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Now, for my life, she's wandering to the Tower, |
On pure heart's love to greet the tender princes. |
Daughter, well met. |
LADY ANNE: |
God give your graces both |
A happy and a joyful time of day! |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
As much to you, good sister! Whither away? |
LADY ANNE: |
No farther than the Tower; and, as I guess, |
Upon the like devotion as yourselves, |
To gratulate the gentle princes there. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
Kind sister, thanks: we'll enter all together. |
And, in good time, here the lieutenant comes. |
Master lieutenant, pray you, by your leave, |
How doth the prince, and my young son of York? |
BRAKENBURY: |
Right well, dear madam. By your patience, |
I may not suffer you to visit them; |
The king hath straitly charged the contrary. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
The king! why, who's that? |
BRAKENBURY: |
I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
The Lord protect him from that kingly title! |
Hath he set bounds betwixt their love and me? |
I am their mother; who should keep me from them? |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
I am their fathers mother; I will see them. |
LADY ANNE: |
Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother: |
Then bring me to their sights; I'll bear thy blame |
And take thy office from thee, on my peril. |
BRAKENBURY: |
No, madam, no; I may not leave it so: |
I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me. |
LORD STANLEY: |
Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence, |
And I'll salute your grace of York as mother, |
And reverend looker on, of two fair queens. |
Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster, |
There to be crowned Richard's royal queen. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart |
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon |
With this dead-killing news! |
LADY ANNE: |
Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news! |
DORSET: |
Be of good cheer: mother, how fares your grace? |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee hence! |
Death and destruction dog thee at the heels; |
Thy mother's name is ominous to children. |
If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas, |
And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell |
Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughter-house, |
Lest thou increase the number of the dead; |
And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse, |
Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted queen. |
LORD STANLEY: |
Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam. |
Take all the swift advantage of the hours; |
You shall have letters from me to my son |
To meet you on the way, and welcome you. |
Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
O ill-dispersing wind of misery! |
O my accursed womb, the bed of death! |
A cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world, |
Whose unavoided eye is murderous. |
LORD STANLEY: |
Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent. |
LADY ANNE: |
And I in all unwillingness will go. |
I would to God that the inclusive verge |
Of golden metal that must round my brow |
Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain! |
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