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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER, solus</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Now is the winter of our discontent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Made glorious summer by this sun of York;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>And that so lamely and unfashionable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>Have no delight to pass away the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>Unless to spy my shadow in the sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>And descant on mine own deformity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>To entertain these fair well-spoken days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>I am determined to prove a villain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>And hate the idle pleasures of these days.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>To set my brother Clarence and the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>In deadly hate the one against the other:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>And if King Edward be as true and just</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>As I am subtle, false and treacherous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>About a prophecy, which says that 'G'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>Clarence comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>Brother, good day; what means this armed guard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>That waits upon your grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>His majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>Tendering my person's safety, hath appointed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>This conduct to convey me to the Tower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>Upon what cause?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49> Because my name is George.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>He should, for that, commit your godfathers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>O, belike his majesty hath some intent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>That you shall be new-christen'd in the Tower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>But what's the matter, Clarence? may I know?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>And from the cross-row plucks the letter G.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>And says a wizard told him that by G</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>His issue disinherited should be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>And, for my name of George begins with G,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>It follows in his thought that I am he.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>These, as I learn, and such like toys as these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Have moved his highness to commit me now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>'Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, 'tis she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>That tempers him to this extremity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>Was it not she and that good man of worship,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>Anthony Woodville, her brother there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>From whence this present day he is deliver'd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>By heaven, I think there's no man is secure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>Heard ye not what an humble suppliant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>Lord hastings was to her for his delivery?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>Humbly complaining to her deity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Got my lord chamberlain his liberty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>I'll tell you what; I think it is our way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>If we will keep in favour with the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>To be her men and wear her livery:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>The jealous o'erworn widow and herself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>Are mighty gossips in this monarchy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>I beseech your graces both to pardon me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>His majesty hath straitly given in charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>That no man shall have private conference,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Of what degree soever, with his brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>You may partake of any thing we say:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>We speak no treason, man: we say the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>And that the queen's kindred are made gentle-folks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>How say you sir? Can you deny all this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>With this, my lord, myself have nought to do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>Naught to do with mistress Shore! I tell thee, fellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>He that doth naught with her, excepting one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>Were best he do it secretly, alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>What one, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>Her husband, knave: wouldst thou betray me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>I beseech your grace to pardon me, and withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>Forbear your conference with the noble duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>We are the queen's abjects, and must obey.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>Brother, farewell: I will unto the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>And whatsoever you will employ me in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>Were it to call King Edward's widow sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>I will perform it to enfranchise you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>Touches me deeper than you can imagine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>I know it pleaseth neither of us well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>Well, your imprisonment shall not be long;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>Meantime, have patience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>I must perforce. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CLARENCE, BRAKENBURY, and Guard</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>If heaven will take the present at our hands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>But who comes here? the new-deliver'd Hastings?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HASTINGS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>Good time of day unto my gracious lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>As much unto my good lord chamberlain!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Well are you welcome to the open air.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>How hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>That were the cause of my imprisonment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>For they that were your enemies are his,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>And have prevail'd as much on him as you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>More pity that the eagle should be mew'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>What news abroad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>No news so bad abroad as this at home;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>The King is sickly, weak and melancholy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>And his physicians fear him mightily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>O, he hath kept an evil diet long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>And overmuch consumed his royal person:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>'Tis very grievous to be thought upon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>What, is he in his bed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>He is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>Go you before, and I will follow you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit HASTINGS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>He cannot live, I hope; and must not die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>I'll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>And, if I fall not in my deep intent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Clarence hath not another day to live:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>And leave the world for me to bustle in!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>What though I kill'd her husband and her father?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>The readiest way to make the wench amends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>Is to become her husband and her father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>The which will I; not all so much for love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>As for another secret close intent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>By marrying her which I must reach unto.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>But yet I run before my horse to market:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>When they are gone, then must I count my gains.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same. Another street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the corpse of KING HENRY the Sixth, Gentlemen with halberds to guard it; LADY ANNE being the mourner</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Set down, set down your honourable load,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>To hear the lamentations of Poor Anne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>Stabb'd by the selfsame hand that made these wounds!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>More direful hap betide that hated wretch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>That makes us wretched by the death of thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>If ever he have child, abortive be it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>Whose ugly and unnatural aspect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>May fright the hopeful mother at the view;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>And that be heir to his unhappiness!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>If ever he have wife, let her he made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>A miserable by the death of him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>As I am made by my poor lord and thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>Taken from Paul's to be interred there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>And still, as you are weary of the weight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>What black magician conjures up this fiend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>To stop devoted charitable deeds?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>Unmanner'd dog! stand thou, when I command:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>Advance thy halbert higher than my breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>Or, by Saint Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>What, do you tremble? are you all afraid?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Thou hadst but power over his mortal body,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>His soul thou canst not have; therefore be gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>Foul devil, for God's sake, hence, and trouble us not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>Fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry's wounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>Provokes this deluge most unnatural.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>O earth, which this blood drink'st revenge his death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>Either heaven with lightning strike the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>murderer dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>Which his hell-govern'd arm hath butchered!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>Lady, you know no rules of charity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>But I know none, and therefore am no beast.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>More wonderful, when angels are so angry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>Of these supposed-evils, to give me leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>By circumstance, but to acquit myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>For these known evils, but to give me leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>Some patient leisure to excuse myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>No excuse current, but to hang thyself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>By such despair, I should accuse myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>Say that I slew them not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>Why, then they are not dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>But dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>I did not kill your husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>Why, then he is alive.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward's hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>The which thou once didst bend against her breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>But that thy brothers beat aside the point.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>Didst thou not kill this king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>I grant ye.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.108>O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.109>The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.110>He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.111>Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.112>For he was fitter for that place than earth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.113>And thou unfit for any place but hell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.114>Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.115>Some dungeon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.116> Your bed-chamber.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.117>Ill rest betide the chamber where thou liest!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.118>So will it, madam till I lie with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.119>I hope so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.120>I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.121>To leave this keen encounter of our wits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.122>And fall somewhat into a slower method,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.123>Is not the causer of the timeless deaths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.124>Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.125>As blameful as the executioner?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.126>Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.127>Your beauty was the cause of that effect;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.128>Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.129>To undertake the death of all the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.130>So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.131>If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.132>These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.133>These eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.134>You should not blemish it, if I stood by:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.135>As all the world is cheered by the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.136>So I by that; it is my day, my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.137>Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.138>Curse not thyself, fair creature thou art both.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.139>I would I were, to be revenged on thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.140>It is a quarrel most unnatural,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.141>To be revenged on him that loveth you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.142>It is a quarrel just and reasonable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.143>To be revenged on him that slew my husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.144>He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.145>Did it to help thee to a better husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.146>His better doth not breathe upon the earth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.147>He lives that loves thee better than he could.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.148>Name him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.149> Plantagenet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.150>Why, that was he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.151>The selfsame name, but one of better nature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.152>Where is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.153> Here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>She spitteth at him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.154>Why dost thou spit at me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.155>Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.156>Never came poison from so sweet a place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.157>Never hung poison on a fouler toad.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.158>Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.159>Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.160>Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.161>I would they were, that I might die at once;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.162>For now they kill me with a living death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.163>Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.164>Shamed their aspect with store of childish drops:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.165>These eyes that never shed remorseful tear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.166>No, when my father York and Edward wept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.167>To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.168>When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.169>Nor when thy warlike father, like a child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.170>Told the sad story of my father's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.171>And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.172>That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.173>Like trees bedash'd with rain: in that sad time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.174>My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.175>And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.176>Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.177>I never sued to friend nor enemy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.178>My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.179>But now thy beauty is proposed my fee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.180>My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>She looks scornfully at him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.181>Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.182>For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.183>If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.184>Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.185>Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.186>And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.187>I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.188>And humbly beg the death upon my knee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He lays his breast open: she offers at it with his sword</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.189>Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.190>But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.191>Nay, now dispatch; 'twas I that stabb'd young Edward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.192>But 'twas thy heavenly face that set me on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here she lets fall the sword</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.193>Take up the sword again, or take up me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.194>Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.195>I will not be the executioner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.196>Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.197>I have already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.198> Tush, that was in thy rage:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.199>Speak it again, and, even with the word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.200>That hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.201>Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.202>To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.203>I would I knew thy heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.204>'Tis figured in my tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.205>I fear me both are false.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.206>Then never man was true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.207>Well, well, put up your sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.208>Say, then, my peace is made.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.209>That shall you know hereafter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.210>But shall I live in hope?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.211>All men, I hope, live so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.212>Vouchsafe to wear this ring.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.213>To take is not to give.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.214>Look, how this ring encompasseth finger.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.215>Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.216>Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.217>And if thy poor devoted suppliant may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.218>But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.219>Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.220>What is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.221>That it would please thee leave these sad designs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.222>To him that hath more cause to be a mourner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.223>And presently repair to Crosby Place;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.224>Where, after I have solemnly interr'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.225>At Chertsey monastery this noble king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.226>And wet his grave with my repentant tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.227>I will with all expedient duty see you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.228>For divers unknown reasons. I beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.229>Grant me this boon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.230>With all my heart; and much it joys me too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.231>To see you are become so penitent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.232>Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.233>Bid me farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.234>'Tis more than you deserve;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.235>But since you teach me how to flatter you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.236>Imagine I have said farewell already.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt LADY ANNE, TRESSEL, and BERKELEY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.237>Sirs, take up the corse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>GENTLEMEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.238>Towards Chertsey, noble lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.239>No, to White-Friars; there attend my coining.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.240>Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.241>Was ever woman in this humour won?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.242>I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.243>What! I, that kill'd her husband and his father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.244>To take her in her heart's extremest hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.245>With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.246>The bleeding witness of her hatred by;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.247>Having God, her conscience, and these bars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.248>against me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.249>And I nothing to back my suit at all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.250>But the plain devil and dissembling looks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.251>And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.252>Ha!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.253>Hath she forgot already that brave prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.254>Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.255>Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.256>A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.257>Framed in the prodigality of nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.258>Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.259>The spacious world cannot again afford</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.260>And will she yet debase her eyes on me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.261>That cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.262>And made her widow to a woful bed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.263>On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.264>On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.265>My dukedom to a beggarly denier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.266>I do mistake my person all this while:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.267>Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.268>Myself to be a marvellous proper man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.269>I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.270>And entertain some score or two of tailors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.271>To study fashions to adorn my body:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.272>Since I am crept in favour with myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.273>Will maintain it with some little cost.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.274>But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.275>And then return lamenting to my love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.276>Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.277>That I may see my shadow as I pass.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, RIVERS, and GREY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>Have patience, madam: there's no doubt his majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>Will soon recover his accustom'd health.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>In that you brook it in, it makes him worse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>Therefore, for God's sake, entertain good comfort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>And cheer his grace with quick and merry words.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>If he were dead, what would betide of me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>No other harm but loss of such a lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>The loss of such a lord includes all harm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>The heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>To be your comforter when he is gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>Oh, he is young and his minority</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>A man that loves not me, nor none of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>Is it concluded that he shall be protector?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>It is determined, not concluded yet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>But so it must be, if the king miscarry.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BUCKINGHAM and DERBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>Good time of day unto your royal grace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>God make your majesty joyful as you have been!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>To your good prayers will scarcely say amen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she's your wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>I hate not you for her proud arrogance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>I do beseech you, either not believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>The envious slanders of her false accusers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>Or, if she be accused in true report,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>Bear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>But now the Duke of Buckingham and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>Are come from visiting his majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>What likelihood of his amendment, lords?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>Madam, good hope; his grace speaks cheerfully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>God grant him health! Did you confer with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>Madam, we did: he desires to make atonement</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>And betwixt them and my lord chamberlain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>And sent to warn them to his royal presence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>Would all were well! but that will never be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>I fear our happiness is at the highest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and DORSET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>Who are they that complain unto the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>I must be held a rancorous enemy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>But thus his simple truth must be abused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>Or thee? or thee? or any of your faction?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>A plague upon you all! His royal person,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>Whom God preserve better than you would wish!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>The king, of his own royal disposition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>And not provoked by any suitor else;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>Which in your outward actions shows itself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>Against my kindred, brothers, and myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>Makes him to send; that thereby he may gather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>Since every Jack became a gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>There's many a gentle person made a Jack.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>Come, come, we know your meaning, brother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>Gloucester;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>You envy my advancement and my friends':</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>God grant we never may have need of you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>Meantime, God grants that we have need of you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>Your brother is imprison'd by your means,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>Myself disgraced, and the nobility</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>Held in contempt; whilst many fair promotions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>Are daily given to ennoble those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>By Him that raised me to this careful height</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>I never did incense his majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>An earnest advocate to plead for him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>My lord, you do me shameful injury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>You may deny that you were not the cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>She may, my lord, for--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>She may do more, sir, than denying that:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>She may help you to many fair preferments,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>And then deny her aiding hand therein,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>And lay those honours on your high deserts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>What, marry, may she?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>What, marry, may she! marry with a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>I wis your grandam had a worser match.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>With those gross taunts I often have endured.