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Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight? |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
But repetition of what thou hast marr'd; |
That will I make before I let thee go. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Wert thou not banished on pain of death? |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
I was; but I do find more pain in banishment |
Than death can yield me here by my abode. |
A husband and a son thou owest to me; |
And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance: |
The sorrow that I have, by right is yours, |
And all the pleasures you usurp are mine. |
GLOUCESTER: |
The curse my noble father laid on thee, |
When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper |
And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes, |
And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout |
Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland-- |
His curses, then from bitterness of soul |
Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee; |
And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
So just is God, to right the innocent. |
HASTINGS: |
O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe, |
And the most merciless that e'er was heard of! |
RIVERS: |
Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported. |
DORSET: |
No man but prophesied revenge for it. |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Northumberland, then present, wept to see it. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
What were you snarling all before I came, |
Ready to catch each other by the throat, |
And turn you all your hatred now on me? |
Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven? |
That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death, |
Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment, |
Could all but answer for that peevish brat? |
Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven? |
Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses! |
If not by war, by surfeit die your king, |
As ours by murder, to make him a king! |
Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales, |
For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales, |
Die in his youth by like untimely violence! |
Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen, |
Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self! |
Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss; |
And see another, as I see thee now, |
Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine! |
Long die thy happy days before thy death; |
And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief, |
Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen! |
Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by, |
And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son |
Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him, |
That none of you may live your natural age, |
But by some unlook'd accident cut off! |
GLOUCESTER: |
Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag! |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me. |
If heaven have any grievous plague in store |
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee, |
O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe, |
And then hurl down their indignation |
On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace! |
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! |
Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest, |
And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends! |
No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine, |
Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream |
Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils! |
Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog! |
Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity |
The slave of nature and the son of hell! |
Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb! |
Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins! |
Thou rag of honour! thou detested-- |
GLOUCESTER: |
Margaret. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
Richard! |
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