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QUEEN: |
With signs of war about his aged neck: |
O, full of careful business are his looks! |
Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts: |
Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, |
Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief. |
Your husband, he is gone to save far off, |
Whilst others come to make him lose at home: |
Here am I left to underprop his land, |
Who, weak with age, cannot support myself: |
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made; |
Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him. |
Servant: |
My lord, your son was gone before I came. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
He was? Why, so! go all which way it will! |
The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold, |
And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side. |
Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester; |
Bid her send me presently a thousand pound: |
Hold, take my ring. |
Servant: |
My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship, |
To-day, as I came by, I called there; |
But I shall grieve you to report the rest. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
What is't, knave? |
Servant: |
An hour before I came, the duchess died. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
God for his mercy! what a tide of woes |
Comes rushing on this woeful land at once! |
I know not what to do: I would to God, |
So my untruth had not provoked him to it, |
The king had cut off my head with my brother's. |
What, are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland? |
How shall we do for money for these wars? |
Come, sister,--cousin, I would say--pray, pardon me. |
Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts |
And bring away the armour that is there. |
Gentlemen, will you go muster men? |
If I know how or which way to order these affairs |
Thus thrust disorderly into my hands, |
Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen: |
The one is my sovereign, whom both my oath |
And duty bids defend; the other again |
Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrong'd, |
Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right. |
Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, I'll |
Dispose of you. |
Gentlemen, go, muster up your men, |
And meet me presently at Berkeley. |
I should to Plashy too; |
But time will not permit: all is uneven, |
And every thing is left at six and seven. |
BUSHY: |
The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland, |
But none returns. For us to levy power |
Proportionable to the enemy |
Is all unpossible. |
GREEN: |
Besides, our nearness to the king in love |
Is near the hate of those love not the king. |
BAGOT: |
And that's the wavering commons: for their love |
Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them |
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate. |
BUSHY: |
Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd. |
BAGOT: |
If judgement lie in them, then so do we, |
Because we ever have been near the king. |
GREEN: |
Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol castle: |
The Earl of Wiltshire is already there. |
BUSHY: |
Thither will I with you; for little office |
The hateful commons will perform for us, |
Except like curs to tear us all to pieces. |
Will you go along with us? |
BAGOT: |
No; I will to Ireland to his majesty. |
Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain, |
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