If that our Queene and this young prince agree,
Ile ioine mine eldest daughter and my ioie
To him forthwith in holie wedlockes bandes. [eak150]
_Queen._ Withall my hart, that match _I_ like full wel, [eak151]
Loue her sonne _Edward_, shee is faire and yong,
And giue thy hand to _Warwike_ for thy loue.
_Lew._ _I_t is enough, and now we will prepare,
To lcuie souldiers for to go with you. [eak155]
And you Lord _Bourbon_ our high Admirall,
Shall waft them safelie to the English coast,
And chase proud _Edward_ from his slumbring trance,
For mocking marriage with the name of _France_.
_War._ _I_ came from _Edward_ as Imbassadour [eak160]
But I returne his sworne and mortall foe:
Matter of marriage was the charge he gaue me,
But dreadfull warre shall answere his demand.
Had he none else to make a stale but me?
Then none but I shall turne his iest to sorrow. ·eak165·
_I_ was the chiefe that raisde him to the crowne,
And _I_le be chiefe to bring him downe againe,
Not that I pittie _Henries_ miserie,
But seeke reuenge on _Edwards_ mockerie. _Exit._
SCENE XII.
Enter king _Edward_, the _Queene_ and _Clarence_, and _Gloster_, and
_Montague_, and _Hastings_, and _Penbrooke_ with souldiers.
_Edw._ Brothers of _Clarence_, and of _Glocester_, [eal001]
What thinke you of our marriage with the ladie _Gray_?
_Cla._ My Lord, we thinke as _Warwike_ and _Lewes_
That are so slacke in iudgement, that theile take [eal004]
No offence at this suddaine marriage. ·eal005·
_Edw._ Suppose they doe, they are but _Lewes_ and [eal006]
_Warwike_, and I am your king and _Warwikes_, [eal007]
And will be obaied.
_Glo._ And shall, because our king, but yet such [eal009]
Sudden marriages seldome proueth well. [eal010]
_Edw._ Yea brother _Richard_ are you against vs too?
_Glo._ Not _I_ my Lord, no, God forefend that I should [eal012]
Once gaine saie your highnesse pleasure, [eal013]
I, & twere a pittie to sunder them that yoake so wel
togi- (ther. [eal014]
_Edw._ Setting your skornes and your dislikes aside, ·eal015·
Shew me some reasons why the Ladie _Gray_,
Maie not be my loue and Englands _Queene_?
Speake freelie _Clarence_, _Gloster_, [eal018]
_Montague_ and _Hastings_.
_Cla._ My Lord then this is my opinion, [eal020]
That _Warwike_ beeing dishonored in his embassage,
Doth seeke reuenge to quite his iniuries. [eal022]
_Glo._ And _Lewes_ in regard of his sisters wrongs,
Doth ioine with _Warwike_ to supplant your state,
_Edw._ Suppose that _Lewis_ and _Warwike_ be appeasd, ·eal025·
By such meanes as I can best deuise. [eal026]
_Mont._ But yet to have ioind with France in this
Alliance, would more haue strengthened this our
Common wealth, gainst forraine stormes, [eal029]
Then anie home bred marriage. [eal030]
_Hast._ Let England be true within it selfe,
We need not France nor any alliance with them.
_Cla._ For this one speech the Lord _Hastings_ wel deserues,
To haue the daughter and heire of the Lord _Hungerford_.
_Edw._ And what then? It was our will it should be so? [eal035]
_Cla._ I, and for such a thing too the Lord _Scales_
Did well deserue at your hands, to haue the
Daughter of the Lord _Bonfield_, and left your
Brothers to go seeke elsewhere, but in [eal039]
Your madnes, you burie brotherhood. [eal040]
_Edw._ Alasse poore _Clarence_, is it for a wife,
That thou art mal-content, [eal042]
Why man be of good cheere, Ile prouide thee one. [eal043]
_Cla._ Naie you plaide the broker so ill for your selfe,
That you shall giue me leaue to make my [eal045]
Choise as I thinke good, and to that intent,
I shortlie meane to leaue you.
_Edw._ Leaue me or tarrie I am full resolu’d,
_Edward_ will not be tied to his brothers wils.
_Queen._ My Lords doe me but right, and you must [eal050]
Confesse, before it pleasd his highnesse to aduance
My state to title of a Queene,
That I was not ignoble in my birth. [eal053]
_Edw._ Forbeare my loue to fawne upon their frownes,
For thee they must obay, naie shall obaie, ·eal055·
And if they looke for fauour at my hands.
_Mont._ My Lord, heere is the messenger returned from
(France. [eal057]
Enter a Messenger.
_Ed._ Now sirra, What letters or what newes? [eal058]
_Mes._ No letters my Lord, and such newes, as without
your highnesse speciall pardon I dare not relate. [eal060]
_Edw._ We pardon thee, and as neere as thou canst [eal061]
Tell me, What said _Lewis_ to our letters?
_Mes._ At my departure these were his verie words.
Go tell false _Edward_ thy supposed king,
That _Lewis_ of France is sending ouer Maskers, ·eal065·
To reuill it with him and his new bride. [eal066]
_Edw._ Is _Lewis_ so braue, belike he thinkes me _Henry_. [eal067]
But what said Lady _Bona_ to these wrongs?
_Mes._ Tel him quoth she, in hope heele prove a widdower [eal069]
shortly, _I_le wear the willow garland for his sake. [eal070]
_Edw._ She had the wrong, indeed she could saie [eal071]
Little lesse. But what saide _Henries_ Queene, for as [eal072]
_I_ heare, she was then in place?
_Mes._ Tell him quoth shee my mourning weeds be
Doone, and I am readie to put armour on. [eal075]
_Edw._ Then belike she meanes to plaie the _Amazon_.
But what said _Warwike_ to these iniuries?
_Mes._ He more incensed then the rest my Lord,
Tell him quoth he, that he hath done me wrong,
And therefore Ile vncrowne him er’t be long. ·eal080·
_Ed._ Ha, Durst the traytor breath out such proude words?
But I will arme me to preuent the worst.
But what is _Warwike_ friendes with _Margaret_? [eal083]
_Mes._ I my good Lord, theare so linkt in friendship, [eal084]
That young Prince _Edward_ marries _Warwikes_ daughter. ·eal085·
_Cla._ The elder, belike _Clarence_ shall haue the [eal086]
Yonger. All you that loue me and _Warwike_ [eal087]
Follow me. _Exit Clarence_ and _Summerset._
_Edw._ _Clarence_ and _Summerset_ fled to _Warwike_,
What saie you brother _Richard_, will you stand to vs? ·eal090·
_Glo._ _I_ my Lord, in despight of all that shall [eal091]
Withstand you For why hath Nature
Made me halt downe right, but that I
Should be valiant and stand to it, for if [eal094]
I would, _I_ cannot runne awaie. ·eal095·
_Edw._ _Penbrooke_, go raise an armie presentlie,
Pitch vp my tent, for in the field this night
I meane to rest, and on the morrow morne,
Ile march to meet proud _Warwike_ ere he land
Those stragling troopes which he hath got in France. ·eal100·
But ere I goe _Montague_ and _Hastings_,
You of all the rest are neerest allied [eal102]
In bloud to _Warwike_, therefore tell me, if [eal103]
You fauour him more then me or not:
Speake truelie, for I had rather haue you open [eal105]
Enemies, then hollow friends.
_Monta._ So God helpe _Montague_ as he proues true.
_Hast._ And _Hastings_ as hee fauours _Edwards_ cause.
Edw. It shall suffice, come then lets march awaie. [eal109]
_Exeunt Omnes._
SCENE XIII.
Enter _Warwike_ and _Oxford_, with souldiers.
_War._ Trust me my Lords all hitherto goes well,
The common people by numbers swarme to vs,
But see where _Sommerset_ and _Clarence_ comes,
Speake suddenlie my Lords, are we all friends? [eam004]
_Cla._ Feare not that my Lord. ·eam005·
_War._ Then gentle _Clarence_ welcome vnto _Warwike_.
And welcome _Summerset_, I hold it cowardise,
To rest mistrustfull where a noble hart, [eam008]
Hath pawnde an open hand in signe of loue,
Else might I thinke that _Clarence_, _Edwards_ brother, ·eam010·
Were but a fained friend to our proceedings,
But welcome sweet _Clarence_ my daughter shal be thine. [eam012]
And now what rests but in nights couerture,
Thy brother being careleslie encampt,
His souldiers lurking in the towne about, ·eam015·
And but attended by a simple guarde,
We maie surprise and take him at our pleasure,
Our skouts have found the aduenture very easie,
Then crie king _Henry_ with resolued mindes,
And breake we presentlie into his tent. ·eam020·
_Cla._ Why then lets on our waie in silent sort,
For _Warwike_ and his friends God and saint _George_. [eam022]
_War._ This is his tent, and see where his guard doth [eam023]
Stand, Courage my souldiers, now or neuer,
But follow me now, and _Edward_ shall be ours. ·eam025·
_All._ A _Warwike_, a _Warwike_.
Alarmes, and _Gloster_ and _Hastings_ flies.
_Oxf._ Who goes there?
_War._ _Richard_ and _Hastings_ let them go, heere is the (Duke
_Edw._ The Duke, why _Warwike_ when we parted [eam029]
Last, thou caldst me king? [eam030]
_War._ I, but the case is altred now.
When you disgraste me in my embassage, [eam032]
Then _I_ disgraste you from being king,
And now am come to create you Duke of _Yorke_,
Alasse how should you gouerne anie kingdome, ·eam035·
That knowes not how to vse embassadors,
Nor how to vse your brothers brotherlie,
Nor how to shrowd your selfe from enimies.
_Edw._ Well _Warwike_, let fortune doe her worst,
_Edward_ in minde will beare himselfe a king. ·eam040·
_War._ Then for his minde be _Edward_ Englands king.
But _Henry_ now shall weare the English crowne.
Go conuaie him to our brother archbishop of _Yorke_,
And when I haue fought with _Penbrooke_ & his followers,
Ile come and tell thee what the ladie _Bona_ saies, ·eam045·
And so for a while farewell good Duke of _Yorke_. [eam046]
_Exeunt_ some with _Edward_.
_Cla._ What followes now, all hithertoo goes well, [eam047]
But we must dispatch some letters to _France_, [eam048]
To tell the _Queene_ of our happy fortune,
And bid hir come with speed to ioine with vs. [eam050]
_War._ _I_ thats the first thing that we have to doe, [eam051]
And free king _Henry_ from imprisonment,
And see him seated in his regall throne,
Come let vs haste awaie, and hauing past these cares, [eam054]
_I_le post to _Yorke_, and see how _Edward_ fares. ·eam055·
_Exeunt Omnes._
SCENE XIV.
Enter _Gloster_, _Hastings_, and sir _William Stanly_.
_Glo._ Lord Hastings, and sir William Stanly, [ean001]
Know that the cause _I_ sent for you is this.
_I_ looke my brother with a slender traine,
Should come a hunting in this forrest heere.
The Bishop of _Yorke_ befriends him much, ·ean005·
And lets him vse his pleasure in the chase,
Now I haue priuilie sent him word,
How _I_ am come with you to rescue him,
And see where the huntsman and he doth come.
Enter _Edward_ and a Huntsman.
_Hunts_ This waie my Lord the deere is gone. ·ean010·
_Edw._ No this waie huntsman, see where the [ean011]
Keepers stand. Now brother and the rest,
What, are you prouided to depart?
_Glo._ _I_, _I_, the horse stands at the parke corner,
Come, to Linne, and so take shipping into _Flanders_. ·ean015·
_Edw._ Come then: _Hastings_, and _Stanlie_, _I_ will [ean016]
Requite your loues. Bishop farewell,
Sheeld thee from _Warwikes_ frowne, [ean018]
And praie that I maie repossesse the crowne.
Now huntsman what will you doe? ·ean020·
_Hunts_ Marrie my Lord, I thinke _I_ had as good
Goe with you, as tarrie heere to be hangde.
_Edw._ Come then lets awaie with speed.
_Exeunt Omnes._
SCENE XV.
Enter the _Queene_ and the Lord _Riuers_.
_Riuers._ Tel me good maddam, why is your grace [eao001]
So passionate of late?
_Queen._ Why brother _Riuers_, heare you not the newes, [eao003]
Of that successe king _Edward_ had of late?
_Riu._ What? losse of some pitcht battaile against
_Warwike_, [eao005]
Tush, feare not faire _Queen_, but cast those cares aside.
King _Edwards_ noble mind his honours doth display:
And _Warwike_ maie loose, though then he got the day.
_Queen._ If that were all, my griefes were at an end:
But greater troubles will I feare befall. ·eao010·
_Riu._ What, is he taken prisoner by the foe, [eao011]
To the danger of his royall person then?
_Queen._ I, thears my griefe, king _Edward_ is surprisde, [eao013]
And led awaie, as prisoner vnto _Yorke_. [eao014]
_Riu._ The newes is passing strange, I must confesse: [eao015]
Yet comfort your selfe, for _Edward_ hath more friends,
Then _Lancaster_ at this time must perceiue,
That some will set him in his throne againe.
_Queen._ God grant they maie, but gentle brother come,
And let me leane vpon thine arme a while, [eao020]
Vntill I come vnto the sanctuarie,
There to preserue the fruit within my wombe,
K. _Edwards_ seed true heire to _Englands_ crowne. _Exit._
SCENE XVI.
Enter _Edward_ and _Richard_, and _Hastings_ with a troope of
Hollanders.
_Edw._ Thus far from _Belgia_ haue we past the seas,
And marcht from _Raunspur_ hauen vnto _Yorke_: [eap002]
But soft the gates are shut, _I_ like not this.
_Rich._ Sound vp the drum and call them to the wals. [eap004]
Enter the Lord Maire of _Yorke_ vpon the wals.
_Mair._ My Lords we had notice of your comming, ·eap005·
And thats the cause we stand vpon our garde, [eap006]
And shut the gates for to preserue the towne.
_Henry_ now is king, and we are sworne to him.
_Edw._ Why my Lord Maire, if _Henry_ be your king, [eap009]
_Edward_ I am sure at least, is Duke of _Yorke_. ·eap010·
_Mair._ Truth my Lord, we know you for no lesse. [eap011]
_Edw._ I craue nothing but my Dukedome.
_Rich._ But when the Fox hath gotten in his head,
Heele quicklie make the bodie follow after. [eap014]
_Hast._ Why my Lord Maire, what stand you vpon points? ·eap015·
Open the gates, we are king _Henries_ friends.
_Mair._ Saie you so, then _I_le open them presentlie.
_Exit_ Maire.
_Ri._ By my faith, a wise stout captain & soone perswaded.
The Maire opens the dore, and brings the keies in his hand.
_Edw._ So my Lord Maire, these gates must not be shut, ·eap020·
But in the time of warre, giue me the keies: [eap021]
What, feare not man for _Edward_ will defend
the towne and you, despight of all your foes.
Enter sir _Iohn Mountgommery_ with drumme and souldiers.
How now _Richard_, who is this?
_Rich._ Brother, this is sir Iohn _Mountgommery_,
A trustie friend, vnlesse _I_ be deceiude. ·eap025·
_Edw._ Welcome sir Iohn. Wherfore come you in armes?
_Sir Iohn._ To helpe king _Edward_ in this time of stormes,
As euerie loyall subiect ought to doe.
