lb ed="F1" n="966"/>entertain it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="967"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>How if it come to thee again?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="968"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>I'll not meddle with it: it is a
<lb ed="G"/>dangerous thing: it makes a man a coward:
<lb ed="F1" n="969"/><lb ed="G"/>a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; he
<lb ed="G"/>cannot <lb ed="F1" n="970"/>swear, but it checks him; he cannot
<lb ed="G"/>lie with his <lb ed="F1" n="971"/>neighbor's wife, but it detects
<lb ed="G"/>him: 'tis a blushing <lb ed="F1" n="972"/>shamefast spirit that
<lb ed="G"/>mutinies in a man's bosom; it <lb ed="F1" n="973"/>fills one full of
<lb ed="G"/>obstacles: it made me once restore a <lb ed="F1" n="974"/>purse of
<lb ed="G"/>gold that I found; it beggars any <lb ed="F1" n="975"/>man that
<lb ed="G"/>keeps it: it is turned out of all towns and
<lb ed="G"/>cities <lb ed="F1" n="976"/>for a dangerous thing; and every man
<lb ed="G"/>that means to <lb ed="F1" n="977"/>live well endeavors to trust to
<lb ed="G"/>himself and to live without <lb ed="F1" n="978"/>it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="979"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>'Zounds, it is even now at my
<lb ed="G" n="150"/>elbow, persuading me not to <lb ed="F1" n="980"/>kill the duke.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="981"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>Take the devil in thy mind,
<lb ed="G"/>and believe him not: <lb ed="F1" n="982"/>he would insinuate with
<lb ed="G"/>thee but to make thee sigh.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="983"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Tut, I am strong-framed, he
<lb ed="G"/>cannot prevail with me, I warrant thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="984"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>Spoke like a tall fellow that respects
<lb ed="G"/>his reputation. <lb ed="F1" n="985"/>Come, shall we to this
<lb ed="G"/>gear?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="986"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Take him over the costard
<lb ed="G"/>with the hilts of thy <lb ed="F1" n="987"/>sword, and then we will
<lb ed="G"/>chop him in the malmsey-butt in <lb ed="F1" n="988"/>the next
<lb ed="G" n="161"/>room.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="989"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><p>O excellent devise! make a sop
<lb ed="G"/>of him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="990"/></p></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?

<lb ed="F1" n="991"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="992"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>No, first let's reason with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="993"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Where art thou, keeper? give me a cup of wine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="994"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="995"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>In God's name, what art thou?

<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="996"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>A man, as you are.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="997"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>But not, as I am, royal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="998"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>Nor you, as we are, loyal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="999"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1000"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>My voice is now the king's, my looks mine own.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1001"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1002"/></l><l>Your eyes do menace me: why look you pale?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1003"/></l><l>Who sent you hither?   Wherefore do you come?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1004"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd. first.-murd."><speaker>Both.</speaker><p>To, to, to--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1005"/></p></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>To murder me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1006"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd. first.-murd."><speaker>Both.</speaker><p>Ay, ay.

<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="1007"/></p></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1008"/></l><l>And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1009"/></l><l>Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1010"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>Offended us you have not, but the king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1011"/></p></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>I shall be reconciled to him again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1012"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1013"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Are you call'd forth from out a world of men
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1014"/></l><l>To slay the innocent?   What is my offence?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1015"/></l><l>Where are the evidence that do accuse me?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1016"/></l><l>What lawful quest have given their verdict up
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1017"/></l><l>Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1018"/></l><l>The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1019"/></l><l>Before I be convict by course of law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1020"/></l><l>To threaten me with death is most unlawful.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1021"/></l><l>I charge you, as you hope to have redemption
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1022"/></l><l>By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1023"/></l><l>That you depart and lay no hands on me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1024"/></l><l>The deed you undertake is damnable.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1025"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><p>What we will do, we do upon command.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1026"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>And he that hath commanded is the king.

<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="1027"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1028"/></l><l>Hath in the tables of his law commanded
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1029"/></l><l>That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1030"/></l><l>Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1031"/></l><l>Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1032"/></l><l>To hurl upon their heads that break his law.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1033"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1034"/></l><l>For false forswearing and for murder too:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1035"/></l><l>Thou didst receive the holy sacrament,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1036"/></l><l>To fight in quarrel of the house of Lancaster.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1037"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>And, like a traitor to the name of God,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1038"/></l><l>Didst break that vow; and with thy treacherous blade
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1039"/></l><l>Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1040"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1041"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1042"/></l><l>When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1043"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1044"/></l><l>For Edward, for my brother, for his sake:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Why, sirs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1045"/></l><l>He sends ye not to murder me for this;
<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="1046"/></l><l>For in this sin he is as deep as I.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1047"/></l><l>If God will be revenged for this deed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1048"/></l><l>O, know you yet, he doth it publicly:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1049"/></l><l>Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1050"/></l><l>He needs no indirect nor lawless course
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1051"/></l><l>To cut off those that have offended him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1052"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Who made thee, then, a bloody minister,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1053"/></l><l>When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1054"/></l><l>That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1055"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.

<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="1056"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1057"/></l><l>Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1058"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Oh, if you love my brother, hate not me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1059"/></l><l>I am his brother, and I love him well.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1060"/></l><l>If you be hired for meed, go back again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1061"/></l><l>And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1062"/></l><l>Who shall reward you better for my life
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1063"/></l><l>Than Edward will for tidings of my death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1064"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>You are deceived, your brother Gloucester hates you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1065"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>O, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1066"/></l><l part="I">Go you to him from me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1067"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd. first.-murd."><speaker>Both.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, so we will

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1068"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Tell him, when that our princely father York
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1069"/></l><l>Bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And charged us from his soul to love each other,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1070"/></l><l>He little thought of this divided friendship:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1071"/></l><l>Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1072"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Ay, millstones; as he lesson'd us to weep.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1073"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>O, do not slander him, for he is kind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1074"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Right,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>As snow in harvest. <lb ed="F1" n="1075"/>Thou deceivest thyself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1076"/></l><l>'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1077"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>It cannot be; for when I parted with him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1078"/></l><l>He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1079"/></l><l>That he would labor my delivery.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1080"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1081"/></l><l>From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1082"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1083"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1084"/></l><l>To counsel me to make my peace with God,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1085"/></l><l>And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1086"/></l><l>That thou wilt war with God by murdering me?
<lb ed="G" n="261"/><lb ed="F1" n="1087"/></l><l>Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1088"/></l><l>To do this deed will hate you for the deed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1089"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l part="I">What shall we do?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1090"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l part="F">Relent, and save your souls.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1091"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1092"/></l></sp><sp who="clar."><speaker>Clar.</speaker><l>Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1093"/></l><l>Which of you, if you were a prince's son,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1094"/></l><l>Being pent from liberty, as I am now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1095"/></l><l>If two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1096"/></l><l>Would not entreat for life?
<lb ed="G" n="270"/><lb ed="F1" n="1097"/></l><l>My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1098"/></l><l>O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1099"/></l><l>Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1100"/></l><l>As you would beg, were you in my distress:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1101"/></l><l>A begging prince what beggar pities not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1102"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>Look behind you, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1103"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>Take that and that: if all this will not do,
<stage>[Stabs him. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1104"/></l><l>I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.
<stage>[Exit, with the body.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1105"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1106"/></l><l>How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands
<lb ed="G" n="280"/><lb ed="F1" n="1107"/></l><l>Of this most grievous guilty murder done!
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter First Murderer.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1108"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me <lb ed="F1" n="1109"/>not?
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou <lb ed="F1" n="1110"/>art!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1111"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-murd."><speaker>Sec. Murd.</speaker><l>I would he knew that I had saved his brother!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1112"/></l><l>Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1113"/></l><l>For I repent me that the duke is slain. <stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1114"/></l></sp><sp who="first.-murd."><speaker>First Murd.</speaker><l>So do not I: go, coward as thou art.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1115"/></l><l>Now must I hide his body in some hole,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1116"/></l><l>Until the duke take order for his burial:
<lb ed="G" n="289"/><lb ed="F1" n="1117"/></l><l>And when I have my meed, I must away;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1118"/></l><l>For this will out, and here I must not stay.</l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>

<div1 type="act" n="2">
<head>ACT II</head><lb ed="F1" n="1119"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">London.   The palace.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1120"/><stage type="entrance">Flourish.   <lb ed="F1" n="1121"/>Enter KING EDWARD sick, QUEEN ELIZABETH, <lb ed="F1" n="1122"/>DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, <lb ed="F1" n="1123"/>BUCKINGHAM, GREY, and others. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1124"/><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Why, so: now I have done a good day's work:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1125"/></l><l>You peers, continue this united league:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1126"/></l><l>I every day expect an embassage
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1127"/></l><l>From my Redeemer to redeem me hence;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1128"/></l><l>And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1129"/></l><l>Since I have set my friends at peace on earth.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1130"/></l><l>Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1131"/></l><l>Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.

