The Works of William Shakespeare (Cambridge Ed., Vol. 5) - Chapter 15

The Works of William Shakespeare (Cambridge Ed., Vol. 5) KING RICHARD THE THIRD.

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KING RICHARD THE THIRD.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ*.

KING EDWARD the Fourth.
sons to the King,
- EDWARD, Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward V.
- RICHARD, Duke of York.
brothers to the King,
- GEORGE, Duke of Clarence.
- RICHARD, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards King Richard III.
A young son of Clarence.
HENRY, Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII.
CARDINAL BOURCHIER†, Archbishop of Canterbury.
THOMAS ROTHERHAM, Archbishop of York.
JOHN MORTON, Bishop of Ely.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
DUKE OF NORFOLK.
EARL OF SURREY, his son.
EARL RIVERS, brother to Elizabeth.
MARQUIS OF DORSET and LORD GREY, sons to Elizabeth.
EARL OF OXFORD.
LORD HASTINGS.
LORD STANLEY, called also EARL OF DERBY.
LORD LOVEL.
SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN.
SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF.
SIR WILLIAM CATESBY.
SIR JAMES TYRREL.
SIR JAMES BLOUNT.
SIR WALTER HERBERT.
SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower.
CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a priest. Another Priest.
TRESSEL‡ and BERKELEY, gentlemen attending on the Lady Anne.
Lord Mayor of London. Sheriff of Wiltshire.
ELIZABETH, queen to King Edward IV.
MARGARET, widow of King Henry VI.
DUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV.
LADY ANNE, widow of Edward Prince of Wales, son to King Henry VI.; afterwards married to Richard.
A young Daughter of Clarence (MARGARET PLANTAGENET).

Ghosts of those murdered by Richard III., Lords and other Attendants; a Pursuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Soldiers, &c.

SCENE: England.

* DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.] First given, imperfectly, by Rowe.
† BOURCHIER,] Capell. BOUCHIER, Knight.
‡ TRESSEL] TRUSSEL, French conj.

THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III. ACT I.

faa SCENE I. London. A street.

Enter RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, solus.

♦ Glou. Now is the winter of our discontent

♦ Made glorious summer by this sun of York;

♦ And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house

♦ In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;

5 Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;

Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,

♦ Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.

♦ Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front;

♦ And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds

10 To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,

♦ He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber

♦ To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

♦ But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,

15 Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass:

♦ I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty

To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;

♦ I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,

20 Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time

♦ Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,

♦ And that so lamely and unfashionable

♦ That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;

♦ Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,

25 Have no delight to pass away the time,

♦ Unless to spy my shadow in the sun

♦ And descant on mine own deformity:

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover

♦ To entertain these fair well-spoken days,

30 I am determined to prove a villain

♦ And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

♦ Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,

♦ By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,

To set my brother Clarence and the king

35 In deadly hate the one against the other:

And if King Edward be as true and just

As I am subtle, false and treacherous,

This day should Clarence closely be mew’d up,

♦ About a prophecy, which says that G

40 Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be.

♦ Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here Clarence comes.

Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY.

♦ Brother, good day: what means this armed guard

That waits upon your grace?

♦ Clar. His majesty,

Tendering my person’s safety, hath appointed

45 This conduct to convey me to the Tower.

Glou. Upon what cause?

Clar. Because my name is George.

Glou. Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours;

♦ He should, for that, commit your godfathers:

♦ O, belike his majesty hath some intent

50 That you shall be new-christen’d in the Tower.

♦ But what’s the matter, Clarence? may I know?

♦ Clar. Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest

As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,

He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;

55 And from the cross-row plucks the letter G,

And says a wizard told him that by G

His issue disinherited should be;

And, for my name of George begins with G,

♦ It follows in his thought that I am he.

60 These, as I learn, and such like toys as these

♦ Have moved his highness to commit me now.

Glou. Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women:

’Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower;

My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, ’tis she

65 That tempers him to this extremity.

Was it not she and that good man of worship,

♦ Anthony Woodville, her brother there,

♦ That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,

♦ From whence this present day he is deliver’d?

70 We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.

♦ Clar. By heaven, I think there’s no man is secure

But the queen’s kindred and night-walking heralds

♦ That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore.

♦ Heard ye not what an humble suppliant

75 Lord Hastings was to her for his delivery?

♦ Glou. Humbly complaining to her deity

Got my lord chamberlain his liberty.

♦ I’ll tell you what; I think it is our way,

If we will keep in favour with the king,

80 To be her men and wear her livery:

The jealous o’erworn widow and herself,

Since that our brother dubb’d them gentlewomen,

♦ Are mighty gossips in this monarchy.

♦ Brak. I beseech your graces both to pardon me;

85 His majesty hath straitly given in charge

That no man shall have private conference,

♦ Of what degree soever, with his brother.

♦ Glou. Even so; an’t please your worship, Brakenbury,

You may partake of any thing we say:

90 We speak no treason, man: we say the king

♦ Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen

♦ Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;

We say that Shore’s wife hath a pretty foot,

♦ A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;

95 And that the queen’s kindred are made gentle-folks:

How say you, sir? can you deny all this?

♦ Brak. With this, my lord, myself have nought to do.

♦ Glou. Naught to do with Mistress Shore! I tell thee, fellow,

He that doth naught with her, excepting one,

100 Were best he do it secretly, alone.

Brak. What one, my lord?

♦ Glou. Her husband, knave: wouldst thou betray me?

♦ Brak. I beseech your grace to pardon me, and withal

♦ Forbear your conference with the noble duke.

105 Clar. We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.

♦ Glou. We are the queen’s abjects, and must obey.

Brother, farewell: I will unto the king;

♦ And whatsoever you will employ me in,

Were it to call King Edward’s widow sister,

110 I will perform it to enfranchise you.

♦ Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood

Touches me deeper than you can imagine.

Clar. I know it pleaseth neither of us well.

Glou. Well, your imprisonment shall not be long;

115 I will deliver you, or else lie for you:

Meantime, have patience.

♦ Clar. I must perforce. Farewell. [Exeunt Clarence, Brakenbury, and Guard.

♦ Glou. Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne’er return,

Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,

That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,

120 If heaven will take the present at our hands.

♦ But who comes here? the new-deliver’d Hastings?

Enter LORD HASTINGS.

Hast. Good time of day unto my gracious lord!

Glou. As much unto my good lord chamberlain!

♦ Well are you welcome to the open air.

125 How hath your lordship brook’d imprisonment?

Hast. With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:

But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks

That were the cause of my imprisonment.

Glou. No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too:

130 For they that were your enemies are his,

And have prevail’d as much on him as you.

♦ Hast. More pity that the eagle should be mew’d,

♦ While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

♦ Glou. What news abroad?

135 Hast. No news so bad abroad as this at home;

The king is sickly, weak and melancholy,

And his physicians fear him mightily.

♦ Glou. Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed.

♦ O, he hath kept an evil diet long,

140 And overmuch consumed his royal person:

’Tis very grievous to be thought upon.

♦ What, is he in his bed?

♦ Hast. He is.

Glou. Go you before, and I will follow you. [Exit Hastings

145 He cannot live, I hope; and must not die

♦ Till George be pack’d with post-horse up to heaven.

I’ll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,

♦ With lies well steel’d with weighty arguments;

And, if I fail not in my deep intent,

150 Clarence hath not another day to live:

Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,

And leave the world for me to bustle in!

For then I’ll marry Warwick’s youngest daughter.

♦ What though I kill’d her husband and her father?

155 The readiest way to make the wench amends

Is to become her husband and her father:

The which will I; not all so much for love

As for another secret close intent,

♦ By marrying her which I must reach unto.

160 But yet I run before my horse to market:

♦ Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns;

When they are gone, then must I count my gains. [Exit.

fab SCENE II. The same. Another street.

Enter the corpse of KING HENRY the Sixth, Gentlemen with halberds to guard it; LADY ANNE being the mourner.

♦ Anne. Set down, set down your honourable load—

If honour may be shrouded in a hearse—

♦ Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament

The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.

5 Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!

Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!

Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!

♦ Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost,

To hear the lamentations of poor Anne,

10 Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter’d son,

♦ Stabb’d by the selfsame hand that made these wounds!

♦ Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life

♦ I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.

♦ Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes!

15 Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it!

♦ Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence!

More direful hap betide that hated wretch,

That makes us wretched by the death of thee,

♦ Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,

20 Or any creeping venom’d thing that lives!

♦ If ever he have child, abortive be it,

Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,

Whose ugly and unnatural aspect

May fright the hopeful mother at the view;

25 And that be heir to his unhappiness!

♦ If ever he have wife, let her be made

♦ As miserable by the death of him

♦ As I am made by my poor lord and thee!

♦ Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,

30 Taken from Paul’s to be interred there;

♦ And still, as you are weary of the weight,

♦ Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry’s corse.

Enter GLOUCESTER.

Glou. Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.

Anne. What black magician conjures up this fiend,

35 To stop devoted charitable deeds?

♦ Glou. Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul,

I’ll make a corse of him that disobeys.

♦ Gent. My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.

♦ Glou. Unmanner’d dog! stand thou, when I command:

40 Advance thy halberd higher than my breast,

Or, by Saint Paul, I’ll strike thee to my foot,

♦ And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.

Anne. What, do you tremble? are you all afraid?

Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal,

45 And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.

♦ Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell!

Thou hadst but power over his mortal body,

♦ His soul thou canst not have; therefore, be gone.

Glou. Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.

50 Anne. Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not;

For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,

Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.

If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,

Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.

55 O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry’s wounds

Open their congeal’d mouths and bleed afresh.

Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity;

For ’tis thy presence that exhales this blood

♦ From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells;

60 Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,

Provokes this deluge most unnatural.

O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!

♦ O earth, which this blood drink’st, revenge his death!

♦ Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead,

65 Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,

♦ As thou dost swallow up this good king’s blood,

♦ Which his hell-govern’d arm hath butchered!

♦ Glou. Lady, you know no rules of charity,

♦ Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

70 Anne. Villain, thou know’st no law of God nor man:

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

Glou. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

♦ Anne. O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!

Glou. More wonderful, when angels are so angry.

75 Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,

♦ Of these supposed evils, to give me leave,

By circumstance, but to acquit myself.

♦ Anne. Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man,

♦ For these known evils, but to give me leave,

80 By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self.

Glou. Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have

Some patient leisure to excuse myself.

♦ Anne. Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make

♦ No excuse current, but to hang thyself.

85 Glou. By such despair, I should accuse myself.

♦ Anne. And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused

For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,

♦ Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.

Glou. Say that I slew them not?

♦ Anne. Why, then they are not dead:

90 But dead they are, and, devilish slave, by thee.

Glou. I did not kill your husband.

♦ Anne. Why, then he is alive.

♦ Glou. Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward’s hand.

♦ Anne. In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw

♦ Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood;

95 The which thou once didst bend against her breast,

♦ But that thy brothers beat aside the point.

♦ Glou. I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,

♦ Which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.

Anne. Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind,

100 Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:

Didst thou not kill this king?

♦ Glou. I grant ye.

♦ Anne. Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too

Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!

O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!

105 Glou. The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.

Anne. He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.

♦ Glou. Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither;

For he was fitter for that place than earth.

Anne. And thou unfit for any place but hell.

110 Glou. Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.

Anne. Some dungeon.

♦ Glou. Your bed-chamber.

Anne. Ill rest betide the chamber where thou liest!

Glou. So will it, madam, till I lie with you.

Anne. I hope so.