_Edw._ Thankes braue Mountgommery,
But I onlie claime my Dukedom. ·eap030·
Vntil it please God to send the rest. [eap031]
_Sir Iohn._ Then fare you wel? Drum strike vp and let vs
March away, I came to serue a king and not a Duke.
_Edw._ Nay staie sir Iohn, and let vs first debate,
With what security we maie doe this thing. ·eap035·
_Sir Iohn._ What stand you on debating, to be briefe,
Except you presently proclaime your selfe our king,
Ile hence againe, and keepe them backe that come to [eap038]
Succour you, why should we fight when
You pretend no title? ·eap040·
_Rich._ Fie brother, fie, stand you vpon tearmes? [eap041]
Resolue your selfe, and let vs claime the crowne.
_Edw._ _I_ am resolude once more to claime the crowne,
And win it too, or else to loose my life. [eap044]
_Sir Iohn._ I now my soueraigne speaketh like himselfe, [eap045]
And now will I be _Edwards_ Champion,
Sound Trumpets, for _Edward_ shall be proclaimd.
_Edward_ the fourth by the grace of God, king of England [eap048]
and France, and Lord of Ireland, and whosoeuer gainsaies
king _Edwards_ right: by this _I_ challenge him to ·eap050·
single fight, long liue _Edward_ the fourth.
_All._ Long liue _Edward_ the fourth.
_Edw._ We thanke you all. Lord Maire leade on the waie.
For this night weele harbour here in _Yorke_, [eap054]
And then as earlie as the morning sunne, ·eap055·
Liftes vp his beames aboue this horison
Weele march to London, to meete with _Warwike_: [eap057]
And pull false _Henry_ from the Regall throne. [eap058]
_Exeunt Omnes._
SCENE XVII.
Enter _Warwike_ and _Clarence_, with the Crowne, and then king _Henry_,
and _Oxford_, and _Summerset_, and the yong Earle of _Richmond_.
_King._ Thus from the prison to this princelie seat, [eaq001]
By Gods great mercies am _I_ brought [eaq002]
Againe, _Clarence_ and _Warwike_ doe you
Keepe the crowne, and gouerne and protect
My realme in peace, and I will spend the ·eaq005·
Remnant of my daies, to sinnes rebuke
And my Creators praise.
_War._ What answeres _Clarence_ to his soueraignes will?
_Cla._ _Clarence_ agrees to what king _Henry_ likes.
_King._ My Lord of _Summerset_, what prettie [eaq010]
Boie is that you seeme to be so carefull of?
_Sum._ And it please your grace, it is yong _Henry_, [eaq012]
Earle of _Richmond_.
_King._ _Henry_ of _Richmond_, Come hither pretie Ladde.
If heauenlie powers doe aime aright ·eaq015·
To my diuining thoughts, thou pretie boy,
Shalt proue this Countries blisse,
Thy head is made to weare a princelie crowne,
Thy lookes are all repleat with Maiestie,
Make much of him my Lords, [eaq020]
For this is he shall helpe you more,
Then you are hurt by me.
Enter one with a letter to _Warwike_.
_War._ What Counsell Lords, _Edward_ from _Belgia_,
With hastie Germaines and blunt _Hollanders_,
Is past in safetie through the narrow seas, ·eaq025·
And with his troopes doe march amaine towardes (London,
And manie giddie people follow him. [eaq027]
_Oxf._ Tis best to looke to this betimes,
For if this fire doe kindle any further,
It will be hard for vs to quench it out. ·eaq030·
_War._ In _Warwike_shire _I_ haue true harted friends,
Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in warre,
Them will _I_ muster vp, and thou sonne _Clarence_ shalt [eaq033]
In _Essex_, _Suffolke_, _Norfolke_, and in _Kent_,
Stir vp the knights and gentlemen to come with thee. ·eaq035·
And thou brother _Montague_, in _Leister_shire,
_Buckingham_ and _Northampton_shire shalt finde,
Men well inclinde to doe what thou commands, [eaq038]
And thou braue _Oxford_ wondrous well belou’d,
Shalt in thy countries muster vp thy friends. ·eaq040·
My soueraigne with his louing Citizens,
Shall rest in London till we come to him.
Faire Lords take leaue and stand not to replie,
Farewell my soueraigne.
_King._ Farewel my _Hector_, my _Troyes_ true hope. ·eaq045·
_War._ Farewell sweet Lords, lets meet at Couentrie.
_All._ Agreed. _Exeunt Omnes._
SCENE XVIII.
Enter _Edward_ and his traine.
_Edw._ Sease on the shamefast _Henry_, [ear001]
And once againe conuaie him to the Tower,
Awaie with him, I will not heare him speake.
And now towards Couentrie let vs bend our course [ear004]
To meet with _Warwike_ and his confederates. ·ear005·
_Exeunt Omnes._
SCENE XIX.
Enter _Warwike_ on the walles.
_War._ Where is the post that came from valiant _Oxford_?
How farre hence is thy Lord my honest fellow?
_Oxf post._ By this at _Daintrie_ marching hitherward.
_War._ Where is our brother _Montague_?
Where is the post that came from _Montague_? ·eas005·
_Post._ I left him at _Donsmore_ with his troopes.
_War._ Say _Summerfield_ where is my louing son?
And by thy gesse, how farre is _Clarence_ hence?
_Sommer._ At _Southam_ my Lord I left him with [eas009]
His force, and doe expect him two houres hence. ·eas010·
_War._ Then Oxford is at hand, I heare his drum.
Enter _Edward_ and his power.
_Glo._ See brother, where the surly _Warwike_ mans the wal.
_War._ O vnbid spight, is spotfull _Edward_ come! [eas013]
Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduste, [eas014]
That we could haue no newes of their repaire? ·eas015·
_Edw._ Now _Warwike_ wilt thou be sorrie for thy faults,
And call _Edward_ king and he will pardon thee.
_War._ Naie rather wilt thou draw thy forces backe?
Confesse who set thee vp and puld thee downe?
Call _Warwike_ patron and be penitent, [eas020]
And thou shall still remaine the Duke of _Yorke_.
_Glo._ I had thought at least he would haue said the king.
Or did he make the iest against his will. [eas023]
_War._ Twas _Warwike_ gaue the kingdome to thy brother. [eas024]
_Edw._ Why then tis mine, if but by _Warwikes_ gift. ·eas025·
_War._ I but thou art no _Atlas_ for so great a waight,
And weakling, _Warwike_ takes his gift againe,
_Henry_ is my king, _Warwike_ his subiect.
_Edw._ I prethe gallant _Warwike_ tell me this,
What is the bodie when the head is off? ·eas030·
_Glo._ Alasse that _Warwike_ had no more foresight, [eas031]
But whilst he sought to steale the single ten, [eas032]
The king was finelie fingerd from the decke? [eas033]
You left poore _Henry_ in the Bishops pallace,
And ten to one you’le meet him in the Tower. [eas035]
_Edw._ Tis euen so, and yet you are olde _Warwike_ still.
_War._ O cheerefull colours, see where Oxford comes. [eas037]
Enter _Oxford_ with drum and souldiers & al crie,
_Oxf._ Oxford, Oxford, for _Lancaster_. _Exit._ [eas038]
_Edw._ The Gates are open, see they enter in, [eas039]
Lets follow them and bid them battaile in the streetes. ·eas040·
_Glo._ No, so some other might set vpon our backes,
Weele staie till all be entered, and then follow them. [eas042]
Enter _Summerset_ with drum and souldiers.
_Sum._ _Summerset_, _Summerset_, for _Lancaster_. _Exit._
_Glo._ Two of thy name both Dukes of Summerset,
Haue solde their liues vnto the house of _Yorke_, ·eas045·
And thou shalt be the third and my sword hold. [eas046]
Enter _Montague_ with drum and souldiers.
_Mont._ _Montague_, _Montague_, for _Lancaster_. _Exit._
_Edw._ Traitorous _Montague_, thou and thy brother
Shall deerelie abie this rebellious act. [eas049]
Enter _Clarence_ with drum and souldiers.
_War._ And loe where George of Clarence sweepes [eas050]
Along, of power enough to bid his brother battell..
_Cla._ Clarence, Clarence, for _Lancaster_.
_Edw._ Et tu Brute, wilt thou stab _Cæsar_ too? [eas052]
A parlie sirra to _George_ of Clarence. [eas053]
Sound a Parlie, and _Richard_ and _Clarence_ whispers togither, and
then _Clarence_ takes his red Rose out of his hat, and throwes it
at _Warwike_.
_War._ Com Clarence come, thou wilt if _Warwike_ call. ·eas055·
_Cla._ Father of _Warwike_, know you what this meanes?
I throw mine infamie at thee,
I will not ruinate my fathers house,
Who gaue his bloud to lime the stones togither,
And set vp _Lancaster_. Thinkest thou ·eas060·
That _Clarence_ is so harsh vnnaturall,
To lift his sword against his brothers life,
And so proud harted _Warwike_ I defie thee,
And to my brothers turne my blushing cheekes? [eas064]
Pardon me _Edward_, for _I_ haue done amisse, ·eas065·
And _Richard_ doe not frowne vpon me,
For henceforth I will proue no more vnconstant.
_Edw._ Welcome _Clarence_, and ten times more welcome,
Then if thou neuer hadst deserud our hate. [eas069]
_Glo._ Welcome good _Clarence_, this is brotherlie. ·eas070·
_War._ Oh passing traytor, periurd and vniust.
_Edw._ Now _Warwike_, wilt thou leaue [eas072]
The towne and fight? or shall we beate the
Stones about thine eares?
_War._ Why _I_ am not coopt vppe heere for defence, ·eas075·
_I_ will awaie to Barnet presently,
And bid thee battaile Edward if thou darest. [eas077]
_Edw._ Yes _Warwike_ he dares, and leades the waie,
Lords to the field, saint _George_ and victorie.
_Exeunt Omnes._
SCENE XX.
Alarmes, and then enter _Warwike_ wounded.
_War._ Ah, who is nie? Come to me friend or foe,
And tell me who is victor _Yorke_ or _Warwike_?
Why aske I that? my mangled bodie shewes,
That I must yeeld my bodie to the earth.
And by my fall the conquest to my foes, ·eat005·
Thus yeelds the Cedar to the axes edge,
Whose armes gaue shelter to the princelie Eagle,
Vnder whose shade the ramping Lion slept, [eat008]
Whose top branch ouerpeerd Ioues spreading tree.
The wrinkles in my browes now fild with bloud, ·eat010·
Were likened oft to kinglie sepulchers.
For who liu’d king, but _I_ could dig his graue?
And who durst smile, when _Warwike_ bent his brow?
Lo now my glorie smeerd in dust and bloud,
My parkes, my walkes, my mannors that _I_ had, [eat015]
Euen now forsake me, and of all my lands,
Is nothing left me but my bodies length.
Enter _Oxford_ and _Summerset._
_Oxf._ Ah _Warwike_, _Warwike_, cheere vp thy selfe and liue,
For yet thears hope enough to win the daie. [eat019]
Our warlike _Queene_ with troopes is come from _France_, ·eat020·
And at _South-hampton_ landed all hir traine, [eat021]
And mightst thou liue, then would we neuer flie. [eat022]
_War._ Whie then I would not flie, nor haue I now,
But _Hercules_ himselfe must yeeld to ods,
For manie wounds receiu’d, and manie moe repaid, [eat025]
Hath robd my strong knit sinews of their strength,
And spite of spites needes must I yeeld to death.
_Som._ Thy brother _Montague_ hath breathd his last,
And at the pangs of death I heard him crie
And saie, commend me to my valiant brother, ·eat030·
And more he would haue spoke and more he said, [eat031]
Which sounded like a clamor in a vault, [eat032]
That could not be distinguisht for the sound,
And so the valiant _Montague_ gave vp the ghost.
_War._ What is pompe, rule, raigne, but earth and dust?
And liue we how we can, yet die we must.
Sweet rest his soule, flie Lords and saue your selues,
For _Warwike_ bids you all farewell to meet in Heauen.
He dies.
_Oxf_ Come noble _Summerset_, lets take our horse, [eat039]
And cause retrait be sounded through the campe, [eat040]
That all our friends that yet remaine aliue,
Maie be awarn’d and saue themselues by flight. [eat042]
That done, with them weele post vnto the _Queene_,
And once more trie our fortune in the field. _Ex. ambo._ [eat044]
Enter _Edward_, _Clarence_, _Gloster_, with souldiers.
_Edw._ Thus still our fortune giues vs victorie, ·eat045·
And girts our temples with triumphant ioies, [eat046]
The bigboond traytor _Warwike_ hath breathde his last, [eat047]
And heauen this daie hath smilde vpon vs all, [eat048]
But in this cleere and brightsome daie,
_I_ see a blacke suspitious cloud appeare ·eat050·
That will encounter with our glorious sunne
Before he gaine his easefull westerne beames,
I mean those powers which the _Queen_ hath got in _Frāce_ [eat053]
Are landed, and meane once more to menace vs.
_Glo._ _Oxford_ and _Summerset_ are fled to hir, [eat055]
And tis likelie if she haue time to breath, [eat056]
Her faction will be full as strong as ours.
_Edw._ We are aduertisde by our louing friends,
That they doe hold their course towards _Tewxburie_.
Thither will we, for willingnes rids waie, ·eat060·
And in euerie countie as we passe along, [eat061]
Our strengthes shall be augmented. [eat062]
Come lets goe, for if we slacke this faire [eat063]
Bright Summers daie, sharpe winters
Showers will marre our hope for haie. _Ex. Omnes._ [eat065]
SCENE XXI.
Enter the _Queene_, _Prince Edward_, _Oxford_, and _Summerset_,
with drum and souldiers.
_Quee._ Welcome to _England_, my louing friends of _Frāce_, [eau001]
And welcome _Summerset_, and _Oxford_ too.
Once more haue we spread our sailes abroad,
And though our tackling be almost consumde,
And _Warwike_ as our maine mast ouerthrowne, [eau005]
Yet warlike Lords raise you that sturdie post,
That beares the sailes to bring vs vnto rest,
And _Ned_ and _I_ as willing Pilots should
For once with carefull mindes guide on the sterne,
To beare vs through that dangerous gulfe ·eau010·
That heretofore hath swallowed vp our friends.
_Prince._ And if there be, as God forbid there should,
Amongst vs a timorous or fearefull man,
Let him depart before the battels ioine, [eau014]
Least he in time of need intise another, [eau015]
And so withdraw the souldiers harts from vs.
_I_ will not stand aloofe and bid you fight,
But with my sword presse in the thickest thronges, [eau018]
And single _Edward_ from his strongest guard,
And hand to hand enforce him for to yeeld, ·eau020·
Or leaue my bodie as witnesse of my thoughts.
_Oxf._ Women and children of so high resolue,
And Warriors faint, why twere perpetuall [eau023]
Shame? Oh braue yong Prince, thy [eau024]
Noble grandfather doth liue againe in thee, ·eau025·
Long maiest thou liue to beare his image,
And to renew his glories.
_Sum._ And he that turnes and flies when such do fight,
Let him to bed, and like the Owle by daie
Be hist, and wondered at if he arise. [eau030]
Enter a Messenger.
_Mes._ My Lords, Duke _Edward_ with a mighty power,
Is marching hitherwards to fight with you.