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>I had rather be a country servant-maid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>Than a great queen, with this condition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>To be thus taunted, scorn'd, and baited at:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter QUEEN MARGARET, behind</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>Small joy have I in being England's queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.112>And lessen'd be that small, God, I beseech thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.113>Thy honour, state and seat is due to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.114>What! threat you me with telling of the king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.115>Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.116>I will avouch in presence of the king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.117>I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.118>'Tis time to speak; my pains are quite forgot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.119>Out, devil! I remember them too well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.120>Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.121>And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.122>Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.123>I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.124>A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.125>A liberal rewarder of his friends:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.126>To royalize his blood I spilt mine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.127>Yea, and much better blood than his or thine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.128>In all which time you and your husband Grey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.129>Were factious for the house of Lancaster;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.130>And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.131>In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.132>Let me put in your minds, if you forget,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.133>What you have been ere now, and what you are;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.134>Withal, what I have been, and what I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.135>A murderous villain, and so still thou art.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.136>Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.137>Yea, and forswore himself,--which Jesu pardon!--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.138>Which God revenge!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.139>To fight on Edward's party for the crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.140>And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.141>I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.142>Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.143>I am too childish-foolish for this world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.144>Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.145>Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.146>My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.147>Which here you urge to prove us enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.148>We follow'd then our lord, our lawful king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.149>So should we you, if you should be our king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.150>If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.151>Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.152>As little joy, my lord, as you suppose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.153>You should enjoy, were you this country's king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.154>As little joy may you suppose in me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.155>That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.156>A little joy enjoys the queen thereof;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.157>For I am she, and altogether joyless.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.158>I can no longer hold me patient.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Advancing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.159>Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.160>In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.161>Which of you trembles not that looks on me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.162>If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.163>Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.164>O gentle villain, do not turn away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.165>Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.166>But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.167>That will I make before I let thee go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.168>Wert thou not banished on pain of death?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.169>I was; but I do find more pain in banishment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.170>Than death can yield me here by my abode.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.171>A husband and a son thou owest to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.172>And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.173>The sorrow that I have, by right is yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.174>And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.175>The curse my noble father laid on thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.176>When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.177>And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.178>And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.179>Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.180>His curses, then from bitterness of soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.181>Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.182>And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.183>So just is God, to right the innocent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.184>O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.185>And the most merciless that e'er was heard of!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.186>Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>DORSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.187>No man but prophesied revenge for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.188>Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.189>What were you snarling all before I came,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.190>Ready to catch each other by the throat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.191>And turn you all your hatred now on me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.192>Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.193>That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.194>Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.195>Could all but answer for that peevish brat?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.196>Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.197>Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.198>If not by war, by surfeit die your king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.199>As ours by murder, to make him a king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.200>Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.201>For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.202>Die in his youth by like untimely violence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.203>Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.204>Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.205>Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.206>And see another, as I see thee now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.207>Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.208>Long die thy happy days before thy death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.209>And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.210>Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.211>Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.212>And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.213>Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.214>That none of you may live your natural age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.215>But by some unlook'd accident cut off!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.216>Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.217>And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.218>If heaven have any grievous plague in store</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.219>Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.220>O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.221>And then hurl down their indignation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.222>On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.223>The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.224>Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.225>And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.226>No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.227>Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.228>Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.229>Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.230>Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.231>The slave of nature and the son of hell!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.232>Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.233>Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.234>Thou rag of honour! thou detested--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.235>Margaret.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.236> Richard!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.237> Ha!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.238> I call thee not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.239>I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.240>That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.241>Why, so I did; but look'd for no reply.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.242>O, let me make the period to my curse!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.243>'Tis done by me, and ends in 'Margaret.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.244>Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.245>Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.246>Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.247>Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.248>Fool, fool! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.249>The time will come when thou shalt wish for me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.250>To help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.251>False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.252>Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.253>Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.254>Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.255>To serve me well, you all should do me duty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.256>Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.257>O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>DORSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.258>Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.259>Peace, master marquess, you are malapert:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.260>Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.261>O, that your young nobility could judge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.262>What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.263>They that stand high have many blasts to shake them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.264>And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.265>Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>DORSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.266>It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.267>Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.268>Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.269>And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.270>And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.271>Witness my son, now in the shade of death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.272>Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.273>Hath in eternal darkness folded up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.274>Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.275>O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.276>As it was won with blood, lost be it so!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.277>Have done! for shame, if not for charity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.278>Urge neither charity nor shame to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.279>Uncharitably with me have you dealt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.280>And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.281>My charity is outrage, life my shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.282>And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.283>Have done, have done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.284>O princely Buckingham I'll kiss thy hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.285>In sign of league and amity with thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.286>Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.287>Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.288>Nor thou within the compass of my curse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.289>Nor no one here; for curses never pass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.290>The lips of those that breathe them in the air.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.291>I'll not believe but they ascend the sky,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.292>And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.293>O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.294>Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.295>His venom tooth will rankle to the death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.296>Have not to do with him, beware of him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.297>Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.298>And all their ministers attend on him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.299>What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.300>Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.301>What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.302>And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.303>O, but remember this another day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.304>When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.305>And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.306>Live each of you the subjects to his hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.307>And he to yours, and all of you to God's!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.308>My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.309>And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.310>I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.311>She hath had too much wrong; and I repent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.312>My part thereof that I have done to her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.313>I never did her any, to my knowledge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.314>But you have all the vantage of her wrong.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.315>I was too hot to do somebody good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.316>That is too cold in thinking of it now.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.317>Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.318>He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.319>God pardon them that are the cause of it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.320>A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.321>To pray for them that have done scathe to us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.322>So do I ever:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.323>being well-advised.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.324>For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CATESBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.325>Madam, his majesty doth call for you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.326>And for your grace; and you, my noble lords.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.327>Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.328>Madam, we will attend your grace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.329>I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.330>The secret mischiefs that I set abroach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.331>I lay unto the grievous charge of others.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.332>Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.333>I do beweep to many simple gulls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.334>Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.335>And say it is the queen and her allies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.336>That stir the king against the duke my brother.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.337>Now, they believe it; and withal whet me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.338>To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.339>But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.340>Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.341>And thus I clothe my naked villany</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.342>With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.343>And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter two Murderers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.344>But, soft! here come my executioners.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.345>How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.346>Are you now going to dispatch this deed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.347>We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.348>That we may be admitted where he is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.349>Well thought upon; I have it here about me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Gives the warrant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.350>When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.351>But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.352>Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.353>For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.354>May move your hearts to pity if you mark him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.355>Tush!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.356>Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.357>Talkers are no good doers: be assured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.358>We come to use our hands and not our tongues.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.359>Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.360>I like you, lads; about your business straight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.361>Go, go, dispatch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.362> We will, my noble lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. London. The Tower.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.1>Why looks your grace so heavily today?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.2>O, I have pass'd a miserable night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.3>So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.4>That, as I am a Christian faithful man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.5>I would not spend another such a night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.6>Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.7>So full of dismal terror was the time!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.8>What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.9>Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.10>And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.11>And, in my company, my brother Gloucester;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.12>Who from my cabin tempted me to walk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.13>Upon the hatches: thence we looked toward England,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.14>And cited up a thousand fearful times,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.15>During the wars of York and Lancaster</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.16>That had befall'n us. As we paced along</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.17>Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.18>Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.19>Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.20>Into the tumbling billows of the main.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.21>Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.22>What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.23>What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.24>Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.25>Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.26>Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.27>Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.28>All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.29>Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.30>Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.31>As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.32>Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.33>And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.34>Had you such leisure in the time of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.35>To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.36>Methought I had; and often did I strive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.37>To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.38>Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.39>To seek the empty, vast and wandering air;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.40>But smother'd it within my panting bulk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.41>Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.42>Awaked you not with this sore agony?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.43>O, no, my dream was lengthen'd after life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.44>O, then began the tempest to my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.45>Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.46>With that grim ferryman which poets write of,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.47>Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.48>The first that there did greet my stranger soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.49>Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.50>Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.51>Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.52>And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.53>A shadow like an angel, with bright hair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.54>Dabbled in blood; and he squeak'd out aloud,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.55>'Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.56>That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.57>Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.58>With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.59>Environ'd me about, and howled in mine ears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.60>Such hideous cries, that with the very noise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.61>I trembling waked, and for a season after</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.62>Could not believe but that I was in hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.63>Such terrible impression made the dream.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.64>No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.65>I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.66>O Brakenbury, I have done those things,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.67>Which now bear evidence against my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.68>For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.69>O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.70>But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.71>Yet execute thy wrath in me alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.72>O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.73>I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.74>My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.75>I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>CLARENCE sleeps</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.76>Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.77>Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.78>Princes have but their tides for their glories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.79>An outward honour for an inward toil;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.80>And, for unfelt imagination,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.81>They often feel a world of restless cares:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.82>So that, betwixt their tides and low names,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.83>There's nothing differs but the outward fame.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the two Murderers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.84>Ho! who's here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.85>In God's name what are you, and how came you hither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.86>I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.87>Yea, are you so brief?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.88>O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. Show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.89>him our commission; talk no more.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>BRAKENBURY reads it</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.90>I am, in this, commanded to deliver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.91>The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.92>I will not reason what is meant hereby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.93>Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.94>Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.95>I'll to the king; and signify to him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.96>That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.97>Do so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BRAKENBURY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.98>What, shall we stab him as he sleeps?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.99>No; then he will say 'twas done cowardly, when he wakes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.100>When he wakes! why, fool, he shall never wake till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.101>the judgment-day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.102>Why, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.103>The urging of that word 'judgment' hath bred a kind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.104>of remorse in me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.105>What, art thou afraid?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.106>Not to kill him, having a warrant for it; but to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.107>damned for killing him, from which no warrant can defend us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.108>I thought thou hadst been resolute.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.109>So I am, to let him live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.110>Back to the Duke of Gloucester, tell him so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.111>I pray thee, stay a while: I hope my holy humour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.112>will change; 'twas wont to hold me but while one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.113>would tell twenty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.114>How dost thou feel thyself now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.115>'Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.116>within me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.117>Remember our reward, when the deed is done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.118>'Zounds, he dies: I had forgot the reward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.119>Where is thy conscience now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.120>In the Duke of Gloucester's purse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.121>So when he opens his purse to give us our reward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.122>thy conscience flies out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.123>Let it go; there's few or none will entertain it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.124>How if it come to thee again?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.125>I'll not meddle with it: it is a dangerous thing: it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.126>makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal, but it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.127>accuseth him; he cannot swear, but it cheques him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.128>he cannot lie with his neighbour's wife, but it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.129>detects him: 'tis a blushing shamefast spirit that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.130>mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.131>obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.132>that I found; it beggars any man that keeps it: it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.133>is turned out of all towns and cities for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.134>dangerous thing; and every man that means to live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.135>well endeavours to trust to himself and to live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.136>without it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.137>'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.138>not to kill the duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.139>Take the devil in thy mind, and relieve him not: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.140>would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.141>Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.142>I warrant thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.143>Spoke like a tail fellow that respects his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.144>reputation. Come, shall we to this gear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.145>Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.146>sword, and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.147>in the next room.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.148>O excellent devise! make a sop of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.149>Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.150>No, first let's reason with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.151>Where art thou, keeper? give me a cup of wine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Second murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.152>You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.153>In God's name, what art thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.154>A man, as you are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.155>But not, as I am, royal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.156>Nor you, as we are, loyal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.157>Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.158>My voice is now the king's, my looks mine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.159>How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.160>Your eyes do menace me: why look you pale?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.161>Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>Both</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.162>To, to, to--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.163>To murder me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>Both</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.164>Ay, ay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.165>You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.166>And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.167>Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.168>Offended us you have not, but the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.169>I shall be reconciled to him again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.170>Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.171>Are you call'd forth from out a world of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.172>To slay the innocent? What is my offence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.173>Where are the evidence that do accuse me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.174>What lawful quest have given their verdict up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.175>Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.176>The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.177>Before I be convict by course of law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.178>To threaten me with death is most unlawful.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.179>I charge you, as you hope to have redemption</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.180>By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.181>That you depart and lay no hands on me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.182>The deed you undertake is damnable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.183>What we will do, we do upon command.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.184>And he that hath commanded is the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.185>Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.186>Hath in the tables of his law commanded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.187>That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.188>Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.189>Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.190>To hurl upon their heads that break his law.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.191>And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.192>For false forswearing and for murder too:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.193>Thou didst receive the holy sacrament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.194>To fight in quarrel of the house of Lancaster.