♦ Glou. I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,

115 To leave this keen encounter of our wits,

♦ And fall somewhat into a slower method,

♦ Is not the causer of the timeless deaths

Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,

♦ As blameful as the executioner?

120 Anne. Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

Glou. Your beauty was the cause of that effect;

♦ Your beauty, which did haunt me in my sleep

To undertake the death of all the world,

♦ So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.

125 Anne. If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,

♦ These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.

♦ Glou. These eyes could never endure sweet beauty’s wreck;

♦ You should not blemish it, if I stood by:

♦ As all the world is cheered by the sun,

130 So I by that; it is my day, my life.

♦ Anne. Black night o’ershade thy day, and death thy life!

♦ Glou. Curse not thyself, fair creature; thou art both.

Anne. I would I were, to be revenged on thee.

Glou. It is a quarrel most unnatural,

135 To be revenged on him that loveth you.

Anne. It is a quarrel just and reasonable,

♦ To be revenged on him that slew my husband.

♦ Glou. He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,

Did it to help thee to a better husband.

140 Anne. His better doth not breathe upon the earth.

♦ Glou. He lives that loves you better than he could.

Anne. Name him.

Glou. Plantagenet.

♦ Anne. Why, that was he.

Glou. The selfsame name, but one of better nature.

♦ Anne. Where is he?

145 Glou. Here. [She spitteth at him.] Why dost thou spit at me?

Anne. Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!

♦ Glou. Never came poison from so sweet a place.

Anne. Never hung poison on a fouler toad.

♦ Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.

150 Glou. Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.

Anne. Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!

Glou. I would they were, that I might die at once;

♦ For now they kill me with a living death.

Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,

155 Shamed their aspect with store of childish drops:

♦ These eyes, which never shed remorseful tear,

♦ No, when my father York and Edward wept,

To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made

When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;

160 Nor when thy warlike father, like a child,

Told the sad story of my father’s death,

And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,

That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks,

Like trees bedash’d with rain: in that sad time

165 My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear;

And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,

Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.

♦ I never sued to friend nor enemy;

♦ My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing words;

170 But, now thy beauty is proposed my fee,

♦ My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak. [She looks scornfully at him.

♦ Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made

For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,

175 Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword;

♦ Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom,

♦ And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,

♦ I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,

♦ And humbly beg the death upon my knee. [He lays his breast open: she offers at it with his sword.

180 Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry,

But ’twas thy beauty that provoked me.

♦ Nay, now dispatch; ’twas I that stabb’d young Edward,

♦ But ’twas thy heavenly face that set me on. [Here she lets fall the sword.

♦ Take up the sword again, or take up me.

185 Anne. Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death,

♦ I will not be the executioner.

Glou. Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.

Anne. I have already.

♦ Glou. Tush, that was in thy rage:

♦ Speak it again, and, even with the word,

190 That hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love,

Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love;

♦ To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary.

♦ Anne. I would I knew thy heart.

Glou. ’Tis figured in my tongue.

195 Anne. I fear me both are false.

♦ Glou. Then never man was true.

Anne. Well, well, put up your sword.

Glou. Say, then, my peace is made.

♦ Anne. That shall you know hereafter.

200 Glou. But shall I live in hope?

Anne. All men, I hope, live so.

♦ Glou. Vouchsafe to wear this ring.

♦ Anne. To take is not to give.

♦ Glou. Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger,

205 Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;

♦ Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

♦ And if thy poor devoted suppliant may

But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,

♦ Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.

210 Anne. What is it?

♦ Glou. That it would please thee leave these sad designs

♦ To him that hath more cause to be a mourner,

♦ And presently repair to Crosby Place;

Where, after I have solemnly interr’d

215 At Chertsey monastery this noble king,

And wet his grave with my repentant tears,

I will with all expedient duty see you:

For divers unknown reasons, I beseech you,

Grant me this boon.

220 Anne. With all my heart; and much it joys me too,

To see you are become so penitent.

♦ Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.

Glou. Bid me farewell.

Anne. ’Tis more than you deserve;

But since you teach me how to flatter you,

225 Imagine I have said farewell already. [Exeunt Lady Anne, Tressel, and Berkeley.

Glou. Sirs, take up the corse.

♦ Gent. Towards Chertsey, noble lord?

♦ Glou. No, to White-Friars; there attend my coming. [Exeunt all but Gloucester.

♦ Was ever woman in this humour woo’d?

♦ Was ever woman in this humour won?

230 I’ll have her; but I will not keep her long.

♦ What! I, that kill’d her husband and his father,

♦ To take her in her heart’s extremest hate,

With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,

♦ The bleeding witness of her hatred by;

235 Having God, her conscience, and these bars against me,

♦ And I nothing to back my suit at all,

But the plain devil and dissembling looks,

♦ And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!

♦ Ha!

240 Hath she forgot already that brave prince,

Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,

Stabb’d in my angry mood at Tewksbury?

♦ A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,

Framed in the prodigality of nature,

245 Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,

♦ The spacious world cannot again afford:

♦ And will she yet debase her eyes on me,

♦ That cropp’d the golden prime of this sweet prince,

♦ And made her widow to a woful bed?

250 On me, whose all not equals Edward’s moiety?

♦ On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?

♦ My dukedom to a beggarly denier,

I do mistake my person all this while:

Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,

255 Myself to be a marvellous proper man.

♦ I’ll be at charges for a looking-glass,

♦ And entertain some score or two of tailors,

♦ To study fashions to adorn my body:

Since I am crept in favour with myself,

260 I will maintain it with some little cost.

♦ But first I’ll turn yon fellow in his grave;

And then return lamenting to my love.

♦ Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,

That I may see my shadow as I pass. [Exit.

fac SCENE III. The palace.

Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, LORD RIVERS, and LORD GREY.

♦ Riv. Have patience, madam: there’s no doubt his majesty

Will soon recover his accustom’d health.

♦ Grey. In that you brook it ill, it makes him worse:

Therefore, for God’s sake, entertain good comfort,

5 And cheer his grace with quick and merry words.

♦ Q. Eliz. If he were dead, what would betide of me?

♦ Riv. No other harm but loss of such a lord.

♦ Q. Eliz. The loss of such a lord includes all harm.

Grey. The heavens have bless’d you with a goodly son,

10 To be your comforter when he is gone.

♦ Q. Eliz. Oh, he is young, and his minority

♦ Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,

A man that loves not me, nor none of you.

♦ Riv. Is it concluded he shall be protector?

15 Q. Eliz. It is determined, not concluded yet:

♦ But so it must be, if the king miscarry.

Enter BUCKINGHAM and DERBY.

♦ Grey. Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby.

Buck. Good time of day unto your royal grace!

Der. God make your majesty joyful as you have been!

20 Q. Eliz. The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby,

♦ To your good prayers will scarcely say amen.

Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she’s your wife,

And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured

♦ I hate not you for her proud arrogance.

25 Der. I do beseech you, either not believe

♦ The envious slanders of her false accusers;

♦ Or, if she be accused in true report,

Bear with her weakness, which, I think, proceeds

From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.

30 Riv. Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby?

Der. But now the Duke of Buckingham and I

♦ Are come from visiting his majesty.

♦ Q. Eliz. What likelihood of his amendment, lords?

♦ Buck. Madam, good hope; his grace speaks cheerfully.

35 Q. Eliz. God grant him health! Did you confer with him?

♦ Buck. Madam, we did: he desires to make atonement

♦ Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,

And betwixt them and my lord chamberlain;

♦ And sent to warn them to his royal presence.

40 Q. Eliz. Would all were well! but that will never be:

♦ I fear our happiness is at the highest.

Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and DORSET.

Glou. They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:

♦ Who are they that complain unto the king,

♦ That I, forsooth, am stern and love them not?

45 By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly

♦ That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.

♦ Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,

♦ Smile in men’s faces, smooth, deceive and cog,

Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,

50 I must be held a rancorous enemy.

Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,

♦ But thus his simple truth must be abused

♦ By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?

♦ Riv. To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?

55 Glou. To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.

When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?

♦ Or thee? or thee? or any of your faction?

♦ A plague upon you all! His royal person—

♦ Whom God preserve better than you would wish!—

60 Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while,

But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.

Q. Eliz. Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.

♦ The king, of his own royal disposition,

♦ And not provoked by any suitor else;

65 Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,

♦ Which in your outward actions shows itself

♦ Against my kindred, brothers, and myself,

♦ Makes him to send; that thereby he may gather

The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it.

70 Glou. I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,

♦ That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:

Since every Jack became a gentleman,

There’s many a gentle person made a Jack.

Q. Eliz. Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Gloucester;

75 You envy my advancement and my friends’:

God grant we never may have need of you!

♦ Glou. Meantime, God grants that we have need of you:

Our brother is imprison’d by your means,

Myself disgraced, and the nobility

80 Held in contempt; whilst many fair promotions

Are daily given to ennoble those

That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.

Q. Eliz. By Him that raised me to this careful height

From that contented hap which I enjoy’d,

85 I never did incense his majesty

Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been

An earnest advocate to plead for him.

My lord, you do me shameful injury,

♦ Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.

90 Glou. You may deny that you were not the cause

Of my Lord Hastings’ late imprisonment.

♦ Riv. She may, my lord, for—

Glou. She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?

She may do more, sir, than denying that:

95 She may help you to many fair preferments;

And then deny her aiding hand therein,

♦ And lay those honours on your high deserts.

♦ What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she,—

♦ Riv. What, marry, may she?

100 Glou. What, marry, may she! marry with a king,

♦ A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:

♦ I wis your grandam had a worser match.

Q. Eliz. My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne

Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:

105 By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty

♦ With those gross taunts I often have endured.

I had rather be a country servant-maid

♦ Than a great queen, with this condition,

♦ To be thus taunted, scorn’d, and baited at:

Enter QUEEN MARGARET, behind.

110 Small joy have I in being England’s queen.

♦ Q. Mar. And lessen’d be that small, God, I beseech thee!

Thy honour, state and seat is due to me.

♦ Glou. What! threat you me with telling of the king?

♦ Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said

115 I will avouch in presence of the king:

♦ I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower.

♦ ’Tis time to speak; my pains are quite forgot.

♦ Q. Mar. Out, devil! I remember them too well:

♦ Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower,

120 And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury.

♦ Glou. Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king,

I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;

A weeder out of his proud adversaries,

A liberal rewarder of his friends:

125 To royalise his blood I spilt mine own.

♦ Q. Mar. Yea, and much better blood than his or thine.

Glou. In all which time you and your husband Grey

Were factious for the house of Lancaster;

♦ And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband

130 In Margaret’s battle at Saint Alban’s slain?

♦ Let me put in your minds, if you forget,

♦ What you have been ere now, and what you are;

Withal, what I have been, and what I am.

Q. Mar. A murderous villain, and so still thou art.

135 Glou. Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick;

Yea, and forswore himself,—which Jesu pardon!—

Q. Mar. Which God revenge!

Glou. To fight on Edward’s party for the crown;

And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew’d up.

140 I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward’s;

Or Edward’s soft and pitiful, like mine:

♦ I am too childish-foolish for this world.

♦ Q. Mar. Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world,

Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is.

145 Riv. My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days

Which here you urge to prove us enemies,

♦ We follow’d then our lord, our lawful king:

♦ So should we you, if you should be our king.

♦ Glou. If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar:

150 Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!

♦ Q. Eliz. As little joy, my lord, as you suppose

You should enjoy, were you this country’s king,

♦ As little joy may you suppose in me,

That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.