_Oxf._ I thought it was his pollicie, to take vs vnprouided,
But here will we stand and fight it to the death. [eau034]
Enter king _Edward_, _Cla._ _Glo._ _Hast._ and Souldiers.
_Edw._ See brothers, yonder stands the thornie wood, ·eau035·
Which by Gods assistance and your prowesse,
Shall with our swords yer night be cleane cut downe. [eau037]
_Queen._ Lords, Knights & gentlemen, what _I_ should say,
My teares gainesaie, for as you see, _I_ drinke
The water of mine eies. Then no more [eau040]
But this. _Henry_ your king is prisoner [eau041]
In the tower, his land and all our friends
Are quite distrest, and yonder standes
The Wolfe that makes all this,
Then on Gods name Lords togither cry saint _George_. ·eau045·
_All._ Saint _George_ for _Lancaster_. [eau046]
Alarmes to the battell, _Yorke_ flies, then the chambers be
discharged. Then enter the king, _Cla._ & _Glo._ and the rest, &
make a great shout, and crie, for _Yorke_, for _Yorke_, and then
the _Queene_ is taken, & the prince, & _Oxf._ & _Sum._ and then
sound and enter all againe.
_Edw._ Lo here a period of tumultuous broiles,
Awaie with Oxford to _Hames_ castell straight,
For _Summerset_ off with his guiltie head.
Awaie I will not heare them speake. ·eau050·
_Oxf._ For my part Ile not trouble thee with words. [eau051]
_Exit_ Oxford.
_Sum._ Nor _I_, but stoope with patience to my death. [eau052]
_Exit Sum._
_Edw._ Now _Edward_ what satisfaction canst thou make,
For stirring vp my subiects to rebellion?
_Prin._ Speake like a subiect proud ambitious Yorke, ·eau055·
Suppose that I am now my fathers mouth,
Resigne thy chaire, and where _I_ stand kneele thou,
Whilst _I_ propose the selfesame words to thee, [eau058]
Which traytor thou woudst haue me answere to. [eau059]
_Queen._ Oh that thy father had bin so resolu’d: [eau060]
_Glo._ That you might still haue kept your [eau061]
Peticote, and nere haue stolne the
Breech from _Lancaster_.
_Prince._ Let _Aesop_ fable in a winters night,
His currish Riddles sorts not with this place. ·eau065·
_Glo._ By heauen brat _I_le plague you for that word.
_Queen._ I, thou wast borne to be a plague to men.
_Glo._ For Gods sake take awaie this captiue scold.
_Prin_ Nay take away this skolding Crooktbacke rather. [eau069]
_Edw._ Peace wilfull boy, or _I_ will tame your tongue. ·eau070·
_Cla._ Vntuterd lad thou art too malepert. [eau071]
_Prin._ _I_ know my dutie, you are all vndutifull.
Lasciuious _Edward_, and thou periurd _George_,
And thou mishapen Dicke, I tell you all,
I am your better, traytors as you be. ·eau075·
_Edw._ Take that, the litnes of this railer heere. [eau076]
_Queen._ Oh kill me too.
_Glo._ Marrie and shall.
_Edw._ Hold _Richard_ hold, for we haue doone too
(much alreadie. [eau079]
_Glo._ Why should she liue to fill the world with words? ·eau080·
_Ed._ What doth she swound? make meanes for Her recouerie? [eau081]
_Glo._ _Clarence,_ excuse me to the king my brother,
_I_ must to London on a serious matter,
Ere you come there, you shall heare more newes.
_Cla._ About what, prethe tell me? ·eau085·
_Glo._ The Tower man, the Tower, Ile root them out. _Exit Gloster._
_Queen._ Ah _Ned_, speake to thy mother boy? ah [eau087]
Thou canst not speake.
Traytors, Tyrants, bloudie Homicides,
They that stabd _Cæsar_ shed no bloud at all, ·eau090·
For he was a man, this in respect a childe,
And men nere spend their furie on a child,
Whats worse then tyrant that _I_ maie name, [eau093]
You haue no children Deuils, if you had,
_T_he thought of them would then haue stopt your rage, ·eau095·
But if you euer hope to haue a sonne,
Looke in his youth to haue him so cut off,
As Traitors you haue doone this sweet young prince.
_Edw._ Awaie, and beare her hence.
_Queen._ Naie nere beare me hence, dispatch [eau100]
Me heere, heere sheath thy sword,
_I_le pardon thee my death. Wilt thou not?
Then _Clarence_, doe thou doe it? [eau103]
_Cla._ By Heauen I would not doe thee so much ease.
_Queen._ Good _Clarence_ doe, sweet Clarence kill me too. ·eau105·
_Cla._ Didst thou not heare me sweare _I_ would not do it?
_Queen._ I, but thou vsest to forsweare thy selfe,
Twas sinne before, but now tis charitie.
Whears the Diuels butcher, hardfauored _Richard_, [eau109]
Richard where art thou? He is not heere, [eau110]
Murder is his almes deed, petitioners
For bloud he nere put backe. [eau112]
_Edw._ Awaie I saie, and take her hence perforce.
_Queen._ So come to you and yours, as to this prince. [eau114]
_Ex._
_Edw._ _Clarence_, whithers _Gloster_ gone? [eau115]
_Cla_ Marrie my Lord to London, and as I gesse, to [eau116]
Make a bloudie supper in the Tower.
_Edw._ He is sudden if a thing come in his head.
Well, discharge the common souldiers with paie
And thankes, and now let vs towards London, [eau120]
To see our gentle Queene how shee doth fare, [eau121]
For by this I hope shee hath a sonne for vs. _Exeunt Omnes._
SCENE XXII.
Enter _Gloster_ to king _Henry_ in the Tower.
_Glo._ Good day my Lord. What at your booke so hard?
_Hen._ I my good Lord. Lord _I_ should saie rather,
Tis sinne to flatter, good was little better,
Good _Gloster_, and good Diuell, were all alike,
What scene of Death hath _Rosius_ now to act? ·eav005·
_Glo._ Suspition alwaies haunts a guiltie mind.
_Hen._ The birde once limde doth feare the fatall bush,
And I the haplesse maile to one poore bird,
Haue now the fatall obiect in mine eie,
Where my poore young was limde, was caught & kild. ·eav010·
_Glo._ Why, what a foole was that of Creete?
That taught his sonne the office [eav012]
Of a birde, and yet for all that the poore
Fowle was drownde. [eav014]
_Hen._ _I Dedalus_, my poore sonne _Icarus_, ·eav015·
Thy father _Minos_ that denide our course,
Thy brother _Edward_, the sunne that searde his wings,
And thou the enuious gulfe that swallowed him. [eav018]
Oh better can my brest abide thy daggers point,
Then can mine eares that tragike historie. ·eav020·
_Glo._ Why dost thou thinke _I_ am an executioner?
_Hen._ A persecutor _I_ am sure thou art,
And if murdering innocents be executions,
Then I know thou art an executioner.
_Glo._ Thy sonne I kild for his presumption. ·eav025·
_Hen._ Hadst thou bin kild when first thou didst presume,
Thou hadst not liude to kill a sonne of mine,
And thus _I_ prophesie of thee.
That manie a Widdow for her husbands death,
And many an infants water standing eie, ·eav030·
Widowes for their husbandes, children for their fathers,
Shall curse the time that euer thou wert borne.
The owle shrikt at thy birth, an euill signe,
The night Crow cride, aboding lucklesse tune, [eav034]
Dogs howld and hideous tempests shooke down trees, [eav035]
The Rauen rookt her on the Chimnies top,
And chattering Pies in dismall discord sung,
Thy mother felt more then a mothers paine,
And yet brought forth lesse then a mothers hope,
To wit: an vndigest created lumpe, ·eav040·
Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree,
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast borne,
To signifie thou camst to bite the world,
And if the rest be true that I haue heard,
Thou camst into the world He stabs him. [eav045]
_Glo._ Die prophet in thy speech, _I_le heare [eav046]
No more, for this amongst the rest, was I ordainde.
_Hen._ _I_ and for much more slaughter after this.
O God forgiue my sinnes, and pardon thee. He dies.
_Glo._ What? will the aspiring bloud of _Lancaster_ ·eav050·
Sinke into the ground, _I_ had thought it would haue
mounted, [eav051]
See how my sword weepes for the poore kings death.
Now maie such purple teares be alwaies shed, [eav053]
For such as seeke the downefall of our house.
If anie sparke of life remaine in thee, Stab him againe. [eav055]
Downe, downe to hell, and saie I sent thee thither.
I that haue neither pittie, loue nor feare.
Indeed twas true that _Henry_ told me of,
For _I_ haue often heard my mother saie,
That I came into the world with my legs forward, [eav060]
And had I not reason thinke you to make hast,
And seeke their ruines that vsurpt our rights?
The women wept and the midwife cride, [eav063]
O Iesus blesse vs, he is borne with teeth.
And so I was indeed, which plainelie signifide, ·eav065·
That _I_ should snarle and bite, and plaie the dogge.
Then since Heauen hath made by bodie so,
Let hell make crookt my mind to answere it.
I had no father, _I_ am like no father,
I haue no brothers, _I_ am like no brothers, [eav070]
And this word _Loue_ which graybeards tearme diuine,
Be resident in men like one another,
And not in me, I am my selfe alone.
_Clarence_ beware, thou keptst me from the light,
But I will sort a pitchie daie for thee. ·eav075·
For I will buz abroad such prophesies, [eav076]
As _Edward_ shall be fearefull of his life,
And then to purge his feare, Ile be thy death.
Henry and his sonne are gone, thou Clarence next, [eav079]
And by one and one I will dispatch the rest, ·eav080·
Counting my selfe but bad, till I be best.
Ile drag thy bodie in another roome,
And triumph _Henry_ in thy daie of doome. _Exit._
SCENE XXIII.
Enter king _Edward_, _Queene Elizabeth_, and a Nurse with the young
prince, and _Clarence_, and _Hastings_, and others.
_Edw._ Once more we sit in England’s royall throne, [eaw001]
Repurchasde with the bloud of enemies,
What valiant foemen like to _Autumnes_ corne, [eaw003]
Haue we mow’d downe in tops of all their pride?
Three Dukes of _Summerset_, threefold renowmd [eaw005]
For hardie and vndoubted champions.
Two _Cliffords_, as the father and the sonne,
And two _Northumberlands_, two brauer men
Nere spurd their coursers at the trumpets sound.
With them the two rough Beares, _Warwike_ and _Montague_, ·eaw010·
That in their chaines fettered the kinglie Lion,
And made the Forrest tremble when they roard,
Thus haue we swept suspition from our seat,
And made our footstoole of securitie.
Come hither _Besse_, and let me kisse my boie, ·eaw015·
Young _Ned_, for thee, thine Vncles and my selfe,
Haue in our armors watcht the Winters night,
Marcht all a foote in summers skalding heat, [eaw018]
That thou mightst repossesse the crowne in peace,
And of our labours thou shalt reape the gaine. ·eaw020·
_Glo._ _I_le blast his haruest and your head were laid, [eaw021]
For yet I am not lookt on in the world.
This shoulder was ordained so thicke to heaue,
And heaue it shall some waight or breake my backe,
Worke thou the waie, and thou shalt execute. ·eaw025·
_Edward._ _Clarence_ and _Gloster_, loue my louelie Queene, [eaw026]
And kisse your princelie nephew brothers both. [eaw027]
_Cla._ The dutie that _I_ owe vnto your, Maiestie, [eaw028]
I seale vpon the rosiate lips of this sweet babe.
_Queen._ Thankes noble Clarence worthie brother thankes. ·eaw030·
_Gloster._ And that I loue the fruit from whence thou [eaw031]
Sprangst, witnesse the louing kisse I giue the child.
To saie the truth so _Iudas_ kist his maister,
And so he cride all haile, and meant all harme.
_Edward._ Nowe am _I_ seated as my soule delights, ·eaw035·
Hauing my countries peace, and brothers loues. [eaw036]
_Cla._ What will your grace haue done with _Margaret_, [eaw037]
_Ranard_ her father to the king of _France_, [eaw038]
Hath pawnd the _Cyssels_ and _Ierusalem_, [eaw039]
And hither haue they sent it for her ransome. [eaw040]
_Edw._ Awaie with her, and wafte hir hence to _France_,
And now what rests but that we spend the time,
With stately Triumphs and mirthfull comicke shewes,
Such as befits the pleasures of the Court.
Sound drums and Trumpets, farewell to sower annoy, ·eaw045·
For heere _I_ hope begins our lasting ioie.
_Exeunt Omnes._
FINIS.
FOOTNOTES:
[eaa001] Crookeback] Q1 Q2. then Crooke backe Q3.
[eaa006] _therewith_] Q1 Q2. _there with_ Q3.
[eaa008] _the hands_] Q1 Q2. _th’ hands_ Q3.
[eaa010] _dangerouslie_] Q1. _danderously_ Q2. _dangerously_ Q3.
[eaa014] _Bloud, whom_] Q1. _blood, Whom_ Q2 Q3.
[eaa016] _L._] Q1 Q2. _Lord_ Q3.
[eaa022] _heauens_] Q1 Q2. _heauen_ Q3.
[eaa024] _chaire?_] Q1. _chaire;_ Q2. _chaire:_ Q3.
[eaa032] _Violence, vnlesse_] Q1. _violenre, Vnlesse_ Q2. _violence,
Vnlesse_ Q3.
[eaa033] _lets_] Q1 Q2. _let’s_ Q3.
[eaa041] _burd_] Q1. _bird_ Q2 Q3.
[eaa042] _Dares_] Q1 Q2. _Dare_ Q3.
[eaa054] _this,_] Q1. _this?_ Q2 Q3. ¶ _lets_] Q1 Q2. _Let’s_ Q3.
[eaa063] _becke?_] Q1 Q2. _becke._ Q3.
[eaa064], eaa072: _D._] Q1 Q2. _Duke_ Q3.
[eaa073] _mine_] Q1 Q2. _my_ Q3.
[eaa078] _that is_] Q1 Q2. _thats_ Q3.
[eaa079] _sittest_] Q1. _sitst_ Q2 Q3.
[eaa082] _Duke_] Q1 Q3. _D._ Q2.
[eaa089] _remember it_] Q1 Q2. _remember ’t_ Q3.
[eaa103], eaa104: _vpon their Townes_] Q1 Q2. _vpon Their townes_ Q3.
[eaa108] _You are_] Q1 Q2. _Y’are_ Q3.
[eaa112] _Lets_] Q1 Q2. _Let’s_ Q3.
[eaa115] _leauē_] Q1. _leaue_ Q2 Q3.
[eaa116] _seekest_] Q1 Q2. _seek’st_ Q3.
[eaa117] _both both_] Q1. _both_ Q2 Q3. ¶ _birth,_] Q1. _birth._
Q2. _birth?_ Q3.
[eaa118] _discent_] Q1 Q2. _descent_ Q3.
[eaa126], eaa130: _titles_] Q1 Q3. _title’s_ Q2.
[eaa129] _T‛was_] Q1. _Twas_ Q2 Q3.
[eaa135] _Henrie_] Q1. _Henerie_ Q2. _Henry_ Q3.
[eaa138] _Soueraigne, &_] Q1. _Soneraigue, And_ Q2. _Soueraigne, And_
Q3.