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.195>And, like a traitor to the name of God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.196>Didst break that vow; and with thy treacherous blade</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.197>Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.198>Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.199>How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.200>When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.201>Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.202>For Edward, for my brother, for his sake: Why, sirs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.203>He sends ye not to murder me for this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.204>For in this sin he is as deep as I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.205>If God will be revenged for this deed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.206>O, know you yet, he doth it publicly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.207>Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.208>He needs no indirect nor lawless course</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.209>To cut off those that have offended him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.210>Who made thee, then, a bloody minister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.211>When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.212>That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.213>My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.214>Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.215>Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.216>Oh, if you love my brother, hate not me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.217>I am his brother, and I love him well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.218>If you be hired for meed, go back again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.219>And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.220>Who shall reward you better for my life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.221>Than Edward will for tidings of my death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.222>You are deceived, your brother Gloucester hates you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.223>O, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.224>Go you to him from me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>Both</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.225>Ay, so we will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.226>Tell him, when that our princely father York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.227>Bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.228>And charged us from his soul to love each other,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.229>He little thought of this divided friendship:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.230>Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.231>Ay, millstones; as be lesson'd us to weep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.232>O, do not slander him, for he is kind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.233>Right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.234>As snow in harvest. Thou deceivest thyself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.235>'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.236>It cannot be; for when I parted with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.237>He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.238>That he would labour my delivery.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.239>Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.240>From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.241>Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.242>Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.243>To counsel me to make my peace with God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.244>And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.245>That thou wilt war with God by murdering me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.246>Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.247>To do this deed will hate you for the deed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.248>What shall we do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.249> Relent, and save your souls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.250>Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.251>Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.252>Which of you, if you were a prince's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.253>Being pent from liberty, as I am now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.254>if two such murderers as yourselves came to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.255>Would not entreat for life?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.256>My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.257>O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.258>Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.259>As you would beg, were you in my distress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.260>A begging prince what beggar pities not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.261>Look behind you, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.262>Take that, and that: if all this will not do,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stabs him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.263>I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, with the body</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.264>A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.265>How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.266>Of this most grievous guilty murder done!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter First Murderer</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.267>How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.268>By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.269>I would he knew that I had saved his brother!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.270>Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.271>For I repent me that the duke is slain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.272>So do not I: go, coward as thou art.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.273>Now must I hide his body in some hole,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.274>Until the duke take order for his burial:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.275>And when I have my meed, I must away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.276>For this will out, and here I must not stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV sick, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM, GREY, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Why, so: now have I done a good day's work:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>You peers, continue this united league:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>I every day expect an embassage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>From my Redeemer to redeem me hence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>Since I have set my friends at peace on earth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>So thrive I, as I truly swear the like!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>Take heed you dally not before your king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>Lest he that is the supreme King of kings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Confound your hidden falsehood, and award</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>Either of you to be the other's end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>So prosper I, as I swear perfect love!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>And I, as I love Hastings with my heart!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>Madam, yourself are not exempt in this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Nor your son Dorset, Buckingham, nor you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>You have been factious one against the other,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>And what you do, do it unfeignedly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>Here, Hastings; I will never more remember</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love lord marquess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DORSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>This interchange of love, I here protest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>Upon my part shall be unviolable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>And so swear I, my lord</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They embrace</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>With thy embracements to my wife's allies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>And make me happy in your unity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>On you or yours,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Queen</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>but with all duteous love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>With hate in those where I expect most love!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>When I have most need to employ a friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>And most assured that he is a friend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Be he unto me! this do I beg of God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>When I am cold in zeal to yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>To make the perfect period of this peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>And, in good time, here comes the noble duke.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>And, princely peers, a happy time of day!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>Happy, indeed, as we have spent the day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>Brother, we done deeds of charity;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>Made peace enmity, fair love of hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>A blessed labour, my most sovereign liege:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>Amongst this princely heap, if any here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>Hold me a foe;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>If I unwittingly, or in my rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Have aught committed that is hardly borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>By any in this presence, I desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>To reconcile me to his friendly peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>'Tis death to me to be at enmity;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>I hate it, and desire all good men's love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Which I will purchase with my duteous service;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>If ever any grudge were lodged between us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>Of you, Lord Rivers, and, Lord Grey, of you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>That without desert have frown'd on me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>I do not know that Englishman alive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>With whom my soul is any jot at odds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>More than the infant that is born to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>I thank my God for my humility.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>A holy day shall this be kept hereafter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>I would to God all strifes were well compounded.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>My sovereign liege, I do beseech your majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>To take our brother Clarence to your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>Why, madam, have I offer'd love for this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>To be so bouted in this royal presence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>Who knows not that the noble duke is dead?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They all start</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>You do him injury to scorn his corse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>Who knows not he is dead! who knows he is?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>All seeing heaven, what a world is this!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DORSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>Ay, my good lord; and no one in this presence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>Is Clarence dead? the order was reversed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>But he, poor soul, by your first order died,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>And that a winged Mercury did bear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>That came too lag to see him buried.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>And yet go current from suspicion!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DERBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>I will not rise, unless your highness grant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>Then speak at once what is it thou demand'st.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Who slew to-day a righteous gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING EDWARD IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>Have a tongue to doom my brother's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>And shall the same give pardon to a slave?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>My brother slew no man; his fault was thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>And yet his punishment was cruel death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>Kneel'd at my feet, and bade me be advised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>Who told me how the poor soul did forsake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>And said, 'Dear brother, live, and be a king'?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>Who told me, when we both lay in the field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>Even in his own garments, and gave himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>All this from my remembrance brutish wrath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>Had so much grace to put it in my mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>But when your carters or your waiting-vassals</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>The precious image of our dear Redeemer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>And I unjustly too, must grant it you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>But for my brother not a man would speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>Have been beholding to him in his life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>Yet none of you would once plead for his life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>O God, I fear thy justice will take hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>Oh, poor Clarence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt some with KING EDWARD IV and QUEEN MARGARET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>This is the fruit of rashness! Mark'd you not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>How that the guilty kindred of the queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>Look'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>O, they did urge it still unto the king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>God will revenge it. But come, let us in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>To comfort Edward with our company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>We wait upon your grace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two children of CLARENCE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>No, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Girl</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>Why do you look on us, and shake your head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>And call us wretches, orphans, castaways</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>If that our noble father be alive?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>My pretty cousins, you mistake me much;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>I do lament the sickness of the king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>As loath to lose him, not your father's death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>Then, grandam, you conclude that he is dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>The king my uncle is to blame for this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>God will revenge it; whom I will importune</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>With daily prayers all to that effect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Girl</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>And so will I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>Peace, children, peace! the king doth love you well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>Incapable and shallow innocents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>You cannot guess who caused your father's death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>Grandam, we can; for my good uncle Gloucester</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>Told me, the king, provoked by the queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>Devised impeachments to imprison him :</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>And when my uncle told me so, he wept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>And hugg'd me in his arm, and kindly kiss'd my cheek;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>Bade me rely on him as on my father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>And he would love me dearly as his child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>Ay, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>I cannot think it. Hark! what noise is this?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her ears; RIVERS, and DORSET after her</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>To chide my fortune, and torment myself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>I'll join with black despair against my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>And to myself become an enemy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>What means this scene of rude impatience?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>To make an act of tragic violence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>Edward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>Why grow the branches now the root is wither'd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>Why wither not the leaves the sap being gone?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>Or, like obedient subjects, follow him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>To his new kingdom of perpetual rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>As I had title in thy noble husband!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>I have bewept a worthy husband's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>And lived by looking on his images:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>But now two mirrors of his princely semblance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>Are crack'd in pieces by malignant death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>And I for comfort have but one false glass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>Which grieves me when I see my shame in him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>Thou art a widow; yet thou art a mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>And hast the comfort of thy children left thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>But death hath snatch'd my husband from mine arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>And pluck'd two crutches from my feeble limbs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>Edward and Clarence. O, what cause have I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>Thine being but a moiety of my grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>Good aunt, you wept not for our father's death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>How can we aid you with our kindred tears?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Girl</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>Give me no help in lamentation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>I am not barren to bring forth complaints</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>That I, being govern'd by the watery moon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>Oh for my husband, for my dear lord Edward!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Children</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>Oh for our father, for our dear lord Clarence!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>What stay had I but Edward? and he's gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Children</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>What stay had we but Clarence? and he's gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>What stays had I but they? and they are gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>Was never widow had so dear a loss!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Children</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>Were never orphans had so dear a loss!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>Was never mother had so dear a loss!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>Alas, I am the mother of these moans!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.84>These babes for Clarence weep and so do I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.85>I for an Edward weep, so do not they:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.86>Alas, you three, on me, threefold distress'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.87>Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow's nurse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.88>And I will pamper it with lamentations.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DORSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.89>Comfort, dear mother: God is much displeased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.90>That you take with unthankfulness, his doing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.91>In common worldly things, 'tis call'd ungrateful,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.92>With dull unwilligness to repay a debt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.93>Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.94>Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.95>For it requires the royal debt it lent you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.96>Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.97>Of the young prince your son: send straight for him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.98>Let him be crown'd; in him your comfort lives:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.99>Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.100>And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, and RATCLIFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.101>Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.102>To wail the dimming of our shining star;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.103>But none can cure their harms by wailing them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.104>Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.105>I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.106>I crave your blessing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.107>God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.108>Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.109>[Aside] Amen; and make me die a good old man!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.110>That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.111>I marvel why her grace did leave it out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.112>You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.113>That bear this mutual heavy load of moan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.114>Now cheer each other in each other's love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.115>Though we have spent our harvest of this king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.116>We are to reap the harvest of his son.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.117>The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.118>But lately splinter'd, knit, and join'd together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.119>Must gently be preserved, cherish'd, and kept:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.120>Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.121>Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.122>Hither to London, to be crown'd our king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.123>Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.124>Marry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.125>The new-heal'd wound of malice should break out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.126>Which would be so much the more dangerous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.127>By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.128>Where every horse bears his commanding rein,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.129>And may direct his course as please himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.130>As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.131>In my opinion, ought to be prevented.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.132>I hope the king made peace with all of us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.133>And the compact is firm and true in me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.134>And so in me; and so, I think, in all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.135>Yet, since it is but green, it should be put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.136>To no apparent likelihood of breach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.137>Which haply by much company might be urged:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.138>Therefore I say with noble Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.139>That it is meet so few should fetch the prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.140>And so say I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.141>Then be it so; and go we to determine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.142>Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.143>Madam, and you, my mother, will you go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.144>To give your censures in this weighty business?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.145>With all our harts.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM and GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.146>My lord, whoever journeys to the Prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.147>For God's sake, let not us two be behind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.148>For, by the way, I'll sort occasion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.149>As index to the story we late talk'd of,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.150>To part the queen's proud kindred from the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.151>My other self, my counsel's consistory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.152>My oracle, my prophet! My dear cousin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.153>I, like a child, will go by thy direction.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.154>Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. London. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter two Citizens meeting</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Neighbour, well met: whither away so fast?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>I promise you, I scarcely know myself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>Hear you the news abroad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>Ay, that the king is dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>Bad news, by'r lady; seldom comes the better:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>I fear, I fear 'twill prove a troublous world.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Citizen</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>Neighbours, God speed!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>Give you good morrow, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>Doth this news hold of good King Edward's death?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>Ay, sir, it is too true; God help the while!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>No, no; by God's good grace his son shall reign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>Woe to the land that's govern'd by a child!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>In him there is a hope of government,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>That in his nonage council under him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>And in his full and ripen'd years himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>So stood the state when Henry the Sixth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>Was crown'd in Paris but at nine months old.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>For then this land was famously enrich'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>With politic grave counsel; then the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>Had virtuous uncles to protect his grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>Why, so hath this, both by the father and mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>Better it were they all came by the father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>Or by the father there were none at all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>For emulation now, who shall be nearest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>And the queen's sons and brothers haught and proud:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>This sickly land might solace as before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>All may be well; but, if God sort it so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>Truly, the souls of men are full of dread:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Ye cannot reason almost with a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>That looks not heavily and full of fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>Before the times of change, still is it so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Ensuing dangers; as by proof, we see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>The waters swell before a boisterous storm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>But leave it all to God. whither away?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>Marry, we were sent for to the justices.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>And so was I: I'll bear you company.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, young YORK, QUEEN ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS OF YORK</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>To-morrow, or next day, they will be here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>I long with all my heart to see the prince:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>But I hear, no; they say my son of York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>Hath almost overta'en him in his growth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>Ay, mother; but I would not have it so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>More than my brother: 'Ay,' quoth my uncle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>In him that did object the same to thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>He was the wretched'st thing when he was young,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>So long a-growing and so leisurely,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>That, if this rule were true, he should be gracious.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>I hope he is; but yet let mothers doubt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>Now, by my troth, if I had been remember'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>I could have given my uncle's grace a flout,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>To touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>How, my pretty York? I pray thee, let me hear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>Grandam, his nurse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>If 'twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>Good madam, be not angry with the child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>Pitchers have ears.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>Here comes a messenger. What news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>How fares the prince?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>Well, madam, and in health.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>What is thy news then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>Who hath committed them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>The mighty dukes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>Gloucester and Buckingham.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>For what offence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>The sum of all I can, I have disclosed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>Why or for what these nobles were committed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>Ay me, I see the downfall of our house!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>Insulting tyranny begins to jet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>Upon the innocent and aweless throne:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.58>I see, as in a map, the end of all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.59>Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.60>How many of you have mine eyes beheld!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.61>My husband lost his life to get the crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.62>And often up and down my sons were toss'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.63>For me to joy and weep their gain and loss:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.64>And being seated, and domestic broils</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.65>Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.66>Make war upon themselves; blood against blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.67>Self against self: O, preposterous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.68>And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.69>Or let me die, to look on death no more!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.70>Come, come, my boy; we will to sanctuary.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.71>Madam, farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.72> I'll go along with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.73>You have no cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.74> My gracious lady, go;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.75>And thither bear your treasure and your goods.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.76>For my part, I'll resign unto your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.77>The seal I keep: and so betide to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.78>As well I tender you and all of yours!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.79>Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>The trumpets sound. Enter the young PRINCE EDWARD, GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, CARDINAL, CATESBY, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your chamber.