<lb ed="G" n="9"/><lb ed="F1" n="1132"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1133"/></l><l>And with my hand, I seal my true heart's love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1134"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>So thrive I, as I truly swear the like!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1135"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Take heed you dally not before your king;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1136"/></l><l>Lest he that is the supreme King of kings
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1137"/></l><l>Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1138"/></l><l>Either of you to be the other's end.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1139"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>So prosper I, as I swear perfect love!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1140"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>And I, as I love Hastings with my heart!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1141"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Madam, yourself are not exempt in this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1142"/></l><l>Nor your son Dorset, Buckingham, nor you;
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1143"/></l><l>You have been factious one against the other.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1144"/></l><l>Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1145"/></l><l>And what you do, do it unfeignedly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1146"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Here, Hastings; I will never more remember
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1147"/></l><l>Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1148"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Dorset, embrace him; <lb ed="F1" n="1149"/>Hastings, love lord marquess.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1150"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><l>This interchange of love, I here protest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1151"/></l><l>Upon my part shall be unviolable.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1152"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>And so swear I, my lord.
                      <stage>[They embrace.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1153"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1154"/></l><l>With thy embracements to my wife's allies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1155"/></l><l>And make me happy in your unity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1156"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1157"/></l><l>On you or yours <stage>[to the Queen]</stage>, but with all duteous love
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1158"/></l><l>Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1159"/></l><l>With hate in those where I expect most love!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1160"/></l><l>When I have most need to employ a friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1161"/></l><l>And most assured that he is a friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1162"/></l><l>Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1163"/></l><l>Be he unto me! this do I beg of God,
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1164"/></l><l>When I am cold in zeal to you or yours.
                               <stage>[They embrace.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1165"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1166"/></l><l>Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1167"/></l><l>There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1168"/></l><l>To make the perfect period of this peace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1169"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>And, in good time, <lb ed="F1" n="1170"/>here comes the noble duke.
<lb ed="F1" n="1171"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1172"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1173"/></l><l>And, princely peers, a happy time of day!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1174"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Happy, indeed, as we have spent the day.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1175"/></l><l>Brother, we have done deeds of charity;
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1176"/></l><l>Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1177"/></l><l>Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1178"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>A blessed labor, my most sovereign liege:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1179"/></l><l>Amongst this princely heap, if any here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1180"/></l><l>By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1181"/></l><l>Hold me a foe;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>If I unwittingly, or in my rage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1182"/></l><l>Have aught committed that is hardly borne
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1183"/></l><l>By any in this presence, I desire
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1184"/></l><l>To reconcile me to his friendly peace:
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1185"/></l><l>'Tis death to me to be at enmity:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1186"/></l><l>I hate it, and desire all good men's love.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1187"/></l><l>First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1188"/></l><l>Which I will purchase with my duteous service;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1189"/></l><l>Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1190"/></l><l>If ever any grudge were lodged between us;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1191"/></l><l>Of you, Lord Rivers, and, Lord Grey, of you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1192"/></l><l>That all without desert have frown'd on me;
<lb ed="F1" n="1193"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1194"/></l><l>Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of all.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1195"/></l><l>I do not know that Englishman alive
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1196"/></l><l>With whom my soul is any jot at odds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1197"/></l><l>More than the infant that is born to-night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1198"/></l><l>I thank my God for my humility.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1199"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>A holy day shall this be kept hereafter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1200"/></l><l>I would to God all strifes were well compounded.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1201"/></l><l>My sovereign liege, I do beseech your majesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1202"/></l><l>To take our brother Clarence to your grace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1203"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Why, madam, have I offer'd love for this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1204"/></l><l>To be so flouted in this royal presence?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1205"/></l><l>Who knows not that the noble duke is dead?
                           <stage>[They all start.</stage>
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1206"/></l><l>You do him injury to scorn his corse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1207"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Who knows not he is dead! <lb ed="F1" n="1208"/>who knows he is?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1209"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>All-seeing heaven, what a world is this!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1210"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1211"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><l>Ay, my good lord; and no one in this presence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1212"/></l><l>But his red color hath forsook his cheeks.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1213"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Is Clarence dead? the order was reversed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1214"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>But he, poor soul, by your first order died,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1215"/></l><l>And that a winged Mercury did bear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1216"/></l><l>Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="1217"/></l><l>That came too lag to see him buried.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1218"/></l><l>God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1219"/></l><l>Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1220"/></l><l>Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1221"/></l><l>And yet go current from suspicion!
<lb ed="F1" n="1222"/><stage type="entrance">Enter DERBY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1223"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1224"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1225"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>I will not rise, unless your highness grant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1226"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Then speak at once what is it thou demand'st.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1227"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="1228"/></l><l>Who slew to-day a righteous gentleman
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1229"/></l><l>Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1230"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-edw."><speaker>K. Edw.</speaker><l>Have I a tongue to doom my brother's death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1231"/></l><l>And shall the same give pardon to a slave?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1232"/></l><l>My brother slew no man; his fault was thought,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1233"/></l><l>And yet his punishment was cruel death.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1234"/></l><l>Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1235"/></l><l>Kneel'd at my feet, and bade me be advised?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1236"/></l><l>Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1237"/></l><l>Who told me how the poor soul did forsake
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1238"/></l><l>The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?
<lb ed="G" n="111"/><lb ed="F1" n="1239"/></l><l>Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1240"/></l><l>When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1241"/></l><l>And said, 'Dear brother, live, and be a king'?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1242"/></l><l>Who told me, when we both lay in the field
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1243"/></l><l>Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1244"/></l><l>Even in his own garments, and gave himself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1245"/></l><l>All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1246"/></l><l>All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1247"/></l><l>Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="1248"/></l><l>Had so much grace to put it in my mind.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1249"/></l><l>But when your carters or your waiting-vassals
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1250"/></l><l>Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1251"/></l><l>The precious image of our dear Redeemer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1252"/></l><l>You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1253"/></l><l>And I unjustly too, must grant it you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1254"/></l><l>But for my brother not a man would speak,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1255"/></l><l>Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1256"/></l><l>For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1257"/></l><l>Have been beholding to him in his life;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1258"/></l><l>Yet none of you would once plead for his life.
<lb ed="G" n="131"/><lb ed="F1" n="1259"/></l><l>O God, I fear thy justice will take hold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1260"/></l><l>On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1261"/></l><l>Come, Hastings, help me to my closet. <lb ed="F1" n="1262"/>Oh, poor Clarence!
<stage>[Exeunt some with King and Queen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1263"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>This is the fruit of rashness! Mark'd you not
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1264"/></l><l>How that the guilty kindred of the queen
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1265"/></l><l>Look'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1266"/></l><l>O, they did urge it still unto the king!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1267"/></l><l>God will revenge it. But come, let us in,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1268"/></l><l>To comfort Edward with our company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1269"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>We wait upon your grace.   <stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="1270"/>
<stage type="setting">The palace. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1271"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two <lb ed="F1" n="1272"/>children of CLARENCE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1273"/><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1274"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>No, boy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1275"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1276"/></l><l>And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1277"/></l></sp><sp who="girl."><speaker>Girl.</speaker><l>Why do you look on us, and shake your head,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1278"/></l><l>And call us wretches, orphans, castaways,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1279"/></l><l>If that our noble father be alive?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1280"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>My pretty cousins, you mistake me much;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1281"/></l><l>I do lament the sickness of the king.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1282"/></l><l>As loath to lose him, not your father's death;
<lb ed="G" n="11"/><lb ed="F1" n="1283"/></l><l>It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1284"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>Then, grandam, you conclude that he is dead.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1285"/></l><l>The king my uncle is to blame for this:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1286"/></l><l>God will revenge it; whom I will importune
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1287"/></l><l>With daily prayers all to that effect.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1288"/></l></sp><sp who="girl."><speaker>Girl.</speaker><l>And so will I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1289"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Peace, children, peace! the king doth love you well:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1290"/></l><l>Incapable and shallow innocents,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1291"/></l><l>You cannot guess who caused your father's death.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1292"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>Grandam, we can; for my good uncle Gloucester
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1293"/></l><l>Told me, the king, provoked by the queen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1294"/></l><l>Devised impeachments to imprison him:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1295"/></l><l>And when my uncle told me so he wept,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1296"/></l><l>And hugg'd me in his arm, and kindly kiss'd my cheek;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1297"/></l><l>Bade me rely on him as on my father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1298"/></l><l>And he would love me dearly as his child.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1299"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1300"/></l><l>And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1301"/></l><l>He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1302"/></l><l>Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1303"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1304"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Ay, boy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1305"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>I cannot think it. Hark! what noise is this?
<lb ed="F1" n="1306"/><stage type="entrance">Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her ears: <lb ed="F1" n="1307"/>RIVERS and DORSET after her.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1308"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1309"/></l><l>To chide my fortune, and torment myself?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1310"/></l><l>I'll join with black despair against my soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1311"/></l><l>And to myself become an enemy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1312"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>What means this scene of rude impatience?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1313"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>To make an act of tragic violence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1314"/></l><l>Edward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead.
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="1315"/></l><l>Why grow the branches now the root is wither'd?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1316"/></l><l>Why wither not the leaves the sap being gone?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1317"/></l><l>If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1318"/></l><l>That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1319"/></l><l>Or, like obedient subjects, follow him
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1320"/></l><l>To his new kingdom of perpetual rest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1321"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1322"/></l><l>As I had title in thy noble husband!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1323"/></l><l>I have bewept a worthy husband's death,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1324"/></l><l>And lived by looking on his images:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1325"/></l><l>But now two mirrors of his princely semblance
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1326"/></l><l>Are crack'd in pieces by malignant death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1327"/></l><l>And I for comfort have but one false glass,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1328"/></l><l>Which grieves me when I see my shame in him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1329"/></l><l>Thou art a widow; yet thou art a mother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1330"/></l><l>And hast the comfort of thy children left thee:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1331"/></l><l>But death hath snatch'd my husband from mine arms,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1332"/></l><l>And pluck'd two crutches from my feeble limbs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1333"/></l><l>Edward and Clarence. O, what cause have I,
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1334"/></l><l>Thine being but a moiety of my grief,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1335"/></l><l>To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1336"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>Good aunt, you wept not for our father's death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1337"/></l><l>How can we aid you with our kindred tears?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1338"/></l></sp><sp who="girl."><speaker>Girl.</speaker><l>Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1339"/></l><l>Your widow-dolor likewise be unwept!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1340"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Give me no help in lamentation;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1341"/></l><l>I am not barren to bring forth complaints:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1342"/></l><l>All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1343"/></l><l>That I, being govern'd by the watery moon,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1344"/></l><l>May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1345"/></l><l>Oh for my husband, for my dear lord Edward!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1346"/></l></sp><sp who="boy. girl."><speaker>Chil.</speaker><l>Oh for our father, for our dear lord Clarence!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1347"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1348"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>What stay had I but Edward? and he's gone,

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1349"/></l></sp><sp who="boy. girl."><speaker>Chil.</speaker><l>What stay had we but Clarence? and he's gone,

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1350"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>What stays had I but they? and they are gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1351"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Was never widow had so dear a loss!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1352"/></l></sp><sp who="boy. girl."><speaker>Chil.</speaker><l>Were never orphans had so dear a loss!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1353"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Was never mother had so dear a loss!
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1354"/></l><l>Alas, I am the mother of these moans!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1355"/></l><l>Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1356"/></l><l>She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1357"/></l><l>I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1358"/></l><l>These babes for Clarence weep and so do I;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I for an Edward weep, so do not they:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1359"/></l><l>Alas, you three, on me, threefold distress'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1360"/></l><l>Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow's nurse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1361"/></l><l>And I will pamper it with lamentations.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1362"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><l>Comfort, dear mother; God is much displeased
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1363"/></l><l>That you take with unthankfulness his doing:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1364"/></l><l>In common worldly things, 'tis call'd ungrateful,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1365"/></l><l>With dull unwillingness to repay a debt
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1366"/></l><l>Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1367"/></l><l>Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1368"/></l><l>For it requires the royal debt it lent you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1369"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1370"/></l><l>Of the young prince your son: send straight for him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1371"/></l><l>Let him be crown'd; in him your comfort lives:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1372"/></l><l>Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1373"/></l><l>And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.
<lb ed="F1" n="1374"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, <lb ed="F1" n="1375"/>and RATCLIFF.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="1376"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1377"/></l><l>To wail the dimming of our shining star;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1378"/></l><l>But none can cure their harms by wailing them.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1379"/></l><l>Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1380"/></l><l>I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1381"/></l><l>I crave your blessing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1382"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1383"/></l><l>Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1384"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker> <stage>[Aside]</stage><l>Amen; and make me die a good old man!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1385"/></l><l>That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing:
<lb ed="G" n="111"/><lb ed="F1" n="1386"/></l><l>I marvel why her grace did leave it out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1387"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1388"/></l><l>That bear this mutual heavy load of moan,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1389"/></l><l>Now cheer each other in each other's love:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1390"/></l><l>Though we have spent our harvest of this king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1391"/></l><l>We are to reap the harvest of his son.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1392"/></l><l>The broken rancor of your high-swoln hearts,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1393"/></l><l>But lately splinter'd, knit, and join'd together,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1394"/></l><l>Must gently be preserved, cherish'd, and kept:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1395"/></l><l>Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,
<lb ed="G" n="121"/><lb ed="F1" n="1396"/></l><l>Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1397"/></l><l>Hither to London, to be crown'd our king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1398"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Why with some little train, <lb ed="F1" n="1399"/>my Lord of Buckingham?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1400"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Marry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1401"/></l><l>The new-heal'd wound of malice should break out;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1402"/></l><l>Which would be so much the more dangerous,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1403"/></l><l>By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1404"/></l><l>Where every horse bears his commanding rein,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1405"/></l><l>And may direct his course as please himself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1406"/></l><l>As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,
<lb ed="G" n="131"/><lb ed="F1" n="1407"/></l><l>In my opinion, ought to be prevented.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1408"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I hope the king made peace with all of us;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1409"/></l><l>And the compact is firm and true in me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1410"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>And so in me; and so, I think, in all:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1411"/></l><l>Yet, since it is but green, it should be put
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1412"/></l><l>To no apparent likelihood of breach,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1413"/></l><l>Which haply by much company might be urged:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1414"/></l><l>Therefore I say with noble Buckingham,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1415"/></l><l>That it is meet so few should fetch the prince.

