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GLOUCESTER: |
Ha! |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
I call thee not. |
GLOUCESTER: |
I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought |
That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
Why, so I did; but look'd for no reply. |
O, let me make the period to my curse! |
GLOUCESTER: |
'Tis done by me, and ends in 'Margaret.' |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune! |
Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider, |
Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about? |
Fool, fool! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself. |
The time will come when thou shalt wish for me |
To help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad. |
HASTINGS: |
False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse, |
Lest to thy harm thou move our patience. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine. |
RIVERS: |
Were you well served, you would be taught your duty. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
To serve me well, you all should do me duty, |
Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects: |
O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty! |
DORSET: |
Dispute not with her; she is lunatic. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
Peace, master marquess, you are malapert: |
Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current. |
O, that your young nobility could judge |
What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable! |
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; |
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess. |
DORSET: |
It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Yea, and much more: but I was born so high, |
Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top, |
And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas! |
Witness my son, now in the shade of death; |
Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath |
Hath in eternal darkness folded up. |
Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest. |
O God, that seest it, do not suffer it! |
As it was won with blood, lost be it so! |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Have done! for shame, if not for charity. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
Urge neither charity nor shame to me: |
Uncharitably with me have you dealt, |
And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd. |
My charity is outrage, life my shame |
And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage. |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Have done, have done. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
O princely Buckingham I'll kiss thy hand, |
In sign of league and amity with thee: |
Now fair befal thee and thy noble house! |
Thy garments are not spotted with our blood, |
Nor thou within the compass of my curse. |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Nor no one here; for curses never pass |
The lips of those that breathe them in the air. |
QUEEN MARGARET: |
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