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>The weary way hath made you melancholy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>No, uncle; but our crosses on the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>I want more uncles here to welcome me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Nor more can you distinguish of a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Than of his outward show; which, God he knows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>Those uncles which you want were dangerous;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>Your grace attended to their sugar'd words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>But look'd not on the poison of their hearts :</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>God keep you from them, and from such false friends!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>God keep me from false friends! but they were none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Lord Mayor and his train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>God bless your grace with health and happy days!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>I thank you, good my lord; and thank you all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>I thought my mother, and my brother York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>Would long ere this have met us on the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>To tell us whether they will come or no!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HASTINGS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>Welcome, my lord: what, will our mother come?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>On what occasion, God he knows, not I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>The queen your mother, and your brother York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>Have taken sanctuary: the tender prince</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>But by his mother was perforce withheld.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>Fie, what an indirect and peevish course</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Is this of hers! Lord cardinal, will your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>Unto his princely brother presently?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>Can from his mother win the Duke of York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>We should infringe the holy privilege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>You are too senseless--obstinate, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>Too ceremonious and traditional</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>You break not sanctuary in seizing him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>The benefit thereof is always granted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>To those whose dealings have deserved the place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>And those who have the wit to claim the place:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>This prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>Then, taking him from thence that is not there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>You break no privilege nor charter there.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>Oft have I heard of sanctuary men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>But sanctuary children ne'er till now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>I go, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CARDINAL and HASTINGS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>Where it seems best unto your royal self.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>If I may counsel you, some day or two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>For your best health and recreation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>I do not like the Tower, of any place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>Is it upon record, or else reported</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>Successively from age to age, he built it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>Upon record, my gracious lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>But say, my lord, it were not register'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>Methinks the truth should live from age to age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>Even to the general all-ending day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>[Aside] So wise so young, they say, do never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>live long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>What say you, uncle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>I say, without characters, fame lives long.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>I moralize two meanings in one word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>That Julius Caesar was a famous man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>With what his valour did enrich his wit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>His wit set down to make his valour live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>Death makes no conquest of this conqueror;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>For now he lives in fame, though not in life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>What, my gracious lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>An if I live until I be a man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>I'll win our ancient right in France again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>[Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of York.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>Richard of York! how fares our loving brother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>Well, my dread lord; so must I call you now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>Too late he died that might have kept that title,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>Which by his death hath lost much majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>How fares our cousin, noble Lord of York?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>You said that idle weeds are fast in growth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>He hath, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107> And therefore is he idle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>O, my fair cousin, I must not say so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>Then is he more beholding to you than I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>He may command me as my sovereign;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>But you have power in me as in a kinsman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>A beggar, brother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>Of my kind uncle, that I know will give;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>And being but a toy, which is no grief to give.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>A greater gift! O, that's the sword to it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>A gentle cousin, were it light enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>O, then, I see, you will part but with light gifts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>It is too heavy for your grace to wear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>What, would you have my weapon, little lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>I would, that I might thank you as you call me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>How?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>Little.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>Because that I am little, like an ape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>He prettily and aptly taunts himself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>So cunning and so young is wonderful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>My lord, will't please you pass along?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>Myself and my good cousin Buckingham</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>Will to your mother, to entreat of her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>My lord protector needs will have it so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>Why, what should you fear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>My grandam told me he was murdered there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>I fear no uncles dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>Nor none that live, I hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>PRINCE EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>An if they live, I hope I need not fear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>But come, my lord; and with a heavy heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A Sennet. Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM and CATESBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>Think you, my lord, this little prating York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>Was not incensed by his subtle mother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>No doubt, no doubt; O, 'tis a parlous boy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>He is all the mother's, from the top to toe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>Well, let them rest. Come hither, Catesby.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>As closely to conceal what we impart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>Thou know'st our reasons urged upon the way;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>What think'st thou? is it not an easy matter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>To make William Lord Hastings of our mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>For the instalment of this noble duke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>In the seat royal of this famous isle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167>He for his father's sake so loves the prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>That he will not be won to aught against him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>What think'st thou, then, of Stanley? what will he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>He will do all in all as Hastings doth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>Well, then, no more but this: go, gentle Catesby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>And, as it were far off sound thou Lord Hastings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>How doth he stand affected to our purpose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>And summon him to-morrow to the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>To sit about the coronation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>If thou dost find him tractable to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177>Encourage him, and show him all our reasons:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>Be thou so too; and so break off your talk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>And give us notice of his inclination:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>For we to-morrow hold divided councils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182>Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>And bid my friend, for joy of this good news,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>Give mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>Good Catesby, go, effect this business soundly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>My good lords both, with all the heed I may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>You shall, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit CATESBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>Now, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>Chop off his head, man; somewhat we will do:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.196>And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.197>The earldom of Hereford, and the moveables</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.198>Whereof the king my brother stood possess'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.199>I'll claim that promise at your grace's hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.200>And look to have it yielded with all willingness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.201>Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.202>We may digest our complots in some form.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Before Lord Hastings' house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter a Messenger</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>What, ho! my lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>[Within] Who knocks at the door?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>A messenger from the Lord Stanley.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HASTINGS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>What is't o'clock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>Upon the stroke of four.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>Cannot thy master sleep these tedious nights?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>So it should seem by that I have to say.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>First, he commends him to your noble lordship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>And then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>And then he sends you word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>He dreamt to-night the boar had razed his helm:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>Besides, he says there are two councils held;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>And that may be determined at the one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>which may make you and him to rue at the other.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>If presently you will take horse with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>And with all speed post with him toward the north,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>To shun the danger that his soul divines.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>Bid him not fear the separated councils</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>His honour and myself are at the one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>And at the other is my servant Catesby</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>Whereof I shall not have intelligence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>Tell him his fears are shallow, wanting instance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>And for his dreams, I wonder he is so fond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>To fly the boar before the boar pursues,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>Were to incense the boar to follow us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>Go, bid thy master rise and come to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>And we will both together to the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>My gracious lord, I'll tell him what you say.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter CATESBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>Many good morrows to my noble lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>Good morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>What news, what news, in this our tottering state?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>And I believe twill never stand upright</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>Till Richard wear the garland of the realm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>How! wear the garland! dost thou mean the crown?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>Ay, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>Ay, on my life; and hopes to find forward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>Upon his party for the gain thereof:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>And thereupon he sends you this good news,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>That this same very day your enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>The kindred of the queen, must die at Pomfret.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>Because they have been still mine enemies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>But, that I'll give my voice on Richard's side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>To bar my master's heirs in true descent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>God knows I will not do it, to the death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>God keep your lordship in that gracious mind!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>That they who brought me in my master's hate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>I live to look upon their tragedy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>I tell thee, Catesby--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>What, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>Ere a fortnight make me elder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>I'll send some packing that yet think not on it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>When men are unprepared and look not for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>O monstrous, monstrous! and so falls it out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: and so 'twill do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>With some men else, who think themselves as safe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>As thou and I; who, as thou know'st, are dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>To princely Richard and to Buckingham.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>The princes both make high account of you;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>For they account his head upon the bridge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>I know they do; and I have well deserved it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter STANLEY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>Come on, come on; where is your boar-spear, man?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>My lord, good morrow; good morrow, Catesby:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>You may jest on, but, by the holy rood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>I do not like these several councils, I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>My lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>I hold my life as dear as you do yours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>And never in my life, I do protest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>Was it more precious to me than 'tis now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>Think you, but that I know our state secure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>I would be so triumphant as I am?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>Were jocund, and supposed their state was sure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>But yet, you see how soon the day o'ercast.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>This sudden stag of rancour I misdoubt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>What, shall we toward the Tower? the day is spent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>Come, come, have with you. Wot you what, my lord?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>To-day the lords you talk of are beheaded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LORD STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>They, for their truth, might better wear their heads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>Than some that have accused them wear their hats.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>But come, my lord, let us away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Pursuivant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>Go on before; I'll talk with this good fellow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt STANLEY and CATESBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Pursuivant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>The better that your lordship please to ask.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>I tell thee, man, 'tis better with me now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>Than when I met thee last where now we meet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>By the suggestion of the queen's allies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>But now, I tell thee--keep it to thyself--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>This day those enemies are put to death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>And I in better state than e'er I was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Pursuivant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>God hold it, to your honour's good content!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Throws him his purse</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Pursuivant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>God save your lordship!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Priest</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Priest</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your honour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>I am in your debt for your last exercise;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He whispers in his ear</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>Your honour hath no shriving work in hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>Good faith, and when I met this holy man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>Those men you talk of came into my mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>What, go you toward the Tower?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>I do, my lord; but long I shall not stay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>I shall return before your lordship thence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>'Tis like enough, for I stay dinner there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>[Aside] And supper too, although thou know'st it not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>Come, will you go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>I'll wait upon your lordship.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Pomfret Castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN to death</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>Come, bring forth the prisoners.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>To-day shalt thou behold a subject die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>God keep the prince from all the pack of you!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>A knot you are of damned blood-suckers!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VAUGHAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>You live that shall cry woe for this after.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>Fatal and ominous to noble peers!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>Within the guilty closure of thy walls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>Richard the second here was hack'd to death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>Then cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>To hear her prayers for them, as now for us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>And for my sister and her princely sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>Make haste; the hour of death is expiate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>And take our leave, until we meet in heaven.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The Tower of London.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, the BISHOP OF ELY, RATCLIFF, LOVEL, with others, and take their seats at a table</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>My lords, at once: the cause why we are met</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>Is, to determine of the coronation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>In God's name, speak: when is the royal day?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>Are all things fitting for that royal time?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>It is, and wants but nomination.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BISHOP OF ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>To-morrow, then, I judge a happy day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>Who knows the lord protector's mind herein?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>Who is most inward with the royal duke?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BISHOP OF ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>Your grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>Who, I, my lord I we know each other's faces,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>But for our hearts, he knows no more of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>Than I of yours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>Nor I no more of his, than you of mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>But, for his purpose in the coronation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>His gracious pleasure any way therein:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>But you, my noble lords, may name the time;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BISHOP OF ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>Now in good time, here comes the duke himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>I have been long a sleeper; but, I hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>My absence doth neglect no great designs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>Which by my presence might have been concluded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>Had not you come upon your cue, my lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>I mean, your voice,--for crowning of the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>His lordship knows me well, and loves me well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>I thank your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>My lord of Ely!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BISHOP OF ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>When I was last in Holborn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>I saw good strawberries in your garden there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>I do beseech you send for some of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BISHOP OF ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drawing him aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>And finds the testy gentleman so hot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>As he will lose his head ere give consent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>His master's son, as worshipful as he terms it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>Shall lose the royalty of England's throne.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>Withdraw you hence, my lord, I'll follow you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM following</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.46>We have not yet set down this day of triumph.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.47>To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.48>For I myself am not so well provided</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.49>As else I would be, were the day prolong'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BISHOP OF ELY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BISHOP OF ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.50>Where is my lord protector? I have sent for these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.51>strawberries.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.52>His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.53>There's some conceit or other likes him well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.54>When he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.55>I think there's never a man in Christendom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.56>That can less hide his love or hate than he;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.57>For by his face straight shall you know his heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.58>What of his heart perceive you in his face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.59>By any likelihood he show'd to-day?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.60>Marry, that with no man here he is offended;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.61>For, were he, he had shown it in his looks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.62>I pray God he be not, I say.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.63>I pray you all, tell me what they deserve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.64>That do conspire my death with devilish plots</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.65>Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevail'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.66>Upon my body with their hellish charms?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.67>The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.68>Makes me most forward in this noble presence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.69>To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.70>I say, my lord, they have deserved death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.71>Then be your eyes the witness of this ill:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.72>See how I am bewitch'd; behold mine arm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.73>Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.74>And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.75>Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.76>That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.77>If they have done this thing, my gracious lord--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.78>If I thou protector of this damned strumpet--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.79>Tellest thou me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.80>Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.81>I will not dine until I see the same.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.82>Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.83>The rest, that love me, rise and follow me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but HASTINGS, RATCLIFF, and LOVEL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.84>Woe, woe for England! not a whit for me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.85>For I, too fond, might have prevented this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.86>Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.87>But I disdain'd it, and did scorn to fly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.88>Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.89>And startled, when he look'd upon the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.90>As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.91>O, now I want the priest that spake to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.92>I now repent I told the pursuivant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.93>As 'twere triumphing at mine enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.94>How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.95>And I myself secure in grace and favour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.96>O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.97>Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.98>Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.99>Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.100>O momentary grace of mortal men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.101>Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.102>Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.103>Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.104>Ready, with every nod, to tumble down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.105>Into the fatal bowels of the deep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LOVEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.106>Come, come, dispatch; 'tis bootless to exclaim.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.107>O bloody Richard! miserable England!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.108>I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.109>That ever wretched age hath look'd upon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.110>Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.111>They smile at me that shortly shall be dead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The Tower-walls.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.1>Come, cousin, canst thou quake, and change thy colour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.2>Murder thy breath in the middle of a word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.3>And then begin again, and stop again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.4>As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.5>Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.6>Speak and look back, and pry on every side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.7>Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.8>Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.9>Are at my service, like enforced smiles;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.10>And both are ready in their offices,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.11>At any time, to grace my stratagems.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.12>But what, is Catesby gone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.13>He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Lord Mayor and CATESBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.14>Lord mayor,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.15>Look to the drawbridge there!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.16>Hark! a drum.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.17>Catesby, o'erlook the walls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.18>Lord mayor, the reason we have sent--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.19>Look back, defend thee, here are enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.20>God and our innocency defend and guard us!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.21>Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS' head</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LOVEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.22>Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.23>The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.24>So dear I loved the man, that I must weep.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.25>I took him for the plainest harmless creature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.26>That breathed upon this earth a Christian;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.27>Made him my book wherein my soul recorded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.28>The history of all her secret thoughts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.29>So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.30>That, his apparent open guilt omitted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.31>I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.32>He lived from all attainder of suspect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.33>Well, well, he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.34>That ever lived.