[eaa146] _laist_] Q1 Q3. _layest_ Q2.
[eaa149]–eaa151: _Tush...proud_] In Q3 the lines end
_deceiu’d...Norfolke...proud._
[eaa150], eaa151: _and of Kent. that_] Q1. _and of Kent, That_ Q2.
_And Kent, that_ Q3.
[eaa159] _you?_] Q1 Q3. _you,_ Q2.
[eaa163] _Wright_] Q1. _Write_ Q2 Q3.
[eaa165] _whilst_] Q1 Q2. _while_ Q3.
[eaa174] Exit.] Q1 Q2. om. Q3.
[eaa175] _Queene._] Q1 Q2. _Queene._ Exit. Q3.
[eaa177] _vnkingly_] Q1 Q2. _vnkindly_ Q3.
[eaa180] _my Lord_] Q1 Q3. _my L._ Q2.
[eaa187], eaa188: _That...Soueraigne_] Q1. As two lines in
Q2, ending _broiles...Soueraigne_. As three in Q3, ending
_oath...line...Soueraigne_. ¶ eaa187: _thine oath_] Q1 Q2. _an oath_
Q3.
[eaa190] _him?_] Q1. _him._ Q2 Q3.
[eaa194], eaa195: _My Lord...castell_] As in Q1 Q2. In Q3 the lines
end _leaue...Castle._
[eaa195] and his sonnes] Q1 Q2. with his sonnes Q3.
[eaa201] _I follow_] Q1 Q2. _Ile follow_ Q3.
[eaa203] _there?_] Q1. _there be?_ Q2 Q3.
[eaa205] _our_] Q1 Q3. _ouer_ Q2.
[eaa212] _sseepe_] Q1. _sleepe_ Q2 Q3.
[eaa215] _Northen_] Q1 Q2. _Northerne_ Q3.
[eaa218] _him_] Q1 Q3. _them_ Q2.
[eaa222] _murdred_] Q1 Q2. _murdered_ Q3.
[eaa226] _hir...hir_] Q1. _her...her_ Q2 Q3. ¶ _forget_] Q1 Q2.
_to forget_ Q3.
[eab005]–eab007: _No...father_] As in Q1. As two lines in Q2 Q3,
ending _which...father._
[eab008] _boy, why_] Q1 Q3. _boy? Why_ Q2.
[eab009], eab010: _And...death_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eab011], eab012: _But...yeare_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eab017] _Then...moment_] Two lines in Q3.
[eab025] _rhou_] Q1. _thou_ Q2 Q3.
[eab033] _Saint_] Q1 Q2. _S._ Q3.
[eab039], eab040: _Nurthumberland...Wakefield_] As in Q1 Q2. As three
lines in Q3, ending _Westmerland...Lancaster,...Wakefield._ ¶ eab039:
_Nurthumberland_] Q1. _Northumberland_ Q2 Q3. ¶ _and others_] Q1
Q2. _with others_ Q3.
[eab042], eab043: _A Gods...me_] As in Q1 Q2. As three lines in Q3,
ending _come...hence...me._
[eab044] _Mortemers_] Q1. _Mortimers_ Q2. _Mortimer_ Q3.
[eab045] _Your_] Q1. _Y’are_ Q2 Q3.
[eab047] _Shee...field_] Two lines in Q3, ending _Lord...field._
[eab048] _souldiers_] _soludiors_ Q3.
[eab050] _womans_] Q1. _woman’s_ Q2 Q3.
[eab051] _woon_] Q1. _won_ Q2. _wonne_ Q3.
[eab055] _Lets_] Q1 Q2. _Let’s_ Q3. ¶ Exit.] Q1 Q3. Exeunt. Q2.
[eac004] _Chaplin_] Q1 Q2. _Chaplaine_ Q3.
[eac008] _Heauen reuenge_] Q1 Q3. _heauen Reuenge_ Q2.
[eac010] the Chaplein] Q1. the Chaplin. Q2. Chaplaine. Q3.
[eac014] _ouer_] Q1 Q2. _ore_ Q3.
[eac018] _too_] Q1 Q3. _to_ Q2.
[eac021] _Bloud hath_] Q1 Q3. _blood, Hath_ Q2.
[eac022], eac023: _againe? he is a Man_] Q1. _againe, He is a man_
Q2. _againe, he is a Man_ Q3.
[eac038] _twas_] Q1 Q2. _t’was_ Q3.
[eac051] _lost thou_] Q1. _lost; thou_ Q2. _lost, thou_ Q3.
[eac062] _flie:_] Q1. _flie?_ Q2 Q3.
[eac081] _gainst_] Q1 Q2. _’gainst_ Q3.
[eac090] _death_] Q1. _deafe_ Q2 Q3.
[eac093] _valure_] Q1. _valour_ Q2 Q3. ¶ _were_] Q1 Q2. _where_
Q3.
[eac100] _triumphs_] Q1 Q3. _triumphes_ Q2. ¶ eac100, eac101:
_conquered Bootie_] Q1. _conquered booty_ Q2. _conquer’d booty_ Q3.
[eac101] _robbers_] _robbbers_ Q3.
[eac111] _where is_] Q1 Q2. _wher’s_ Q3. ¶ _Crookbackt_] Q1.
_Crookebackt_ Q2. _crookt-backt_ Q3.
[eac114] _amongst_] Q1 Q2. _mongst_ Q3.
[eac116] _rapiers_] Q1 Q3. _Rapier_ Q2.
[eac121] _state?_] Q1. _state:_ Q2. _state._ Q3.
[eac122] _Yorke?_] Q1. _Yorke:_ Q2 Q3.
[eac124] _What?_] Q1 Q2. _What,_ Q3. ¶ _parcht_] Q1. _partcht_ Q2.
_parch_ Q3.
[eac128] _Yorke?_] Q1 Q2. _Yorke,_ Q3.
[eac129] _whilst_] Q1 Q3. _while_ Q2.
[eac130] _king?_] Q1. _King_. Q2 Q3.
[eac132] _aire_] Q1. _heire_ Q2. _heyre_ Q3.
[eac143] _Thats_] Q1 Q2. _That’s_ Q3.
[eac146] _tongue_] Q1 Q2. _tongue’s_ Q3. ¶ _than_] Q1 Q2. _then_
Q3.
[eac150] _visard like_] Q1 Q2. _visard-like_ Q3.
[eac154] _Twere_] Q1 Q2. _T’were_ Q3.
[eac155] _type_] Q1 Q3. _tipe_ Q2.
[eac156] _Sissiles_] Q1 Q2. _Cissiles_ Q3.
[eac166] _that_] Q1 Q3. om. Q2.
[eac171] _hide?_] Q1. _hide!_ Q2. _hide;_ Q3.
[eac179] _blowes_] Q1 Q2. _blow_ Q3.
[eac180] _alaies_] Q1. _alayes_ Q2. _alaes_ Q3.
[eac183] _French woman_] Q1 Q2. _French-woman_ Q3.
[eac185] _can I_] Q1 Q2. _I can_ Q3.
[eac194] _heauie_] Q1 Q2. om. Q3.
[eac195] _sheed_] Q1. _shead_ Q2. _shed_ Q3.
[eac196] _sheed_] Q1. _shed_ Q2 Q3.
[eac200] _two_] Q1 Q2. _too_ Q3.
[eac201] _Hard-harted_] Q1 Q2. _Hard harted_ Q3.
[eac205] _inlie_] Q1 Q2. _inward_ Q3.
[eac209] _Thears...thears_] Q1 Q2. _There’s...there’s_ Q3. ¶ _my_]
Q1 Q3. _mine_ Q2.
[eac210] _thears_] Q1 Q2. _there’s_ Q3.
[ead007] _his_] Q1 Q2. _the_ Q3. ¶ _our_] Q1 Q2. _from our_ Q3.
[ead011] _Dasell_] Q1 Q2. _Dazle_ Q3. ¶ _eies_] Q1. _eies?_ Q2.
_eyes,_ Q3.
[ead012] _seperated_] Q1 Q2. _separated_ Q3. ¶ ead012, ead013:
_racking Cloud, but_] Q1. _racking cloude: But_ Q2. _racking cloud
But_ Q3.
[ead024] _thou? that_] Q1. _thou that_ Q2 Q3. ¶ _lookest_] Q1 Q2.
_look’st_ Q3. ¶ After this line Q3 inserts _Enter a Messenger._
[ead032] _forst_] Q1 Q2. _fore’st_ Q3.
[ead051] _hart_] Q1. _heart_ Q2. _hate_ Q3.
[ead054] _bare_] Q1 Q3. _beare_ Q2.
[ead059] _descent_] Q1 Q3. _disent_ Q2.
[ead061] _his?_] Q1. _his._ Q2 Q3.
[ead063] _Ah_] Q1 Q3. _Ah gentle_ Q2. ¶ _report_] Q1 Q3. _but
reporte,_ Q2. ¶ ead063–ead066: _Ah...wounds_] Q1. In Q2 the lines
end _reporte...deliuerance...tould...woundes_. In Q3 they end at
_newes...flesh...adde...wounds_.
[ead069] _I_] Q1 Q3. om. Q2.
[ead070] _L._] Q1. _Lord_ Q2 Q3.
[ead071] _a go_] Q1. _agoe_ Q2. _ago_ Q3.
[ead073] _things_] Q1 Q2. _newes_ Q3.
[ead076] _swiflie_] Q1. _swiftlie_ Q2. _swiftly_ Q3.
[ead081] _to entercept_] Q1. _t’entercept_ Q2. _to intercept_ Q3.
[ead089], ead092: _twas_] Q1 Q2. _’twas_ Q3.
[ead090] _He lookt_] Q1. _Who lookt_ Q2. _He look’d_ Q3.
[ead097] _night Owles_] Q1 Q2. _Night-Owles_ Q3.
[ead108] _another_] Q1 Q3. _an other_ Q2.
[ead115] _gainst_] Q1 Q2. _’gainst_ Q3.
[ead127] _whats_] Q1 Q2. _what’s_ Q3.
[ead138] _mo_] Q1 Q2. _moe_ Q3.
[ead143] _frustrate_] Q1 Q3. _frusterate_ Q2. ¶ _or_] Q1 Q3. _ot_
Q2.
[ead147] _48._] Q1 Q2. _eight and forty_ Q3.
[ead158] _faints_] Q1 Q3. _faint’st_ Q2.
[ead161] _degree, is_] Q1. _degree is_ Q2. _degree is,_ Q3.
[ead165] _the_] Q1 Q3. _th’_ Q2.
[ead172] _Lets_] Q1 Q2. _Let’s_ Q3.
[eae002] _Yonders_] Q1 Q3. _Yonder’s_ Q2.
[eae014] _Whose scapes_] Q1. _Who scapes_ Q2 Q3.
[eae034] _birth right_] Q1. _birth-right_ Q2 Q3.
[eae045] _euill_] Q1 Q2. _ill_ Q3.
[eae057] _straight doe dub_] Q1. _straight do bub_ Q2. _straight way
dub_ Q3.
[eae060] _boy_] Q1 Q2. om. Q3.
[eae074] _thats_] Q1 Q2. _that’s_ Q3.
[eae079] _crowne,_] Q1 Q2. _Crowne?_ Q3.
[eae089] _Parlement_] Q1. _Parliament_ Q2 Q3.
[eae091] _And...son?_] Two lines in Q3, the first ending _George_.
[eae092] _their_] Q1 Q2. _there_ Q3.
[eae093] _I...sort_] Two lines in Q3, the first ending _thee_.
[eae096] _synald_] Q1 Q2. _signall_ Q3.
[eae098] _War._] Q1 Q2. _Warwicke_ Q3.
[eae101] _flee_] Q1 Q2. _flye_ Q3. ¶ _tis_] Q1 Q2. _t’is_ Q3.
[eae102] _so_] Q1 Q2. _as_ Q3.
[eae103] _that_] Q1 Q2. om. Q3.
[eae104] _you_] Q1 Q2. _yee_ Q3.
[eae105]–eae109: _Northumberland...child-killer_] As
in Q1. As prose in Q2. As five lines in Q3 ending
_hold...reuerently...refraine...heart...child-killer_.
[eae113] _sunne set_] Q1 Q2. _sun-set_ Q3.
[eae114] _Haue...speake_] Q1 Q2. Two lines in Q3, ending
_Lords...speake_.
[eae117] _am a king and_] Q1 Q2. _being a King am_ Q3. ¶
_priuiledge_] Q1. _previledgde_ Q2. _priviledg’d_ Q3.
[eae119] _cru’d_] Q1. _cur’d_ Q2 Q3.
[eae135] _venome_] Q1 Q2. _venom’d_ Q3.
[eae139] _Shames thou_] Q1. _Sham’st_ Q2. _Sham’st thou_ Q3. ¶
eae139, eae140: _de-Riu’de, to_] Q1. _de-riu’de, To_ Q2 Q3.
[eae145] _macht_] Q1. _matcht_ Q2 Q3.
[eae148] _gracst_] Q1. _grac’d_ Q2. _grac’st_ Q3.
[eae153] _slept?_] Q1. _slept,_ Q2 Q3.
[eae155] _an other_] Q1 Q2. _another_ Q3.
[eae156] _the gaine_] Q1 Q2. _thee gaine_ Q3.
[eae164] _Not_] Q1 Q2. _Nor_ Q3.
[eae169] _wrangling woman_] Q1 Q3. _wrangling. woman_ Q2.
[eaf005] _perforce_] Q1 Q3. _per force_ Q2. ¶ _rest_] Q1 Q3.
_yeeld_ Q2.
[eaf011] _theres_] Q1 Q2. _there’s_ Q3.
[eaf013] _Lest_] Q1 Q2. _Least_ Q3.
[eaf014] _lords: what hap,_] Q1. _Lords? what hap,_ Q2. _Lords, what
hap?_ Q3.
[eaf020] _tottring_] Q1 Q3. _totering_ Q2.
[eaf024] _off_] Q1 Q3. _of_ Q2.
[eaf035] _loose_] Q1 Q2. _lose_ Q3.
[eaf037] _pillers_] Q1 Q2. _pillars_ Q3.
[eaf038] _promise_] _gromise_ Q2.
[eag005] _slise_] Q1. _slice_ Q2 Q3.
[eag010] _heres_] Q1. _heer’s_ Q2. _heere’s_ Q3. ¶ Alarme still]
Q1. Alarmes still Q2 Q3.
[eah007] _ciuill iars!_] Q1 Q3. _cruell iarres_ Q2.
[eah008] _raind_] Q1. _raignde_ Q2. _raign’d_ Q3.
[eah024] an other] Q1 Q2. another Q3.
[eah030] _ironious_] Q1 Q2. _ironous_ Q3.
[eah032] _thee lif_] Q1 Q3. _the life_ Q2. ¶ _too late_] Q1 Q3.
_to late_ Q2.
[eah037] _white_] Q1 Q3. _Whight_ Q2.
[eah043] _of my_] Q1 Q3. _of her_ Q2.
[eah053] _murdered_] Q1 Q3. _murdred_ Q2.
[eah058] _hope_] Q1 Q2. _helpe_ Q3.
[eah061] _comes_] Q1 Q3. _come_ Q2.
[eah073] _whither_] Q1 Q2. _whether_ Q3.
[eah085] _lenitie_] Q1. _lenetie_ Q2. _lenity_ Q3.