<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="1416"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>And so say I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1417"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Then be it so; and go we to determine
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1418"/></l><l>Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1419"/></l><l>Madam, and you, my mother, will you go
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1420"/></l><l>To give your censures in this weighty business?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz. duch."><speaker>Q. Eliz. Duch.</speaker><l>With all our hearts.
<lb ed="F1" n="1421"/><stage>[Exeunt all but Buckingham and Gloucester.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1422"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>My lord, whoever journeys to the prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1423"/></l><l>For God's sake, let not us two be behind;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1424"/></l><l>For, by the way, I'll sort occasion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1425"/></l><l>As index to the story we late talk'd of,
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="1426"/></l><l>To part the queen's proud kindred from the king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1427"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>My other self, my counsel's consistory,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1428"/></l><l>My oracle, my prophet!   My dear cousin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1429"/></l><l>I, like a child, will go by thy direction.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1430"/></l><l>Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind.
                           <stage>[Exeunt. </stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="1431"/>
<stage type="setting">London. A street. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1432"/><stage type="entrance">Enter two Citizens meeting.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1433"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1434"/><sp who="first-cit."><speaker>First Cit.</speaker><l>Neighbor, well met: whither away so <lb ed="F1" n="1435"/>fast?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1436"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-cit."><speaker>Sec. Cit.</speaker><l>I promise you, I scarcely know myself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1437"/></l><l part="I">Hear you the news abroad?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1438"/></l></sp><sp who="first-cit."><speaker>First Cit.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, that the king is dead.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1439"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-cit."><speaker>Sec. Cit.</speaker><l>Bad news, by 'r lady; seldom comes the better:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1440"/></l><l>I fear, I fear 'twill prove a troublous world.
<lb ed="F1" n="1441"/><stage type="entrance">Enter another Citizen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1442"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l part="I">Neighbors, God speed!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1443"/></l></sp><sp who="first-cit."><speaker>First Cit.</speaker><l part="F">Give you good morrow, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1444"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l>Doth this news hold of good King Edward's death?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1445"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-cit."><speaker>Sec. Cit.</speaker><l>Ay, sir, it is too true; God help the while!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1446"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l>Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1447"/></l></sp><sp who="first-cit."><speaker>First Cit.</speaker><l>No, no; by God's good grace his son shall reign.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1448"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l>Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1449"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-cit."><speaker>Sec. Cit.</speaker><l>In him there is a hope of government,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1450"/></l><l>That in his nonage council under him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1451"/></l><l>And in his full and ripen'd years himself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1452"/></l><l>No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1453"/></l></sp><sp who="first-cit."><speaker>First Cit.</speaker><l>So stood the state when Henry the Sixth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1454"/></l><l>Was crown'd in Paris but at nine months old.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1455"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l>Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1456"/></l><l>For then this land was famously enrich'd
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1457"/></l><l>With politic grave counsel; then the king
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1458"/></l><l>Had virtuous uncles to protect his grace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1459"/></l></sp><sp who="first-cit."><speaker>First Cit.</speaker><l>Why, so hath this, both by the father and mother.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1460"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l>Better it were they all came by the father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1461"/></l><l>Or by the father there were none at all;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1462"/></l><l>For emulation now, who shall be nearest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1463"/></l><l>Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1464"/></l><l>O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1465"/></l><l>And the queen's sons and brothers haught and proud:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1466"/></l><l>And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1467"/></l><l>This sickly land might solace as before.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1468"/></l></sp><sp who="first-cit."><speaker>First Cit.</speaker><l>Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1469"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l>When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1470"/></l><l>When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1471"/></l><l>When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1472"/></l><l>Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1473"/></l><l>All may be well; but, if God sort it so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1474"/></l><l>'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1475"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-cit."><speaker>Sec. Cit.</speaker><l>Truly, the souls of men are full of dread:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1476"/></l><l>Ye cannot reason almost with a man
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1477"/></l><l>That looks not heavily and full of fear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1478"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l>Before the times of change, still is it so:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1479"/></l><l>By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1480"/></l><l>Ensuing dangers; as, by proof, we see
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1481"/></l><l>The waters swell before a boisterous storm.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1482"/></l><l>But leave it all to God. Whither away?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1483"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-cit."><speaker>Sec. Cit.</speaker><l>Marry, we were sent for to the justices.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1484"/></l></sp><sp who="third.-cit."><speaker>Third Cit.</speaker><l>And so was I: I'll bear you company.
                              <stage>[Exeunt. </stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="1485"/>
<stage type="setting">London. The palace. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1486"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, the young DUKE OF YORK, QUEEN ELIZABETH, <lb ed="F1" n="1487"/>and the DUCHESS OF YORK.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1488"/><sp who="rot."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><l>Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1489"/></l><l>At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1490"/></l><l>To-morrow, or next day, they will be here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1491"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>I long with all my heart to see the prince:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1492"/></l><l>I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1493"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>But I hear, no; they say my son of York
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1494"/></l><l>Hath almost overta'en him in his growth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1495"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Ay, mother; but I would not have it so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1496"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow.

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1497"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1498"/></l><l>My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1499"/></l><l>More than my brother: 'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1500"/></l><l>'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1501"/></l><l>And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1502"/></l><l>Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1503"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1504"/></l><l>In him that did object the same to thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1505"/></l><l>He was the wretched'st thing when he was young,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1506"/></l><l>So long a-growing and so leisurely,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1507"/></l><l>That, if this rule were true, he should be gracious.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1508"/></l></sp><sp who="rot."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><l>Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1509"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>I hope he is; but yet let mothers doubt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1510"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Now, by my troth, if I had been remember'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1511"/></l><l>I could have given my uncle's grace a flout,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1512"/></l><l>To touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1513"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>How, my pretty York? <lb ed="F1" n="1514"/>I pray thee, let me hear it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1515"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1516"/></l><l>That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1517"/></l><l>'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1518"/></l><l>Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.

<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="1519"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1520"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Grandam, his nurse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1521"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1522"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>If 'twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1523"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1524"/></l></sp><sp who="rot."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><l>Good madam, be not angry with the child.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1525"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Pitchers have ears.
<lb ed="F1" n="1526"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Messenger.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1527"/></l></sp><sp who="rot."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><l>Here comes a messenger.  What news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1528"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1529"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l part="I">How fares the prince?

<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1530"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l part="F">Well, madam, and in health.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1531"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>What is thy news then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1532"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>Lord Rivers and Lord Grey <lb ed="F1" n="1533"/>are sent to Pomfret,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>With them <lb ed="F1" n="1534"/>Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1535"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l part="I">Who hath committed them?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1536"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l part="F">The mighty dukes
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Gloucester and Buckingham.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1537"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l part="F">For what offence?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1538"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>The sum of all I can, I have disclosed;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1539"/></l><l>Why or for what these nobles were committed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1540"/></l><l>Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1541"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Ay me, I see the downfall of our house!
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1542"/></l><l>The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1543"/></l><l>Insulting tyranny begins to jet
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1544"/></l><l>Upon the innocent and aweless throne:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1545"/></l><l>Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1546"/></l><l>I see, as in a map, the end of all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1547"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1548"/></l><l>How many of you have mine eyes beheld!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1549"/></l><l>My husband lost his life to get the crown;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1550"/></l><l>And often up and down my sons were toss'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1551"/></l><l>For me to joy and weep their gain and loss:
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1552"/></l><l>And being seated, and domestic broils
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1553"/></l><l>Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1554"/></l><l>Make war upon themselves; blood against blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1555"/></l><l>Self against self: O, preposterous
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1556"/></l><l>And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1557"/></l><l>Or let me die, to look on death no more!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1558"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Come, come, my boy; we will to sanctuary.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1559"/></l><l part="I">Madam, farewell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1560"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l part="F">I'll go along with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1561"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l part="I">You have no cause.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1562"/></l></sp><sp who="rot."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><l>My gracious lady, go;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1563"/></l><l>And thither bear your treasure and your goods.
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1564"/></l><l>For my part, I'll resign unto your grace
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1565"/></l><l>The seal I keep: and so betide to me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1566"/></l><l>As well I tender you and all of yours!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1567"/></l><l>Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary.
                               <stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>

<div1 type="act" n="3">
<head>ACT III</head><lb ed="F1" n="1568"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">London. A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1569"/><stage type="entrance">The trumpets sound. <lb ed="F1" n="1570"/>Enter the young PRINCE, the Dukes of GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, <lb ed="F1" n="1571"/>CARDINAL BOURCHIER, CATESBY, and others. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1572"/><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Welcome, sweet prince, to London, <lb ed="F1" n="1573"/>to your chamber.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1574"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1575"/></l><l>The weary way hath made you melancholy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1576"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>No, uncle; but our crosses on the way
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1577"/></l><l>Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1578"/></l><l>I want more uncles here to welcome me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1579"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1580"/></l><l>Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1581"/></l><l>Nor more can you distinguish of a man
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1582"/></l><l>Than of his outward show; which, God he knows,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1583"/></l><l>Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1584"/></l><l>Those uncles which you want were dangerous;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1585"/></l><l>Your grace attended to their sugar'd words,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1586"/></l><l>But look'd not on the poison of their hearts:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1587"/></l><l>God keep you from them, and from such false friends!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1588"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>God keep me from false friends! <lb ed="F1" n="1589"/>but they were none.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1590"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet <lb ed="F1" n="1591"/>you.
<lb ed="F1" n="1592"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the Lord Mayor, and his train.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1593"/></l></sp><sp who="may."><speaker>May.</speaker><l>God bless your grace with health and <lb ed="F1" n="1594"/>happy days!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1595"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>I thank you, good my lord; and thank you all.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1596"/></l><l>I thought my mother, and my brother York,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1597"/></l><l>Would long ere this have met us on the way:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1598"/></l><l>Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1599"/></l><l>To tell us whether they will come or no!
<lb ed="F1" n="1600"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LORD HASTINGS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1601"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>And, in good time, here comes the sweating <lb ed="F1" n="1602"/>lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1603"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>Welcome, my lord: what, will our mother <lb ed="F1" n="1604"/>come?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1605"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>On what occasion, God he knows, not I,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1606"/></l><l>The queen your mother, and your brother York,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1607"/></l><l>Have taken sanctuary: the tender prince
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1608"/></l><l>Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1609"/></l><l>But by his mother was perforce withheld.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1610"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Fie, what an indirect and peevish course
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1611"/></l><l>Is this of hers! Lord cardinal, will your grace
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1612"/></l><l>Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1613"/></l><l>Unto his princely brother presently?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1614"/></l><l>If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1615"/></l><l>And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1616"/></l></sp><sp who="card."><speaker>Card.</speaker><l>My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1617"/></l><l>Can from his mother win the Duke of York,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1618"/></l><l>Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1619"/></l><l>To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1620"/></l><l>We should infringe the holy privilege
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1621"/></l><l>Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1622"/></l><l>Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1623"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1624"/></l><l>Too ceremonious and traditional:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1625"/></l><l>Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1626"/></l><l>You break not sanctuary in seizing him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1627"/></l><l>The benefit thereof is always granted
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1628"/></l><l>To those whose dealings have deserved the place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1629"/></l><l>And those who have the wit to claim the place:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1630"/></l><l>This prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1631"/></l><l>And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1632"/></l><l>Then, taking him from thence that is not there,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1633"/></l><l>You break no privilege nor charter there.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1634"/></l><l>Oft have I heard of sanctuary men;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1635"/></l><l>But sanctuary children ne'er till now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1636"/></l></sp><sp who="card."><speaker>Card.</speaker><l>My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1637"/></l><l>Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1638"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>I go, my lord.

<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1639"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.
                      <stage>[Exeunt Cardinal and Hastings.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1640"/></l><l>Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1641"/></l><l>Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1642"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Where it seems best unto your royal self.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1643"/></l><l>If I may counsel you, some day or two
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1644"/></l><l>Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1645"/></l><l>Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1646"/></l><l>For your best health and recreation.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1647"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>I do not like the Tower, of any place.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1648"/></l><l>Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1649"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1650"/></l><l>Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1651"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>Is it upon record, or else reported
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1652"/></l><l>Successively from age to age, he built it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1653"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Upon record, my gracious lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1654"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>But say, my lord, it were not register'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1655"/></l><l>Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1656"/></l><l>As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1657"/></l><l>Even to the general all-ending day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1658"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker> <stage>[Aside]</stage><l>So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1659"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>What say you, uncle?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1660"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I say, without characters, fame lives long.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1661"/></l><l><stage>[Aside]</stage>Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1662"/></l><l>I moralize two meanings in one word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1663"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>That Julius Caesar was a famous man;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1664"/></l><l>With what his valor did enrich his wit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1665"/></l><l>His wit set down to make his valor live:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1666"/></l><l>Death makes no conquest of this conqueror;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1667"/></l><l>For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1668"/></l><l>I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,--

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="1669"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>What, my gracious lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1670"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>An if I live until I be a man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1671"/></l><l>I'll win our ancient right in France again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1672"/></l><l>Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1673"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker> <stage>[Aside]</stage><l>Short summers lightly have a forward spring.
<lb ed="F1" n="1674"/><stage type="entrance">Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1675"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of <lb ed="F1" n="1676"/>York.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1677"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>Richard of York! how fares our loving <lb ed="F1" n="1678"/>brother?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1679"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Well, my dread lord; so must I call you now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1680"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1681"/></l><l>Too late he died that might have kept that title,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1682"/></l><l>Which by his death hath lost much majesty.