155 Q. Mar. A little joy enjoys the queen thereof;

For I am she, and altogether joyless.

♦ I can no longer hold me patient. [Advancing.

Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out

♦ In sharing that which you have pill’d from me!

160 Which of you trembles not that looks on me?

♦ If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,

♦ Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels?

♦ O gentle villain, do not turn away!

Glou. Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?

165 Q. Mar. But repetition of what thou hast marr’d;

That will I make before I let thee go.

♦ Glou. Wert thou not banished on pain of death?

Q. Mar. I was; but I do find more pain in banishment

♦ Than death can yield me here by my abode.

170 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.

Glou. The curse my noble father laid on thee,

175 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

180 Denounced against thee, are all fall’n upon thee;

♦ And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.

♦ Q. Eliz. So just is God, to right the innocent.

Hast. O, ’twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,

♦ And the most merciless that e’er was heard of!

185 Riv. Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.

Dor. No man but prophesied revenge for it.

Buck. Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.

Q. Mar. What! were you snarling all before I came,

Ready to catch each other by the throat,

190 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?

195 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,

200 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;

205 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!

210 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!

215 Glou. Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither’d hag!

♦ Q. Mar. 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,

220 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!

225 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

230 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—

Glou. Margaret.

Q. Mar. Richard!

Glou. Ha!

♦ Q. Mar. I call thee not.

235 Glou. I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought

♦ That thou hadst call’d me all these bitter names.

♦ Q. Mar. Why, so I did; but look’d for no reply.

O, let me make the period to my curse!

♦ Glou. ’Tis done by me, and ends in ‘Margaret.’

240 Q. Eliz. Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself.

Q. Mar. 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.

245 The time will come that thou shalt wish for me

♦ To help thee curse that poisonous bunch-back’d toad.

♦ Hast. False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,

Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.

♦ Q. Mar. Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine.

250 Riv. Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.

♦ Q. Mar. 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!

Dor. Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.

255 Q. Mar. 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;

260 And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

Glou. Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess.

♦ Dor. It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.

♦ Glou. Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,

Our aery buildeth in the cedar’s top,

265 And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.

Q. Mar. 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.

270 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!

♦ Buck. Have done! for shame, if not for charity.

Q. Mar. Urge neither charity nor shame to me:

275 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!

♦ Buck. Have done, have done.

280 Q. Mar. 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.

285 Buck. Nor no one here; for curses never pass

♦ The lips of those that breathe them in the air.

♦ Q. Mar. I’ll not believe but they ascend the sky,

♦ And there awake God’s gentle-sleeping peace.

♦ O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!

290 Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,

♦ His venom tooth will rankle to the death:

♦ Have not to do with him, beware of him;

♦ Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,

And all their ministers attend on him.

295 Glou. What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?

Buck. Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.

♦ Q. Mar. What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?

♦ And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?

O, but remember this another day,

300 When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,

♦ And say poor Margaret was a prophetess.

♦ Live each of you the subjects to his hate,

♦ And he to yours, and all of you to God’s! [Exit.

♦ Hast. My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.

305 Riv. And so doth mine: I muse why she’s at liberty.

Glou. I cannot blame her: by God’s holy mother,

She hath had too much wrong; and I repent

♦ My part thereof that I have done to her.

♦ Q. Eliz. I never did her any, to my knowledge.

310 Glou. But you have all the vantage of her wrong.

♦ I was too hot to do somebody good,

♦ That is too cold in thinking of it now.

♦ Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid;

He is frank’d up to fatting for his pains:

315 God pardon them that are the cause of it!

♦ Riv. A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,

To pray for them that have done scathe to us.

♦ Glou. So do I ever: [Aside] being well advised:

♦ For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.

Enter CATESBY.

320 Cates. Madam, his majesty doth call for you;

♦ And for your grace; and you, my noble lords.

♦ Q. Eliz. Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?

♦ Riv. Madam, we will attend your grace. [Exeunt all but Gloucester.

♦ Glou. I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.

325 The secret mischiefs that I set abroach

♦ I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

♦ Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,

I do beweep to many simple gulls;

♦ Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;

330 And say it is the queen and her allies

♦ That stir the king against the duke my brother.

♦ Now, they believe it; and withal whet me

♦ To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:

♦ But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture,

335 Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:

And thus I clothe my naked villany

♦ With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;

♦ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Enter two Murderers.

♦ But, soft! here come my executioners.

340 How now, my hardy stout resolved mates!

♦ Are you now going to dispatch this deed?

♦ First Murd. We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant,

That we may be admitted where he is.

♦ Glou. Well thought upon; I have it here about me. [Gives the warrant.

345 When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.

But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,

Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;

For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps

May move your hearts to pity, if you mark him.

350 First Murd. Tush!

Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;

♦ Talkers are no good doers: be assured

♦ We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

♦ Glou. Your eyes drop millstones, when fools’ eyes drop tears.

355 I like you, lads: about your business straight.

♦ Go, go, dispatch.

First Murd. We will, my noble lord. [Exeunt.

fad SCENE IV. London. The Tower.

Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY.

♦ Brak. Why looks your grace so heavily to-day?

Clar. O, I have pass’d a miserable night,

♦ So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,

That, as I am a Christian faithful man,

5 I would not spend another such a night,

♦ Though ’twere to buy a world of happy days,

So full of dismal terror was the time!

♦ Brak. What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it.

♦ Clar. Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,

10 And was embark’d to cross to Burgundy;

And, in my company, my brother Gloucester;

Who from my cabin tempted me to walk

♦ Upon the hatches: thence we look’d toward England,

♦ And cited up a thousand fearful times,

15 During the wars of York and Lancaster

♦ That had befall’n us. As we paced along

Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,

♦ Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling,

♦ Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,

20 Into the tumbling billows of the main.

♦ Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!

♦ What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!

♦ What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

♦ Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;

25 Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw’d upon;

Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,

Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,

♦ All scatter’d in the bottom of the sea:

♦ Some lay in dead men’s skulls; and in those holes

30 Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,

♦ As ’twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,

♦ Which woo’d the slimy bottom of the deep,

And mock’d the dead bones that lay scatter’d by.

Brak. Had you such leisure in the time of death

35 To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?

♦ Clar. Methought I had; and often did I strive

♦ To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood

♦ Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth

♦ To seek the empty, vast and wandering air;

40 But smother’d it within my panting bulk,

♦ Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.

♦ Brak. Awaked you not with this sore agony?

♦ Clar. O no, my dream was lengthen’d after life;

♦ O, then began the tempest to my soul,

45 Who pass’d, methought, the melancholy flood,

♦ With that grim ferryman which poets write of,

Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.

♦ The first that there did greet my stranger soul,

♦ Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick;

50 Who cried aloud, ‘What scourge for perjury

♦ Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?’

And so he vanish’d: then came wandering by

♦ A shadow like an angel, with bright hair

♦ Dabbled in blood; and he squeak’d out aloud,

55 ‘Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,

♦ That stabb’d me in the field by Tewksbury:

♦ Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!’

♦ With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends

♦ Environ’d me about, and howled in mine ears

60 Such hideous cries that with the very noise

I trembling waked, and for a season after

Could not believe but that I was in hell,

♦ Such terrible impression made the dream.

♦ Brak. No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you;

65 I promise you, I am afraid to hear you tell it.

♦ Clar. O Brakenbury, I have done those things,

♦ Which now bear evidence against my soul,

♦ For Edward’s sake; and see how he requites me!

♦ O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,

70 But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,

♦ Yet execute thy wrath in me alone;

O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!

♦ I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me;

My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.

75 Brak. I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest! [Clarence sleeps.

♦ Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,

Makes the night morning and the noon-tide night.

♦ Princes have but their titles for their glories,

An outward honour for an inward toil;

80 And, for unfelt imagination,

They often feel a world of restless cares:

♦ So that, betwixt their titles and low names,

♦ There’s nothing differs but the outward fame.

Enter the two Murderers.

♦ First Murd. Ho! who’s here?

85 Brak. In God’s name what are you, and how came you hither?

♦ First Murd. I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs.

♦ Brak. Yea, are you so brief?

♦ Sec. Murd. O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious.

90 Show him our commission; talk no more. [Brakenbury reads it.

Brak. I am in this commanded to deliver

The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:

♦ I will not reason what is meant hereby,

♦ Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.

95 Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:

♦ I’ll to the king; and signify to him

♦ That thus I have resign’d my charge to you.

♦ First Murd. Do so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you ♦ well. [Exit Brakenbury.

100 Sec. Murd. What, shall we stab him as he sleeps?

♦ First Murd. No; then he will say ’twas done cowardly, when he wakes.

♦ Sec. Murd. When he wakes! why, fool, he shall never ♦ wake till the judgement-day.

105 First Murd. Why, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping.

Sec. Murd. The urging of that word ‘judgement’ hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

♦ First Murd. What, art thou afraid?

110 Sec. Murd. Not to kill him, having a warrant for it; ♦ but to be damned for killing him, from which no warrant ♦ can defend us.

♦ First Murd. I thought thou hadst been resolute.

Sec. Murd. So I am, to let him live.

115 First Murd. Back to the Duke of Gloucester, tell him so.

♦ Sec. Murd. I pray thee, stay a while: I hope my holy ♦ humour will change; ’twas wont to hold me but while one ♦ would tell twenty.

120 First Murd. How dost thou feel thyself now?

♦ Sec. Murd. Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me.

♦ First Murd. Remember our reward, when the deed is done.

125 Sec. Murd. ’Zounds, he dies: I had forgot the reward.

♦ First Murd. Where is thy conscience now?

♦ Sec. Murd. In the Duke of Gloucester’s purse.

♦ First Murd. So when he opens his purse to give us our reward, thy conscience flies out.

130 Sec. Murd. Let it go; there’s few or none will entertain it.

♦ First Murd. How if it come to thee again?

♦ Sec. Murd. I’ll not meddle with it: it is a dangerous thing: it makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal, but ♦ it accuseth him; he cannot swear, but it checks him; he 135 cannot lie with his neighbour’s wife, but it detects him: it is ♦ a blushing shamefast spirit that mutinies in a man’s bosom; ♦ it fills one full of obstacles: it made me once restore a ♦ purse of gold, that I found; it beggars any man that keeps ♦ it: it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous 140 thing; and every man that means to live well endeavours ♦ to trust to himself and to live without it.

♦ First Murd. ’Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me not to kill the duke.

♦ Sec. Murd. Take the devil in thy mind, and believe him 145 not: he would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.

♦ First Murd. Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail ♦ with me, I warrant thee.

♦ Sec. Murd. Spoke like a tall fellow that respects his ♦ reputation. Come, shall we to this gear?

150 First Murd. Take him over the costard with the hilts ♦ of thy sword, and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt in the next room.

♦ Sec. Murd. O excellent device! make a sop of him.

♦ First Murd. Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?

155 Sec. Murd. No, first let’s reason with him.

Clar. Where art thou, keeper? give me a cup of wine.

♦ Sec. Murd. You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.

♦ Clar. In God’s name, what art thou?

♦ Sec. Murd. A man, as you are.

160 Clar. But not, as I am, royal.

♦ Sec. Murd. Nor you, as we are, loyal.

Clar. Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.

Sec. Murd. My voice is now the king’s, my looks mine own.

Clar. How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!

165 Your eyes do menace me: why look you pale?

♦ Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?

♦ Both. To, to, to—

♦ Clar. To murder me?