[eah093] and Warwike] Q1. and Warwicke Q2. Warwicke Q3.
[eah094], eah95: _Thus...Course_] One line in Q2.
[eah095] _grast_] Q1 Q2. _grac’d_ Q3.
[eah109] _father_] Q1 Q3. om. Q2.
[eah110], eah111: _From...there_] As in Q1 Q3. In Q2 the first line
ends at _head_.
[eah112] _Insteed_] Q1. _In stead_ Q2. _Instead_ Q3.
[eah116] _euill_] Q1 Q3. _yll_ Q2.
[eah122] _that in the_] Q1 Q3. _in the_ Q2.
[eah132] _Wheres_] Q1. _Where’s_ Q2 Q3.
[eah134], eah136: _hees_] Q1. _hee’s_ Q2 Q3.
[eah149] _needst_] Q1 Q2. _needs_ Q3.
[eah155] _my Lord_] Q1. _my Lord?_ Q2. _my Lord._ Q3.
[eah158] _We...sword_] As in Q1 Q2. Two lines in Q3, the first
ending _Clarence_.
[eah159] _Glocester_] Q1 Q2. _Gloster_ Q3.
[eah160] _him_] Q1 Q2. _himselfe_ Q3.
[eah163] _thats_] Q1 Q2. _that’s_ Q3.
[eai010]–eai012: _I marrie...deposde_] As in Q1 Q3. In Q2 the lines
end _fee...King...deposde_. ¶ eai010: _here is_] Q1 Q2. _heere’s_ Q3.
[eai013], eai014: _My...Warwike_] As in Q1. In Q2 Q3 the lines end
_France...Warwicke_.
[eai018] _wun_] Q1. _wonne_ Q2. _won_ Q3.
[eai024] Keeper.] Q1 Q3. Heeper. Q2.
[eai028] _talkest_] Q1 Q2. _talkes_ Q3.
[eai029] _shew._] _shew?_ Q3.
[eai032], eai033: _My...enioy_] As prose in Q3.
[eai037] _K._] Q1 Q2. _King_ Q3.
[eai040], eai041: _Gods...obay_] As in Q1 Q3. In Q2 the first line
ends _obayde_.
[eaj001] _Glocester_] Q1 Q2. _Gloster_ Q3.
[eaj003] _saint_] Q1 Q2. _S._ Q3.
[eaj012] _Clarence,_] Q1 Q2. _Clarence._ Q3. ¶ _some thing_] Q1
Q3. _somthing_ Q2.
[eaj014] Cla.] Q1 Q2. Glo. Q3.
[eaj024] _heele_] Q1. _hee’l_ Q2 Q3. ¶ _hir_] Q1. _her_ Q2 Q3.
[eaj025] _most_] Q1 Q3. om. Q2.
[eaj026] _and_] Q1 Q2. _if_ Q3.
[eaj027] _Were it_] Q1 Q2. _Wer’t_ Q3. ¶ _loose_] Q1. _lose_ Q2
Q3.
[eaj028] _L._] Q1 Q2. _Lord_ Q3.
[eaj033]–eaj036: _Naie...clap_] As in Q1 Q3. Three lines in Q2,
ending _landes...commaundes...clap._
[eaj038] _godsforbot_] Q1 Q3. _gods-forbot_ Q2. ¶ _heele_] Q1 Q2.
_hee’l_ Q3.
[eaj041] _Thats_] Q1 Q2. _That’s_ Q3.
[eaj044] _cursie_] Q1. _curtesie_ Q2. _curtsie_ Q3.
[eaj048] _meant_] Q1 Q3. _meane_ Q2.
[eaj055], eaj056: _Heerein...Me_] One line in Q2.
[eaj062] _bends_] Q1 Q3. _bens_ Q2.
[eaj071], eaj072: _I speake...intends_] One line in Q2.
[eaj075] _too bad_] Q1 Q3. _to bad_ Q2.
[eaj076] _too good_] Q1 Q3. _to good_ Q2.
[eaj079], eaj080. No more...children] In Q2 Q3 the first line ends at
_mother_.
[eaj086] _twas_] Q1 Q2. _’twas_ Q3.
[eaj087]–eaj089: _Brothers...her_] As prose in Q2.
[eaj093] _thats_] Q1 Q2. _that’s_ Q3.
[eaj095], eaj096: _hir...lands_] One line in Q2.
[eaj096] _lands_] Q1 Q3 _lauds_ Q2.
[eaj097], eaj098: _And...Taken_] One line in Q2.
[eaj100] _let vs_] Q1. _lets_ Q2 Q3. ¶ eaj100–eaj102:
_And...honorablie_] Two lines in Q2, the first ending _apprehension_.
Three in Q3, ending _about...vse...honourably._
[eaj102] Exeunt Omnes] Q1 Q3. Exeunt. Q2.
[eaj109] _lookt for_] Q1. _looke for_ Q2 Q3.
[eaj118] _hir_] Q1. _her_ Q2 Q3.
[eaj120] _plaste_] Q1. _plast_ Q2. _plac’d_ Q3.
[eaj127] _that that_] Q1. _that, that_ Q2. _that which_ Q3.
[eaj131] _cannot_] Q1 Q3. _can not_ Q2.
[eak001] and others.] Q1 Q2. with others. Q3. ¶ eak001: _Queene_]
Q1 Q3. _Q._ Q2.
[eak028] _plast_] Q1 Q2. _plac’d_ Q3.
[eak042] _Henries_ Q1 Q2. _Henry is_ Q3. ¶ _lineallie_] _lineasly_
Q2.
[eak047], eak054: _pettigree_] Q1 Q2. _pedigree_ Q3.
[eak048] _yeares a_] Q1. _yeeres; a_ Q2. _yeares, a_ Q3.
[eak056], eak057: _Call...Brother_] One line in Q2.
[eak064], eak065: _Queene...Oxford_] As one line in Q2.
[eak071], eak073: _What is_] Q1. _What, is_ Q2 Q3.
[eak074], eak075: _Such...himselfe_] One line in Q2.
[eak083] _or your_] Q1 Q2. _or_ Q3.
[eak087], eak088: _Then...Witnesse_] One line in Q2.
[eak094] _twere_] Q1 Q2 _’twere_ Q3.
[eak101] _as his_] Q1. _at his_ Q2 Q3.
[eak104] _Mine such...full of_] Q1. _Mine, such...full of_ Q2. _Mine
is such...with_ Q3.
[eak116] _vntimlie to his_] _to an vntimely_ Q3.
[eak117] _my_] Q1 Q2. _thy_ Q3.
[eak119] _home_] Q1. _home?_ Q2 Q3.
[eak125], eak126: _Yes...Faults_] One line in Q2 Q3. ¶ eak125: _I
doe_] _Ile_ Q3.
[eak134], eak135: _You...king_] As three lines in Q2, ending
_ayde...post...King_.
[eak138] _heele_] Q1 Q2. _hee’l_ Q3.
[eak144] _Thears_] Q1. _Ther’s_ Q2. _There’s_ Q3. ¶ _begone_] Q1
Q2. _be gone._ Exit Mes. Q3.
[eak150] _wedlockes_] Q1 Q2. _wedlocke_ Q3.
[eak151] _Withall_] Q1. _With all_ Q2 Q3.
[eak155] _lcuie_] Q1. _leuie_ Q2 Q3.
[eak160] _Imbassadour_] Q1. _Embassadour_ Q2. _Embassador_ Q3.
[eal001] and Clarence] Q1 Q2. Clarence Q3. ¶ and Gloster...and
Hastings] Q1 Q2. Gloster, Montague, Hastings, Q3. ¶ eal001:
_Glocester_] Q1 Q2. _Gloster_ Q3.
[eal004], eal005: _That...marriage_] As prose in Q2. ¶ eal004:
_theile_] Q1. _theyle_ Q2. _they will_ Q3.
[eal006], eal007: _Suppose...Warwike_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eal007] _am_] Q1 Q2. _am both_ Q3.
[eal009], eal010: _And...well_] As prose in Q2. ¶ eal009: _our king_]
Q1 Q3. _you are our king_ Q2.
[eal010] _seldome_] Q1 Q2. _sildome_ Q3.
[eal012], eal013: _should...pleasure_] One line in Q3.
[eal013] _gaine saie_] Q1. _gainesay_ Q2. _gainsay_ Q3.
[eal014] _a pittie_] Q1 Q2. _pitty_ Q3.
[eal018] _Gloster_] Q1 Q2. _Glocester_ Q3.
[eal020] _my_] Q1 Q2. _mine_ Q3.
[eal022] _quite_] Q1 Q2. _quit_ Q3.
[eal026] _deuise._] Q1 Q3. _deuise?_ Q2.
[eal029] _Common wealth_] Q1 Q2. _Common-wealth_ Q3.
[eal030] _home bred_] Q1 Q2. _home-bred_ Q3.
[eal035] _so?_] Q1 Q2. _so,_ Q3.
[eal039], eal040: _Brothers...madnes_] One line in Q3.
[eal040] _brotherhood_] Q1 Q2. _brother-hood_ Q3.
[eal042] _mal-content,_] Q1. _mal-content?_ Q2. _male-content,_ Q3.
[eal043] _Ile_] Q1 Q3. _I will_ Q2.
[eal045], eal046: _That...choise_] One line in Q3. ¶ eal045: _you_]
Q1 Q2. _ye_ Q3.
[eal050]–eal052: _My Lords...Queene_] In Q2 the lines
end _confesse...aduance...Queene_. In Q3 they end
_right...highnesse...Queene_.
[eal053] _in_] Q1 Q2. _from_ Q3.
[eal057] Enter a Messenger.] Q1 Q2. Enter Messenger. Q3.
[eal058] _letters_] _letters?_ Q3.
[eal060] _speciall_] Q1 Q2. om. Q3.
[eal061], eal062: _We...Tell me_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eal066] _reuill_] Q1. _reuell_ Q2 Q3.
[eal067] _braue,_] Q1. _braue?_ Q2 Q3.
[eal069], eal070: _Tel...shortly_] One line in Q2. ¶ eal069: _heele_]
Q1. _hee’l_ Q2. _heel_ Q3.
[eal070] _the willow_] _a willow_ Q3.
[eal071], eal072: _She...lesse_] One line in Q2.
[eal072], eal073: _But...place_] As prose in Q2. In Q3 the lines end
_wrong......Queene...place_.
[eal075] _Doone_] Q1. _done_ Q2 Q3, reading as one line
_Tell...done_.
[eal083] _what is_] Q2 Q3. _what, is_ Q2.
[eal084] _theare_] Q1. _they are_ Q2 Q3.
[eal086]–eal088: _The elder......Follow me_] Two lines in Q2 Q3,
ending _younger...me_. ¶ eal086: _elder,_] Q1 Q3. _elder?_ Q2.
[eal087] _Yonger._] Q1 Q3. _younger?_ Q2.
[eal091]–eal095: _I...awaie_] In Q2 Q3 the lines end
_you...right...to it?...away_.
[eal094] _to it,_] Q1. _to it?_ Q2. _to it:_ Q3.
[eal102] _of_] Q1 Q2. _aboue_ Q3. ¶ _neerest_] Q1 Q2. _neere_ Q3.
[eal103], eal104: _if...or not_] One line in Q3.
[eal105], eal106: _Speak...Enemies_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eal109] _lets_] Q1 Q2. _let’s_ Q3. ¶ Oxford] Q1 Q3. Oxenford Q2.
[eam004] _friends?_] Q1 Q3. _friends._ Q2.
[eam008] _hart,_] Q1. _heart:_ Q2. _heart_ Q3.
[eam012] _shal be_] Q1. _shalbe_ Q2. _shall be_ Q3.
[eam022] _saint_] Q1 Q2. _S._ Q3.
[eam023], eam024: _This...Stand_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eam029], eam030: _The Duke...Last_] One line in Q2.
[eam030] _caldst_] Q1 Q2. _calledst_ Q3.
[eam032], eam033: _disgraste_] Q1. _disgrast_ Q2. _disgrac’st_ Q3.
[eam046] Exeunt...] Q1 Q2. Exit.... Q3.
[eam047] _now,_] Q1 Q2. _now?_ Q3.
[eam048] _to_] Q1 Q2. _into_ Q3.
[eam050] _hir_] Q1. _her_ Q2 Q3.
[eam051] _thats_] Q1 Q2. _that’s_ Q3.
[eam054] _let vs_] Q1 Q2.
[ean001] Stanly] Q1 Q2. Stanley Q3.
[ean011]–ean013: _No...depart?_] In Q2 the lines end
_stand...rest...depart?_ In Q3 they end _huntsman...rest...depart?_
[ean016], ean017: _I will...farewell_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[ean018] _frowne_] Q1 Q3. _frownes_ Q2.
[eao001], eao002: _Tel...late_] One line in Q2. Two in Q3, the first
ending _madame_.
[eao003] _you_] Q1 Q2. _ye_ Q3.
[eao005] _Warwike,_] Q1. _Warwike?_ Q2. _Warwick._ Q3.
[eao011] _What,_] Q1 Q3. _What?_ Q2.
[eao013] _thears_] Q1. _ther’s_ Q2 Q3.
[eao014] _prisoner_] Q1 Q3. _prison_ Q2.
[eao015] _passing_] _pessing_ Q2.
[eao020] _a while_] Q1. _awhile_ Q2 Q3.
[eap002] _Raunspur_] Q1. _Rounspur_ Q2.
[eap004], &c. Maire] Q1. Maior Q2 Q3.
[eap006] _thats_] Q1 Q2. _that’s_ Q3.
[eap009], eap015: _Maire_] Q1. _Maior_ Q2 Q3.
[eap011] _Truth_] Q1 Q3. _Trueth_ Q2.
[eap014] _Heele_] Q1 Q2. _Hee’l_ Q3.
[eap021], eap022: _What...towne_] One line in Q2. ¶ eap021: _man for_]
Q1. _man; for_ Q2. _man, for_ Q3.
[eap031] _the rest_] Q1 Q3. _thee rest_ Q2.
[eap038]–eap040: _Ile...title_] As prose in Q2. In Q3 the lines end
_backe...fight...title?_
[eap041] _fie_] om. Q3.
[eap044] _loose_] Q1. _lose_ Q2 Q3.
[eap045] _speaketh like_] Q1. _speakes like_ Q2. _speaketh_ Q3.
[eap048]–eap051: In Q2 the lines end _Ireland...right...fight_.
[eap054] _weele_] Q1 Q2. _wee’l_ Q3.
[eap057] _Weele_] Q1 Q2. _Wee’l_ Q3.
[eap058] Exeunt Omnes.] Q1 Q3. om. Q2.
[eaq001] and Oxford, and Summerset] Q1 Q2. Oxford, Somerset Q3.
[eaq002]–eaq007: _By...praise_] In Q2 Q3 the lines end
_againe...crowne...peace...dayes...prayse_.
[eaq010], eaq011: _My...of?_] In Q2 the lines end _that...of?_ In
Q3 they end _boy...of?_ ¶ eaq010: _Summerset_] Q1. _Sommerset_ Q2.
_Somerset_ Q3, and passim.
[eaq012] _And it_] Q1 Q2. _If it_ Q3.
[eaq020]–eaq022: _Make...by me_] As two lines in Q2, the first ending
_is he_.