<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="1683"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>How fares our cousin, noble Lord of York?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1684"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1685"/></l><l>You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1686"/></l><l>The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1687"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="I">He hath, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1688"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l part="F">And therefore is he idle?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1689"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>O, my fair cousin, I must not say so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1690"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Then he is more beholding to you than I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1691"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>He may command me as my sovereign;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1692"/></l><l>But you have power in me as in a kinsman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1693"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1694"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1695"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>A beggar, brother?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1696"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Of my kind uncle, that I know will give;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1697"/></l><l>And being but a toy, which is no grief to give.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1698"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1699"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>A greater gift!   O, that's the sword to it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1700"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Ay, gentle cousin, were it light enough.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1701"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>O, then, I see, you will part but with light gifts;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1702"/></l><l>In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay.

<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="1703"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>It is too heavy for your grace to wear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1704"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1705"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>What, would you have my weapon, little lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1706"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>I would, that I might thank you as you <lb ed="F1" n="1707"/>call me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1708"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>How?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1709"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Little.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1710"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1711"/></l><l>Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1712"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1713"/></l><l>Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me;
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="1714"/></l><l>Because that I am little, like an ape,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1715"/></l><l>He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1716"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1717"/></l><l>To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1718"/></l><l>He prettily and aptly taunts himself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1719"/></l><l>So cunning and so young is wonderful.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1720"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>My lord, will't please you pass along?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1721"/></l><l>Myself and my good cousin Buckingham
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1722"/></l><l>Will to your mother, to entreat of her
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1723"/></l><l>To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.

<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="1724"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1725"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>My lord protector needs will have it so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1726"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1727"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Why, what should you fear?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1728"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1729"/></l><l>My grandam told me he was murder'd there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1730"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>I fear no uncles dead.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1731"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Nor none that live, I hope,

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1732"/></l></sp><sp who="prince."><speaker>Prince.</speaker><l>An if they live, I hope I need not fear.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1733"/></l><l>But come, my lord; and with a heavy heart.
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="1734"/></l><l part="I">Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower.
<lb ed="F1" n="1735"/><stage>[A Sennet. <lb ed="F1" n="1736"/>Exeunt all but Gloucester,Buckingham and Catesby.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1737"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Think you, my lord, this little prating York
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1738"/></l><l>Was not incensed by his subtle mother
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1739"/></l><l>To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1740"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>No doubt, no doubt; O, 'tis a parlous boy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1741"/></l><l>Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1742"/></l><l>He is all the mother's, from the top to toe.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1743"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Well, let them rest.   Come hither, Catesby.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1744"/></l><l>Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend
<lb ed="G" n="159"/><lb ed="F1" n="1745"/></l><l>As closely to conceal what we impart:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1746"/></l><l>Thou know'st our reasons urged upon the way;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1747"/></l><l>What think'st thou? is it not an easy matter
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1748"/></l><l>To make William Lord Hastings of our mind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1749"/></l><l>For the instalment of this noble duke
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1750"/></l><l>In the seat royal of this famous isle?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1751"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>He for his father's sake so loves the prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1752"/></l><l>That he will not be won to aught against him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1753"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>What think'st thou, then, of Stanley? what will <lb ed="F1" n="1754"/>he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1755"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>He will do all in all as Hastings doth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1756"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Well, then, no more but this: <lb ed="F1" n="1757"/>go, gentle Catesby,
<lb ed="G" n="170"/></l><l>And, as it were far off, <lb ed="F1" n="1758"/>sound thou Lord Hastings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1759"/></l><l>How doth he stand affected to our purpose;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1760"/></l><l>And summon him to-morrow to the Tower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1761"/></l><l>To sit about the coronation.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1762"/></l><l>If thou dost find him tractable to us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1763"/></l><l>Encourage him, and show him all our reasons:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1764"/></l><l>If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1765"/></l><l>Be thou so too; and so break off your talk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1766"/></l><l>And give us notice of his inclination:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1767"/></l><l>For we to-morrow hold divided councils,
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="1768"/></l><l>Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1769"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1770"/></l><l>His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1771"/></l><l>To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1772"/></l><l>And bid my friend, for joy of this good news,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1773"/></l><l>Give Mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1774"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Good Catesby, go, effect this business soundly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1775"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>My good lords both, with all the heed I may.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1776"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1777"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>You shall, my lord.

<lb ed="G" n="190"/><lb ed="F1" n="1778"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both.
                         <lb ed="F1" n="1779"/><stage>[Exit Catesby. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1780"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Now, my lord, <lb ed="F1" n="1781"/>what shall we do, if we perceive
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1782"/></l><l>Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1783"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Chop off his head, man; <lb ed="F1" n="1784"/>somewhat we will do:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1785"/></l><l>And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1786"/></l><l>The earldom of Hereford, and the moveables
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1787"/></l><l>Whereof the king my brother stood possess'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1788"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>I'll claim that promise at your grace's hands.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1789"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>And look to have it yielded with all willingness.
<lb ed="G" n="199"/><lb ed="F1" n="1790"/></l><l>Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1791"/></l><l>We may digest our complots in some form.
                              <lb ed="F1" n="1792"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="1793"/>
<stage type="setting">Before Lord Hastings' house. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1794"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Messenger.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1795"/><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>What, ho! my lord!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1796"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><stage>[Within]</stage><l>Who knocks at the door?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1797"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>A messenger from the Lord Stanley.
<stage type="entrance">Enter LORD HASTINGS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1798"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><stage>[Within]</stage><l>What is't o'clock?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1799"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>Upon the stroke of four.
<lb ed="F1" n="1800"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1801"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Cannot thy master sleep these tedious <lb ed="F1" n="1802"/>nights?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1803"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>So it should seem by that I have to say.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1804"/></l><l>First, he commends him to your noble lordship.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1805"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>And then?

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1806"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>And then he sends you word
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1807"/></l><l>He dreamt to-night the boar had razed his helm:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1808"/></l><l>Besides, he says there are two councils held;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1809"/></l><l>And that may be determined at the one
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1810"/></l><l>Which may make you and him to rue at the other.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1811"/></l><l>Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1812"/></l><l>If presently you will take horse with him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1813"/></l><l>And with all speed post with him toward the north,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1814"/></l><l>To shun the danger that his soul divines.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1815"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord;
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1816"/></l><l>Bid him not fear the separated councils:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1817"/></l><l>His honor and myself are at the one,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1818"/></l><l>And at the other is my servant Catesby;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1819"/></l><l>Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1820"/></l><l>Whereof I shall not have intelligence.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1821"/></l><l>Tell him his fears are shallow, wanting instance:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1822"/></l><l>And for his dreams, I wonder he is so fond
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1823"/></l><l>To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1824"/></l><l>To fly the boar before the boar pursues,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1825"/></l><l>Were to incense the boar to follow us
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1826"/></l><l>And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="1827"/></l><l>Go, bid thy master rise and come to me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1828"/></l><l>And we will both together to the Tower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1829"/></l><l>Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1830"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>My gracious lord, I'll tell him what you say.
                                 <lb ed="F1" n="1831"/><stage>[Exit. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1832"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CATESBY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1833"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>Many good morrows to my noble lord!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1834"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Good  morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1835"/></l><l>What news, what news, in this our tottering state?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1836"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord;
<lb ed="G" n="39"/><lb ed="F1" n="1837"/></l><l>And I believe 'twill never stand upright
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1838"/></l><l>Till Richard wear the garland of the realm.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1839"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>How! wear the garland! <lb ed="F1" n="1840"/>dost thou mean the crown?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1841"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>Ay, my good lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1842"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1843"/></l><l>Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1844"/></l><l>But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1845"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>Ay, on my life; and hopes to find you forward
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1846"/></l><l>Upon his party for the gain thereof:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1847"/></l><l>And thereupon he sends you this good news,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1848"/></l><l>That this same very day your enemies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1849"/></l><l>The kindred of the queen, must die at Pomfret.

<lb ed="G" n="51"/><lb ed="F1" n="1850"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1851"/></l><l>Because they have been still mine enemies:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1852"/></l><l>But, that I'll give my voice on Richard's side,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1853"/></l><l>To bar my master's heirs in true descent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1854"/></l><l>God knows I will not do it, to the death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1855"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>God keep your lordship in that gracious <lb ed="F1" n="1856"/>mind!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1857"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>But I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1858"/></l><l>That they who brought me in my master's hate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1859"/></l><l>I live to look upon their tragedy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1860"/></l><l>I tell thee, Catesby,--

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>What, my lord?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Ere a fortnight make me elder,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1861"/></l><l>I'll send some packing that yet think not on it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1862"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1863"/></l><l>When men are unprepared and look not for it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1864"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>O monstrous, monstrous! and so falls it out
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1865"/></l><l>With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: and so 'twill do
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1866"/></l><l>With some men else, who think themselves as safe
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1867"/></l><l>As thou and I; who, as thou know'st, are dear
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1868"/></l><l>To princely Richard and to Buckingham.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1869"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>The princes both make high account of you;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l><stage>[Aside]</stage><lb ed="F1" n="1870"/>For they account his head upon the bridge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1871"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>I know they do; and I have well deserved it.
<lb ed="F1" n="1872"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LORD STANLEY.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1873"/></l><l>Come on, come on; where is your boar-spear, man?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1874"/></l><l>Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1875"/></l></sp><sp who="stan."><speaker>Stan.</speaker><l>My lord, good morrow; good morrow, Catesby:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1876"/></l><l>You may jest on, but, by the holy rood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1877"/></l><l>I do not like these several councils, I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1878"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>My lord,
<lb ed="G" n="80"/></l><l>I hold my life as dear as you do yours;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1879"/></l><l>And never in my life, I do protest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1880"/></l><l>Was it more precious to me than 'tis now:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1881"/></l><l>Think you, but that I know our state secure,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1882"/></l><l>I would be so triumphant as I am?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1883"/></l></sp><sp who="stan."><speaker>Stan.</speaker><l>The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1884"/></l><l>Were jocund, and supposed their state was sure,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1885"/></l><l>And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1886"/></l><l>But yet, you see, how soon the day o'ercast.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1887"/></l><l>This sudden stab of rancor I misdoubt:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1888"/></l><l>Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward!
<lb ed="G" n="91"/><lb ed="F1" n="1889"/></l><l>What, shall we toward the Tower? the day is spent.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1890"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Come, come, have with you. <lb ed="F1" n="1891"/>Wot you what, my lord?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1892"/></l><l>To-day the lords you talk of are beheaded.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1893"/></l></sp><sp who="stan."><speaker>Stan.</speaker><l>They, for their truth, might better wear their heads
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1894"/></l><l>Than some that have accused them wear their hats.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1895"/></l><l>But come, my lord, let us away.
<lb ed="F1" n="1896"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Pursuivant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1897"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Go on before; I'll talk with this good fellow.
                <lb ed="F1" n="1898"/><stage>[Exeunt Stanley and Catesby.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1899"/></l><l>How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1900"/></l></sp><sp who="purs."><speaker>Purs.</speaker><l>The better that your lordship please to ask.

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="1901"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>I tell thee, man, 'tis better with me now
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1902"/></l><l>Than when I met thee last where now we meet:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1903"/></l><l>Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1904"/></l><l>By the suggestion of the queen's allies;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1905"/></l><l>But now, I tell thee--keep it to thyself--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1906"/></l><l>This day those enemies are put to death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1907"/></l><l>And I in better state than e'er I was.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1908"/></l></sp><sp who="purs."><speaker>Purs.</speaker><l>God hold it, to your honor's good content!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1909"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me.
<lb ed="F1" n="1910"/><stage>[Throws him his purse. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1911"/></l></sp><sp who="purs."><speaker>Purs.</speaker><l>God save your lordship! <stage>[Exit.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1912"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Priest.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="1913"/></l></sp><sp who="priest."><speaker>Priest.</speaker><l>Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your <lb ed="F1" n="1914"/>honor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1915"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1916"/></l><l>I am in your debt for your last exercise;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1917"/></l><l>Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
<lb ed="F1" n="1918"/>
<stage>[He whispers in his ear. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1919"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BUCKINGHAM.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1920"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1921"/></l><l>Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1922"/></l><l>Your honor hath no shriving work in hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1923"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Good faith, and when I met this holy man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1924"/></l><l>Those men you talk of came into my mind.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1925"/></l><l>What, go you toward the Tower?