♦ Both. Ay, ay.

170 Clar. You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,

♦ And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.

Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?

First Murd. Offended us you have not, but the king.

Clar. I shall be reconciled to him again.

175 Sec. Murd. Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die.

♦ Clar. Are you call’d forth from out a world of men

♦ To slay the innocent? What is my offence?

♦ Where are the evidence that do accuse me?

♦ What lawful quest have given their verdict up

180 Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced

♦ The bitter sentence of poor Clarence’ death?

Before I be convict by course of law,

♦ To threaten me with death is most unlawful,

♦ I charge you, as you hope to have redemption

185 By Christ’s dear blood shed for our grievous sins,

♦ That you depart and lay no hands on me:

The deed you undertake is damnable.

First Murd. What we will do, we do upon command.

♦ Sec. Murd. And he that hath commanded is the king.

190 Clar. Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings

♦ Hath in the tables of his law commanded

♦ That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou then

Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man’s?

♦ Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,

195 To hurl upon their heads that break his law.

♦ Sec. Murd. And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,

For false forswearing, and for murder too:

♦ Thou didst receive the holy sacrament,

♦ To fight in quarrel of the house of Lancaster.

200 First Murd. And, like a traitor to the name of God,

Didst break that vow; and with thy treacherous blade

♦ Unrip’dst the bowels of thy sovereign’s son.

♦ Sec. Murd. Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.

First Murd. How canst thou urge God’s dreadful law to us,

205 When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?

Clar. Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?

For Edward, for my brother, for his sake:

♦ Why, sirs,

♦ He sends ye not to murder me for this;

210 For in this sin he is as deep as I.

♦ If God will be revenged for this deed,

♦ O, know you yet, he doth it publicly:

Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm;

♦ He needs no indirect nor lawless course

215 To cut off those that have offended him.

First Murd. Who made thee then a bloody minister,

♦ When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet,

♦ That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?

Clar. My brother’s love, the devil, and my rage.

220 First Murd. Thy brother’s love, our duty, and thy fault,

♦ Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.

♦ Clar. Oh, if you love my brother, hate not me;

I am his brother, and I love him well.

♦ If you be hired for meed, go back again,

225 And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,

♦ Who shall reward you better for my life

Than Edward will for tidings of my death.

♦ Sec. Murd. You are deceived, your brother Gloucester hates you.

Clar. O, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:

Go you to him from me.

230 Both. Ay, so we will.

Clar. Tell him, when that our princely father York

Bless’d his three sons with his victorious arm,

♦ And charged us from his soul to love each other,

He little thought of this divided friendship:

235 Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.

♦ First Murd. Ay, millstones; as he lesson’d us to weep.

Clar. O, do not slander him, for he is kind.

♦ First Murd. Right,

♦ As snow in harvest. Thou deceivest thyself:

240 ’Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.

♦ Clar. It cannot be; for when I parted with him,

♦ He hugg’d me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,

That he would labour my delivery.

♦ Sec. Murd. Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee

245 From this world’s thraldom to the joys of heaven.

♦ First Murd. Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.

♦ Clar. Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,

To counsel me to make my peace with God,

And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,

250 That thou wilt war with God by murdering me?

♦ Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on

♦ To do this deed will hate you for the deed.

Sec. Murd. What shall we do?

Clar. Relent, and save your souls.

♦ First Murd. Relent! ’tis cowardly and womanish.

255 Clar. Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.

♦ Which of you, if you were a prince’s son,

Being pent from liberty, as I am now,

If two such murderers as yourselves came to you,

Would not entreat for life?

260 My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks;

♦ O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,

Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,

As you would beg, were you in my distress:

A begging prince what beggar pities not?

265 Sec. Murd. Look behind you, my lord.

♦ First Murd. Take that, and that: if all this will not do, [Stabs him.

♦ I’ll drown you in the malmsey-butt within. [Exit, with the body.

♦ Sec. Murd. A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch’d!

♦ How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands

270 Of this most grievous guilty murder done!

Re-enter First Murderer.

♦ First Murd. How now! what mean’st thou, that thou help’st me not?

♦ By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art!

Sec. Murd. I would he knew that I had saved his brother!

Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;

275 For I repent me that the duke is slain. [Exit.

First Murd. So do not I: go, coward as thou art.

♦ Now must I hide his body in some hole,

♦ Until the duke take order for his burial:

♦ And when I have my meed, I must away;

280 For this will out, and here I must not stay. [Exit.

ACT II.

fba SCENE I. London. The palace.

Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD sick, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM, GREY, and others.

♦ K. Edw. Why, so: now have I done a good day’s work:

♦ You peers, continue this united league:

I every day expect an embassage

♦ From my Redeemer to redeem me hence;

5 And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,

♦ Since I have set my friends at peace on earth.

♦ Rivers and Hastings, take each other’s hand;

Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.

♦ Riv. By heaven, my soul is purged from grudging hate;

10 And with my hand I seal my true heart’s love.

♦ Hast. So thrive I, as I truly swear the like!

K. Edw. Take heed you dally not before your king;

Lest he that is the supreme King of kings

Confound your hidden falsehood and award

15 Either of you to be the other’s end.

Hast. So prosper I, as I swear perfect love!

Riv. And I, as I love Hastings with my heart!

♦ K. Edw. Madam, yourself are not exempt in this,

♦ Nor your son Dorset; Buckingham, nor you;

20 You have been factious one against the other.

Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand;

And what you do, do it unfeignedly.

♦ Q. Eliz. Here, Hastings; I will never more remember

Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine!

25 K. Edw. Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love lord marquess.

♦ Dor. This interchange of love, I here protest,

♦ Upon my part shall be unviolable.

♦ Hast. And so swear I, my lord. [They embrace.

♦ K. Edw. Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league

30 With thy embracements to my wife’s allies,

♦ And make me happy in your unity.

Buck. [To the Queen] Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate

♦ On you or yours but with all duteous love

Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me

35 With hate in those where I expect most love!

When I have most need to employ a friend,

And most assured that he is a friend,

Deep, hollow, treacherous and full of guile,

♦ Be he unto me! this do I beg of God,

40 When I am cold in zeal to you or yours. [They embrace.

K. Edw. A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,

Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.

There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,

♦ To make the perfect period of this peace.

45 Buck. And, in good time, here comes the noble duke.

Enter GLOUCESTER.

Glou. Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen;

And, princely peers, a happy time of day!

K. Edw. Happy indeed, as we have spent the day.

♦ Brother, we have done deeds of charity;

50 Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate,

♦ Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

♦ Glou. A blessed labour, my most sovereign liege:

♦ Amongst this princely heap, if any here,

By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,

55 Hold me a foe;

♦ If I unwittingly, or in my rage,

♦ Have aught committed that is hardly borne

♦ By any in this presence, I desire

♦ To reconcile me to his friendly peace:

60 ’Tis death to me to be at enmity;

I hate it, and desire all good men’s love.

♦ First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,

♦ Which I will purchase with my duteous service;

Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,

65 If ever any grudge were lodged between us;

♦ Of you, Lord Rivers, and, Lord Grey, of you,

♦ That all without desert have frown’d on me;

Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of all.

I do not know that Englishman alive

70 With whom my soul is any jot at odds

More than the infant that is born to-night:

I thank my God for my humility.

♦ Q. Eliz. A holy day shall this be kept hereafter:

♦ I would to God all strifes were well compounded.

75 My sovereign liege, I do beseech your majesty

To take our brother Clarence to your grace.

Glou. Why, madam, have I offer’d love for this,

♦ To be so flouted in this royal presence?

♦ Who knows not that the noble duke is dead? [They all start.

80 You do him injury to scorn his corse.

♦ Riv. Who knows not he is dead! who knows he is?

Q. Eliz. All-seeing heaven, what a world is this!

Buck. Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?

♦ Dor. Ay, my good lord; and no one in this presence

85 But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.

K. Edw. Is Clarence dead? the order was reversed.

♦ Glou. But he, poor soul, by your first order died,

♦ And that a winged Mercury did bear;

♦ Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,

90 That came too lag to see him buried.

God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,

♦ Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,

♦ Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,

♦ And yet go current from suspicion!

Enter DERBY.

95 Der. A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!

♦ K. Edw. I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.

♦ Der. I will not rise, unless your highness grant.

♦ K. Edw. Then speak at once what is it thou demand’st.

♦ Der. The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant’s life;

100 Who slew to-day a riotous gentleman

♦ Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.

K. Edw. Have I a tongue to doom my brother’s death,

♦ And shall that tongue give pardon to a slave?

♦ My brother slew no man; his fault was thought,

105 And yet his punishment was cruel death.

♦ Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,

♦ Kneel’d at my feet and bade me be advised?

♦ Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?

Who told me how the poor soul did forsake

110 The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?

♦ Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury,

When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,

And said ‘Dear brother, live, and be a king’?

♦ Who told me, when we both lay in the field

115 Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me

♦ Even in his own garments, and gave himself,

♦ All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?

All this from my remembrance brutish wrath

Sinfully pluck’d, and not a man of you

120 Had so much grace to put it in my mind.

But when your carters or your waiting-vassals

Have done a drunken slaughter and defaced

♦ The precious image of our dear Redeemer,

You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon;

125 And I, unjustly too, must grant it you:

♦ But for my brother not a man would speak,

♦ Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself

♦ For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all

♦ Have been beholding to him in his life;

130 Yet none of you would once plead for his life.

O God, I fear thy justice will take hold

♦ On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!

♦ Come, Hastings, help me to my closet. Oh, poor Clarence! [Exeunt some with King and Queen.

♦ Glou. This is the fruit of rashness. Mark’d you not

135 How that the guilty kindred of the queen

♦ Look’d pale when they did hear of Clarence’ death?

O, they did urge it still unto the king!

♦ God will revenge it. But come, let us in,

To comfort Edward with our company.

140 Buck. We wait upon your grace. [Exeunt.

fbb SCENE II. The palace.

Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two children of CLARENCE.

♦ Boy. Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?

Duch. No, boy.

♦ Boy. Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,

And cry ‘O Clarence, my unhappy son’?

5 Girl. Why do you look on us, and shake your head,

♦ And call us wretches, orphans, castaways,

♦ If that our noble father be alive?

♦ Duch. My pretty cousins, you mistake me much.

I do lament the sickness of the king,

10 As loath to lose him; not your father’s death;

♦ It were lost sorrow to wail one that’s lost.

♦ Boy. Then, grandam, you conclude that he is dead.

♦ The king my uncle is to blame for this:

God will revenge it; whom I will importune

15 With daily prayers all to that effect.

♦ Girl. And so will I.

Duch. Peace, children, peace! the king doth love you well:

Incapable and shallow innocents,

You cannot guess who caused your father’s death.

20 Boy. Grandam, we can; for my good uncle Gloucester

♦ Told me, the king, provoked by the queen,

Devised impeachments to imprison him:

♦ And when my uncle told me so, he wept,

♦ And hugg’d me in his arm, and kindly kiss’d my cheek;

25 Bade me rely on him as on my father,

♦ And he would love me dearly as his child.

♦ Duch. Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,

♦ And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!

♦ He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;

30 Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.

Boy. Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?

Duch. Ay, boy.

♦ Boy. I cannot think it. Hark! what noise is this?

Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her ears; RIVERS and DORSET after her.

♦ Q. Eliz. Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,

35 To chide my fortune and torment myself?

♦ I’ll join with black despair against my soul,

♦ And to myself become an enemy.