[eaq027] _giddie_] Q1 Q2. _giddy headed_ Q3.
[eaq033], eaq034: _shalt...Kent_] One line in Q3.
[eaq038] _commands_] Q1 Q3. _commaunds_ Q2.
[ear001] _shamefast_] Q1 Q2. _shamefac’st_ Q3.
[ear004] _let vs_] Q1 Q3. _lets_ Q2.
[eas009], eas010: _At...force_] One line in Q2.
[eas013] _come!_] _come?_ Q2 Q3.
[eas014] _seduste_] Q1. _seduc’d_ Q2 Q3.
[eas020] _penitent,_] Q1 Q2. _penitent?_ Q3.
[eas023] _will._] Q1 Q3. _will?_ Q2.
[eas024] _Twas_] Q1 Q2. _’Twas_ Q3.
[eas031] _foresight_] Q1 Q2 (Devonshire) Q3. _foesight_ Q2 (Malone
36).
[eas032] _whilst_] Q1 Q3. _while_ Q2.
[eas033] _decke?_] Q1. _decke:_ Q2. _decke._ Q3.
[eas035] _you’le_] Q1. _youle_ Q2. _you’l_ Q3.
[eas037], eas038: Enter......Lancaster] As stage direction in Q2:
Enter Oxford with drum and souldiers, and all crie Oxford, Oxford, for
Lancaster. ¶ eas037: & al crie] om. Q3.
[eas038], eas043, eas047: Exit] Q1 Q3. Exeunt. Q2.
[eas039] _see they_] Q1. _see, they_ Q2 Q3.
[eas042] _Weele_] Q1. _Wee’l_ Q2 Q3.
[eas046] _and_] Q1 Q2. _if_ Q3.
[eas049] _abie_] Q1 Q2. _abide_ Q3.
[eas050], eas051: _And...along_] One line in Q2.
[eas052] _Lancaster._] Q1 Q3. _Lancaster._ Exeunt. Q2.
[eas053] Edw. _Et_] Q1 Q3. _Et_ Q2.
[eas064] _cheekes?_] Q1. _cheekes:_ Q2. _cheekes,_ Q3.
[eas069] _deserud_] Q1. _deserued_ Q2. _deseru’d_ Q3.
[eas072]–eas074: _Now......eares?_] As two lines in Q2, ending
_fight?...eares?_
[eas077] _darest_] Q1 Q2. _dar’st_ Q3.
[eat008] _ramping_] Q1 Q2. _rampant_ Q3.
[eat015] See note (I).
[eat019] _thears_] Q1. _theres_ Q2. _there’s_ Q3.
[eat021] _hir_] Q1. _her_ Q2 Q3.
[eat022] _mightest_] Q1 Q3. _mightst_ Q2.
[eat025] _moe_] Q1 Q2. _more_ Q3.
[eat031] _spoke_] Q1 Q3. _saide_ Q2.
[eat032] _clamor_] Q1. _clamour_ Q2 Q3.
[eat039] _lets_] Q1 Q2. _let’s_ Q3.
[eat040] _retrait_] Q1. _retraite_ Q2. _retreate_ Q3.
[eat042] _awarn’d_] Q1 Q2. _forewarn’d_ Q3. ¶ _themselues_] Q1 Q3.
_them selues_ Q2.
[eat044] Ex. ambo.] Q1 Q2. Exit ambo. Q3.
[eat046] _girts_] Q1 Q2. _girt_ Q3.
[eat047] _bigboond traytor_] Q1. _bigboond_ Q2. _big-bon’d traitor_
Q3.
[eat048] _smilde_] Q1 Q2 (Devonshire). _smlde_ Q2 (Malone 36).
_smil’d_ Q3.
[eat053] _powers_] Q1 Q2. _pow’rs_ Q3. ¶ _Frāce_] Q1. _Fraunce_
Q2. _France_ Q3.
[eat055] _to hir_] Q1. _to her_ Q2 Q3.
[eat056] _tis_] Q1 Q2. _’tis_ Q3.
[eat061] _countie_] Q1 Q2. _country_ Q3.
[eat062]–eat065: _Our...haie_] As three lines in Q2, ending
_goe...daie...haie_. In Q3 the lines end _augmented...day...haie_.
[eat063] _faire_] om. Q3.
[eat065] Ex. Omnes.] Q1. Exeunt omnes. Q2 Q3.
[eau001] _Frāce_] Q1. _France_ Q2 Q3.
[eau005] _maine mast_] Q1. _maine-Mast_ Q2. _maine Mast_ Q3.
[eau014] _battels_] Q1. _Battaile_ Q2. _battailes_ Q3.
[eau015] _intise_] Q1 Q2. _entice_ Q3.
[eau018] _presse_] Q1 Q2. _prease_ Q3.
[eau023]–eau027: _And......glories_] As four lines in Q2, ending
_shame:...Grandfather...thou liue...glories_. As five in Q3, ending
_shame...grandfather...thee image...glories_.
[eau024] _shame?_] Q1. _shame:_ Q2. _shame._ Q3.
[eau030] _wondered_] Q1 Q3. _wondred_ Q2.
[eau034] king Edward] Q1 Q2. K. Edward Q3. ¶ Cla. Glo. Hast.] Q1
Q2. Clarence, Gloster, Hastings, Q3.
[eau037] _yer_] Q1. _ere_ Q2 Q3.
[eau040]–eau044: _The water...all this_] Four lines in Q2 Q3, ending
_but this...Tower...distrest...all this_.
[eau041] _your_] Q1 Q2. _our_ Q3.
[eau046] Cla. Glo.] Q1 Q2. Clarence, Gloster, Q3. ¶ & make] Q1. and
make Q2. making Q3. ¶ the Queene...Sum.] Q1. the Queene is taken,
the Prince, Oxford, and Sum. Q2. the Queene, Prince, Oxford, and
Somerset are taken, Q3.
[eau051] Exit Oxford.] Q1 Q2. Exit Oxf. Q3.
[eau052] Exit Sum.] Q1 Q3. Exit Sommerset Q2.
[eau058] _Whilst_] Q1 Q3. _Whilest_ Q2.
[eau059] _woudst_] Q1. _wouldst_ Q2 Q3.
[eau060] _bin_] Q1 Q2. _bene_ Q3.
[eau061]–eau063: _That......Lancaster_] Two lines in Q2 Q3, the first
ending _petticoate_.
[eau069] _Crooktbacke_] Q1 Q2. _Crookebacke_ Q3.
[eau071] _Vntuterd_] Q1. _Vntutered_ Q2. _Vntutor’d_ Q3. ¶ _too
malepert_] Q1. _to malapert_ Q2. _too malapart_ Q3.
[eau076] _the litnes_] Q1. _the lightnes_ Q2. _thou likenesse_ Q3. ¶
_heere._] Q1 Q2. _here._ Stabs him. Q3.
[eau079] _too much_] Q1 Q3. _to much_ Q2.
[eau081] _What...recouerie_] Two lines in Q3. ¶ _recouerie?_] Q1.
_recouerie._ Q2. _recouery._ Q3.
[eau087], eau088: _Ah...speake_] In Q2 Q3 the first line ends at
_boy_. ¶ eau087: _boy?_] Q1. _boy,_ Q2. _boy:_ Q3.
[eau093] _Whats_] Q1 Q2. _What’s_ Q3. ¶ _maie name,_] Q1. _may
name?_ Q2. _may not name?_ Q3.
[eau100]–eau0102: _Naie...not?_] In Q2 the lines end at _me
here...death...not?_
[eau103] _it?_] Q1. _it._ Q2 Q3.
[eau109] _Whears_] Q1. _Wheres_ Q2. _Where’s_ Q3. ¶ _butcher,_] Q1
Q3. _butcher?_ Q2.
[eau110]–eau0112: _He...backe_] Two lines in Q2, the first ending
_deed_.
[eau112] _he_] Q1 Q2. _hee’l_ Q3.
[eau114] Ex.] Q1. Exit. Q2 Q3.
[eau115] _whithers_] Q1 Q2. _whether is_ Q3. ¶ _and as I_] Q1 Q3.
_as I_ Q2.
[eau116], eau0117: _to Make...Tower_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eau120] _let vs_] Q1 Q2. _lets_ Q3.
[eau121] _doth_] Q1 Q3. _poth_ Q2.
[eav012]–eav014: _That......drownde_] Two lines in Q2 Q3, the first
ending _birde_.
[eav014] _drownde_] Q1. _drowne_ Q2. _drownd_ Q3.
[eav018] _enuious_] Q1 Q2. _enuiest_ Q3.
[eav034] _night Crow_] Q1 Q3. _night-Crow_ Q2.
[eav035] _tempests_] Q1 Q3. _tempestes_ Q2.
[eav045] He stabs him.] Q1 Q2. Stabs him. Q3.
[eav046], eav047: _Die...more_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eav051] _ground,_] Q1. _ground?_ Q2 Q3.
[eav053] _be alwaies_] _alwayes be_ Q3.
[eav055] _If...thee_] Omitted in Q3.
[eav060] _That_] Q1 Q2. om. Q3.
[eav063] _wept...cride_] Q1 Q2. _weeping...crying_ Q3.
[eav070] _haue no brothers_] Q1 Q3. _haue no brother_ Q2.
[eav076] After this line Q3 inserts _Vnder pretence of outward seeming
ill_.
[eav079], eav080: See note (II).
[eaw001] Clarence] Q1 Q2. Clarence, Gloster Q3. ¶ eaw001: _royall_]
om. Q3.
[eaw003] _Autumnes_] _Autumes_ Q2.
[eaw005] _renowmd_] Q1 Q2. _renownd_ Q3.
[eaw018] _a foote_] Q1 Q2. _afoot_ Q3.
[eaw021] _and_] Q1 Q2. _if_ Q3.
[eaw026] _Clarence...Queene_] Q1 Q2. _Brothers of Clarence and of
Gloster,_ _Pray loue...Queene_ Q3, reading as two lines.
[eaw027] _brothers_] Q1 Q2. om. Q3.
[eaw028] _your, Maiestie_] Q1. _your Maiestie_ Q2. _your Maiesty_ Q3.
[eaw031], eaw032: _And...Sprangst_] One line in Q2 Q3.
[eaw036] _Hauing...loues_] Omitted in Q3.
[eaw037] _Margaret,_] Q1. _Margaret?_ Q2 Q3.
[eaw038] _Ranard_] Q1 Q2. _Reynard_ Q3.
[eaw039] _Cyssels_] Q1 Q2. _Cicels_ Q3.
[eaw040] _her_] Q1 Q2. _a_ Q3.
NOTES TO THE TRUE TRAGEDIE OF RICHARD DUKE OF YORKE.
NOTE I.
XX. 15. Mr Halliwell quotes ‘_and_ walkes’ as the reading of the
edition of 1619. Capell’s copy has ‘_my_ walkes.’ In Steevens’s reprint
the reading ‘and walkes’ occurs, and Mr Knight has followed him. See
note IV to ‘The First part of the Contention,’ &c.
NOTE II.
XXII. 79, 80. Instead of these lines Q3 has
‘King _Henry_, and the Prince his sonne are gone,
And _Clarence_ thou art next must follow them,
So by one and one dispatching all the rest, &c.’
KING RICHARD THE THIRD.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ*.
KING EDWARD the Fourth.
sons to the King,
EDWARD, Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward V.
RICHARD, Duke of York.
brothers to the King,
GEORGE, Duke of Clarence.
RICHARD, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards King Richard III.
A young son of Clarence.
HENRY, Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII.
CARDINAL BOURCHIER†, Archbishop of Canterbury.
THOMAS ROTHERHAM, Archbishop of York.
JOHN MORTON, Bishop of Ely.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
DUKE OF NORFOLK.
EARL OF SURREY, his son.
EARL RIVERS, brother to Elizabeth.
MARQUIS OF DORSET and LORD GREY, sons to Elizabeth.
EARL OF OXFORD.
LORD HASTINGS.
LORD STANLEY, called also EARL OF DERBY.
LORD LOVEL.
SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN.
SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF.
SIR WILLIAM CATESBY.
SIR JAMES TYRREL.
SIR JAMES BLOUNT.
SIR WALTER HERBERT.
SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower.
CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a priest. Another Priest.
TRESSEL‡ and BERKELEY, gentlemen attending on the Lady Anne.
Lord Mayor of London. Sheriff of Wiltshire.
ELIZABETH, queen to King Edward IV.
MARGARET, widow of King Henry VI.
DUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV.
LADY ANNE, widow of Edward Prince of Wales, son to
King Henry VI.; afterwards married to Richard.
A young Daughter of Clarence (MARGARET PLANTAGENET).
Ghosts of those murdered by Richard III., Lords and other Attendants;
a Pursuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers,
Soldiers, &c.
SCENE: _England_.
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* DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.] First given, imperfectly, by Rowe.
† BOURCHIER,] Capell. BOUCHIER, Knight.
‡ TRESSEL] TRUSSEL, French conj.
THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III.
ACT I.
SCENE I. _London. A street_.
_Enter_ RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, _solus_.
_Glou._ Now is the winter of our discontent [faa001]
Made glorious summer by this sun of York; [faa002]
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house [faa003]
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. [faa004]
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; ·faa005·
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. [faa007]
Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front; [faa008]
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds [faa009]
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, [faa010]
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber [faa011]
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. [faa013]
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, [faa014]
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass: [faa015]
I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty [faa016]
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion, [faa018]
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time ·faa020·
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, [faa021]
And that so lamely and unfashionable [faa022]
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; [faa023]
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, [faa024]
Have no delight to pass away the time, ·faa025·
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun [faa026]
And descant on mine own deformity: [faa027]
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, [faa029]
I am determined to prove a villain ·faa030·
And hate the idle pleasures of these days. [faa031]
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, [faa032]
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, [faa033]
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other: ·faa035·
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew’d up,
About a prophecy, which says that G [faa039]
Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be. [faa040]
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here Clarence comes. [faa041]
_Enter_ CLARENCE, _guarded, and_ BRAKENBURY.
Brother, good day: what means this armed guard [faa042]
That waits upon your grace?
_Clar._ His majesty, [faa043]
Tendering my person’s safety, hath appointed
This conduct to convey me to the Tower. ·faa045·
_Glou._ Upon what cause?
_Clar._ Because my name is George.
_Glou._ Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours;
He should, for that, commit your godfathers: [faa048]
O, belike his majesty hath some intent [faa049]
That you shall be new-christen’d in the Tower. [faa050]
But what’s the matter, Clarence? may I know? [faa051]
_Clar._ Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest [faa052]
As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,
He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
And from the cross-row plucks the letter G, ·faa055·
And says a wizard told him that by G
His issue disinherited should be;
And, for my name of George begins with G,
It follows in his thought that I am he. [faa059]
These, as I learn, and such like toys as these [faa060]
Have moved his highness to commit me now. [faa061]
_Glou._ Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women:
’Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower;
My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, ’tis she
That tempers him to this extremity. [faa065]
Was it not she and that good man of worship,
Anthony Woodville, her brother there, [faa067]
That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower, [faa068]
From whence this present day he is deliver’d? [faa069]
We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe. ·faa070·
_Clar._ By heaven, I think there’s no man is secure [faa071]
But the queen’s kindred and night-walking heralds
That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore. [faa073]
Heard ye not what an humble suppliant [faa074]
Lord Hastings was to her for his delivery? [faa075]
_Glou._ Humbly complaining to her deity [faa076]
Got my lord chamberlain his liberty.