<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="1926"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>I do, my lord; but long I shall not stay:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1927"/></l><l>I shall return before your lordship thence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1928"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>'Tis like enough, for I stay dinner there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1929"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker> <stage>[Aside]</stage><l>And supper too, although thou know'st it not.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1930"/></l><l>Come, will you go?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1931"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>I'll wait upon your lordship.
                    <stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="1932"/>
<stage type="setting">Pomfret Castle. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1933"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying <lb ed="F1" n="1934"/>RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN to death.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><sp who="rat."><speaker>Rat.</speaker><l>Come, bring forth the prisoners.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1935"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1936"/></l><l>To-day shalt thou behold a subject die
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1937"/></l><l>For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1938"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>God keep the prince from all the pack of you!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1939"/></l><l>A knot you are of damned blood-suckers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1940"/></l></sp><sp who="vaug."><speaker>Vaug.</speaker><l>You live that shall cry woe for this <lb ed="F1" n="1941"/>hereafter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1942"/></l></sp><sp who="rat."><speaker>Rat.</speaker><l>Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1943"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1944"/></l><l>Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1945"/></l><l>Within the guilty closure of thy walls
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1946"/></l><l>Richard the second here was hack'd to death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1947"/></l><l>And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1948"/></l><l>We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1949"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,
<lb ed="F1" n="1950"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1951"/></l><l>For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1952"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Then cursed she Hastings, <lb ed="F1" n="1953"/>then cursed she Buckingham,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1954"/></l><l>Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1955"/></l><l>To hear her prayers for them, as now for us!
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1956"/></l><l>And for my sister and her princely sons,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1957"/></l><l>Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1958"/></l><l>Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1959"/></l></sp><sp who="rat."><speaker>Rat.</speaker><l>Make haste; the hour of death is expiate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1960"/></l></sp><sp who="riv."><speaker>Riv.</speaker><l>Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1961"/></l><l>And take our leave, until we meet in heaven.
                                 <lb ed="F1" n="1962"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="1963"/>
<stage type="setting">The Tower of London. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1964"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, the BISHOP OF ELY, <lb ed="F1" n="1965"/>RATCLIFF, LOVEL, with others, and take their seats <lb ed="F1" n="1966"/>at a table.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1967"/><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>My lords, at once: the cause why we are met
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1968"/></l><l>Is, to determine of the coronation.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1969"/></l><l>In God's name, speak: when is the royal day?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1970"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Are all things fitting for that royal time?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1971"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>It is, and wants but nomination.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1972"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>To-morrow, then, I judge a happy day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1973"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Who knows the lord protector's mind herein?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1974"/></l><l>Who is most inward with the royal duke?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1975"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>Your grace, we think, should soonest know his <lb ed="F1" n="1976"/>mind.

<lb ed="G" n="10"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Who, I, my lord! <lb ed="F1" n="1977"/>we know each other's faces,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But for our hearts, <lb ed="F1" n="1978"/>he knows no more of mine,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Than I of yours;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1979"/></l><l>Nor I no more of his, than you of mine.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1980"/></l><l>Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1981"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1982"/></l><l>But, for his purpose in the coronation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1983"/></l><l>I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1984"/></l><l>His gracious pleasure any way therein:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1985"/></l><l>But you, my noble lords, may name the time;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1986"/></l><l>And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,
<lb ed="G" n="21"/><lb ed="F1" n="1987"/></l><l>Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part.
<lb ed="F1" n="1988"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1989"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>Now in good time, here comes the duke himself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1990"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1991"/></l><l>I have been long a sleeper; but, I hope,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1992"/></l><l>My absence doth neglect no great designs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1993"/></l><l>Which by my presence might have been concluded.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1994"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Had not you come upon your cue, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1995"/></l><l>William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1996"/></l><l>I mean, your voice,--for crowning of the king.

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1997"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1998"/></l><l>His lordship knows me well, and loves me well.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l part="I">I thank your grace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1999"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l part="Y">My lord of Ely!

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l part="F">My lord?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>When I was last in Holborn,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2000"/></l><l>I saw good strawberries in your garden there:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2001"/></l><l>I do beseech you send for some of them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2002"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.
<lb ed="F1" n="2003"/><stage>[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2004"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you.
<stage>[Drawing him aside. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2005"/></l><l>Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2006"/></l><l>And finds the testy gentleman so hot,
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2007"/></l><l>As he will lose his head ere give consent
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2008"/></l><l>His master's son, as worshipful he terms it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2009"/></l><l>Shall lose the royalty of England's throne.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2010"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Withdraw you hence, my lord, I'll follow you.
<lb ed="F1" n="2011"/><stage>[Exit Gloucester, Buckingham following.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2012"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>We have not yet set down this day of triumph.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2013"/></l><l>To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2014"/></l><l>For I myself am not so well provided
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2015"/></l><l>As else I would be, were the day prolong'd.
<lb ed="F1" n="2016"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter BISHOP OF ELY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2017"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>Where is my lord protector?   <lb ed="F1" n="2018"/>I have sent for these strawberries.

<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2019"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2020"/></l><l>There's some conceit or other likes him well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2021"/></l><l>When he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2022"/></l><l>I think there's never a man in Christendom
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2023"/></l><l>That can less hide his love or hate than he;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2024"/></l><l>For by his face straight shall you know his heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2025"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>What of his heart perceive you in his face
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2026"/></l><l>By any likelihood he show'd to-day?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2027"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Marry, that with no man here he is offended;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2028"/></l><l>For, were he, he had shown it in his looks.
<lb ed="F1" n="2029"/>

<lb ed="G" n="60"/></l></sp><sp who="der."><speaker>Der.</speaker><l>I pray God he be not, I say.
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2030"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I pray you all, tell me what they deserve
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2031"/></l><l>That do conspire my death with devilish plots
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2032"/></l><l>Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevail'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2033"/></l><l>Upon my body with their hellish charms?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2034"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2035"/></l><l>Makes me most forward in this noble presence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2036"/></l><l>To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2037"/></l><l>I say, my lord, they have deserved death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2038"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Then be your eyes the witness of this ill:
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2039"/></l><l>See how I am bewitch'd; behold mine arm
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2040"/></l><l>Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2041"/></l><l>And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2042"/></l><l>Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2043"/></l><l>That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2044"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>If they have done this thing, my gracious lord,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2045"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>If! thou protector of this damned strumpet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2046"/></l><l>Tellest thou me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2047"/></l><l>Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2048"/></l><l>I will not dine until I see the same.
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="2049"/></l><l>Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2050"/></l><l>The rest, that love me, rise and follow me.
<lb ed="F1" n="2051"/><stage>[Exeunt all but Hastings, Ratcliff, and Lovel.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2052"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2053"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>Woe, woe for England! not a whit for me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2054"/></l><l>For I, too fond, might have prevented this.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2055"/></l><l>Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2056"/></l><l>But I disdain'd it, and did scorn to fly:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2057"/></l><l>Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2058"/></l><l>And startled, when he look'd upon the Tower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2059"/></l><l>As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2060"/></l><l>O, now I want the priest that spake to me:
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2061"/></l><l>I now repent I told the pursuivant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2062"/></l><l>As 'twere triumphing at mine enemies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2063"/></l><l>How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2064"/></l><l>And I myself secure in grace and favor.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2065"/></l><l>O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2066"/></l><l>Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2067"/></l></sp><sp who="rat."><speaker>Rat.</speaker><l>Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2068"/></l><l>Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2069"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>O momentary grace of mortal men,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2070"/></l><l>Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2071"/></l><l>Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,
<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="2072"/></l><l>Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2073"/></l><l>Ready, with every nod, to tumble down
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2074"/></l><l>Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2075"/></l></sp><sp who="lov."><speaker>Lov.</speaker><l>Come, come, dispatch; 'tis bootless to exclaim.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2076"/></l></sp><sp who="hast."><speaker>Hast.</speaker><l>O bloody Richard! miserable England!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2077"/></l><l>I prophesy the fearfull'st time to thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2078"/></l><l>That ever wretched age hath look'd upon.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2079"/></l><l>Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2080"/></l><l>They smile at me that shortly shall be dead.
                               <lb ed="F1" n="2081"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
<head>SCENE V</head>
<stage type="setting">The Tower-walls. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2082"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rotten armor, <lb ed="F1" n="2083"/>marvellous ill-favored.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2084"/><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Come, cousin, <lb ed="F1" n="2085"/>canst thou quake, and change thy color,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2086"/></l><l>Murder thy breath in middle of a word,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2087"/></l><l>And then begin again, and stop again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2088"/></l><l>As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2089"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2090"/></l><l>Speak and look back, and pry on every side,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2091"/></l><l>Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2092"/></l><l>Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2093"/></l><l>Are at my service, like enforced smiles:
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2094"/></l><l>And both are ready in their offices,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2095"/></l><l>At any time, to grace my stratagems.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2096"/></l><l>But what, is Catesby gone?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2097"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along.
<lb ed="F1" n="2098"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the Mayor and CATESBY. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2099"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Lord mayor,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2100"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Look to the drawbridge there!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2101"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Hark! a drum.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2102"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Catesby, o'erlook the walls.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2103"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Lord mayor, the reason we have sent--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2104"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Look back, defend thee, here are enemies.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2105"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>God and our innocency defend and guard us!
<lb ed="F1" n="2106"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2107"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel.
<stage type="entrance">Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS' head.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2108"/></l></sp><sp who="lov."><speaker>Lov.</speaker><l>Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2109"/></l><l>The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2110"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>So dear I loved the man, that I must weep.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2111"/></l><l>I took him for the plainest harmless creature
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2112"/></l><l>That breathed upon this earth a Christian;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2113"/></l><l>Made him my book, wherein my soul recorded
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2114"/></l><l>The history of all her secret thoughts:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2115"/></l><l>So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2116"/></l><l>That, his apparent open guilt omitted,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2117"/></l><l>I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2118"/></l><l>He lived from all attainder of suspect.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2119"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Well, well, he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2120"/></l><l>That ever lived.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2121"/></l><l>Would you imagine, or almost believe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2122"/></l><l>Were't not that, by great preservation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2123"/></l><l>We live to tell it you, the subtle traitor
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2124"/></l><l>This day had plotted, in the council-house
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2125"/></l><l>To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester?