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.35>Would you imagine, or almost believe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.36>Were't not that, by great preservation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.37>We live to tell it you, the subtle traitor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.38>This day had plotted, in the council-house</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.39>To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.40>What, had he so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.41>What, think You we are Turks or infidels?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.42>Or that we would, against the form of law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.43>Proceed thus rashly to the villain's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.44>But that the extreme peril of the case,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.45>The peace of England and our persons' safety,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.46>Enforced us to this execution?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.47>Now, fair befall you! he deserved his death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.48>And you my good lords, both have well proceeded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.49>To warn false traitors from the like attempts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.50>I never look'd for better at his hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.51>After he once fell in with Mistress Shore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.52>Yet had not we determined he should die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.53>Until your lordship came to see his death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.54>Which now the loving haste of these our friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.55>Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.56>Because, my lord, we would have had you heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.57>The traitor speak, and timorously confess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.58>The manner and the purpose of his treason;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.59>That you might well have signified the same</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.60>Unto the citizens, who haply may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.61>Misconstrue us in him and wail his death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.62>But, my good lord, your grace's word shall serve,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.63>As well as I had seen and heard him speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.64>And doubt you not, right noble princes both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.65>But I'll acquaint our duteous citizens</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.66>With all your just proceedings in this cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.67>And to that end we wish'd your lord-ship here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.68>To avoid the carping censures of the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.69>But since you come too late of our intents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.70>Yet witness what you hear we did intend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.71>And so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Lord Mayor</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.72>Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.73>The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.74>There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.75>Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.76>Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.77>Only for saying he would make his son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.78>Heir to the crown; meaning indeed his house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.79>Which, by the sign thereof was termed so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.80>Moreover, urge his hateful luxury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.81>And bestial appetite in change of lust;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.82>Which stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.83>Even where his lustful eye or savage heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.84>Without control, listed to make his prey.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.85>Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.86>Tell them, when that my mother went with child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.87>Of that unsatiate Edward, noble York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.88>My princely father then had wars in France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.89>And, by just computation of the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.90>Found that the issue was not his begot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.91>Which well appeared in his lineaments,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.92>Being nothing like the noble duke my father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.93>But touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.94>Because you know, my lord, my mother lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.95>Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.96>As if the golden fee for which I plead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.97>Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.98>If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's Castle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.99>Where you shall find me well accompanied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.100>With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.101>I go: and towards three or four o'clock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.102>Look for the news that the Guildhall affords.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.103>Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To CATESBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.104>Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.105>Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.106>Now will I in, to take some privy order,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.107>To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.108>And to give notice, that no manner of person</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.109>At any time have recourse unto the princes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter a Scrivener, with a paper in his hand</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Scrivener</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.1>This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.2>Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.3>That it may be this day read over in Paul's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.4>And mark how well the sequel hangs together:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.5>Eleven hours I spent to write it over,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.6>For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.7>The precedent was full as long a-doing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.8>And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.9>Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.10>Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.11>That seeth not this palpable device?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.12>Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.13>Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.14>When such bad dealings must be seen in thought.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. Baynard's Castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, at several doors</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.1>How now, my lord, what say the citizens?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.2>Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.3>The citizens are mum and speak not a word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.4>Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.5>I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.6>And his contract by deputy in France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.7>The insatiate greediness of his desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.8>And his enforcement of the city wives;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.9>His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.10>As being got, your father then in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.11>His resemblance, being not like the duke;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.12>Withal I did infer your lineaments,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.13>Being the right idea of your father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.14>Both in your form and nobleness of mind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.15>Laid open all your victories in Scotland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.16>Your dicipline in war, wisdom in peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.17>Your bounty, virtue, fair humility:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.18>Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.19>Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.20>And when mine oratory grew to an end</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.21>I bid them that did love their country's good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.22>Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.23>Ah! and did they so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.24>No, so God help me, they spake not a word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.25>But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.26>Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.27>Which when I saw, I reprehended them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.28>And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.29>His answer was, the people were not wont</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.30>To be spoke to but by the recorder.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.31>Then he was urged to tell my tale again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.32>'Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr'd;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.33>But nothing spake in warrant from himself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.34>When he had done, some followers of mine own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.35>At the lower end of the hall, hurl'd up their caps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.36>And some ten voices cried 'God save King Richard!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.37>And thus I took the vantage of those few,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.38>'Thanks, gentle citizens and friends,' quoth I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.39>'This general applause and loving shout</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.40>Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.41>And even here brake off, and came away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.42>What tongueless blocks were they! would not they speak?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.43>No, by my troth, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.44>Will not the mayor then and his brethren come?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.45>The mayor is here at hand: intend some fear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.46>Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.47>And look you get a prayer-book in your hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.48>And stand betwixt two churchmen, good my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.49>For on that ground I'll build a holy descant:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.50>And be not easily won to our request:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.51>Play the maid's part, still answer nay, and take it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.52>I go; and if you plead as well for them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.53>As I can say nay to thee for myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.54>No doubt well bring it to a happy issue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.55>Go, go, up to the leads; the lord mayor knocks.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Lord Mayor and Citizens</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.56>Welcome my lord; I dance attendance here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.57>I think the duke will not be spoke withal.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CATESBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.58>Here comes his servant: how now, Catesby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.59>What says he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.60> My lord: he doth entreat your grace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.61>To visit him to-morrow or next day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.62>He is within, with two right reverend fathers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.63>Divinely bent to meditation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.64>And no worldly suit would he be moved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.65>To draw him from his holy exercise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.66>Return, good Catesby, to thy lord again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.67>Tell him, myself, the mayor and citizens,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.68>In deep designs and matters of great moment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.69>No less importing than our general good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.70>Are come to have some conference with his grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.71>I'll tell him what you say, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.72>Ah, ha, my lord, this prince is not an Edward!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.73>He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.74>But on his knees at meditation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.75>Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.76>But meditating with two deep divines;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.77>Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.78>But praying, to enrich his watchful soul:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.79>Happy were England, would this gracious prince</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.80>Take on himself the sovereignty thereof:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.81>But, sure, I fear, we shall ne'er win him to it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.82>Marry, God forbid his grace should say us nay!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.83>I fear he will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter CATESBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.84>How now, Catesby, what says your lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.85>My lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.86>He wonders to what end you have assembled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.87>Such troops of citizens to speak with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.88>His grace not being warn'd thereof before:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.89>My lord, he fears you mean no good to him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.90>Sorry I am my noble cousin should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.91>Suspect me, that I mean no good to him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.92>By heaven, I come in perfect love to him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.93>And so once more return and tell his grace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit CATESBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.94>When holy and devout religious men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.95>Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.96>So sweet is zealous contemplation.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER aloft, between two Bishops. CATESBY returns</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.97>See, where he stands between two clergymen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.98>Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.99>To stay him from the fall of vanity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.100>And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.101>True ornaments to know a holy man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.102>Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.103>Lend favourable ears to our request;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.104>And pardon us the interruption</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.105>Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.106>My lord, there needs no such apology:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.107>I rather do beseech you pardon me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.108>Who, earnest in the service of my God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.109>Neglect the visitation of my friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.110>But, leaving this, what is your grace's pleasure?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.111>Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.112>And all good men of this ungovern'd isle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.113>I do suspect I have done some offence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.114>That seems disgracious in the city's eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.115>And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.116>You have, my lord: would it might please your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.117>At our entreaties, to amend that fault!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.118>Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.119>Then know, it is your fault that you resign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.120>The supreme seat, the throne majestical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.121>The scepter'd office of your ancestors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.122>Your state of fortune and your due of birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.123>The lineal glory of your royal house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.124>To the corruption of a blemished stock:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.125>Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.126>Which here we waken to our country's good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.127>This noble isle doth want her proper limbs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.128>Her face defaced with scars of infamy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.129>Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.130>And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.131>Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.132>Which to recure, we heartily solicit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.133>Your gracious self to take on you the charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.134>And kingly government of this your land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.135>Not as protector, steward, substitute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.136>Or lowly factor for another's gain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.137>But as successively from blood to blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.138>Your right of birth, your empery, your own.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.139>For this, consorted with the citizens,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.140>Your very worshipful and loving friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.141>And by their vehement instigation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.142>In this just suit come I to move your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.143>I know not whether to depart in silence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.144>Or bitterly to speak in your reproof.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.145>Best fitteth my degree or your condition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.146>If not to answer, you might haply think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.147>Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.148>To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.149>Which fondly you would here impose on me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.150>If to reprove you for this suit of yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.151>So season'd with your faithful love to me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.152>Then, on the other side, I cheque'd my friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.153>Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.154>And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.155>Definitively thus I answer you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.156>Your love deserves my thanks; but my desert</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.157>Unmeritable shuns your high request.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.158>First if all obstacles were cut away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.159>And that my path were even to the crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.160>As my ripe revenue and due by birth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.161>Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.162>So mighty and so many my defects,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.163>As I had rather hide me from my greatness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.164>Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.165>Than in my greatness covet to be hid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.166>And in the vapour of my glory smother'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.167>But, God be thank'd, there's no need of me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.168>And much I need to help you, if need were;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.169>The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.170>Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.171>Will well become the seat of majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.172>And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.173>On him I lay what you would lay on me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.174>The right and fortune of his happy stars;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.175>Which God defend that I should wring from him!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.176>My lord, this argues conscience in your grace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.177>But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.178>All circumstances well considered.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.179>You say that Edward is your brother's son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.180>So say we too, but not by Edward's wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.181>For first he was contract to Lady Lucy--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.182>Your mother lives a witness to that vow--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.183>And afterward by substitute betroth'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.184>To Bona, sister to the King of France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.185>These both put by a poor petitioner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.186>A care-crazed mother of a many children,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.187>A beauty-waning and distressed widow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.188>Even in the afternoon of her best days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.189>Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.190>Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.191>To base declension and loathed bigamy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.192>By her, in his unlawful bed, he got</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.193>This Edward, whom our manners term the prince.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.194>More bitterly could I expostulate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.195>Save that, for reverence to some alive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.196>I give a sparing limit to my tongue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.197>Then, good my lord, take to your royal self</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.198>This proffer'd benefit of dignity;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.199>If non to bless us and the land withal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.200>Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.201>From the corruption of abusing times,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.202>Unto a lineal true-derived course.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.203>Do, good my lord, your citizens entreat you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.204>Refuse not, mighty lord, this proffer'd love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.205>O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.206>Alas, why would you heap these cares on me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.207>I am unfit for state and majesty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.208>I do beseech you, take it not amiss;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.209>I cannot nor I will not yield to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.210>If you refuse it,--as, in love and zeal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.211>Loath to depose the child, Your brother's son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.212>As well we know your tenderness of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.213>And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.214>Which we have noted in you to your kin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.215>And egally indeed to all estates,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.216>Yet whether you accept our suit or no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.217>Your brother's son shall never reign our king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.218>But we will plant some other in the throne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.219>To the disgrace and downfall of your house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.220>And in this resolution here we leave you.--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.221>Come, citizens: 'zounds! I'll entreat no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.222>O, do not swear, my lord of Buckingham.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BUCKINGHAM with the Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.223>Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ANOTHER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.224>Do, good my lord, lest all the land do rue it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.225>Would you enforce me to a world of care?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.226>Well, call them again. I am not made of stone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.227>But penetrable to your. kind entreats,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.228>Albeit against my conscience and my soul.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BUCKINGHAM and the rest</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.229>Cousin of Buckingham, and you sage, grave men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.230>Since you will buckle fortune on my back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.231>To bear her burthen, whether I will or no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.232>I must have patience to endure the load:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.233>But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.234>Attend the sequel of your imposition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.235>Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.236>From all the impure blots and stains thereof;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.237>For God he knows, and you may partly see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.238>How far I am from the desire thereof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.239>God bless your grace! we see it, and will say it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.240>In saying so, you shall but say the truth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.241>Then I salute you with this kingly title:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.242>Long live Richard, England's royal king!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Lord Mayor</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.243>Amen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.244>To-morrow will it please you to be crown'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.245>Even when you please, since you will have it so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.246>To-morrow, then, we will attend your grace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.247>And so most joyfully we take our leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.248>Come, let us to our holy task again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.249>Farewell, good cousin; farewell, gentle friends.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Before the Tower.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, on one side, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF YORK, and DORSET; on the other, ANNE, Duchess of Gloucester, leading Lady Margaret Plantagenet, CLARENCE's young Daughter</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Who m eets us here? my niece Plantagenet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>Now, for my life, she's wandering to the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>On pure heart's love to greet the tender princes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>Daughter, well met.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>God give your graces both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>A happy and a joyful time of day!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>As much to you, good sister! Whither away?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>No farther than the Tower; and, as I guess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>Upon the like devotion as yourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>To gratulate the gentle princes there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>Kind sister, thanks: we'll enter all together.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BRAKENBURY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>And, in good time, here the lieutenant comes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>Master lieutenant, pray you, by your leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>How doth the prince, and my young son of York?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>Right well, dear madam. By your patience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>I may not suffer you to visit them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>The king hath straitly charged the contrary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>The king! why, who's that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>The Lord protect him from that kingly title!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Hath he set bounds betwixt their love and me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>I am their mother; who should keep me from them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>I am their fathers mother; I will see them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>Then bring me to their sights; I'll bear thy blame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>And take thy office from thee, on my peril.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BRAKENBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>No, madam, no; I may not leave it so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter LORD STANLEY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LORD STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>And I'll salute your grace of York as mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>And reverend looker on, of two fair queens.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To LADY ANNE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>There to be crowned Richard's royal queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>With this dead-killing news!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DORSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>Be of good cheer: mother, how fares your grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee hence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Death and destruction dog thee at the heels;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Thy mother's name is ominous to children.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughter-house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>Lest thou increase the number of the dead;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LORD STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Take all the swift advantage of the hours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>You shall have letters from me to my son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>To meet you on the way, and welcome you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>O ill-dispersing wind of misery!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>O my accursed womb, the bed of death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>A cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Whose unavoided eye is murderous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LORD STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>And I in all unwillingness will go.