Duch. What means this scene of rude impatience?

Q. Eliz. To make an act of tragic violence:

40 Edward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead.

♦ Why grow the branches now the root is wither’d?

♦ Why wither not the leaves the sap being gone?

If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,

That our swift-winged souls may catch the king’s,

45 Or, like obedient subjects, follow him

♦ To his new kingdom of perpetual rest.

♦ Duch. Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow

♦ As I had title in thy noble husband!

I have bewept a worthy husband’s death,

50 And lived by looking on his images:

But now two mirrors of his princely semblance

Are crack’d in pieces by malignant death,

And I for comfort have but one false glass,

♦ Which grieves me when I see my shame in him.

55 Thou art a widow; yet thou art a mother,

♦ And hast the comfort of thy children left thee:

♦ But death hath snatch’d my husband from mine arms,

♦ And pluck’d two crutches from my feeble limbs,

♦ Edward and Clarence. O, what cause have I,

60 Thine being but a moiety of my grief,

♦ To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!

♦ Boy. Good aunt, you wept not for our father’s death,

♦ How can we aid you with our kindred tears?

♦ Girl. Our fatherless distress was left unmoan’d;

65 Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!

Q. Eliz. Give me no help in lamentation;

♦ I am not barren to bring forth complaints:

♦ All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,

♦ That I, being govern’d by the watery moon,

70 May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!

♦ Oh for my husband, for my dear lord Edward!

♦ Chil. Oh for our father, for our dear lord Clarence!

♦ Duch. Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!

♦ Q. Eliz. What stay had I but Edward? and he’s gone.

75 Chil. What stay had we but Clarence? and he’s gone.

♦ Duch. What stays had I but they? and they are gone.

♦ Q. Eliz. Was never widow had so dear a loss.

♦ Chil. Were never orphans had so dear a loss.

♦ Duch. Was never mother had so dear a loss.

80 Alas, I am the mother of these moans!

♦ Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.

♦ She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;

♦ I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she:

♦ These babes for Clarence weep, and so do I;

85 I for an Edward weep, so do not they:

Alas, you three, on me threefold distress’d

♦ Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow’s nurse,

♦ And I will pamper it with lamentations.

♦ Dor. Comfort, dear mother: God is much displeased

90 That you take with unthankfulness his doing:

In common worldly things, ’tis call’d ungrateful,

♦ With dull unwillingness to repay a debt

Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;

Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,

95 For it requires the royal debt it lent you.

Riv. Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,

Of the young prince your son: send straight for him;

Let him be crown’d; in him your comfort lives:

Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward’s grave,

100 And plant your joys in living Edward’s throne.

Enter GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, and RATCLIFF.

♦ Glou. Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause

To wail the dimming of our shining star;

♦ But none can cure their harms by wailing them.

Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;

105 I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee

I crave your blessing.

♦ Duch. God bless thee, and put meekness in thy mind,

Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

♦ Glou. [Aside] Amen; and make me die a good old man!

110 That is the butt-end of a mother’s blessing:

♦ I marvel why her grace did leave it out.

Buck. You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers,

♦ That bear this mutual heavy load of moan,

♦ Now cheer each other in each other’s love:

115 Though we have spent our harvest of this king,

♦ We are to reap the harvest of his son.

♦ The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,

♦ But lately splinter’d, knit and join’d together,

♦ Must gently be preserved, cherish’d, and kept:

120 Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,

♦ Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch’d

Hither to London, to be crown’d our king.

♦ Riv. Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham?

Buck. Marry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,

125 The new-heal’d wound of malice should break out;

Which would be so much the more dangerous,

♦ By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern’d:

Where every horse bears his commanding rein,

And may direct his course as please himself,

130 As well the fear of harm as harm apparent,

In my opinion, ought to be prevented.

♦ Glou. I hope the king made peace with all of us;

And the compact is firm and true in me.

♦ Riv. And so in me; and so, I think, in all:

135 Yet, since it is but green, it should be put

To no apparent likelihood of breach,

Which haply by much company might be urged:

Therefore I say with noble Buckingham,

♦ That it is meet so few should fetch the prince.

140 Hast. And so say I.

Glou. Then be it so; and go we to determine

♦ Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow.

♦ Madam, and you, my mother, will you go

♦ To give your censures in this weighty business?

145 Q. Eliz. & Duch. With all our hearts. [Exeunt all but Buckingham and Gloucester.

Buck. My lord, whoever journeys to the prince,

♦ For God’s sake, let not us two be behind;

For, by the way, I’ll sort occasion,

♦ As index to the story we late talk’d of,

150 To part the queen’s proud kindred from the king.

Glou. My other self, my counsel’s consistory,

♦ My oracle, my prophet!—My dear cousin,

♦ I, like a child, will go by thy direction.

♦ Towards Ludlow then, for we’ll not stay behind. [Exeunt.

fbc SCENE III. London. A street.

Enter two Citizens, meeting.

♦ First Cit. Neighbour, well met: whither away so fast?

♦ Sec. Cit. I promise you, I scarcely know myself:

Hear you the news abroad?

♦ First Cit. Ay, that the king is dead.

♦ Sec. Cit. Bad news, by’r lady, seldom comes the better:

5 I fear, I fear, ’twill prove a troublous world.

Enter another Citizen.

Third Cit. Neighbours, God speed!

♦ First Cit. Give you good morrow, sir.

♦ Third Cit. Doth this news hold of good King Edward’s death?

♦ Sec. Cit. Ay, sir, it is too true; God help the while!

♦ Third Cit. Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.

10 First Cit. No, no; by God’s good grace his son shall reign.

Third Cit. Woe to that land that’s govern’d by a child!

♦ Sec. Cit. In him there is a hope of government,

♦ That in his nonage council under him,

♦ And in his full and ripen’d years himself,

15 No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.

♦ First Cit. So stood the state when Henry the Sixth

♦ Was crown’d in Paris but at nine months old.

♦ Third Cit. Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot;

♦ For then this land was famously enrich’d

20 With politic grave counsel; then the king

Had virtuous uncles to protect his grace.

♦ First Cit. Why, so hath this, both by the father and mother.

Third Cit. Better it were they all came by the father,

Or by the father there were none at all;

25 For emulation now, who shall be nearest,

♦ Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.

O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester!

♦ And the queen’s sons and brothers haught and proud:

♦ And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,

30 This sickly land might solace as before.

♦ First Cit. Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well.

♦ Third Cit. When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;

♦ When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand;

When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?

35 Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.

♦ All may be well; but, if God sort it so,

’Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.

♦ Sec. Cit. Truly, the souls of men are full of dread:

♦ Ye cannot reason almost with a man

40 That looks not heavily and full of fear.

♦ Third Cit. Before the times of change, still is it so:

By a divine instinct men’s minds mistrust

♦ Ensuing dangers; as, by proof, we see

♦ The waters swell before a boisterous storm.

45 But leave it all to God. Whither away?

♦ Sec. Cit. Marry, we were sent for to the justices.

Third Cit. And so was I: I’ll bear you company. [Exeunt.

fbd SCENE IV. London. The palace.

Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, the young DUKE OF YORK, QUEEN ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS OF YORK.

♦ Arch. Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton;

At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night:

♦ To-morrow, or next day, they will be here.

Duch. I long with all my heart to see the prince:

5 I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.

♦ Q. Eliz. But I hear, no; they say my son of York

♦ Hath almost overta’en him in his growth.

York. Ay, mother; but I would not have it so.

♦ Duch. Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow.

10 York. Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,

My uncle Rivers talk’d how I did grow

♦ More than my brother: ‘Ay,’ quoth my uncle Gloucester,

♦ ‘Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:’

And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,

15 Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

Duch. Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold

In him that did object the same to thee:

He was the wretched’st thing when he was young,

So long a-growing and so leisurely,

20 That, if this rule were true, he should be gracious.

♦ Arch. Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is.

♦ Duch. I hope so too; but yet let mothers doubt.

York. Now, by my troth, if I had been remember’d,

I could have given my uncle’s grace a flout,

25 To touch his growth nearer than he touch’d mine.

♦ Duch. How, my pretty York? I pray thee, let me hear it.

♦ York. Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast

♦ That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old:

’Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.

30 Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.

♦ Duch. I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?

York. Grandam, his nurse.

♦ Duch. His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born.

York. If ’twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.

35 Q. Eliz. A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.

♦ Arch. Good madam, be not angry with the child.

♦ Q. Eliz. Pitchers have ears.

Enter a Messenger.

♦ Arch. Here comes a messenger. What news?

♦ Mess. Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.

Q. Eliz. How fares the prince?

40 Mess. Well, madam, and in health.

♦ Duch. What is thy news then?

♦ Mess. Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,

With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.

Duch. Who hath committed them?

♦ Mess. The mighty dukes

Gloucester and Buckingham.

45 Q. Eliz. For what offence?

Mess. The sum of all I can, I have disclosed;

♦ Why or for what these nobles were committed

♦ Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.

♦ Q. Eliz. Ay me, I see the downfall of our house!

50 The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind;

♦ Insulting tyranny begins to jet

♦ Upon the innocent and aweless throne:

♦ Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre!

I see, as in a map, the end of all.

55 Duch. Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,

How many of you have mine eyes beheld!

My husband lost his life to get the crown;

♦ And often up and down my sons were toss’d,

♦ For me to joy and weep their gain and loss:

60 And being seated, and domestic broils

Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors,

♦ Make war upon themselves; blood against blood,

♦ Self against self: O, preposterous

♦ And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen;

65 Or let me die, to look on death no more!

Q. Eliz. Come, come, my boy; we will to sanctuary.

Madam, farewell.

♦ Duch. I’ll go along with you.

Q. Eliz. You have no cause.

♦ Arch. My gracious lady, go;

♦ And thither bear your treasure and your goods.

70 For my part, I’ll resign unto your grace

♦ The seal I keep: and so betide to me

As well I tender you and all of yours!

♦ Come, I’ll conduct you to the sanctuary. [Exeunt.

ACT III.

fca SCENE I. London. A street.

The trumpets sound. Enter the young PRINCE, the Dukes of GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, CARDINAL BOURCHIER, CATESBY, and others.

♦ Buck. Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your chamber.

Glou. Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts’ sovereign:

The weary way hath made you melancholy.

Prince. No, uncle; but our crosses on the way

5 Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy:

I want more uncles here to welcome me.

Glou. Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years

♦ Hath not yet dived into the world’s deceit:

♦ Nor more can you distinguish of a man

10 Than of his outward show; which, God he knows,

Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.

Those uncles which you want were dangerous;

Your grace attended to their sugar’d words,

But look’d not on the poison of their hearts:

15 God keep you from them, and from such false friends!

♦ Prince. God keep me from false friends! but they were none.

♦ Glou. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.

Enter the Lord Mayor, and his train.

May. God bless your grace with health and happy days!

♦ Prince. I thank you, good my lord; and thank you all.

20 I thought my mother and my brother York

Would long ere this have met us on the way:

Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not

To tell us whether they will come or no!

Enter LORD HASTINGS.

Buck. And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord.

25 Prince. Welcome, my lord: what, will our mother come?

Hast. On what occasion, God he knows, not I,

The queen your mother and your brother York

♦ Have taken sanctuary: the tender prince

♦ Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,

30 But by his mother was perforce withheld.

♦ Buck. Fie, what an indirect and peevish course

Is this of hers! Lord cardinal, will your grace

♦ Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York

Unto his princely brother presently?