<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2126"/></l></sp><sp who="may."><speaker>May.</speaker><l>What, had he so?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2127"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>What, think you we are Turks or infidels?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2128"/></l><l>Or that we would, against the form of law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2129"/></l><l>Proceed thus rashly to the villain's death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2130"/></l><l>But that the extreme peril of the case,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2131"/></l><l>The peace of England and our persons' safety,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2132"/></l><l>Enforced us to this execution?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2133"/></l></sp><sp who="may."><speaker>May.</speaker><l>Now, fair befall you! he deserved his death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2134"/></l><l>And you my good lords, both have well proceeded,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2135"/></l><l>To warn false traitors from the like attempts.
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2136"/></l><l>I never look'd for better at his hands,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2137"/></l><l>After he once fell in with Mistress Shore.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2138"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Yet had not we determined he should die,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2139"/></l><l>Until your lordship came to see his death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2140"/></l><l>Which now the loving haste of these our friends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2141"/></l><l>Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2142"/></l><l>Because, my lord, we would have had you heard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2143"/></l><l>The traitor speak, and timorously confess
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2144"/></l><l>The manner and the purpose of his treason;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2145"/></l><l>That you might well have signified the same
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2146"/></l><l>Unto the citizens, who haply may
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2147"/></l><l>Misconstrue us in him and wail his death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2148"/></l></sp><sp who="may."><speaker>May.</speaker><l>But, my good lord, your grace's word shall serve,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2149"/></l><l>As well as I had seen and heard him speak:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2150"/></l><l>And doubt you not, right noble princes both,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2151"/></l><l>But I'll acquaint our duteous citizens
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2152"/></l><l>With all your just proceedings in this cause.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2153"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>And to that end we wish'd your lordship here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2154"/></l><l>To avoid the carping censures of the world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2155"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>But since you come too late of our intents,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2156"/></l><l>Yet witness what you hear we did intend:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2157"/></l><l>And so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell.
                                <lb ed="F1" n="2158"/><stage>[Exit Mayor. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2159"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2160"/></l><l>The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2161"/></l><l>There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2162"/></l><l>Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2163"/></l><l>Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2164"/></l><l>Only for saying he would make his son
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2165"/></l><l>Heir to the crown; meaning indeed his house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2166"/></l><l>Which, by the sign thereof, was termed so.
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="2167"/></l><l>Moreover, urge his hateful luxury,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2168"/></l><l>And bestial appetite in change of lust;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2169"/></l><l>Which stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2170"/></l><l>Even where his lustful eye or savage heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2171"/></l><l>Without control, listed to make his prey.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2172"/></l><l>Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2173"/></l><l>Tell them, when that my mother went with child
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2174"/></l><l>Of that unsatiate Edward, noble York
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2175"/></l><l>My princely father then had wars in France;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2176"/></l><l>And, by just computation of the time,
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2177"/></l><l>Found that the issue was not his begot;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2178"/></l><l>Which well appeared in his lineaments,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2179"/></l><l>Being nothing like the noble duke my father:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2180"/></l><l>But touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2181"/></l><l>Because you know, my lord, my mother lives.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2182"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2183"/></l><l>As if the golden fee for which I plead
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2184"/></l><l>Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2185"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's castle;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2186"/></l><l>Where you shall find me well accompanied
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2187"/></l><l>With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.

<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="2188"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>I go: and towards three or four o'clock
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2189"/></l><l>Look for the news that the Guildhall affords.
                                 <lb ed="F1" n="2190"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2191"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l><stage>[To Cate.]</stage> <lb ed="F1" n="2192"/>Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2193"/></l><l>Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle.
                    <stage>[Exeunt all but Gloucester.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2194"/></l><l>Now will I in, to take some privy order,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2195"/></l><l>To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2196"/></l><l>And to give notice, that no manner of person
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2197"/></l><l>At any time have recourse unto the princes.
                                   <stage>[Exit.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="6">
<head>SCENE VI</head>
<stage type="setting">The same. A street. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2198"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Scrivener, with a paper in his hand.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2199"/><sp who="scriv."><speaker>Scriv.</speaker><l>This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2200"/></l><l>Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2201"/></l><l>That it may be this day read o'er in Paul's.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2202"/></l><l>And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2203"/></l><l>Eleven hours I spent to write it over,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2204"/></l><l>For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2205"/></l><l>The precedent was full as long a-doing:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2206"/></l><l>And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2207"/></l><l>Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty.
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2208"/></l><l>Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2209"/></l><l>That seeth not this palpable device?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2210"/></l><l>Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2211"/></l><l>Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2212"/></l><l>When such bad dealings must be seen in thought.
                                    <stage>[Exit. </stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="7">
<head>SCENE VII</head>
<stage type="setting">Baynard's Castle. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2213"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, at several doors.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2214"/><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>How now, my lord, what say the citizens?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2215"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2216"/></l><l>The citizens are mum and speak not a word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2217"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2218"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2219"/></l><l>And his contract by deputy in France;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2220"/></l><l>The insatiate greediness of his desires,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2221"/></l><l>And his enforcement of the city wives;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2222"/></l><l>His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2223"/></l><l>As being got, your father then in France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2224"/></l><l>And his resemblance, being not like the duke:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2225"/></l><l>Withal I did infer your lineaments,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2226"/></l><l>Being the right idea of your father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2227"/></l><l>Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2228"/></l><l>Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2229"/></l><l>Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2230"/></l><l>Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2231"/></l><l>Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2232"/></l><l>Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse:
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2233"/></l><l>And when mine oratory grew to an end,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2234"/></l><l>I bid them that did love their country's good
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2235"/></l><l>Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2236"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Ah! and did they so?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2237"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>No, so God help me, they spake not a word;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2238"/></l><l>But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2239"/></l><l>Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2240"/></l><l>Which when I saw, I reprehended them;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2241"/></l><l>And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2242"/></l><l>His answer was, the people were not wont
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2243"/></l><l>To be spoke to but by the recorder.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2244"/></l><l>Then he was urged to tell my tale again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2245"/></l><l>'Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr'd;'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2246"/></l><l>But nothing spake in warrant from himself.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2247"/></l><l>When he had done, some followers of mine own,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2248"/></l><l>At the lower end of the hall, hurl'd up their caps,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2249"/></l><l>And some ten voices cried 'God save King Richard!'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2250"/></l><l>And thus I took the vantage of those few,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2251"/></l><l>'Thanks, gentle citizens and friends,' quoth I;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2252"/></l><l>'This general applause and loving shout
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2253"/></l><l>Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard:'
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="2254"/></l><l>And even here brake off, and came away.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2255"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>What tongueless blocks were they! <lb ed="F1" n="2256"/>would not they speak?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>No, by my troth, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2257"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Will not the mayor then and his brethren come?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2258"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>The mayor is here at hand: intend some fear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2259"/></l><l>Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2260"/></l><l>And look you get a prayer-book in your hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2261"/></l><l>And stand betwixt two churchmen, good my lord;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2262"/></l><l>For on that ground I'll build a holy descant:
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2263"/></l><l>And be not easily won to our request:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2264"/></l><l>Play the maid's part, still answer nay, and take it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2265"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I go; and if you plead as well for them
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2266"/></l><l>As I can say nay to thee for myself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2267"/></l><l>No doubt we'll bring it to a happy issue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2268"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Go, go, up to the leads; the lord mayor knocks.
<stage>[Exit Gloucester. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2269"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the Mayor and Citizens. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2270"/></l><l>Welcome, my lord; I dance attendance here;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2271"/></l><l>I think the duke will not be spoke withal.
<lb ed="F1" n="2272"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CATESBY.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2273"/></l><l>Here comes his servant: how now, Catesby,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2274"/></l><l>What says he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2275"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>My lord: he doth entreat your grace;
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2276"/></l><l>To visit him to-morrow or next day:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2277"/></l><l>He is within, with two right reverend fathers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2278"/></l><l>Divinely bent to meditation;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2279"/></l><l>And in no worldly suit would he be moved,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2280"/></l><l>To draw him from his holy exercise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2281"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Return, good Catesby, to thy lord again;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2282"/></l><l>Tell him, myself, the mayor and citizens,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2283"/></l><l>In deep designs and matters of great moment,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2284"/></l><l>No less importing than our general good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2285"/></l><l>Are come to have some conference with his grace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2286"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>I'll tell him what you say, my lord.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2287"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Ah, ha, my lord, this prince is not an Edward!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2288"/></l><l>He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2289"/></l><l>But on his knees at meditation;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2290"/></l><l>Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2291"/></l><l>But meditating with two deep divines;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2292"/></l><l>Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2293"/></l><l>But praying, to enrich his watchful soul:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2294"/></l><l>Happy were England, would this gracious prince
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2295"/></l><l>Take on himself the sovereignty thereof:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2296"/></l><l>But, sure, I fear, we shall ne'er win him to it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2297"/></l></sp><sp who="may."><speaker>May.</speaker><l>Marry, God forbid his grace should say us <lb ed="F1" n="2298"/>nay!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2299"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>I fear he will.
<lb ed="F1" n="2300"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter CATESBY.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2301"/></l><l part="I">How now, Catesby, what says your lord?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l part="F">My lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2302"/></l><l>He wonders to what end you have assembled
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2303"/></l><l>Such troops of citizens to speak with him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2304"/></l><l>His grace not being warn'd thereof before:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2305"/></l><l>My lord, he fears you mean no good to him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2306"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Sorry I am my noble cousin should
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2307"/></l><l>Suspect me, that I mean no good to him:
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2308"/></l><l>By heaven, I come in perfect love to him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2309"/></l><l>And so once more return and tell his grace.
                    <stage>[Exit Catesby.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2310"/></l><l>When holy and devout religious men
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2311"/></l><l>Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2312"/></l><l>So sweet is zealous contemplation.
<lb ed="F1" n="2313"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER aloft, between two Bishops. CATESBY returns.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2314"/></l></sp><sp who="may."><speaker>May.</speaker><l>See, where he stands between two <lb ed="F1" n="2315"/>clergymen!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2316"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2317"/></l><l>To stay him from the fall of vanity:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2318"/></l><l>And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2319"/></l><l>True ornaments to know a holy man.
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="2320"/></l><l>Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2321"/></l><l>Lend favorable ears to our request;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2322"/></l><l>And pardon us the interruption
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2323"/></l><l>Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2324"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>My lord, there needs no such apology:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2325"/></l><l>I rather do beseech you pardon me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2326"/></l><l>Who, earnest in the service of my God,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2327"/></l><l>Neglect the visitation of my friends.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2328"/></l><l>But, leaving this, what is your grace's pleasure?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2329"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="2330"/></l><l>And all good men of this ungovern'd isle.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2331"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I do suspect I have done some offence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2332"/></l><l>That seems disgracious in the city's eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2333"/></l><l>And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2334"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>You have, my lord: <lb ed="F1" n="2335"/>would it might please your grace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2336"/></l><l>At our entreaties, to amend that fault!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2337"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2338"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Then know, it is your fault that you resign
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2339"/></l><l>The supreme seat, the throne majestical,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2340"/></l><l>The scepter'd office of your ancestors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2341"/></l><l>Your state of fortune and your due of birth,
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="2342"/></l><l>The lineal glory of your royal house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2343"/></l><l>To the corruption of a blemish'd stock:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2344"/></l><l>Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2345"/></l><l>Which here we waken to our country's good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2346"/></l><l>This noble isle doth want her proper limbs;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2347"/></l><l>Her face defaced with scars of infamy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2348"/></l><l>Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2349"/></l><l>And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2350"/></l><l>Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="2351"/></l><l>Which to recure, we heartily solicit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2352"/></l><l>Your gracious self to take on you the charge
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2353"/></l><l>And kingly government of this your land,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2354"/></l><l>Not as protector, steward, substitute,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2355"/></l><l>Or lowly factor for another's gain;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2356"/></l><l>But as successively from blood to blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2357"/></l><l>Your right of birth, your empery, your own.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2358"/></l><l>For this, consorted with the citizens,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2359"/></l><l>Your very worshipful and loving friends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2360"/></l><l>And by their vehement instigation,
<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="2361"/></l><l>In this just suit come I to move your grace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2362"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I know not whether to depart in silence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2363"/></l><l>Or bitterly to speak in your reproof,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2364"/></l><l>Best fitteth my degree or your condition:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2365"/></l><l>If not to answer, you might haply think
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2366"/></l><l>Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2367"/></l><l>To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2368"/></l><l>Which fondly you would here impose on me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2369"/></l><l>If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2370"/></l><l>So season'd with your faithful love to me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2371"/></l><l>Then, on the other side, I check'd my friends.
<lb ed="G" n="151"/><lb ed="F1" n="2372"/></l><l>Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2373"/></l><l>And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2374"/></l><l>Definitively thus I answer you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2375"/></l><l>Your love deserves my thanks; but my desert
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2376"/></l><l>Unmeritable shuns your high request.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2377"/></l><l>First, if all obstacles were cut away,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2378"/></l><l>And that my path were even to the crown,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2379"/></l><l>As my ripe revenue and due by birth;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2380"/></l><l>Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="2381"/></l><l>So mighty and so many my defects,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2382"/></l><l>As I had rather hide me from my greatness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2383"/></l><l>Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2384"/></l><l>Than in my greatness covet to be hid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2385"/></l><l>And in the vapor of my glory smother'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2386"/></l><l>But, God be thanked, there's no need of me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2387"/></l><l>And much I need to help you, if need were;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2388"/></l><l>The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2389"/></l><l>Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2390"/></l><l>Will well become the seat of majesty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2391"/></l><l>And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.
<lb ed="G" n="171"/><lb ed="F1" n="2392"/></l><l>On him I lay what you would lay on me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2393"/></l><l>The right and fortune of his happy stars;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2394"/></l><l>Which God defend that I should wring from him!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2395"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>My lord, this argues conscience in your grace;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2396"/></l><l>But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2397"/></l><l>All circumstances well considered.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2398"/></l><l>You say that Edward is your brother's son:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2399"/></l><l>So say we too, but not by Edward's wife;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2400"/></l><l>For first he was contract to Lady Lucy--
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="2401"/></l><l>Your mother lives a witness to that vow--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2402"/></l><l>And afterward by substitute betroth'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2403"/></l><l>To Bona, sister to the King of France.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2404"/></l><l>These both put by, a poor petitioner,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2405"/></l><l>A care-crazed mother of a many children,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2406"/></l><l>A beauty-waning and distressed widow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2407"/></l><l>Even in the afternoon of her best days,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2408"/></l><l>Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2409"/></l><l>Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2410"/></l><l>To base declension and loathed bigamy:
<lb ed="G" n="190"/><lb ed="F1" n="2411"/></l><l>By her, in his unlawful bed, he got
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2412"/></l><l>This Edward, whom our manners term the prince.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2413"/></l><l>More bitterly could I expostulate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2414"/></l><l>Save that, for reverence to some alive,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2415"/></l><l>I give a sparing limit to my tongue.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2416"/></l><l>Then, good my lord, take to your royal self
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2417"/></l><l>This proffer'd benefit of dignity;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2418"/></l><l>If not to bless us and the land withal,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2419"/></l><l>Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2420"/></l><l>From the corruption of abusing times,
<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="2421"/></l><l>Unto a lineal true-derived course.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2422"/></l></sp><sp who="may."><speaker>May.</speaker><l>Do, good my lord, your citizens entreat you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2423"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Refuse not, mighty lord, this proffer'd love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2424"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2425"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Alas, why would you heap these cares on me?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2426"/></l><l>I am unfit for state and majesty:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2427"/></l><l>I do beseech you, take it not amiss;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2428"/></l><l>I cannot nor I will not yield to you,