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>I would to God that the inclusive verge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Of golden metal that must round my brow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>Anointed let me be with deadly venom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>And die, ere men can say, God save the queen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>Go, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>No! why? When he that is my husband now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>Which issued from my other angel husband</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>This was my wish: 'Be thou,' quoth I, ' accursed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>For making me, so young, so old a widow!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>And be thy wife--if any be so mad--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>As miserable by the life of thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>As thou hast made me by my dear lord's death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>Even in so short a space, my woman's heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>Grossly grew captive to his honey words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>And proved the subject of my own soul's curse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>For never yet one hour in his bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>But have been waked by his timorous dreams.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>No more than from my soul I mourn for yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Adieu, poor soul, that takest thy leave of it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>[To DORSET]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To LADY ANNE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>Go thou to Richard, and good angels guard thee!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To QUEEN ELIZABETH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>And each hour's joy wrecked with a week of teen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>Whom envy hath immured within your walls!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>For tender princes, use my babies well!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Sennet. Enter KING RICHARD III, in pomp, crowned; BUCKINGHAM, CATESBY, a page, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Stand all apart Cousin of Buckingham!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>My gracious sovereign?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>Give me thy hand.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here he ascendeth his throne</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>Thus high, by thy advice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>And thy assistance, is King Richard seated;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>But shall we wear these honours for a day?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>Still live they and for ever may they last!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>O Buckingham, now do I play the touch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>To try if thou be current gold indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>Young Edward lives: think now what I would say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>Say on, my loving lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Why, Buckingham, I say, I would be king,</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>Why, so you are, my thrice renowned liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>Ha! am I king? 'tis so: but Edward lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>True, noble prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>O bitter consequence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>That Edward still should live! 'True, noble prince!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>Cousin, thou wert not wont to be so dull:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>And I would have it suddenly perform'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>What sayest thou? speak suddenly; be brief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>Your grace may do your pleasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freezeth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>Before I positively herein:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>I will resolve your grace immediately.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>[Aside to a stander by]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>The king is angry: see, he bites the lip.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>I will converse with iron-witted fools</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>And unrespective boys: none are for me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>That look into me with considerate eyes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>Boy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Whose humble means match not his haughty mind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>Gold were as good as twenty orators,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>What is his name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44> His name, my lord, is Tyrrel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>I partly know the man: go, call him hither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Page</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>The deep-revolving witty Buckingham</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>Hath he so long held out with me untired,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>And stops he now for breath?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter STANLEY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>How now! what news with you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset's fled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>Where he abides.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stands apart</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>Catesby!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55> My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56> Rumour it abroad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>I will take order for her keeping close.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>Look, how thou dream'st! I say again, give out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>That Anne my wife is sick and like to die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>About it; for it stands me much upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit CATESBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>I must be married to my brother's daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>Murder her brothers, and then marry her!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>Uncertain way of gain! But I am in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Page, with TYRREL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>Is thy name Tyrrel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>Art thou, indeed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75> Prove me, my gracious sovereign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>Ay, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>But I had rather kill two enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>Why, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>Are they that I would have thee deal upon:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>Let me have open means to come to them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Whispers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.87>There is no more but so: say it is done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.88>And I will love thee, and prefer thee too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.89>'Tis done, my gracious lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.90>Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.91>Ye shall, my Lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.92>My Lord, I have consider'd in my mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.93>The late demand that you did sound me in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.94>Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.95>I hear that news, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.96>Stanley, he is your wife's son well, look to it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.97>My lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.98>For which your honour and your faith is pawn'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.99>The earldom of Hereford and the moveables</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.100>The which you promised I should possess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.101>Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.102>Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.103>What says your highness to my just demand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.104>As I remember, Henry the Sixth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.105>Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.106>When Richmond was a little peevish boy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.107>A king, perhaps, perhaps,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.108>My lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.109>How chance the prophet could not at that time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.110>Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.111>My lord, your promise for the earldom,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.112>Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.113>The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.114>And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.115>Because a bard of Ireland told me once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.116>I should not live long after I saw Richmond.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.117>My Lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.118> Ay, what's o'clock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.119>I am thus bold to put your grace in mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.120>Of what you promised me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.121>Well, but what's o'clock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.122>Upon the stroke of ten.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.123>Well, let it strike.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.124>Why let it strike?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.125>Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.126>Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.127>I am not in the giving vein to-day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.128>Why, then resolve me whether you will or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.129>Tut, tut,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.130>Thou troublest me; am not in the vein.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.131>Is it even so? rewards he my true service</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.132>With such deep contempt made I him king for this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.133>O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.134>To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TYRREL</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>The tyrannous and bloody deed is done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>The most arch of piteous massacre</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>That ever yet this land was guilty of.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>To do this ruthless piece of butchery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>Although they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>Melting with tenderness and kind compassion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>Wept like two children in their deaths' sad stories.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>'Lo, thus' quoth Dighton, 'lay those tender babes:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>'Thus, thus,' quoth Forrest, 'girdling one another</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>Within their innocent alabaster arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>A book of prayers on their pillow lay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>Which once,' quoth Forrest, 'almost changed my mind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>But O! the devil'--there the villain stopp'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>Whilst Dighton thus told on: 'We smothered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>The most replenished sweet work of nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>That from the prime creation e'er she framed.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>They could not speak; and so I left them both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>To bring this tidings to the bloody king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>And here he comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING RICHARD III</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>All hail, my sovereign liege!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>If to have done the thing you gave in charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>Beget your happiness, be happy then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>For it is done, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>But didst thou see them dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>I did, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31> And buried, gentle Tyrrel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TYRREL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>But how or in what place I do not know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>And thou shalt tell the process of their death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>And be inheritor of thy desire.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>Farewell till soon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit TYRREL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>The son of Clarence have I pent up close;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>And, by that knot, looks proudly o'er the crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CATESBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>My lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>Ely with Richmond troubles me more near</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>Come, I have heard that fearful commenting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>Is leaden servitor to dull delay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>Then fiery expedition be my wing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>We must be brief when traitors brave the field.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Before the palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter QUEEN MARGARET</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>So, now prosperity begins to mellow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>And drop into the rotten mouth of death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>To watch the waning of mine adversaries.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>A dire induction am I witness to,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>And will to France, hoping the consequence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret: who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>Ah, my young princes! ah, my tender babes!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>If yet your gentle souls fly in the air</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>And be not fix'd in doom perpetual,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>Hover about me with your airy wings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>And hear your mother's lamentation!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>Hover about her; say, that right for right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>So many miseries have crazed my voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>That my woe-wearied tongue is mute and dumb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>Brief abstract and record of tedious days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sitting down</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>O, who hath any cause to mourn but I?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sitting down by her</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>If ancient sorrow be most reverend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>Give mine the benefit of seniory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>And let my woes frown on the upper hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>If sorrow can admit society,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sitting down with them</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>I had a Harry, till a Richard kill'd him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42>Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.43>Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard killed him;</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.44>I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.45>I had a Rutland too, thou holp'st to kill him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.46>Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard kill'd him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.47>From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.48>A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.49>That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.50>To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.51>That foul defacer of God's handiwork,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.52>That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.53>That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.54>Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.55>O upright, just, and true-disposing God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.56>How do I thank thee, that this carnal cur</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.57>Preys on the issue of his mother's body,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.58>And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.59>O Harry's wife, triumph not in my woes!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.60>God witness with me, I have wept for thine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.61>Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.62>And now I cloy me with beholding it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.63>Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb'd my Edward:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.64>Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.65>Young York he is but boot, because both they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.66>Match not the high perfection of my loss:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.67>Thy Clarence he is dead that kill'd my Edward;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.68>And the beholders of this tragic play,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.69>The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.70>Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.71>Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.72>Only reserved their factor, to buy souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.73>And send them thither: but at hand, at hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.74>Ensues his piteous and unpitied end:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.75>Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.76>To have him suddenly convey'd away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.77>Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I prey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.78>That I may live to say, The dog is dead!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.79>O, thou didst prophesy the time would come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.80>That I should wish for thee to help me curse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.81>That bottled spider, that foul bunch-back'd toad!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.82>I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.83>I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.84>The presentation of but what I was;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.85>The flattering index of a direful pageant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.86>One heaved a-high, to be hurl'd down below;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.87>A mother only mock'd with two sweet babes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.88>A dream of what thou wert, a breath, a bubble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.89>A sign of dignity, a garish flag,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.90>To be the aim of every dangerous shot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.91>A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.92>Where is thy husband now? where be thy brothers?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.93>Where are thy children? wherein dost thou, joy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.94>Who sues to thee and cries 'God save the queen'?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.95>Where be the bending peers that flatter'd thee?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.96>Where be the thronging troops that follow'd thee?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.97>Decline all this, and see what now thou art:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.98>For happy wife, a most distressed widow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.99>For joyful mother, one that wails the name;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.100>For queen, a very caitiff crown'd with care;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.101>For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.102>For one that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.103>For one being fear'd of all, now fearing one;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.104>For one commanding all, obey'd of none.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.105>Thus hath the course of justice wheel'd about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.106>And left thee but a very prey to time;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.107>Having no more but thought of what thou wert,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.108>To torture thee the more, being what thou art.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.109>Thou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.110>Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.111>Now thy proud neck bears half my burthen'd yoke;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.112>From which even here I slip my weary neck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.113>And leave the burthen of it all on thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.114>Farewell, York's wife, and queen of sad mischance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.115>These English woes will make me smile in France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.116>O thou well skill'd in curses, stay awhile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.117>And teach me how to curse mine enemies!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.118>Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.119>Compare dead happiness with living woe;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.120>Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.121>And he that slew them fouler than he is:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.122>Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.123>Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.124>My words are dull; O, quicken them with thine!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.125>Thy woes will make them sharp, and pierce like mine.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.126>Why should calamity be full of words?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.127>Windy attorneys to their client woes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.128>Airy succeeders of intestate joys,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.129>Poor breathing orators of miseries!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.130>Let them have scope: though what they do impart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.131>Help not all, yet do they ease the heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.132>If so, then be not tongue-tied: go with me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.133>And in the breath of bitter words let's smother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.134>My damned son, which thy two sweet sons smother'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.135>I hear his drum: be copious in exclaims.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING RICHARD III, marching, with drums and trumpets</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.136>Who intercepts my expedition?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.137>O, she that might have intercepted thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.138>By strangling thee in her accursed womb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.139>From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.140>Hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.141>Where should be graven, if that right were right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.142>The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.143>And the dire death of my two sons and brothers?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.144>Tell me, thou villain slave, where are my children?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.145>Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.146>And little Ned Plantagenet, his son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.147>Where is kind Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.148>A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.149>Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.150>Rail on the Lord's enointed: strike, I say!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Alarums</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.151>Either be patient, and entreat me fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.152>Or with the clamorous report of war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.153>Thus will I drown your exclamations.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.154>Art thou my son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.155>Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.156>Then patiently hear my impatience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.157>Madam, I have a touch of your condition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.158>Which cannot brook the accent of reproof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.159>O, let me speak!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.160> Do then: but I'll not hear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.161>I will be mild and gentle in my speech.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.162>And brief, good mother; for I am in haste.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.163>Art thou so hasty? I have stay'd for thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.164>God knows, in anguish, pain and agony.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.165>And came I not at last to comfort you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.166>No, by the holy rood, thou know'st it well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.167>Thou camest on earth to make the earth my hell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.168>A grievous burthen was thy birth to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.169>Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.170>Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.171>Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.172>Thy age confirm'd, proud, subdued, bloody,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.173>treacherous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.174>More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.175>What comfortable hour canst thou name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.176>That ever graced me in thy company?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.177>Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that call'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.178>your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.179>To breakfast once forth of my company.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.180>If I be so disgracious in your sight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.181>Let me march on, and not offend your grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.182>Strike the drum.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.183> I prithee, hear me speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.184>You speak too bitterly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.185>Hear me a word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.186>For I shall never speak to thee again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.187>So.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.188>Either thou wilt die, by God's just ordinance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.189>Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.190>Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.191>And never look upon thy face again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.192>Therefore take with thee my most heavy curse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.193>Which, in the day of battle, tire thee more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.194>Than all the complete armour that thou wear'st!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.195>My prayers on the adverse party fight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.196>And there the little souls of Edward's children</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.197>Whisper the spirits of thine enemies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.198>And promise them success and victory.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.199>Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.200>Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.201>Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.202>Abides in me; I say amen to all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.203>Stay, madam; I must speak a word with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.204>I have no more sons of the royal blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.205>For thee to murder: for my daughters, Richard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.206>They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.207>And therefore level not to hit their lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.208>You have a daughter call'd Elizabeth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.209>Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.210>And must she die for this? O, let her live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.211>And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.212>Slander myself as false to Edward's bed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.213>Throw over her the veil of infamy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.214>So she may live unscarr'd of bleeding slaughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.215>I will confess she was not Edward's daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.216>Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.217>To save her life, I'll say she is not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.218>Her life is only safest in her birth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.219>And only in that safety died her brothers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.220>Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.221>No, to their lives bad friends were contrary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.222>All unavoided is the doom of destiny.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.223>True, when avoided grace makes destiny:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.224>My babes were destined to a fairer death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.225>If grace had bless'd thee with a fairer life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.226>You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.227>Cousins, indeed; and by their uncle cozen'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.228>Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.229>Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.230>Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.231>No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.232>Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.233>To revel in the entrails of my lambs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.234>But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.235>My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.236>Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.237>And I, in such a desperate bay of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.238>Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.239>Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.240>Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.241>And dangerous success of bloody wars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.242>As I intend more good to you and yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.243>Than ever you or yours were by me wrong'd!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.244>What good is cover'd with the face of heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.245>To be discover'd, that can do me good?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.246>The advancement of your children, gentle lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.247>Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.248>No, to the dignity and height of honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.249>The high imperial type of this earth's glory.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.250>Flatter my sorrows with report of it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.251>Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.252>Canst thou demise to any child of mine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.253>Even all I have; yea, and myself and all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.254>Will I withal endow a child of thine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.255>So in the Lethe of thy angry soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.256>Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.257>Which thou supposest I have done to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.258>Be brief, lest that be process of thy kindness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.259>Last longer telling than thy kindness' date.