35 If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,

And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.

Card. My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory

♦ Can from his mother win the Duke of York,

♦ Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate

40 To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid

We should infringe the holy privilege

♦ Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land

♦ Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.

♦ Buck. You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord,

45 Too ceremonious and traditional:

♦ Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,

You break not sanctuary in seizing him.

The benefit thereof is always granted

To those whose dealings have deserved the place

50 And those who have the wit to claim the place:

This prince hath neither claim’d it nor deserved it;

♦ And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:

♦ Then, taking him from thence that is not there,

You break no privilege nor charter there.

55 Oft have I heard of sanctuary men;

♦ But sanctuary children ne’er till now.

♦ Card. My lord, you shall o’er-rule my mind for once.

Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?

Hast. I go, my lord.

60 Prince. Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may. [Exeunt Cardinal and Hastings.

Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,

Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?

♦ Glou. Where it seems best unto your royal self.

♦ If I may counsel you, some day or two

65 Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:

♦ Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit

For your best health and recreation.

Prince. I do not like the Tower, of any place.

Did Julius Cæsar build that place, my lord?

70 Buck. He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;

♦ Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.

Prince. Is it upon record, or else reported

Successively from age to age, he built it?

♦ Buck. Upon record, my gracious lord.

75 Prince. But say, my lord, it were not register’d,

Methinks the truth should live from age to age,

♦ As ’twere retail’d to all posterity,

♦ Even to the general all-ending day.

♦ Glou. [Aside] So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

80 Prince. What say you, uncle?

♦ Glou. I say, without characters, fame lives long.

♦ [Aside] Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,

♦ I moralize two meanings in one word.

Prince. That Julius Cæsar was a famous man;

85 With what his valour did enrich his wit,

His wit set down to make his valour live:

♦ Death makes no conquest of this conqueror;

♦ For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

I’ll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,—

90 Buck. What, my gracious lord?

♦ Prince. An if I live until I be a man,

I’ll win our ancient right in France again,

Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.

♦ Glou. [Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL.

95 Buck. Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of York.

♦ Prince. Richard of York! how fares our loving brother?

♦ York. Well, my dread lord; so must I call you now.

Prince. Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:

♦ Too late he died that might have kept that title,

100 Which by his death hath lost much majesty.

Glou. How fares our cousin, noble Lord of York?

York. I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,

You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:

♦ The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

Glou. He hath, my lord.

105 York. And therefore is he idle?

Glou. O, my fair cousin, I must not say so.

♦ York. Then is he more beholding to you than I.

Glou. He may command me as my sovereign;

♦ But you have power in me as in a kinsman.

110 York. I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.

Glou. My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart.

Prince. A beggar, brother?

♦ York. Of my kind uncle, that I know will give;

♦ And being but a toy, which is no grief to give.

115 Glou. A greater gift than that I’ll give my cousin.

♦ York. A greater gift! O, that’s the sword to it.

Glou. Ay, gentle cousin, were it light enough.

♦ York. O, then, I see, you will part but with light gifts;

In weightier things you’ll say a beggar nay.

120 Glou. It is too heavy for your grace to wear.

♦ York. I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.

Glou. What, would you have my weapon, little lord?

♦ York. I would, that I might thank you as you call me.

Glou. How?

125 York. Little.

Prince. My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:

Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.

York. You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:

Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me;

130 Because that I am little, like an ape,

He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.

♦ Buck. With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!

♦ To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,

He prettily and aptly taunts himself:

135 So cunning and so young is wonderful.

♦ Glou. My lord, will’t please you pass along?

Myself and my good cousin Buckingham

Will to your mother, to entreat of her

To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.

140 York. What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?

♦ Prince. My lord protector needs will have it so.

York. I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.

♦ Glou. Why, what should you fear?

♦ York. Marry, my uncle Clarence’ angry ghost:

145 My grandam told me he was murder’d there.

Prince. I fear no uncles dead.

Glou. Nor none that live, I hope.

♦ Prince. An if they live, I hope I need not fear.

♦ But come, my lord; and with a heavy heart,

150 Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower. [A Sennet. Exeunt all but Gloucester, Buckingham and Catesby.

♦ Buck. Think you, my lord, this little prating York

Was not incensed by his subtle mother

To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?

♦ Glou. No doubt, no doubt: O, ’tis a parlous boy;

155 Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable:

He is all the mother’s, from the top to toe.

♦ Buck. Well, let them rest. Come hither, Catesby.

♦ Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend

As closely to conceal what we impart:

160 Thou know’st our reasons urged upon the way;

♦ What think’st thou? is it not an easy matter

♦ To make William Lord Hastings of our mind,

For the instalment of this noble duke

In the seat royal of this famous isle?

165 Cate. He for his father’s sake so loves the prince

That he will not be won to aught against him.

♦ Buck. What think’st thou then of Stanley? what will he?

Cate. He will do all in all as Hastings doth.

♦ Buck. Well, then, no more but this: go, gentle Catesby,

170 And, as it were far off, sound thou Lord Hastings,

♦ How he doth stand affected to our purpose;

♦ And summon him to-morrow to the Tower,

To sit about the coronation.

If thou dost find him tractable to us,

175 Encourage him, and show him all our reasons:

♦ If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling,

♦ Be thou so too; and so break off your talk,

And give us notice of his inclination:

For we to-morrow hold divided councils,

180 Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ’d.

Glou. Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby,

His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries

To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle;

♦ And bid my friend, for joy of this good news,

185 Give Mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more.

♦ Buck. Good Catesby, go, effect this business soundly.

♦ Cate. My good lords both, with all the heed I may.

♦ Glou. Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?

Cate. You shall, my lord.

190 Glou. At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both. [Exit Catesby.

♦ Buck. Now, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive

♦ Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?

♦ Glou. Chop off his head, man; somewhat we will do:

And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me

195 The earldom of Hereford, and the moveables

♦ Whereof the king my brother stood possess’d.

♦ Buck. I’ll claim that promise at your grace’s hands.

♦ Glou. And look to have it yielded with all willingness.

Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards

200 We may digest our complots in some form. [Exeunt.

fcb SCENE II. Before Lord Hastings’ house.

Enter a Messenger.

♦ Mess. What, ho! my lord!

♦ Hast. [Within] Who knocks at the door?

♦ Mess. A messenger from the Lord Stanley.

Enter LORD HASTINGS.

♦ Hast. What is’t o’clock?

5 Mess. Upon the stroke of four.

♦ Hast. Cannot thy master sleep these tedious nights?

♦ Mess. So it should seem by that I have to say.

♦ First, he commends him to your noble lordship.

♦ Hast. And then?

10 Mess. And then he sends you word

♦ He dreamt to-night the boar had razed his helm:

♦ Besides, he says there are two councils held;

♦ And that may be determined at the one

Which may make you and him to rue at the other.

15 Therefore he sends to know your lordship’s pleasure,

♦ If presently you will take horse with him,

♦ And with all speed post with him toward the north,

To shun the danger that his soul divines.

♦ Hast. Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord;

20 Bid him not fear the separated councils:

His honour and myself are at the one,

♦ And at the other is my servant Catesby;

Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us

Whereof I shall not have intelligence.

25 Tell him his fears are shallow, wanting instance:

♦ And for his dreams, I wonder he is so fond

To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers:

♦ To fly the boar before the boar pursues,

Were to incense the boar to follow us

30 And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.

Go, bid thy master rise and come to me;

And we will both together to the Tower,

Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.

♦ Mess. My gracious lord, I’ll tell him what you say. [Exit.

Enter CATESBY.

35 Cate. Many good morrows to my noble lord!

Hast. Good morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring:

What news, what news, in this our tottering state?

Cate. It is a reeling world indeed, my lord;

♦ And I believe ’twill never stand upright

40 Till Richard wear the garland of the realm.

♦ Hast. How! wear the garland! dost thou mean the crown?

Cate. Ay, my good lord.

Hast. I’ll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders

♦ Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced.

45 But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?

♦ Cate. Ay, on my life, and hopes to find you forward

Upon his party for the gain thereof:

And thereupon he sends you this good news,

That this same very day your enemies,

50 The kindred of the queen, must die at Pomfret.

♦ Hast. Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,

♦ Because they have been still mine enemies:

But, that I’ll give my voice on Richard’s side,

To bar my master’s heirs in true descent,

55 God knows I will not do it, to the death.

Cate. God keep your lordship in that gracious mind!

Hast. But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence,

♦ That they who brought me in my master’s hate,

I live to look upon their tragedy.

60 I tell thee, Catesby,—

Cate. What, my lord?

♦ Hast. Ere a fortnight make me elder,

♦ I’ll send some packing that yet think not on it.

Cate. ’Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,

65 When men are unprepared and look not for it.

♦ Hast. O monstrous, monstrous! and so falls it out

With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: and so ’twill do

♦ With some men else, who think themselves as safe

♦ As thou and I; who, as thou know’st, are dear

70 To princely Richard and to Buckingham.

Cate. The princes both make high account of you;

♦ [Aside] For they account his head upon the bridge.

♦ Hast. I know they do; and I have well deserved it.

Enter LORD STANLEY.

♦ Come on, come on; where is your boar-spear, man?

75 Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?

♦ Stan. My lord, good morrow; good morrow, Catesby:

You may jest on, but, by the holy rood,

I do not like these several councils, I.

♦ Hast. My lord,

80 I hold my life as dear as you do yours;

♦ And never in my life, I do protest,

♦ Was it more precious to me than ’tis now:

♦ Think you, but that I know our state secure,

I would be so triumphant as I am?

85 Stan. The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,

♦ Were jocund and supposed their state was sure,

♦ And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;

♦ But yet, you see, how soon the day o’ercast.

♦ This sudden stab of rancour I misdoubt:

90 Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward!

♦ What, shall we toward the Tower? the day is spent.

♦ Hast. Come, come, have with you. Wot you what, my lord?

♦ To-day the lords you talk of are beheaded.

Stan. They, for their truth, might better wear their heads

95 Than some that have accused them wear their hats.

♦ But come, my lord, let us away.

Enter a Pursuivant.

♦ Hast. Go on before; I’ll talk with this good fellow. [Exeunt Stanley and Catesby.

♦ How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?

♦ Purs. The better that your lordship please to ask.

100 Hast. I tell thee, man, ’tis better with me now

♦ Than when I met thee last where now we meet:

Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,

By the suggestion of the queen’s allies;

But now, I tell thee—keep it to thyself—

105 This day those enemies are put to death,

♦ And I in better state than e’er I was.

Purs. God hold it, to your honour’s good content!

♦ Hast. Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me. [Throws him his purse.

♦ Purs. God save your lordship. [Exit.

Enter a Priest.

110 Priest. Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your honour.

Hast. I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.

♦ I am in your debt for your last exercise;

♦ Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you. [He whispers in his ear.

Enter BUCKINGHAM.

♦ Buck. What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain?

115 Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest;

♦ Your honour hath no shriving work in hand.

Hast. Good faith, and when I met this holy man,

♦ Those men you talk of came into my mind.

♦ What, go you toward the Tower?

120 Buck. I do, my lord; but long I shall not stay:

I shall return before your lordship thence.

♦ Hast.’Tis like enough, for I stay dinner there.

♦ Buck. [Aside] And supper too, although thou know’st it not.

Come, will you go?

♦ Hast. I’ll wait upon your lordship. [Exeunt.

fcc SCENE III. Pomfret Castle.

Enter SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN to death.