I’ll tell you what; I think it is our way, [faa078]
If we will keep in favour with the king,
To be her men and wear her livery: ·faa080·
The jealous o’erworn widow and herself,
Since that our brother dubb’d them gentlewomen,
Are mighty gossips in this monarchy. [faa083]
_Brak._ I beseech your graces both to pardon me; [faa084]
His majesty hath straitly given in charge ·faa085·
That no man shall have private conference,
Of what degree soever, with his brother. [faa087]
_Glou._ Even so; an’t please your worship, Brakenbury, [faa088]
You may partake of any thing we say:
We speak no treason, man: we say the king ·faa090·
Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen [faa091]
Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; [faa092]
We say that Shore’s wife hath a pretty foot,
A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; [faa094]
And that the queen’s kindred are made gentle-folks: [faa095]
How say you, sir? can you deny all this?
_Brak._ With this, my lord, myself have nought to do. [faa097]
_Glou._ Naught to do with Mistress Shore! I tell thee,
fellow, [faa098]
He that doth naught with her, excepting one,
Were best he do it secretly, alone. [faa100]
_Brak._ What one, my lord?
_Glou._ Her husband, knave: wouldst thou betray me? [faa102]
_Brak._ I beseech your grace to pardon me, and withal [faa103]
Forbear your conference with the noble duke. [faa104]
_Clar._ We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey. [faa105]
_Glou._ We are the queen’s abjects, and must obey. [faa106]
Brother, farewell: I will unto the king;
And whatsoever you will employ me in, [faa108]
Were it to call King Edward’s widow sister,
I will perform it to enfranchise you. ·faa110·
Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood [faa111]
Touches me deeper than you can imagine.
_Clar._ I know it pleaseth neither of us well.
_Glou._ Well, your imprisonment shall not be long;
I will deliver you, or else lie for you: [faa115]
Meantime, have patience.
_Clar._ I must perforce. Farewell. [faa116]
[_Exeunt Clarence, Brakenbury, and Guard._
_Glou._ Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne’er return, [faa117]
Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,
That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
If heaven will take the present at our hands. [faa120]
But who comes here? the new-deliver’d Hastings? [faa121]
_Enter_ LORD HASTINGS.
_Hast._ Good time of day unto my gracious lord!
_Glou._ As much unto my good lord chamberlain!
Well are you welcome to the open air. [faa124]
How hath your lordship brook’d imprisonment? ·faa125·
_Hast._ With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:
But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks
That were the cause of my imprisonment.
_Glou._ No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too:
For they that were your enemies are his, ·faa130·
And have prevail’d as much on him as you.
_Hast._ More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, [faa132]
While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. [faa133]
_Glou._ What news abroad? [faa134]
_Hast._ No news so bad abroad as this at home; ·faa135·
The king is sickly, weak and melancholy,
And his physicians fear him mightily.
_Glou._ Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed. [faa138]
O, he hath kept an evil diet long, [faa139]
And overmuch consumed his royal person: ·faa140·
’Tis very grievous to be thought upon.
What, is he in his bed? [faa142]
_Hast._ He is. [faa143]
_Glou._ Go you before, and I will follow you. [_Exit Hastings_
He cannot live, I hope; and must not die ·faa145·
Till George be pack’d with post-horse up to heaven. [faa146]
I’ll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,
With lies well steel’d with weighty arguments; [faa148]
And, if I fail not in my deep intent,
Clarence hath not another day to live: ·faa150·
Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,
And leave the world for me to bustle in!
For then I’ll marry Warwick’s youngest daughter.
What though I kill’d her husband and her father? [faa154]
The readiest way to make the wench amends ·faa155·
Is to become her husband and her father:
The which will I; not all so much for love
As for another secret close intent,
By marrying her which I must reach unto. [faa159]
But yet I run before my horse to market: ·faa160·
Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns; [faa161]
When they are gone, then must I count my gains. [_Exit._
SCENE II. _The same. Another street_.
_Enter the corpse of_ KING HENRY the Sixth, Gentlemen _with halberds
to guard it;_ LADY ANNE _being the mourner_.
_Anne._ Set down, set down your honourable load-- [fab001]
If honour may be shrouded in a hearse--
Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament [fab003]
The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
Poor key-cold figure of a holy king! [fab005]
Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!
Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!
Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost, [fab008]
To hear the lamentations of poor Anne,
Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter’d son, ·fab010·
Stabb’d by the selfsame hand that made these wounds! [fab011]
Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life [fab012]
I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes. [fab013]
Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes! [fab014]
Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it! [fab015]
Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence! [fab016]
More direful hap betide that hated wretch,
That makes us wretched by the death of thee,
Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads, [fab019]
Or any creeping venom’d thing that lives! ·fab020·
If ever he have child, abortive be it, [fab021]
Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,
Whose ugly and unnatural aspect
May fright the hopeful mother at the view;
And that be heir to his unhappiness! [fab025]
If ever he have wife, let her be made [fab026]
As miserable by the death of him [fab027]
As I am made by my poor lord and thee! [fab028]
Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load, [fab029]
Taken from Paul’s to be interred there; ·fab030·
And still, as you are weary of the weight, [fab031]
Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry’s corse. [fab032]
_Enter_ GLOUCESTER.
_Glou._ Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.
_Anne._ What black magician conjures up this fiend,
To stop devoted charitable deeds? ·fab035·
_Glou._ Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, [fab036]
I’ll make a corse of him that disobeys.
_Gent._ My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass. [fab038]
_Glou._ Unmanner’d dog! stand thou, when I command: [fab039]
Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, [fab040]
Or, by Saint Paul, I’ll strike thee to my foot,
And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness. [fab042]
_Anne._ What, do you tremble? are you all afraid?
Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal,
And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil. ·fab045·
Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell! [fab046]
Thou hadst but power over his mortal body,
His soul thou canst not have; therefore, be gone. [fab048]
_Glou._ Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.
_Anne._ Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us
not; [fab050]
For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.
O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry’s wounds ·fab055·
Open their congeal’d mouths and bleed afresh.
Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity;
For ’tis thy presence that exhales this blood
From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells; [fab059]
Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural, [fab060]
Provokes this deluge most unnatural.
O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!
O earth, which this blood drink’st, revenge his death! [fab063]
Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead, [fab064]
Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick, [fab065]
As thou dost swallow up this good king’s blood, [fab066]
Which his hell-govern’d arm hath butchered! [fab067]
_Glou._ Lady, you know no rules of charity, [fab068]
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. [fab069]
_Anne._ Villain, thou know’st no law of God nor man: [fab070]
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
_Glou._ But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
_Anne._ O wonderful, when devils tell the truth! [fab073]
_Glou._ More wonderful, when angels are so angry.
Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman, [fab075]
Of these supposed evils, to give me leave, [fab076]
By circumstance, but to acquit myself.
_Anne._ Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man, [fab078]
For these known evils, but to give me leave, [fab079]
By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self. ·fab080·
_Glou._ Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have
Some patient leisure to excuse myself.
_Anne._ Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make [fab083]
No excuse current, but to hang thyself. [fab084]
_Glou._ By such despair, I should accuse myself. ·fab085·
_Anne._ And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused [fab086]
For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,
Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others. [fab088]
_Glou._ Say that I slew them not?
_Anne._ Why, then they are not
dead: [fab089]
But dead they are, and, devilish slave, by thee. ·fab090·
_Glou._ I did not kill your husband.
_Anne._ Why, then he is alive. [fab091]
_Glou._ Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward’s hand. [fab092]
_Anne._ In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw [fab093]
Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood; [fab094]
The which thou once didst bend against her breast, [fab095]
But that thy brothers beat aside the point. [fab096]
_Glou._ I was provoked by her slanderous tongue, [fab097]
Which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders. [fab098]
_Anne._ Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind,
Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries: [fab100]
Didst thou not kill this king?
_Glou._ I grant ye. [fab101]
_Anne._ Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too [fab102]
Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!
O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!
_Glou._ The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him. [fab105]
_Anne._ He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.
_Glou._ Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither; [fab107]
For he was fitter for that place than earth.
_Anne._ And thou unfit for any place but hell.
_Glou._ Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it. [fab110]
_Anne._ Some dungeon.
_Glou._ Your bed-chamber. [fab111]
_Anne._ Ill rest betide the chamber where thou liest!
_Glou._ So will it, madam, till I lie with you.
_Anne._ I hope so.
_Glou._ I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne, [fab114]
To leave this keen encounter of our wits, [fab115]
And fall somewhat into a slower method, [fab116]
Is not the causer of the timeless deaths [fab117]
Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
As blameful as the executioner? [fab119]
_Anne._ Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect. [fab120]
_Glou._ Your beauty was the cause of that effect;
Your beauty, which did haunt me in my sleep [fab122]
To undertake the death of all the world,
So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom. [fab124]
_Anne._ If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide, ·fab125·
These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks. [fab126]
_Glou._ These eyes could never endure sweet beauty’s wreck; [fab127]
You should not blemish it, if I stood by: [fab128]
As all the world is cheered by the sun, [fab129]
So I by that; it is my day, my life. ·fab130·
_Anne._ Black night o’ershade thy day, and death thy life! [fab131]
_Glou._ Curse not thyself, fair creature; thou art both. [fab132]
_Anne._ I would I were, to be revenged on thee.
_Glou._ It is a quarrel most unnatural,
To be revenged on him that loveth you. [fab135]
_Anne._ It is a quarrel just and reasonable,
To be revenged on him that slew my husband. [fab137]
_Glou._ He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband, [fab138]
Did it to help thee to a better husband.
_Anne._ His better doth not breathe upon the earth. ·fab140·
_Glou._ He lives that loves you better than he could. [fab141]
_Anne._ Name him.
_Glou._ Plantagenet.
_Anne._ Why, that was he. [fab142]
_Glou._ The selfsame name, but one of better nature.
_Anne._ Where is he? [fab144]
_Glou._ Here. [_She spitteth at him._] Why dost thou spit
at me? [fab145]
_Anne._ Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!
_Glou._ Never came poison from so sweet a place. [fab147]
_Anne._ Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes. [fab149]
_Glou._ Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine. ·fab150·
_Anne._ Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!
_Glou._ I would they were, that I might die at once;
For now they kill me with a living death. [fab153]
Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,
Shamed their aspect with store of childish drops: [fab155]
These eyes, which never shed remorseful tear, [fab156]
No, when my father York and Edward wept, [fab157]
To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made
When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;
Nor when thy warlike father, like a child, [fab160]
Told the sad story of my father’s death,
And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,
That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks,
Like trees bedash’d with rain: in that sad time
My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear; ·fab165·
And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,
Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.
I never sued to friend nor enemy; [fab168]
My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing words; [fab169]
But, now thy beauty is proposed my fee, ·fab170·
My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak. [fab171]
[_She looks scornfully at him._
Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made [fab172]
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,
Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword; ·fab175·
Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom, [fab176]
And let the soul forth that adoreth thee, [fab177]
I lay it naked to the deadly stroke, [fab178]
And humbly beg the death upon my knee. [fab179]
[_He lays his breast open: she offers at it with his
sword._
Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry, [fab180]
But ’twas thy beauty that provoked me.
Nay, now dispatch; ’twas I that stabb’d young Edward, [fab182]
But ’twas thy heavenly face that set me on. [fab183]
[_Here she lets fall the sword._
Take up the sword again, or take up me. [fab184]
_Anne._ Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death, ·fab185·
I will not be the executioner. [fab186]
_Glou._ Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.
_Anne._ I have already.
_Glou._ Tush, that was in thy rage: [fab188]
Speak it again, and, even with the word, [fab189]
That hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love, [fab190]
Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love;
To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. [fab192]
_Anne._ I would I knew thy heart. [fab193]
_Glou._ ’Tis figured in my tongue.
_Anne._ I fear me both are false. ·fab195·
_Glou._ Then never man was true. [fab196]
_Anne._ Well, well, put up your sword.
_Glou._ Say, then, my peace is made.
_Anne._ That shall you know hereafter. [fab199]
_Glou._ But shall I live in hope? [fab200]
_Anne._ All men, I hope, live so.
_Glou._ Vouchsafe to wear this ring. [fab202]
_Anne._ To take is not to give. [fab203]
_Glou._ Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, [fab204]
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; [fab205]
Wear both of them, for both of them are thine. [fab206]
And if thy poor devoted suppliant may [fab207]
But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,
Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever. [fab209]
_Anne._ What is it? [fab210]
_Glou._ That it would please thee leave these sad designs [fab211]
To him that hath more cause to be a mourner, [fab212]
And presently repair to Crosby Place; [fab213]
Where, after I have solemnly interr’d
At Chertsey monastery this noble king, ·fab215·
And wet his grave with my repentant tears,
I will with all expedient duty see you:
For divers unknown reasons, I beseech you,
Grant me this boon.
_Anne._ With all my heart; and much it joys me too, ·fab220·
To see you are become so penitent.
Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me. [fab222]
_Glou._ Bid me farewell.
_Anne._ ’Tis more than you deserve;
But since you teach me how to flatter you,
Imagine I have said farewell already. [fab225]
[_Exeunt Lady Anne, Tressel, and Berkeley._
_Glou._ Sirs, take up the corse.
_Gent._ Towards Chertsey, noble lord? [fab226]
_Glou._ No, to White-Friars; there attend my coming. [fab227]
[_Exeunt all but Gloucester._
Was ever woman in this humour woo’d? [fab228]
Was ever woman in this humour won? [fab229]
I’ll have her; but I will not keep her long. ·fab230·
What! I, that kill’d her husband and his father, [fab231]
To take her in her heart’s extremest hate, [fab232]
With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
The bleeding witness of her hatred by; [fab234]
Having God, her conscience, and these bars against me, [fab235]
And I nothing to back my suit at all, [fab236]
But the plain devil and dissembling looks,
And yet to win her, all the world to nothing! [fab238]
Ha! [fab239]
Hath she forgot already that brave prince, ·fab240·
Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
Stabb’d in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, [fab243]
Framed in the prodigality of nature,
Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal, [fab245]
The spacious world cannot again afford: [fab246]
And will she yet debase her eyes on me, [fab247]
That cropp’d the golden prime of this sweet prince, [fab248]
And made her widow to a woful bed? [fab249]
On me, whose all not equals Edward’s moiety? [fab250]
On me, that halt and am unshapen thus? [fab251]
My dukedom to a beggarly denier, [fab252]
I do mistake my person all this while:
Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
Myself to be a marvellous proper man. ·fab255·
I’ll be at charges for a looking-glass, [fab256]
And entertain some score or two of tailors, [fab257]
To study fashions to adorn my body: [fab258]
Since I am crept in favour with myself,
I will maintain it with some little cost. [fab260]
But first I’ll turn yon fellow in his grave; [fab261]
And then return lamenting to my love.
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, [fab263]
That I may see my shadow as I pass. [_Exit._
SCENE III. _The palace_.
_Enter_ QUEEN ELIZABETH, LORD RIVERS, _and_ LORD GREY.
_Riv._ Have patience, madam: there’s no doubt his majesty [fac001]
Will soon recover his accustom’d health.