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.260>Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.261>My daughter's mother thinks it with her soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.262>What do you think?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.263>That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.264>So from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.265>And from my heart's love I do thank thee for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.266>Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.267>I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.268>And mean to make her queen of England.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.269>Say then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.270>Even he that makes her queen who should be else?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.271>What, thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.272>I, even I: what think you of it, madam?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.273>How canst thou woo her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.274>That would I learn of you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.275>As one that are best acquainted with her humour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.276>And wilt thou learn of me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.277>Madam, with all my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.278>Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.279>A pair of bleeding-hearts; thereon engrave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.280>Edward and York; then haply she will weep:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.281>Therefore present to her--as sometime Margaret</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.282>Did to thy father, steep'd in Rutland's blood,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.283>A handkerchief; which, say to her, did drain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.284>The purple sap from her sweet brother's body</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.285>And bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.286>If this inducement force her not to love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.287>Send her a story of thy noble acts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.288>Tell her thou madest away her uncle Clarence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.289>Her uncle Rivers; yea, and, for her sake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.290>Madest quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.291>Come, come, you mock me; this is not the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.292>To win our daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.293>There is no other way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.294>Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.295>And not be Richard that hath done all this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.296>Say that I did all this for love of her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.297>Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.298>Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.299>Look, what is done cannot be now amended:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.300>Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.301>Which after hours give leisure to repent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.302>If I did take the kingdom from your sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.303>To make amends, Ill give it to your daughter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.304>If I have kill'd the issue of your womb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.305>To quicken your increase, I will beget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.306>Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.307>A grandam's name is little less in love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.308>Than is the doting title of a mother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.309>They are as children but one step below,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.310>Even of your mettle, of your very blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.311>Of an one pain, save for a night of groans</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.312>Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.313>Your children were vexation to your youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.314>But mine shall be a comfort to your age.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.315>The loss you have is but a son being king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.316>And by that loss your daughter is made queen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.317>I cannot make you what amends I would,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.318>Therefore accept such kindness as I can.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.319>Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.320>Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.321>This fair alliance quickly shall call home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.322>To high promotions and great dignity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.323>The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.324>Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.325>Again shall you be mother to a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.326>And all the ruins of distressful times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.327>Repair'd with double riches of content.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.328>What! we have many goodly days to see:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.329>The liquid drops of tears that you have shed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.330>Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.331>Advantaging their loan with interest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.332>Of ten times double gain of happiness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.333>Go, then my mother, to thy daughter go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.334>Make bold her bashful years with your experience;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.335>Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.336>Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.337>Of golden sovereignty; acquaint the princess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.338>With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.339>And when this arm of mine hath chastised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.340>The petty rebel, dull-brain'd Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.341>Bound with triumphant garlands will I come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.342>And lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.343>To whom I will retail my conquest won,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.344>And she shall be sole victress, Caesar's Caesar.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.345>What were I best to say? her father's brother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.346>Would be her lord? or shall I say, her uncle?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.347>Or, he that slew her brothers and her uncles?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.348>Under what title shall I woo for thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.349>That God, the law, my honour and her love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.350>Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.351>Infer fair England's peace by this alliance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.352>Which she shall purchase with still lasting war.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.353>Say that the king, which may command, entreats.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.354>That at her hands which the king's King forbids.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.355>Say, she shall be a high and mighty queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.356>To wail the tide, as her mother doth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.357>Say, I will love her everlastingly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.358>But how long shall that title 'ever' last?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.359>Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.360>But how long fairly shall her sweet lie last?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.361>So long as heaven and nature lengthens it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.362>So long as hell and Richard likes of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.363>Say, I, her sovereign, am her subject love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.364>But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.365>Be eloquent in my behalf to her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.366>An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.367>Then in plain terms tell her my loving tale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.368>Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.369>Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.370>O no, my reasons are too deep and dead;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.371>Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.372>Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.373>Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.374>Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.375>Profaned, dishonour'd, and the third usurp'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.376>I swear--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.377> By nothing; for this is no oath:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.378>The George, profaned, hath lost his holy honour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.379>The garter, blemish'd, pawn'd his knightly virtue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.380>The crown, usurp'd, disgraced his kingly glory.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.381>if something thou wilt swear to be believed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.382>Swear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.383>Now, by the world--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.384>'Tis full of thy foul wrongs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.385>My father's death--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.386>Thy life hath that dishonour'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.387>Then, by myself--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.388> Thyself thyself misusest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.389>Why then, by God--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.390> God's wrong is most of all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.391>If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.392>The unity the king thy brother made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.393>Had not been broken, nor my brother slain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.394>If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.395>The imperial metal, circling now thy brow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.396>Had graced the tender temples of my child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.397>And both the princes had been breathing here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.398>Which now, two tender playfellows to dust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.399>Thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.400>What canst thou swear by now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.401>The time to come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.402>That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.403>For I myself have many tears to wash</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.404>Hereafter time, for time past wrong'd by thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.405>The children live, whose parents thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.406>slaughter'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.407>Ungovern'd youth, to wail it in their age;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.408>The parents live, whose children thou hast butcher'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.409>Old wither'd plants, to wail it with their age.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.410>Swear not by time to come; for that thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.411>Misused ere used, by time misused o'erpast.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.412>As I intend to prosper and repent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.413>So thrive I in my dangerous attempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.414>Of hostile arms! myself myself confound!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.415>Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.416>Day, yield me not thy light; nor, night, thy rest!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.417>Be opposite all planets of good luck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.418>To my proceedings, if, with pure heart's love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.419>Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.420>I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.421>In her consists my happiness and thine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.422>Without her, follows to this land and me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.423>To thee, herself, and many a Christian soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.424>Death, desolation, ruin and decay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.425>It cannot be avoided but by this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.426>It will not be avoided but by this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.427>Therefore, good mother,--I must can you so--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.428>Be the attorney of my love to her:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.429>Plead what I will be, not what I have been;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.430>Not my deserts, but what I will deserve:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.431>Urge the necessity and state of times,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.432>And be not peevish-fond in great designs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.433>Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.434>Ay, if the devil tempt thee to do good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.435>Shall I forget myself to be myself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.436>Ay, if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.437>But thou didst kill my children.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.438>But in your daughter's womb I bury them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.439>Where in that nest of spicery they shall breed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.440>Selves of themselves, to your recomforture.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.441>Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.442>And be a happy mother by the deed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>QUEEN ELIZABETH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.443>I go. Write to me very shortly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.444>And you shall understand from me her mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.445>Bear her my true love's kiss; and so, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit QUEEN ELIZABETH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.446>Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter RATCLIFF; CATESBY following</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.447>How now! what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.448>My gracious sovereign, on the western coast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.449>Rideth a puissant navy; to the shore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.450>Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.451>Unarm'd, and unresolved to beat them back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.452>'Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.453>And there they hull, expecting but the aid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.454>Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.455>Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.456>Ratcliff, thyself, or Catesby; where is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.457>Here, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.458>Fly to the duke:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To RATCLIFF</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.459>Post thou to Salisbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.460>When thou comest thither--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To CATESBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.461>Dull, unmindful villain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.462>Why stand'st thou still, and go'st not to the duke?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.463>First, mighty sovereign, let me know your mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.464>What from your grace I shall deliver to him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech142><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.465>O, true, good Catesby: bid him levy straight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.466>The greatest strength and power he can make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.467>And meet me presently at Salisbury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech143><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.468>I go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech144><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.469>What is't your highness' pleasure I shall do at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.470>Salisbury?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech145><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.471>Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech146><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.472>Your highness told me I should post before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech147><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.473>My mind is changed, sir, my mind is changed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter STANLEY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.474>How now, what news with you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech148><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.475>None good, my lord, to please you with the hearing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.476>Nor none so bad, but it may well be told.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech149><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.477>Hoyday, a riddle! neither good nor bad!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.478>Why dost thou run so many mile about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.479>When thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer way?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.480>Once more, what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech150><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.481>Richmond is on the seas.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech151><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.482>There let him sink, and be the seas on him!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.483>White-liver'd runagate, what doth he there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech152><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.484>I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech153><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.485>Well, sir, as you guess, as you guess?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech154><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.486>Stirr'd up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Ely,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.487>He makes for England, there to claim the crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech155><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.488>Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.489>Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.490>What heir of York is there alive but we?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.491>And who is England's king but great York's heir?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.492>Then, tell me, what doth he upon the sea?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech156><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.493>Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech157><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.494>Unless for that he comes to be your liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.495>You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.496>Thou wilt revolt, and fly to him, I fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech158><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.497>No, mighty liege; therefore mistrust me not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech159><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.498>Where is thy power, then, to beat him back?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.499>Where are thy tenants and thy followers?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.500>Are they not now upon the western shore.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.501>Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech160><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.502>No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech161><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.503>Cold friends to Richard: what do they in the north,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.504>When they should serve their sovereign in the west?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech162><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.505>They have not been commanded, mighty sovereign:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.506>Please it your majesty to give me leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.507>I'll muster up my friends, and meet your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.508>Where and what time your majesty shall please.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech163><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.509>Ay, ay. thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.510>I will not trust you, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech164><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.511>Most mighty sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.512>You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.513>I never was nor never will be false.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech165><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.514>Well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.515>Go muster men; but, hear you, leave behind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.516>Your son, George Stanley: look your faith be firm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.517>Or else his head's assurance is but frail.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech166><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.518>So deal with him as I prove true to you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech167><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.519>My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.520>As I by friends am well advertised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.521>Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.522>Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.523>With many more confederates, are in arms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech168><b>Second Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.524>My liege, in Kent the Guildfords are in arms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.525>And every hour more competitors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.526>Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech169><b>Third Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.527>My lord, the army of the Duke of Buckingham--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech170><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.528>Out on you, owls! nothing but songs of death?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He striketh him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.529>Take that, until thou bring me better news.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech171><b>Third Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.530>The news I have to tell your majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.531>Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.532>Buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.533>And he himself wander'd away alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.534>No man knows whither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech172><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.535>I cry thee mercy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.536>There is my purse to cure that blow of thine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.537>Hath any well-advised friend proclaim'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.538>Reward to him that brings the traitor in?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech173><b>Third Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.539>Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech174><b>Fourth Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.540>Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.541>'Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.542>Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.543>The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.544>Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.545>Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.546>If they were his assistants, yea or no;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.547>Who answer'd him, they came from Buckingham.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.548>Upon his party: he, mistrusting them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.549>Hoisted sail and made away for Brittany.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech175><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.550>March on, march on, since we are up in arms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.551>If not to fight with foreign enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.552>Yet to beat down these rebels here at home.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter CATESBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech176><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.553>My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.554>That is the best news: that the Earl of Richmond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.555>Is with a mighty power landed at Milford,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.556>Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech177><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.557>Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.558>A royal battle might be won and lost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.559>Some one take order Buckingham be brought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.560>To Salisbury; the rest march on with me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Lord Derby's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DERBY and SIR CHRISTOPHER URSWICK</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.1>Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.2>That in the sty of this most bloody boar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.3>My son George Stanley is frank'd up in hold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.4>If I revolt, off goes young George's head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.5>The fear of that withholds my present aid.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.6>But, tell me, where is princely Richmond now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CHRISTOPHER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.7>At Pembroke, or at Harford-west, in Wales.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.8>What men of name resort to him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CHRISTOPHER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.9>Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.10>Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.11>Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.12>And Rice ap Thomas with a valiant crew;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.13>And many more of noble fame and worth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.14>And towards London they do bend their course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.15>If by the way they be not fought withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.16>Return unto thy lord; commend me to him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.17>Tell him the queen hath heartily consented</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.18>He shall espouse Elizabeth her daughter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.19>These letters will resolve him of my mind. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Salisbury. An open place.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the Sheriff, and BUCKINGHAM, with halberds, led to execution</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Will not King Richard let me speak with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>No, my good lord; therefore be patient.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>Hastings, and Edward's children, Rivers, Grey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Vaughan, and all that have miscarried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>By underhand corrupted foul injustice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>If that your moody discontented souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>Do through the clouds behold this present hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>Even for revenge mock my destruction!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>This is All-Souls' day, fellows, is it not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>It is, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>This is the day that, in King Edward's time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>I wish't might fall on me, when I was found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>False to his children or his wife's allies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>By the false faith of him I trusted most;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>Is the determined respite of my wrongs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>That high All-Seer that I dallied with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>Now Margaret's curse is fallen upon my head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>'When he,' quoth she, 'shall split thy heart with sorrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Remember Margaret was a prophetess.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The camp near Tamworth.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter RICHMOND, OXFORD, BLUNT, HERBERT, and others, with drum and colours</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>Thus far into the bowels of the land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>Have we march'd on without impediment;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>And here receive we from our father Stanley</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>Lines of fair comfort and encouragement.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>Lies now even in the centre of this isle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>From Tamworth thither is but one day's march.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>To reap the harvest of perpetual peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>By this one bloody trial of sharp war.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>OXFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>Every man's conscience is a thousand swords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>To fight against that bloody homicide.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HERBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>I doubt not but his friends will fly to us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>He hath no friends but who are friends for fear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>Which in his greatest need will shrink from him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Bosworth Field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING RICHARD III in arms, with NORFOLK, SURREY, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>Here pitch our tents, even here in Bosworth field.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SURREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>My heart is ten times lighter than my looks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>My Lord of Norfolk,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>NORFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>Here, most gracious liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Norfolk, we must have knocks; ha! must we not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>NORFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>We must both give and take, my gracious lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>Up with my tent there! here will I lie tonight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>But where to-morrow? Well, all's one for that.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>Who hath descried the number of the foe?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>NORFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>Why, our battalion trebles that account:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>Which they upon the adverse party want.