♦ Rat. Come, bring forth the prisoners.

Riv. Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:

To-day shalt thou behold a subject die

For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.

5 Grey. God keep the prince from all the pack of you!

A knot you are of damned blood-suckers.

♦ Vaug. You live that shall cry woe for this hereafter.

Rat. Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out.

Riv. O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,

10 Fatal and ominous to noble peers!

Within the guilty closure of thy walls

Richard the second here was hack’d to death;

♦ And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,

♦ We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.

15 Grey. Now Margaret’s curse is fall’n upon our heads,

For standing by when Richard stabb’d her son.

♦ Riv. Then cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,

♦ Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God,

♦ To hear her prayers for them, as now for us!

20 And for my sister and her princely sons,

♦ Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,

Which, as thou know’st, unjustly must be spilt.

♦ Rat. Make haste; the hour of death is expiate.

♦ Riv. Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:

25 And take our leave, until we meet in heaven. [Exeunt.

fcd SCENE IV. The Tower of London.

Enter BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, the BISHOP OF ELY, RATCLIFF, LOVEL, with others, and take their seats at a table.

♦ Hast. My lords, at once: the cause why we are met

Is, to determine of the coronation.

♦ In God’s name, speak: when is the royal day?

♦ Buck. Are all things fitting for that royal time?

5 Der. It is, and wants but nomination.

♦ Ely. To-morrow then I judge a happy day.

Buck. Who knows the lord protector’s mind herein?

Who is most inward with the noble duke?

♦ Ely. Your grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.

10 Buck. Who, I, my lord! We know each other’s faces,

But for our hearts, he knows no more of mine

Than I of yours;

Nor I no more of his, than you of mine.

Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.

15 Hast. I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;

But, for his purpose in the coronation,

I have not sounded him, nor he deliver’d

♦ His gracious pleasure any way therein:

♦ But you, my noble lords, may name the time;

20 And in the duke’s behalf I’ll give my voice,

♦ Which, I presume, he’ll take in gentle part.

Enter GLOUCESTER.

♦ Ely. Now in good time, here comes the duke himself.

♦ Glou. My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.

♦ I have been long a sleeper; but, I hope,

25 My absence doth neglect no great designs,

Which by my presence might have been concluded.

♦ Buck. Had not you come upon your cue, my lord,

♦ William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part,—

♦ I mean, your voice,—for crowning of the king.

30 Glou. Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder;

His lordship knows me well, and loves me well.

Hast. I thank your grace.

Glou. My Lord of Ely!

♦ Ely. My lord?

Glou. When I was last in Holborn,

♦ I saw good strawberries in your garden there:

35 I do beseech you send for some of them.

♦ Ely. Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart. [Exit.

♦ Glou. Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you. [Drawing him aside.

Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,

♦ And finds the testy gentleman so hot,

40 As he will lose his head ere give consent

♦ His master’s son, as worshipful he terms it,

Shall lose the royalty of England’s throne.

♦ Buck. Withdraw you hence, my lord, I’ll follow you. [Exit Gloucester, Buckingham following.

Der. We have not yet set down this day of triumph.

45 To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden;

For I myself am not so well provided

♦ As else I would be, were the day prolong’d.

Re-enter BISHOP OF ELY.

♦ Ely. Where is my lord protector? I have sent for ♦ these strawberries.

50 Hast. His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day;

There’s some conceit or other likes him well,

♦ When he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit.

♦ I think there’s never a man in Christendom

♦ That can less hide his love or hate than he;

55 For by his face straight shall you know his heart.

Der. What of his heart perceive you in his face

♦ By any likelihood he show’d to-day?

♦ Hast. Marry, that with no man here he is offended;

♦ For, were he, he had shown it in his looks.

60 Der. I pray God he be not, I say.

Re-enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM.

♦ Glou. I pray you all, tell me what they deserve

That do conspire my death with devilish plots

Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevail’d

Upon my body with their hellish charms?

65 Hast. The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,

♦ Makes me most forward in this noble presence

♦ To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be:

I say, my lord, they have deserved death.

♦ Glou. Then be your eyes the witness of this ill:

70 See how I am bewitch’d; behold, mine arm

♦ Is like a blasted sapling, wither’d up:

♦ And this is Edward’s wife, that monstrous witch,

♦ Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore,

♦ That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.

75 Hast. If they have done this thing, my gracious lord,—

Glou. If! thou protector of this damned strumpet,

♦ Tellest thou me of ‘ifs’? Thou art a traitor:

♦ Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear,

I will not dine until I see the same.

80 Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done:

♦ The rest that love me, rise and follow me. [Exeunt all but Hastings, Ratcliff and Lovel.

Hast. Woe, woe for England! not a whit for me;

For I, too fond, might have prevented this.

♦ Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm;

85 But I disdain’d it, and did scorn to fly:

Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble,

♦ And startled, when he look’d upon the Tower,

As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house.

♦ O, now I want the priest that spake to me:

90 I now repent I told the pursuivant,

♦ As ’twere triumphing at mine enemies,

♦ How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher’d,

And I myself secure in grace and favour.

O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse

95 Is lighted on poor Hastings’ wretched head!

♦ Rat. Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner:

Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head.

♦ Hast. O momentary grace of mortal men,

♦ Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

100 Who builds his hopes in air of your fair looks,

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,

Ready, with every nod, to tumble down

Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

♦ Lov. Come, come, dispatch; ’tis bootless to exclaim.

105 Hast. O bloody Richard! miserable England!

I prophesy the fearfull’st time to thee

That ever wretched age hath look’d upon.

Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head:

♦ They smile at me that shortly shall be dead. [Exeunt.

fce SCENE V. The Tower-walls.

Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured.

♦ Glou. Come, cousin, canst thou quake, and change thy colour,

♦ Murder thy breath in middle of a word,

♦ And then begin again, and stop again,

♦ As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror?

5 Buck. Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian,

Speak and look back, and pry on every side,

♦ Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,

♦ Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks

Are at my service, like enforced smiles;

10 And both are ready in their offices,

At any time, to grace my stratagems.

But what, is Catesby gone?

♦ Glou. He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along.

Enter the Mayor and CATESBY.

♦ Buck. Lord mayor,—

15 Glou. Look to the drawbridge there!

♦ Buck. Hark! a drum.

♦ Glou. Catesby, o’erlook the walls.

♦ Buck. Lord mayor, the reason we have sent—

♦ Glou. Look back, defend thee, here are enemies.

20 Buck. God and our innocency defend and guard us!

♦ Glou. Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel.

Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS’ head.

♦ Lov. Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,

The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.

Glou. So dear I loved the man, that I must weep.

25 I took him for the plainest harmless creature

♦ That breathed upon this earth a Christian;

♦ Made him my book, wherein my soul recorded

The history of all her secret thoughts:

So smooth he daub’d his vice with show of virtue

30 That, his apparent open guilt omitted,

I mean, his conversation with Shore’s wife,

♦ He lived from all attainder of suspect.

♦ Buck. Well, well, he was the covert’st shelter’d traitor

That ever lived.

35 Would you imagine, or almost believe,

♦ Were’t not that, by great preservation,

♦ We live to tell it you, the subtle traitor

♦ This day had plotted, in the council-house

To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester?

40 May. What, had he so?

♦ Glou. What, think you we are Turks or infidels?

♦ Or that we would, against the form of law,

♦ Proceed thus rashly to the villain’s death,

♦ But that the extreme peril of the case,

45 The peace of England and our persons’ safety,

♦ Enforced us to this execution?

May. Now, fair befall you! he deserved his death;

♦ And you, my good lords both, have well proceeded,

To warn false traitors from the like attempts.

50 I never look’d for better at his hands,

After he once fell in with Mistress Shore.

♦ Glou. Yet had not we determined he should die,

♦ Until your lordship came to see his death;

♦ Which now the loving haste of these our friends,

55 Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented:

♦ Because, my lord, we would have had you heard

The traitor speak and timorously confess

♦ The manner and the purpose of his treason;

That you might well have signified the same

60 Unto the citizens, who haply may

♦ Misconstrue us in him and wail his death.

♦ May. But, my good lord, your grace’s word shall serve,

♦ As well as I had seen and heard him speak:

♦ And doubt you not, right noble princes both,

65 But I’ll acquaint our duteous citizens

♦ With all your just proceedings in this cause.

♦ Glou. And to that end we wish’d your lordship here,

♦ To avoid the carping censures of the world.

♦ Buck. But since you come too late of our intents,

70 Yet witness what you hear we did intend:

And so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell. [Exit Mayor.

♦ Glou. Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.

The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:

♦ There, at your meet’st advantage of the time,

75 Infer the bastardy of Edward’s children:

Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,

Only for saying he would make his son

Heir to the crown, meaning indeed his house,

Which, by the sign thereof, was termed so.

80 Moreover, urge his hateful luxury

♦ And bestial appetite in change of lust;

♦ Which stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,

♦ Even where his lustful eye or savage heart,

♦ Without control, listed to make his prey.

85 Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:

Tell them, when that my mother went with child

♦ Of that unsatiate Edward, noble York

♦ My princely father then had wars in France;

♦ And, by just computation of the time,

90 Found that the issue was not his begot;

Which well appeared in his lineaments,

Being nothing like the noble duke my father:

♦ But touch this sparingly, as ’twere far off;

♦ Because you know, my lord, my mother lives.

95 Buck. Fear not, my lord, I’ll play the orator

As if the golden fee for which I plead

♦ Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.

Glou. If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard’s Castle;

Where you shall find me well accompanied

100 With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.

♦ Buck. I go; and towards three or four o’clock

♦ Look for the news that the Guildhall affords. [Exit.

♦ Glou. Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw;

♦ [To Cate.] Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both

105 Meet me within this hour at Baynard’s Castle. [Exeunt all but Gloucester.

♦ Now will I in, to take some privy order,

To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight;

♦ And to give notice, that no manner of person

♦ At any time have recourse unto the princes. [Exit.

fcf SCENE VI. The same. A street.

Enter a Scrivener, with a paper in his hand.

♦ Scriv. This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;

Which in a set hand fairly is engross’d,

♦ That it may be this day read o’er in Paul’s.

And mark how well the sequel hangs together:

5 Eleven hours I spent to write it over,

♦ For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;

♦ The precedent was full as long a-doing:

♦ And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,

Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty.

10 Here’s a good world the while! Why who’s so gross,

♦ That seeth not this palpable device?

♦ Yet who’s so blind, but says he sees it not?

♦ Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,

♦ When such bad dealing must be seen in thought. [Exit.

fcg SCENE VII. Baynard’s Castle.

Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, at several doors.

♦ Glou. How now, my lord, what say the citizens?

Buck. Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,

♦ The citizens are mum, and speak not a word.

Glou. Touch’d you the bastardy of Edward’s children?

5 Buck. I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,

And his contract by deputy in France;

♦ The insatiate greediness of his desires,

♦ And his enforcement of the city wives;

His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,

10 As being got, your father then in France,

♦ And his resemblance, being not like the duke:

Withal I did infer your lineaments,

Being the right idea of your father,

♦ Both in your form and nobleness of mind;

15 Laid open all your victories in Scotland,

Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,

Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;

♦ Indeed left nothing fitting for the purpose

Untouch’d or slightly handled in discourse:

20 And when mine oratory grew to an end,

♦ I bid them that did love their country’s good

Cry ‘God save Richard, England’s royal king!’

♦ Glou. Ah! and did they so?