_Grey._ In that you brook it ill, it makes him worse: [fac003]
Therefore, for God’s sake, entertain good comfort,
And cheer his grace with quick and merry words. [fac005]
_Q. Eliz._ If he were dead, what would betide of me? [fac006]
_Riv._ No other harm but loss of such a lord. [fac007]
_Q. Eliz._ The loss of such a lord includes all harm. [fac008]
_Grey._ The heavens have bless’d you with a goodly son,
To be your comforter when he is gone. ·fac010·
_Q. Eliz._ Oh, he is young, and his minority [fac011]
Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester, [fac012]
A man that loves not me, nor none of you.
_Riv._ Is it concluded he shall be protector? [fac014]
_Q. Eliz._ It is determined, not concluded yet: ·fac015·
But so it must be, if the king miscarry. [fac016]
_Enter_ BUCKINGHAM and DERBY.
_Grey._ Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby. [fac017]
_Buck._ Good time of day unto your royal grace!
_Der._ God make your majesty joyful as you have been!
_Q. Eliz._ The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby, ·fac020·
To your good prayers will scarcely say amen. [fac021]
Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she’s your wife,
And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured
I hate not you for her proud arrogance. [fac024]
_Der._ I do beseech you, either not believe [fac025]
The envious slanders of her false accusers; [fac026]
Or, if she be accused in true report, [fac027]
Bear with her weakness, which, I think, proceeds
From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.
_Riv._ Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby? [fac030]
_Der._ But now the Duke of Buckingham and I
Are come from visiting his majesty. [fac032]
_Q. Eliz._ What likelihood of his amendment, lords? [fac033]
_Buck._ Madam, good hope; his grace speaks cheerfully. [fac034]
_Q. Eliz._ God grant him health! Did you confer with him? ·fac035·
_Buck._ Madam, we did: he desires to make atonement [fac036]
Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers, [fac037]
And betwixt them and my lord chamberlain;
And sent to warn them to his royal presence. [fac039]
_Q. Eliz._ Would all were well! but that will never be: ·fac040·
I fear our happiness is at the highest. [fac041]
_Enter_ GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, _and_ DORSET.
_Glou._ They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:
Who are they that complain unto the king, [fac043]
That I, forsooth, am stern and love them not? [fac044]
By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly [fac045]
That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours. [fac046]
Because I cannot flatter and speak fair, [fac047]
Smile in men’s faces, smooth, deceive and cog, [fac048]
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy. ·fac050·
Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
But thus his simple truth must be abused [fac052]
By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks? [fac053]
_Riv._ To whom in all this presence speaks your grace? [fac054]
_Glou._ To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace. [fac055]
When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?
Or thee? or thee? or any of your faction? [fac057]
A plague upon you all! His royal person-- [fac058]
Whom God preserve better than you would wish!-- [fac059]
Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while, ·fac060·
But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.
_Q. Eliz._ Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
The king, of his own royal disposition, [fac063]
And not provoked by any suitor else; [fac064]
Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred, ·fac065·
Which in your outward actions shows itself [fac066]
Against my kindred, brothers, and myself, [fac067]
Makes him to send; that thereby he may gather [fac068]
The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it.
_Glou._ I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad, ·fac070·
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch: [fac071]
Since every Jack became a gentleman,
There’s many a gentle person made a Jack.
_Q. Eliz._ Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Gloucester;
You envy my advancement and my friends’: [fac075]
God grant we never may have need of you!
_Glou._ Meantime, God grants that we have need of you: [fac077]
Our brother is imprison’d by your means,
Myself disgraced, and the nobility
Held in contempt; whilst many fair promotions [fac080]
Are daily given to ennoble those
That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.
_Q. Eliz._ By Him that raised me to this careful height
From that contented hap which I enjoy’d,
I never did incense his majesty ·fac085·
Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been
An earnest advocate to plead for him.
My lord, you do me shameful injury,
Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects. [fac089]
_Glou._ You may deny that you were not the cause [fac090]
Of my Lord Hastings’ late imprisonment.
_Riv._ She may, my lord, for-- [fac092]
_Glou._ She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?
She may do more, sir, than denying that:
She may help you to many fair preferments; [fac095]
And then deny her aiding hand therein,
And lay those honours on your high deserts. [fac097]
What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she,-- [fac098]
_Riv._ What, marry, may she? [fac099]
_Glou._ What, marry, may she! marry with a king, ·fac100·
A bachelor, a handsome stripling too: [fac101]
I wis your grandam had a worser match. [fac102]
_Q. Eliz._ My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne
Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:
By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty ·fac105·
With those gross taunts I often have endured. [fac106]
I had rather be a country servant-maid
Than a great queen, with this condition, [fac108]
To be thus taunted, scorn’d, and baited at: [fac109]
_Enter_ QUEEN MARGARET, _behind_.
Small joy have I in being England’s queen. ·fac110·
_Q. Mar._ And lessen’d be that small, God, I beseech thee! [fac111]
Thy honour, state and seat is due to me.
_Glou._ What! threat you me with telling of the king? [fac113]
Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said [fac114]
I will avouch in presence of the king: [fac115]
I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower. [fac116]
’Tis time to speak; my pains are quite forgot. [fac117]
_Q. Mar._ Out, devil! I remember them too well: [fac118]
Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower, [fac119]
And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury. ·fac120·
_Glou._ Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king, [fac121]
I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;
A weeder out of his proud adversaries,
A liberal rewarder of his friends:
To royalise his blood I spilt mine own. [fac125]
_Q. Mar._ Yea, and much better blood than his or thine. [fac126]
_Glou._ In all which time you and your husband Grey
Were factious for the house of Lancaster;
And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband [fac129]
In Margaret’s battle at Saint Alban’s slain? ·fac130·
Let me put in your minds, if you forget, [fac131]
What you have been ere now, and what you are; [fac132]
Withal, what I have been, and what I am.
_Q. Mar._ A murderous villain, and so still thou art.
_Glou._ Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick; ·fac135·
Yea, and forswore himself,--which Jesu pardon!--
_Q. Mar._ Which God revenge!
_Glou._ To fight on Edward’s party for the crown;
And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew’d up.
I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward’s; ·fac140·
Or Edward’s soft and pitiful, like mine:
I am too childish-foolish for this world. [fac142]
_Q. Mar._ Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world, [fac143]
Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is.
_Riv._ My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days ·fac145·
Which here you urge to prove us enemies,
We follow’d then our lord, our lawful king: [fac147]
So should we you, if you should be our king. [fac148]
_Glou._ If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar: [fac149]
Far be it from my heart, the thought of it! [fac150]
_Q. Eliz._ As little joy, my lord, as you suppose [fac151]
You should enjoy, were you this country’s king,
As little joy may you suppose in me, [fac153]
That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.
_Q. Mar._ A little joy enjoys the queen thereof; [fac155]
For I am she, and altogether joyless.
I can no longer hold me patient. [_Advancing._ [fac157]
Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
In sharing that which you have pill’d from me! [fac159]
Which of you trembles not that looks on me? [fac160]
If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects, [fac161]
Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels? [fac162]
O gentle villain, do not turn away! [fac163]
_Glou._ Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?
_Q. Mar._ But repetition of what thou hast marr’d; ·fac165·
That will I make before I let thee go.
_Glou._ Wert thou not banished on pain of death? [fac167]
_Q. Mar._ I was; but I do find more pain in banishment
Than death can yield me here by my abode. [fac169]
A husband and a son thou owest to me; [fac170]
And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:
The sorrow that I have, by right is yours, [fac172]
And all the pleasures you usurp are mine. [fac173]
_Glou._ The curse my noble father laid on thee,
When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper ·fac175·
And with thy scorns drew’st rivers from his eyes, [fac176]
And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout
Steep’d in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland,-- [fac178]
His curses, then from bitterness of soul
Denounced against thee, are all fall’n upon thee; [fac180]
And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed. [fac181]
_Q. Eliz._ So just is God, to right the innocent. [fac182]
_Hast._ O, ’twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,
And the most merciless that e’er was heard of! [fac184]
_Riv._ Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported. ·fac185·
_Dor._ No man but prophesied revenge for it.
_Buck._ Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.
_Q. Mar._ What! were you snarling all before I came,
Ready to catch each other by the throat,
And turn you all your hatred now on me? [fac190]
Did York’s dread curse prevail so much with heaven
That Henry’s death, my lovely Edward’s death,
Their kingdom’s loss, my woful banishment, [fac193]
Could all but answer for that peevish brat? [fac194]
Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven? ·fac195·
Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!
If not by war, by surfeit die your king, [fac197]
As ours by murder, to make him a king! [fac198]
Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales, [fac199]
For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales, [fac200]
Die in his youth by like untimely violence! [fac201]
Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,
Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!
Long mayst thou live to wail thy children’s loss; [fac204]
And see another, as I see thee now, [fac205]
Deck’d in thy rights, as thou art stall’d in mine! [fac206]
Long die thy happy days before thy death;
And, after many lengthen’d hours of grief, [fac208]
Die neither mother, wife, nor England’s queen!
Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by, ·fac210·
And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son [fac211]
Was stabb’d with bloody daggers: God, I pray him,
That none of you may live your natural age, [fac213]
But by some unlook’d accident cut off! [fac214]
_Glou._ Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither’d hag! ·fac215·
_Q. Mar._ And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear
me. [fac216]
If heaven have any grievous plague in store [fac217]
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
And then hurl down their indignation ·fac220·
On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace! [fac221]
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!
Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,
And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends! [fac224]
No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine, [fac225]
Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream [fac226]
Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils! [fac227]
Thou elvish-mark’d, abortive, rooting hog! [fac228]
Thou that wast seal’d in thy nativity
The slave of nature and the son of hell! [fac230]
Thou slander of thy mother’s heavy womb! [fac231]
Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins!
Thou rag of honour! thou detested-- [fac233]
_Glou._ Margaret.
_Q. Mar._ Richard!
_Glou._ Ha!
_Q. Mar._ I call thee not. [fac234]
_Glou._ I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought [fac235]
That thou hadst call’d me all these bitter names. [fac236]
_Q. Mar._ Why, so I did; but look’d for no reply. [fac237]
O, let me make the period to my curse!
_Glou._ ’Tis done by me, and ends in ‘Margaret.’ [fac239]
_Q. Eliz._ Thus have you breathed your curse against
yourself. [fac240]
_Q. Mar._ Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune!
Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider, [fac242]
Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
Fool, fool! thou whet’st a knife to kill thyself.
The time will come that thou shalt wish for me [fac245]
To help thee curse that poisonous bunch-back’d toad. [fac246]
_Hast._ False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse, [fac247]
Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.
_Q. Mar._ Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine. [fac249]
_Riv._ Were you well served, you would be taught your duty. ·fac250·
_Q. Mar._ To serve me well, you all should do me duty, [fac251]
Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects: [fac252]
O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty! [fac253]
_Dor._ Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.
_Q. Mar._ Peace, master marquess, you are malapert: ·fac255·
Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.
O, that your young nobility could judge [fac257]
What ’twere to lose it, and be miserable!
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; [fac259]
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. [fac260]
_Glou._ Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess.
_Dor._ It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me. [fac262]
_Glou._ Yea, and much more: but I was born so high, [fac263]
Our aery buildeth in the cedar’s top,
And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun. ·fac265·
_Q. Mar._ And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas!
Witness my son, now in the shade of death; [fac267]
Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath
Hath in eternal darkness folded up.
Your aery buildeth in our aery’s nest. [fac270]
O God, that seest it, do not suffer it;
As it was won with blood, lost be it so! [fac272]
_Buck._ Have done! for shame, if not for charity. [fac273]
_Q. Mar._ Urge neither charity nor shame to me:
Uncharitably with me have you dealt, ·fac275·
And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher’d. [fac276]
My charity is outrage, life my shame;
And in that shame still live my sorrow’s rage! [fac278]
_Buck._ Have done, have done. [fac279]
_Q. Mar._ O princely Buckingham, I’ll kiss thy hand, [fac280]
In sign of league and amity with thee:
Now fair befal thee and thy noble house! [fac282]
Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,
Nor thou within the compass of my curse.
_Buck._ Nor no one here; for curses never pass [fac285]
The lips of those that breathe them in the air. [fac286]
_Q. Mar._ I’ll not believe but they ascend the sky, [fac287]
And there awake God’s gentle-sleeping peace. [fac288]
O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog! [fac289]
Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites, ·fac290·
His venom tooth will rankle to the death: [fac291]
Have not to do with him, beware of him; [fac292]
Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, [fac293]
And all their ministers attend on him.
_Glou._ What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham? ·fac295·
_Buck._ Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.
_Q. Mar._ What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel? [fac297]
And soothe the devil that I warn thee from? [fac298]
O, but remember this another day,
When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow, ·fac300·
And say poor Margaret was a prophetess. [fac301]
Live each of you the subjects to his hate, [fac302]
And he to yours, and all of you to God’s! [_Exit._ [fac303]
_Hast._ My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses. [fac304]
_Riv._ And so doth mine: I muse why she’s at liberty. [fac305]
_Glou._ I cannot blame her: by God’s holy mother,
She hath had too much wrong; and I repent
My part thereof that I have done to her. [fac308]
_Q. Eliz._ I never did her any, to my knowledge. [fac309]
_Glou._ But you have all the vantage of her wrong. [fac310]
I was too hot to do somebody good, [fac311]
That is too cold in thinking of it now. [fac312]
Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid; [fac313]
He is frank’d up to fatting for his pains:
God pardon them that are the cause of it! [fac315]
_Riv._ A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion, [fac316]
To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
_Glou._ So do I ever: [_Aside_] being well advised: [fac318]
For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself. [fac319]
_Enter_ CATESBY.
_Cates._ Madam, his majesty doth call for you; ·fac320·
And for your grace; and you, my noble lords. [fac321]
_Q. Eliz._ Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us? [fac322]
_Riv._ Madam, we will attend your grace. [fac323]
[_Exeunt all but Gloucester._
_Glou._ I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. [fac324]
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach [fac325]
I lay unto the grievous charge of others. [fac326]
Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness, [fac327]
I do beweep to many simple gulls;
Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham; [fac329]
And say it is the queen and her allies [fac330]
That stir the king against the duke my brother. [fac331]
Now, they believe it; and withal whet me [fac332]
To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: [fac333]
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, [fac334]
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: [fac335]
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ; [fac337]
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. [fac338]
_Enter two_ Murderers.
But, soft! here come my executioners. [fac339]
How now, my hardy stout resolved mates! [fac340]
Are you now going to dispatch this deed? [fac341]
_First Murd._ We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant, [fac342]
That we may be admitted where he is.
_Glou._ Well thought upon; I have it here about me. [fac344]
[_Gives the warrant._
When you have done, repair to Crosby Place. ·fac345·
But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,
Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;
For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps
May move your hearts to pity, if you mark him.
_First Murd._ Tush! [fac350]
Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
Talkers are no good doers: be assured [fac352]
We come to use our hands and not our tongues. [fac353]
_Glou._ Your eyes drop millstones, when fools’ eyes drop
tears. [fac354]
I like you, lads: about your business straight. [fac355]
Go, go, dispatch. [fac356]
_First Murd._ We will, my noble lord. [_Exeunt._
SCENE IV. _London. The Tower_.
_Enter_ CLARENCE _and_ BRAKENBURY.
_Brak._ Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? [fad001]
_Clar._ O, I have pass’d a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, [fad003]
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night, ·fad005·
Though ’twere to buy a world of happy days, [fad006]
So full of dismal terror was the time!
_Brak._ What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it. [fad008]