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>Up with my tent there! Valiant gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>Let us survey the vantage of the field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>Call for some men of sound direction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>Let's want no discipline, make no delay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>For, lords, to-morrow is a busy day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter, on the other side of the field, RICHMOND, Sir William Brandon, OXFORD, and others. Some of the Soldiers pitch RICHMOND's tent</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>The weary sun hath made a golden set,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>And by the bright track of his fiery car,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>Gives signal, of a goodly day to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>Give me some ink and paper in my tent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>I'll draw the form and model of our battle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>Limit each leader to his several charge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>And part in just proportion our small strength.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>My Lord of Oxford, you, Sir William Brandon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>Good Captain Blunt, bear my good night to him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>And by the second hour in the morning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>Desire the earl to see me in my tent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>Yet one thing more, good Blunt, before thou go'st,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>Where is Lord Stanley quarter'd, dost thou know?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>Unless I have mista'en his colours much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>Which well I am assured I have not done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>His regiment lies half a mile at least</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>South from the mighty power of the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>If without peril it be possible,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>And give him from me this most needful scroll.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>Upon my life, my lord, I'll under-take it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>And so, God give you quiet rest to-night!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>Good night, good Captain Blunt. Come gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>Let us consult upon to-morrow's business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>In to our tent; the air is raw and cold.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They withdraw into the tent</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter, to his tent, KING RICHARD III, NORFOLK, RATCLIFF, CATESBY, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>What is't o'clock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49> It's supper-time, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>It's nine o'clock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51> I will not sup to-night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>Give me some ink and paper.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>What, is my beaver easier than it was?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>And all my armour laid into my tent?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>If is, my liege; and all things are in readiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>NORFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>I go, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>NORFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>I warrant you, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>Catesby!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.63>Send out a pursuivant at arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.64>To Stanley's regiment; bid him bring his power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.65>Before sunrising, lest his son George fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.66>Into the blind cave of eternal night.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit CATESBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.67>Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.68>Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.69>Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.70>Ratcliff!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.71>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.72>Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.73>Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.74>Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.75>Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.76>So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.77>I have not that alacrity of spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.78>Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.79>Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.80>It is, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.81> Bid my guard watch; leave me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.82>Ratcliff, about the mid of night come to my tent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.83>And help to arm me. Leave me, I say.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt RATCLIFF and the other Attendants</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter DERBY to RICHMOND in his tent, Lords and others attending</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.84>Fortune and victory sit on thy helm!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.85>All comfort that the dark night can afford</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.86>Be to thy person, noble father-in-law!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.87>Tell me, how fares our loving mother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.88>I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.89>Who prays continually for Richmond's good:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.90>So much for that. The silent hours steal on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.91>And flaky darkness breaks within the east.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.92>In brief,--for so the season bids us be,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.93>Prepare thy battle early in the morning,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.94>And put thy fortune to the arbitrement</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.95>Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.96>I, as I may--that which I would I cannot,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.97>With best advantage will deceive the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.98>And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.99>But on thy side I may not be too forward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.100>Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.101>Be executed in his father's sight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.102>Farewell: the leisure and the fearful time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.103>Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.104>And ample interchange of sweet discourse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.105>Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.106>God give us leisure for these rites of love!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.107>Once more, adieu: be valiant, and speed well!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.108>Good lords, conduct him to his regiment:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.109>I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.110>Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.111>When I should mount with wings of victory:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.112>Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but RICHMOND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.113>O Thou, whose captain I account myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.114>Look on my forces with a gracious eye;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.115>Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.116>That they may crush down with a heavy fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.117>The usurping helmets of our adversaries!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.118>Make us thy ministers of chastisement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.119>That we may praise thee in the victory!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.120>To thee I do commend my watchful soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.121>Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.122>Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sleeps</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Ghost of Prince Edward, son to King Henry VI</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.123>Ghost</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>of Prince Edward</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.124>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.125>Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.126>Think, how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.127>At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To RICHMOND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.128>Be cheerful, Richmond; for the wronged souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.129>Of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.130>King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Ghost of King Henry VI</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.131>Ghost</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>of King Henry VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.132>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.133>When I was mortal, my anointed body</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.134>By thee was punched full of deadly holes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.135>Think on the Tower and me: despair, and die!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.136>Harry the Sixth bids thee despair, and die!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To RICHMOND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.137>Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.138>Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.139>Doth comfort thee in thy sleep: live, and flourish!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Ghost of CLARENCE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Ghost of CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.140>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.141>Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.142>I, that was wash'd to death with fulsome wine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.143>Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.144>To-morrow in the battle think on me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.145>And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To RICHMOND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.146>Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.147>The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.148>Good angels guard thy battle! live, and flourish!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Ghosts of RIVERS, GRAY, and VAUGHAN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Ghost of RIVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.149>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.150>Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.151>Rivers. that died at Pomfret! despair, and die!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Ghost of GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.152>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.153>Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>Ghost of VAUGHAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.154>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.155>Think upon Vaughan, and, with guilty fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.156>Let fall thy lance: despair, and die!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.157>[To RICHMOND]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.158>Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard's bosom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.159>Will conquer him! awake, and win the day!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Ghost of HASTINGS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Ghost of HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.160>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.161>Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.162>And in a bloody battle end thy days!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.163>Think on Lord Hastings: despair, and die!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To RICHMOND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.164>Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.165>Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England's sake!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Ghosts of the two young Princes</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.166>Ghosts</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>of young Princes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.167>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.168>Dream on thy cousins smother'd in the Tower:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.169>Let us be led within thy bosom, Richard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.170>And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.171>Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair and die!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To RICHMOND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.172>Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.173>Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.174>Live, and beget a happy race of kings!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.175>Edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Ghost of LADY ANNE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>Ghost of LADY ANNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.176>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.177>Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.178>That never slept a quiet hour with thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.179>Now fills thy sleep with perturbations</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.180>To-morrow in the battle think on me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.181>And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To RICHMOND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.182>Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.183>Dream of success and happy victory!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.184>Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Ghost of BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.185>Ghost</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>of BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.186>[To KING RICHARD III]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.187>The last was I that helped thee to the crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.188>The last was I that felt thy tyranny:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.189>O, in the battle think on Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.190>And die in terror of thy guiltiness!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.191>Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.192>Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To RICHMOND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.193>I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.194>But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.195>God and good angel fight on Richmond's side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.196>And Richard falls in height of all his pride.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Ghosts vanish</i></p> | |
| <p><i>KING RICHARD III starts out of his dream</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.197>Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.198>Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft! I did but dream.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.199>O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.200>The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.201>Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.202>What do I fear? myself? there's none else by:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.203>Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.204>Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.205>Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.206>Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.207>Alack. I love myself. Wherefore? for any good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.208>That I myself have done unto myself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.209>O, no! alas, I rather hate myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.210>For hateful deeds committed by myself!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.211>I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.212>Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.213>My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.214>And every tongue brings in a several tale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.215>And every tale condemns me for a villain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.216>Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.217>Murder, stem murder, in the direst degree;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.218>All several sins, all used in each degree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.219>Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.220>I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.221>And if I die, no soul shall pity me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.222>Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.223>Find in myself no pity to myself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.224>Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.225>Came to my tent; and every one did threat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.226>To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter RATCLIFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.227>My lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.228>'Zounds! who is there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.229>Ratcliff, my lord; 'tis I. The early village-cock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.230>Hath twice done salutation to the morn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.231>Your friends are up, and buckle on their armour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.232>O Ratcliff, I have dream'd a fearful dream!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.233>What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.234>No doubt, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.235> O Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.236>Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.237>By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.238>Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.239>Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.240>Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.241>It is not yet near day. Come, go with me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.242>Under our tents I'll play the eaves-dropper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.243>To see if any mean to shrink from me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Lords to RICHMOND, sitting in his tent</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>LORDS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.244>Good morrow, Richmond!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.245>Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.246>That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>LORDS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.247>How have you slept, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.248>The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.249>That ever enter'd in a drowsy head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.250>Have I since your departure had, my lords.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.251>Methought their souls, whose bodies Richard murder'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.252>Came to my tent, and cried on victory:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.253>I promise you, my soul is very jocund</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.254>In the remembrance of so fair a dream.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.255>How far into the morning is it, lords?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>LORDS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.256>Upon the stroke of four.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.257>Why, then 'tis time to arm and give direction.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>His oration to his soldiers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.258>More than I have said, loving countrymen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.259>The leisure and enforcement of the time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.260>Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.261>God and our good cause fight upon our side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.262>The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.263>Like high-rear'd bulwarks, stand before our faces;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.264>Richard except, those whom we fight against</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.265>Had rather have us win than him they follow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.266>For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.267>A bloody tyrant and a homicide;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.268>One raised in blood, and one in blood establish'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.269>One that made means to come by what he hath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.270>And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.271>Abase foul stone, made precious by the foil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.272>Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.273>One that hath ever been God's enemy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.274>Then, if you fight against God's enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.275>God will in justice ward you as his soldiers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.276>If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.277>You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.278>If you do fight against your country's foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.279>Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.280>If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.281>Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.282>If you do free your children from the sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.283>Your children's children quit it in your age.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.284>Then, in the name of God and all these rights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.285>Advance your standards, draw your willing swords.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.286>For me, the ransom of my bold attempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.287>Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.288>But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.289>The least of you shall share his part thereof.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.290>Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.291>God and Saint George! Richmond and victory!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter KING RICHARD, RATCLIFF, Attendants and Forces</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.292>What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.293>That he was never trained up in arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.294>He said the truth: and what said Surrey then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.295>He smiled and said 'The better for our purpose.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.296>He was in the right; and so indeed it is.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Clock striketh</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.297>Ten the clock there. Give me a calendar.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.298>Who saw the sun to-day?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.299>Not I, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.300>Then he disdains to shine; for by the book</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.301>He should have braved the east an hour ago</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.302>A black day will it be to somebody. Ratcliff!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>RATCLIFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.303> My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.304>The sun will not be seen to-day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.305>The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.306>I would these dewy tears were from the ground.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.307>Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.308>More than to Richmond? for the selfsame heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.309>That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter NORFOLK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>NORFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.310>Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.311>Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.312>Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.313>I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.314>And thus my battle shall be ordered:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.315>My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.316>Consisting equally of horse and foot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.317>Our archers shall be placed in the midst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.318>John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.319>Shall have the leading of this foot and horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.320>They thus directed, we will follow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.321>In the main battle, whose puissance on either side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.322>Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.323>This, and Saint George to boot! What think'st thou, Norfolk?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>NORFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.324>A good direction, warlike sovereign.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.325>This found I on my tent this morning.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He sheweth him a paper</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.326>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.327>'Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.328>For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.329>A thing devised by the enemy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.330>Go, gentleman, every man unto his charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.331>Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.332>Conscience is but a word that cowards use,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.333>Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.334>Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.335>March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.336>If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>His oration to his Army</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.337>What shall I say more than I have inferr'd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.338>Remember whom you are to cope withal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.339>A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.340>A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.341>Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.342>To desperate ventures and assured destruction.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.343>You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.344>You having lands, and blest with beauteous wives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.345>They would restrain the one, distain the other.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.346>And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.347>Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.348>A milk-sop, one that never in his life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.349>Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.350>Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.351>Lash hence these overweening rags of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.352>These famish'd beggars, weary of their lives;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.353>Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.354>For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd themselves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.355>If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.356>And not these bastard Bretons; whom our fathers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.357>Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.358>And in record, left them the heirs of shame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.359>Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our wives?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.360>Ravish our daughters?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum afar off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.361>Hark! I hear their drum.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.362>Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yoemen!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.363>Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.364>Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.365>Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.366>What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.367>My lord, he doth deny to come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.368>Off with his son George's head!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>NORFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.369>My lord, the enemy is past the marsh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.370>After the battle let George Stanley die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.371>A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.372>Advance our standards, set upon our foes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.373>Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.374>Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.375>Upon them! victory sits on our helms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum: excursions. Enter NORFOLK and forces fighting; to him CATESBY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>The king enacts more wonders than a man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>Daring an opposite to every danger:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarums. Enter KING RICHARD III</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CATESBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING RICHARD III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>And I will stand the hazard of the die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>I think there be six Richmonds in the field;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>Five have I slain to-day instead of him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.13>A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum. Enter KING RICHARD III and RICHMOND; they fight. KING RICHARD III is slain. Retreat and flourish. Re-enter RICHMOND, DERBY bearing the crown, with divers other Lords</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.1>God and your arms be praised, victorious friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.2>The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.3>Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.4>Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.5>From the dead temples of this bloody wretch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.6>Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.7>Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.8>Great God of heaven, say Amen to all!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.9>But, tell me, is young George Stanley living?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.10>He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.11>Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.12>What men of name are slain on either side?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DERBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.13>John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.14>Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>RICHMOND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.15>Inter their bodies as becomes their births:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.16>Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.17>That in submission will return to us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.18>And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.19>We will unite the white rose and the red:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.20>Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.21>That long have frown'd upon their enmity!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.22>What traitor hears me, and says not amen?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.23>England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.24>The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.25>The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.26>The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.27>All this divided York and Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.28>Divided in their dire division,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.29>O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.30>The true succeeders of each royal house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.31>By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.32>And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.33>Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.34>With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.35>Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.36>That would reduce these bloody days again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.37>And make poor England weep in streams of blood!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.38>Let them not live to taste this land's increase</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.39>That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.40>Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.41>That she may long live here, God say amen!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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