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2429"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>If you refuse it,--as, in love and zeal,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2430"/></l><l>Loath to depose the child, your brother's son;
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="2431"/></l><l>As well we know your tenderness of heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2432"/></l><l>And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2433"/></l><l>Which we have noted in you to your kin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2434"/></l><l>And egally indeed to all estates,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2435"/></l><l>Yet whether you accept our suit or no,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2436"/></l><l>Your brother's son shall never reign our king;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2437"/></l><l>But we will plant some other in the throne,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2438"/></l><l>To the disgrace and downfall of your house:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2439"/></l><l>And in this resolution here we leave you.--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2440"/></l><l>Come, citizens: 'zounds I'll entreat no more,

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>O, do not swear, my lord of Buckingham.
<stage>[Exit Buckingham   with the Citizens,</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="221"/><lb ed="F1" n="2441"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2442"/></l></sp><sp who="cit."><speaker>Another.</speaker><l>Do, good my lord, lest all the land do rue it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2443"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Would you enforce me to a world of care?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2444"/></l><l>Well, call them again. I am not made of stone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2445"/></l><l>But penetrable to your kind entreats,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2446"/></l><l>Albeit against my conscience and my soul.
<lb ed="F1" n="2447"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter BUCKINGHAM and the rest.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2448"/></l><l>Cousin of Buckingham, and you sage, grave men,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2449"/></l><l>Since you will buckle fortune on my back,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2450"/></l><l>To bear her burthen, whether I will or no,
<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="2451"/></l><l>I must have patience to endure the load:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2452"/></l><l>But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2453"/></l><l>Attend the sequel of your imposition,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2454"/></l><l>Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2455"/></l><l>From all the impure blots and stains thereof;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2456"/></l><l>For God he knows, and you may partly see,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2457"/></l><l>How far I am from the desire thereof,

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2458"/></l></sp><sp who="may."><speaker>May.</speaker><l>God bless your grace! we see it, and will <lb ed="F1" n="2459"/>say it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2460"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>In saying so, you shall but say the truth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2461"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Then I salute you with this kingly title:
<lb ed="G" n="240"/><lb ed="F1" n="2462"/></l><l>Long live Richard, England's royal king!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2463"/></l></sp><sp who="may. cit."><speaker>May. and Cit.</speaker><l>Amen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2464"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>To-morrow will it please you to be crown'd ?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2465"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Even when you please, since you will have it so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2466"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>To-morrow, then, we will attend your grace:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2467"/></l><l>And so most joyfully we take our leave.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2468"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>Come, let us to our holy task again.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2469"/></l><l>Farewell, good cousin; farewell, gentle friends.
                             <stage>[Exeunt. </stage>
</l></sp></div2>
</div1>

<div1 type="act" n="4">
<head>ACT IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="2470"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Before the Tower. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2471"/><stage type="entrance">Enter, on one side, QUEEN ELIZABETH, <lb ed="F1" n="2472"/>DUCHESS OF YORK, and MARQUESS OF DORSET; on the other, ANNE, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, leading LADY MARGARET PLANTAGENET, CLARENCE'S young Daughter. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2473"/><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Who meets us here? <lb ed="F1" n="2474"/>my niece Plantagenet
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2475"/></l><l>Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2476"/></l><l>Now, for my life, she's wandering to the Tower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2477"/></l><l>On pure heart's love to greet the tender princes.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2478"/></l><l part="I">Daughter, well met.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2479"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="F">God give your graces both
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>A happy <lb ed="F1" n="2480"/>and a joyful time of day!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2481"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>As much to you, good sister! Whither away?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2482"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>No farther than the Tower: and, as I guess,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2483"/></l><l>Upon the like devotion as yourselves,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2484"/></l><l>To gratulate the gentle princes there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2485"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Kind sister, thanks: we'll enter all together.
<lb ed="F1" n="2486"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BRAKENBURY.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2487"/></l><l>And, in good time, here the lieutenant comes.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2488"/></l><l>Master lieutenant, pray you, by your leave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2489"/></l><l>How doth the prince, and my young son of York?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2490"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>Right well, dear madam. By your patience,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2491"/></l><l>I may not suffer you to visit them;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2492"/></l><l>The king hath straitly charged the contrary.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2493"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>The king! why, who's that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2494"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2495"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>The Lord protect him from that kingly title!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2496"/></l><l>Hath he set bounds betwixt their love and me?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2497"/></l><l>I am their mother; who should keep me from them?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2498"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>I am their father's mother; I will see <lb ed="F1" n="2499"/>them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2500"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2501"/></l><l>Then bring me to their sights; I'll bear thy blame
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2502"/></l><l>And take thy office from thee, on my peril.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2503"/></l></sp><sp who="brak."><speaker>Brak.</speaker><l>No, madam, no; I may not leave it so:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2504"/></l><l>I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me.
                                 <lb ed="F1" n="2505"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2506"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LORD STANLEY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2507"/></l></sp><sp who="stan."><speaker>Stan.</speaker><l>Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2508"/></l><l>And I'll salute your grace of York as mother,
<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="2509"/></l><l>And reverend looker on, of two fair queens.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2510"/></l><l><stage>[To Anne]</stage>Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2511"/></l><l>There to be crowned Richard's royal queen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2512"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>O, cut my lace in sunder, <lb ed="F1" n="2513"/>that my pent heart
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>May have some scope to beat, <lb ed="F1" n="2514"/>or else I swoon
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>With this dead-killing news!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2515"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Despiteful tidings!   O unpleasing news!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2516"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><l>Be of good cheer: mother, how fares your <lb ed="F1" n="2517"/>grace?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2518"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee hence!
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2519"/></l><l>Death and destruction dog thee at the heels;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2520"/></l><l>Thy mother's name is ominous to children.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2521"/></l><l>If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2522"/></l><l>And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2523"/></l><l>Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughterhouse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2524"/></l><l>Lest thou increase the number of the dead;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2525"/></l><l>And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2526"/></l><l>Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted queen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2527"/></l></sp><sp who="stan."><speaker>Stan.</speaker><l>Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2528"/></l><l>Take all the swift advantage of the hours;
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2529"/></l><l>You shall have letters from me to my son
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2530"/></l><l>To meet you on the way, and welcome you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2531"/></l><l>Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2532"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>O ill-dispersing wind of misery!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2533"/></l><l>O my accursed womb, the bed of death!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2534"/></l><l>A cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2535"/></l><l>Whose unavoided eye is murderous.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2536"/></l></sp><sp who="stan."><speaker>Stan.</speaker><l>Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2537"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>And I in all unwillingness will go.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2538"/></l><l>I would to God that the inclusive verge
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2539"/></l><l>Of golden metal that must round my brow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2540"/></l><l>Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2541"/></l><l>Anointed let me be with deadly venom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2542"/></l><l>And die, ere men can say, God save the queen!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2543"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Go, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2544"/></l><l>To feed my humor, wish thyself no harm.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2545"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>No! why?   When he that is my husband now
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2546"/></l><l>Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2547"/></l><l>When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2548"/></l><l>Which issued from my other angel husband
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2549"/></l><l>And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2550"/></l><l>O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2551"/></l><l>This was my wish: 'Be thou,' quoth I, 'accursed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2552"/></l><l>For making me, so young, so old a widow!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2553"/></l><l>And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2554"/></l><l>And be thy wife--if any be so mad--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2555"/></l><l>As miserable by the life of thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2556"/></l><l>As thou hast made me by my dear lord's death!'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2557"/></l><l>Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2558"/></l><l>Even in so short a space, my woman's heart
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="2559"/></l><l>Grossly grew captive to his honey words
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2560"/></l><l>And proved the subject of my own soul's curse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2561"/></l><l>Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2562"/></l><l>For never yet one hour in his bed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2563"/></l><l>Have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2564"/></l><l>But have been waked by his timorous dreams.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2565"/></l><l>Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2566"/></l><l>And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2567"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2568"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>No more than from my soul I mourn for <lb ed="F1" n="2569"/>yours.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2570"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2571"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Adieu, poor soul, that takest thy leave <lb ed="F1" n="2572"/>of it!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2573"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker> <stage>[To Dorset]</stage><l>Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2574"/></l><l><stage>[To Anne]</stage>Go thou to Richard, and good angels guard thee!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2575"/></l><l><stage>[To Queen Eliz.]</stage>Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2576"/></l><l>I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2577"/></l><l>Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2578"/></l><l>And each hour's joy wreck'd with a week of teen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2579"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2580"/></l><l>Pity, you ancient stones, these tender babes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2581"/></l><l>Whom envy hath immured within your walls!
<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="2582"/></l><l>Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2583"/></l><l>Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2584"/></l><l>For tender princes, use my babies well!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2585"/></l><l>So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.
                             <lb ed="F1" n="2586"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="2587"/>
<stage type="setting">London.   The palace. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2588"/><stage type="entrance">Sennet. Enter RICHARD, in pomp, crowned; BUCKINGHAM, <lb ed="F1" n="2589"/>CATESBY, a Page, and others. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2590"/><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Stand all apart. Cousin of Buckingham!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2591"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>My gracious sovereign?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2592"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Give me thy hand.   <stage>[Here he ascendeth his throne.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2593"/></l><l>Thus high, by thy advice
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And thy assistance, <lb ed="F1" n="2594"/>is King Richard seated;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2595"/></l><l>But shall we wear these honors for a day?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2596"/></l><l>Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2597"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Still live they and for ever may they last!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2598"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>O Buckingham, now do I play the touch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2599"/></l><l>To try if thou be current gold indeed:
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2600"/></l><l>Young Edward lives: think now what I would say.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2601"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Say on, my loving lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2602"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Why, Buckingham, I say, I would be king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2603"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Why, so you are, my thrice renowned liege.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2604"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Ha! am I king? 'tis so: but Edward lives.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2605"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l part="I">True, noble prince.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2606"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l part="F">O bitter consequence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2607"/></l><l>That Edward still should live!   'True, noble prince!'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2608"/></l><l>Cousin, thou wert not wont to be so dull:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2609"/></l><l>Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2610"/></l><l>And I would have it suddenly perform'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2611"/></l><l>What sayest thou? speak suddenly; be brief.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2612"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Your grace may do your pleasure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2613"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freezeth:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2614"/></l><l>Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2615"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2616"/></l><l>Before I positively speak herein:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2617"/></l><l>I will resolve your grace immediately.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2618"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker> <stage>[Aside to stander by]</stage><l>The king is angry: see, he bites the lip.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2619"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>I will converse with iron-witted fools
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2620"/></l><l>And unrespective boys: none are for me
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2621"/></l><l>That look into me with considerate eyes:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2622"/></l><l>High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2623"/></l><l>Boy!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2624"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>My lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2625"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2626"/></l><l>Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2627"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2628"/></l><l>Whose humble means match not his haughty mind:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2629"/></l><l>Gold were as good as twenty orators,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2630"/></l><l>And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2631"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l part="I">What is his name?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2632"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l part="F">His name, my lord, is Tyrrel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2633"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>I partly know the man: go, call him hither.
<lb ed="F1" n="2634"/><stage>[Exit Page. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2635"/></l><l>The deep-revolving witty Buckingham
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2636"/></l><l>No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2637"/></l><l>Hath he so long held out with me untired,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2638"/></l><l part="I">And stops he now for breath?
<lb ed="F1" n="2639"/><stage type="entrance">Enter STANLEY.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2640"/></l><l part="F">How now! what news with you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2641"/></l></sp><sp who="stan."><speaker>Stan.</speaker><l>My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset's fled
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2642"/></l><l>To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2643"/></l><l part="I">Where he abides.
<stage>[Stands apart.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l part="F">Catesby!

<lb ed="G" n="50"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>My lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2644"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Rumor it abroad
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2645"/></l><l>That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2646"/></l><l>I will take order for her keeping close.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2647"/></l><l>Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2648"/></l><l>Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2649"/></l><l>The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2650"/></l><l>Look, how thou dream'st! I say again, give out
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2651"/></l><l>That Anne my wife is sick and like to die:
<lb ed="G" n="59"/><lb ed="F1" n="2652"/></l><l>About it; for it stands me much upon,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2653"/></l><l>To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.
<stage>[Exit Catesby. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2654"/></l><l>I must be married to my brother's daughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2655"/></l><l>Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2656"/></l><l>Murder her brothers, and then marry her!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2657"/></l><l>Uncertain way of gain!   But I am in
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2658"/></l><l>So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2659"/></l><l>Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
<lb ed="F1" n="2660"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter Page, with TYRREL.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2661"/></l><l>Is thy name Tyrrel?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2662"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2663"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Art thou, indeed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2664"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>Prove me, my gracious sovereign.

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2665"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2666"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>Ay, my lord;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2667"/></l><l>But I had rather kill two enemies.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2668"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Why, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2669"/></l><l>Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2670"/></l><l>Are they that I would have thee deal upon:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2671"/></l><l>Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2672"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>Let me have open means to come to them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2673"/></l><l>And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2674"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Thou sing'st sweet music. <lb ed="F1" n="2675"/>Hark, come hither, Tyrrel:
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="2676"/></l><l>Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:
<stage>[Whispers.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2677"/></l><l>There is no more but so: say it is done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2678"/></l><l>And I will love thee, and prefer thee too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2679"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>'Tis done, my gracious lord.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>Ye shall, my lord.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2680"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter BUCKINGHAM.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2681"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>My lord, I have consider'd in my mind
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2682"/></l><l>The late demand that you did sound me in.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2683"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2684"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>I hear that news, my lord.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2685"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Stanley, he is your wife's son: well, look <lb ed="F1" n="2686"/>to it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2687"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>My lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2688"/></l><l>For which your honor and your faith is pawn'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2689"/></l><l>The earldom of Hereford and the moveables
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2690"/></l><l>The which you promised I should possess.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2691"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2692"/></l><l>Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2693"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>What says your highness to my just demand?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2694"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>As I remember, Henry the Sixth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2695"/></l><l>Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="2696"/></l><l>When Richmond was a little peevish boy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2697"/></l><l>A king, perhaps, perhaps,--

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>My lord!

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>How chance the prophet could not at that time
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2698"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>My lord, your promise for the earldom,--

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Richmond!   When last I was at Exeter,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Because a bard of Ireland told me once,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I should not live long after I saw Richmond.

<lb ed="G" n="111"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>My lord!

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Ay, what's o'clock?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>I am thus bold to put your grace in mind
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Of what you promised me.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l part="F">Well, but what's o'clock?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l part="I">Upon the stroke of ten.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l part="F">Well, let it strike.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Why let it strike?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I am not in the giving vein to-day.

<lb ed="G" n="120"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Why, then resolve me whether you will or no.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Tut, tut.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2699"/></l><l>Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein.
<stage>[Exeunt all but Buckingham.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2700"/></l></sp><sp who="buck."><speaker>Buck.</speaker><l>Is it even so? rewards he my true service
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2701"/></l><l>With such deep contempt? made I him king for this?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2702"/></l><l>O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2703"/></l><l>To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on!
<stage>[Exit.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head>
<stage type="setting">The same. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2704"/><stage type="entrance">Enter TYRREL.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2705"/><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>The tyrannous and bloody deed is done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2706"/></l><l>The most arch act of piteous massacre
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2707"/></l><l>That ever yet this land was guilty of.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2708"/></l><l>Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2709"/></l><l>To do this ruthless piece of butchery,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2710"/></l><l>Although they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2711"/></l><l>Melting with tenderness and kind compassion
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2712"/></l><l>Wept like two children in their deaths' sad stories.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2713"/></l><l>'Lo, thus,' quoth Dighton, 'lay those tender babes:'
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2714"/></l><l>'Thus, thus," quoth Forrest, 'girdling one another
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2715"/></l><l>Within their innocent alabaster arms:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2716"/></l><l>Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2717"/></l><l>Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2718"/></l><l>A book of prayers on their pillow lay;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2719"/></l><l>Which once,' quoth Forrest, 'almost changed my mind;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2720"/></l><l>But O! the devil'--there the villain stopp'd:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2721"/></l><l>Whilst Dighton thus told on: 'We smothered
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2722"/></l><l>The most replenished sweet work of nature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2723"/></l><l>That from the prime creation e'er she framed.'
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2724"/></l><l>Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2725"/></l><l>They could not speak; and so I left them both,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2726"/></l><l>To bring this tidings to the bloody king.
<lb ed="F1" n="2727"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2728"/></l><l part="I">And here he comes.
<stage type="entrance">Enter KING RICHARD.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">All hail, my sovereign liege!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2729"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2730"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>If to have done the thing you gave in charge
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2731"/></l><l>Beget your happiness, be happy then,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2732"/></l><l>For it is done, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2733"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>But didst thou see them dead?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2734"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l part="I">I did, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2735"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l part="F">And buried, gentle Tyrrel?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2736"/></l></sp><sp who="tyr."><speaker>Tyr.</speaker><l>The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them;
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2737"/></l><l>But how or in what place I do not know.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2738"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2739"/></l><l>And thou shalt tell the process of their death.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2740"/></l><l>Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2741"/></l><l>And be inheritor of thy desire.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2742"/></l><l>Farewell till soon.
<stage>[Exit Tyrrel.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2743"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2744"/></l><l>The son of Clarence have I pent up close;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2745"/></l><l>His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2746"/></l><l>The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2747"/></l><l>And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2748"/></l><l>Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="2749"/></l><l>At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2750"/></l><l>And, by that knot, looks proudly o'er the crown,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2751"/></l><l>To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer.
<lb ed="F1" n="2752"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CATESBY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2753"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>My lord!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2754"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Good news or bad, that thou comest in so <lb ed="F1" n="2755"/>bluntly?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2756"/></l></sp><sp who="cate."><speaker>Cate.</speaker><l>Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2757"/></l><l>And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2758"/></l><l>Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.

<lb ed="G" n="49"/><lb ed="F1" n="2759"/></l></sp><sp who="glou._k.-rich."><speaker>K. Rich.</speaker><l>Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2760"/></l><l>Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2761"/></l><l>Come, I have heard that fearful commenting
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2762"/></l><l>Is leaden servitor to dull delay;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2763"/></l><l>Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2764"/></l><l>Then fiery expedition be my wing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2765"/></l><l>Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2766"/></l><l>Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2767"/></l><l>We must be brief when traitors brave the field.
                             <lb ed="F1" n="2768"/><stage>[Exeunt. </stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="2769"/>
<stage type="setting">Before the palace. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2770"/><stage type="entrance">Enter QUEEN MARGARET.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2771"/><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>So, now prosperity begins to mellow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2772"/></l><l>And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2773"/></l><l>Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2774"/></l><l>To watch the waning of mine adversaries.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2775"/></l><l>A dire induction am I witness to,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2776"/></l><l>And will to France, hoping the consequence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2777"/></l><l>Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2778"/></l><l>Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret:   who comes here?
<lb ed="F1" n="2779"/><stage type="entrance">Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2780"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Ah, my young princes! ah, my tender babes!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2781"/></l><l>My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!
<lb ed="G" n="11"/><lb ed="F1" n="2782"/></l><l>If yet your gentle souls fly in the air
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2783"/></l><l>And be not fix'd in doom perpetual,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2784"/></l><l>Hover about me with your airy wings
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2785"/></l><l>And hear your mother's lamentation!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2786"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Hover about her; say, that right for right
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2787"/></l><l>Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2788"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>So many miseries have crazed my voice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2789"/></l><l>That my woe-wearied tongue is mute and dumb,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2790"/></l><l>Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2791"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet.
<lb ed="G" n="21"/><lb ed="F1" n="2792"/></l><l>Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2793"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2794"/></l><l>And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2795"/></l><l>When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2796"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2797"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2798"/></l><l>Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2799"/></l><l>Brief abstract and record of tedious days,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2800"/></l><l>Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth.
<stage>[Sitting down.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2801"/></l><l>Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood!

<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="2802"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-eliz."><speaker>Q. Eliz.</speaker><l>O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2803"/></l><l>As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2804"/></l><l>Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2805"/></l><l>O, who hath any cause to mourn but I?
<stage>[Sitting down by her.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2806"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>If ancient sorrow be most reverend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2807"/></l><l>Give mine the benefit of seniory,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2808"/></l><l>And let my woes frown on the upper hand.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2809"/></l><l>If sorrow can admit society,
<stage>[Sitting down with them.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2810"/></l><l>Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2811"/></l><l>I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="2812"/></l><l>I had a Harry, till a Richard kill'd him:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2813"/></l><l>Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2814"/></l><l>Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard kill'd him;

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2815"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2816"/></l><l>I had a Rutland too, thou holp'st to kill him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2817"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard kill'd him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2818"/></l><l>From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2819"/></l><l>A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2820"/></l><l>That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2821"/></l><l>To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2822"/></l><l>That foul defacer of God's handiwork,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2823"/></l><l>That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2824"/></l><l>That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2825"/></l><l>Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2826"/></l><l>O upright, just, and true-disposing God,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2827"/></l><l>How do I thank thee, that this carnal cur
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2828"/></l><l>Preys on the issue of his mother's body,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2829"/></l><l>And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2830"/></l></sp><sp who="duch."><speaker>Duch.</speaker><l>O Harry's wife, triumph not in my woes!
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2831"/></l><l>God witness with me, I have wept for thine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2832"/></l></sp><sp who="q.-mar."><speaker>Q. Mar.</speaker><l>Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2833"/></l><l>And now I cloy me with beholding it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2834"/></l><l>Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb'd my Edward;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2835"/></l><l>Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2836"/></l><l>Young York he is but boot, because both they
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2837"/></l><l>Match not the high perfection of my loss:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2838"/></l><l>Thy Clarence he is dead that kill'd my Edward;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2839"/></l><l>And the beholders of this tragic play,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2840"/></l><l>The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2841"/></l><l>Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2842"/></l><l>Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2843"/