♦ Buck. No, so God help me, they spake not a word;

25 But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones,

♦ Gazed each on other, and look’d deadly pale.

Which when I saw, I reprehended them;

♦ And ask’d the mayor what meant this wilful silence:

♦ His answer was, the people were not wont

30 To be spoke to but by the recorder.

Then he was urged to tell my tale again:

‘Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr’d;’

♦ But nothing spake in warrant from himself.

When he had done, some followers of mine own

35 At the lower end of the hall hurl’d up their caps,

And some ten voices cried ‘God save King Richard!’

♦ And thus I took the vantage of those few,

♦ ‘Thanks, gentle citizens and friends!’ quoth I,

♦ ‘This general applause and loving shout

40 Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard:’

♦ And even here brake off, and came away.

♦ Glou. What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak?

♦ Buck. No, by my troth, my lord.

Glou. Will not the mayor then and his brethren come?

45 Buck. The mayor is here at hand: intend some fear;

♦ Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit:

And look you get a prayer-book in your hand,

♦ And stand betwixt two churchmen, good my lord;

♦ For on that ground I’ll build a holy descant:

50 And be not easily won to our request;

♦ Play the maid’s part, still answer nay, and take it.

♦ Glou. I go; and if you plead as well for them

♦ As I can say nay to thee for myself,

♦ No doubt we’ll bring it to a happy issue.

55 Buck. Go, go up to the leads; the lord mayor knocks. [Exit Gloucester.

Enter the Mayor and Citizens.

♦ Welcome, my lord: I dance attendance here;

♦ I think the duke will not be spoke withal.

Enter CATESBY.

♦ Here comes his servant: how now, Catesby,

What says he?

♦ Cate. My lord, he doth entreat your grace

60 To visit him to-morrow or next day:

♦ He is within, with two right reverend fathers,

Divinely bent to meditation;

♦ And in no worldly suit would he be moved,

To draw him from his holy exercise.

65 Buck. Return, good Catesby, to thy lord again;

♦ Tell him, myself, the mayor and citizens,

♦ In deep designs and matters of great moment,

♦ No less importing than our general good,

Are come to have some conference with his grace.

♦ Cate. I’ll tell him what you say, my lord. [Exit.

Buck. Ah, ha, my lord, this prince is not an Edward!

♦ He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed,

But on his knees at meditation;

Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,

75 But meditating with two deep divines;

Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,

But praying, to enrich his watchful soul:

♦ Happy were England, would this gracious prince

♦ Take on himself the sovereignty thereof:

♦ But, sure, I fear, we shall ne’er win him to it.

♦ May. Marry, God forbid his grace should say us nay!

♦ Buck. I fear he will.

Re-enter CATESBY.

How now, Catesby, what says your lord?

♦ Cate. My lord,

He wonders to what end you have assembled

♦ Such troops of citizens to speak with him,

His grace not being warn’d thereof before:

♦ My lord, he fears you mean no good to him.

Buck. Sorry I am my noble cousin should

Suspect me, that I mean no good to him:

♦ By heaven, I come in perfect love to him;

♦ And so once more return and tell his grace. [Exit Catesby.

When holy and devout religious men

♦ Are at their beads, ’tis hard to draw them thence,

♦ So sweet is zealous contemplation.

Enter GLOUCESTER aloft, between two Bishops. CATESBY returns.

♦ May. See, where he stands between two clergymen!

Buck. Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,

To stay him from the fall of vanity:

♦ And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,

♦ True ornaments to know a holy man.

100 Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,

♦ Lend favourable ears to our request;

And pardon us the interruption

Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.

Glou. My lord, there needs no such apology:

♦ I rather do beseech you pardon me,

♦ Who, earnest in the service of my God,

♦ Neglect the visitation of my friends.

But, leaving this, what is your grace’s pleasure?

Buck. Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above

110 And all good men of this ungovern’d isle.

Glou. I do suspect I have done some offence

♦ That seems disgracious in the city’s eyes,

And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.

♦ Buck. You have, my lord: would it might please your grace,

♦ At our entreaties, to amend that fault!

Glou. Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?

♦ Buck. Then know, it is your fault that you resign

The supreme seat, the throne majestical,

♦ The scepter’d office of your ancestors,

♦ Your state of fortune and your due of birth,

The lineal glory of your royal house,

To the corruption of a blemish’d stock:

♦ Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,

♦ Which here we waken to our country’s good,

♦ This noble isle doth want her proper limbs;

♦ Her face defaced with scars of infamy,

♦ Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,

♦ And almost shoulder’d in the swallowing gulf

♦ Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.

♦ Which to recure, we heartily solicit

♦ Your gracious self to take on you the charge

And kingly government of this your land;

Not as protector, steward, substitute,

♦ Or lowly factor for another’s gain;

135 But as successively, from blood to blood,

Your right of birth, your empery, your own.

For this, consorted with the citizens,

♦ Your very worshipful and loving friends,

And by their vehement instigation,

♦ In this just suit come I to move your grace.

♦ Glou. I know not whether to depart in silence,

Or bitterly to speak in your reproof,

♦ Best fitteth my degree or your condition:

♦ If not to answer, you might haply think

145 Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded

To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,

Which fondly you would here impose on me;

If to reprove you for this suit of yours

So season’d with your faithful love to me,

150 Then, on the other side, I check’d my friends.

Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,

♦ And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,

Definitively thus I answer you.

Your love deserves my thanks, but my desert

♦ Unmeritable shuns your high request.

First, if all obstacles were cut away

And that my path were even to the crown,

♦ As my ripe revenue and due by birth;

Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,

160 So mighty and so many my defects,

♦ As I had rather hide me from my greatness,

Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,

Than in my greatness covet to be hid

And in the vapour of my glory smother’d.

♦ But, God be thanked, there’s no need of me,

♦ And much I need to help you, if need were;

The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,

Which, mellow’d by the stealing hours of time,

Will well become the seat of majesty,

♦ And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.

♦ On him I lay what you would lay on me,

The right and fortune of his happy stars;

Which God defend that I should wring from him!

Buck. My lord, this argues conscience in your grace;

175 But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,

All circumstances well considered.

You say that Edward is your brother’s son:

So say we too, but not by Edward’s wife;

♦ For first he was contract to Lady Lucy—

♦ Your mother lives a witness to that vow—

♦ And afterward by substitute betroth’d

To Bona, sister to the King of France.

♦ These both put by, a poor petitioner,

♦ A care-crazed mother of a many children,

185 A beauty-waning and distressed widow,

Even in the afternoon of her best days,

♦ Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye,

♦ Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts

♦ To base declension and loathed bigamy:

♦ By her, in his unlawful bed, he got

♦ This Edward, whom our manners term the prince.

♦ More bitterly could I expostulate,

♦ Save that, for reverence to some alive,

I give a sparing limit to my tongue.

♦ Then, good my lord, take to your royal self

♦ This proffer’d benefit of dignity;

If not to bless us and the land withal,

♦ Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry

♦ From the corruption of abusing times,

♦ Unto a lineal true-derived course.

May. Do, good my lord, your citizens entreat you.

♦ Buck. Refuse not, mighty lord, this proffer’d love.

Cate. O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!

♦ Glou. Alas, why would you heap these cares on me?

♦ I am unfit for state and majesty:

I do beseech you, take it not amiss;

I cannot nor I will not yield to you.

Buck. If you refuse it,—as, in love and zeal,

Loath to depose the child, your brother’s son;

210 As well we know your tenderness of heart

And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,

♦ Which we have noted in you to your kin,

♦ And egally indeed to all estates,—

♦ Yet whether you accept our suit or no,

215 Your brother’s son shall never reign our king;

But we will plant some other in the throne,

♦ To the disgrace and downfall of your house:

♦ And in this resolution here we leave you.

♦ Come, citizens: ’zounds! I’ll entreat no more.

♦ Glou. O, do not swear, my lord of Buckingham. [Exit Buckingham with the Citizens.

♦ Cate. Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit:

♦ Another. Do, good my lord, lest all the land do rue it.

♦ Glou. Would you enforce me to a world of care?

♦ Well, call them again. I am not made of stone,

♦ But penetrable to your kind entreats,

♦ Albeit against my conscience and my soul.

Re-enter BUCKINGHAM and the rest.

♦ Cousin of Buckingham, and you sage, grave men,

♦ Since you will buckle fortune on my back,

♦ To bear her burthen, whether I will or no,

230 I must have patience to endure the load:

♦ But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach

Attend the sequel of your imposition,

Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me

♦ From all the impure blots and stains thereof;

♦ For God he knows, and you may partly see,

♦ How far I am from the desire thereof.

May. God bless your grace! we see it, and will say it.

Glou. In saying so, you shall but say the truth.

♦ Buck. Then I salute you with this kingly title:

♦ Long live Richard, England’s royal king!

♦ May. and Cit. Amen.

♦ Buck. To-morrow will it please you to be crown’d?

♦ Glou. Even when you please, since you will have it so.

Buck. To-morrow then we will attend your grace:

♦ And so most joyfully we take our leave.

♦ Glou. Come, let us to our holy task again.

♦ Farewell, good cousin; farewell, gentle friends. [Exeunt.

ACT IV.

fda SCENE I. Before the Tower.

Enter, on one side, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF YORK, and MARQUESS OF DORSET; on the other, ANNE, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, leading LADY MARGARET PLANTAGENET, CLARENCE’S young daughter.

♦ Duch. Who meets us here? my niece Plantagenet

♦ Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?

Now, for my life, she’s wandering to the Tower,

♦ On pure heart’s love to greet the tender princes.

Daughter, well met.

5 Anne. God give your graces both

A happy and a joyful time of day!

♦ Q. Eliz. As much to you, good sister! Whither away?

♦ Anne. No farther than the Tower, and, as I guess,

Upon the like devotion as yourselves,

10 To gratulate the gentle princes there.

Q. Eliz. Kind sister, thanks: we’ll enter all together.

Enter BRAKENBURY.

♦ 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?

15 Brak. Right well, dear madam. By your patience,

♦ I may not suffer you to visit them;

♦ The king hath straitly charged the contrary.

♦ Q. Eliz. The king! why, who’s that?

♦ Brak. I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector.

20 Q. Eliz. 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?

♦ Duch. I am their father’s mother; I will see them.

Anne. Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother:

25 Then bring me to their sights; I’ll bear thy blame,

And take thy office from thee, on my peril.

♦ Brak. No, madam, no; I may not leave it so:

♦ I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me. [Exit.

Enter LORD STANLEY.

♦ Stan. Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence,

30 And I’ll salute your grace of York as mother,

♦ And reverend looker on, of two fair queens.

♦ [To Anne] Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster,

There to be crowned Richard’s royal queen.

♦ Q. Eliz. O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart

35 May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon

♦ With this dead-killing news!

♦ Anne. Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news!

♦ Dor. Be of good cheer: mother, how fares your grace?

♦ Q. Eliz. O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee hence!

40 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,

45 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.

Stan. Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam.

♦ Take all the swift advantage of the hours;

50 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.

♦ Duch. O ill-dispersing wind of misery!

O my accursed womb, the bed of death!

55 A cockatrice hast thou hatch’d to the world,

Whose unavoided eye is murderous.

♦ Stan. Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent.

♦ Anne. And I in all unwillingness will go.

♦ I would to God that the inclusive verge

60 Of golden metal that must round my brow

♦ Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain!

♦ Anointed let me be with deadly venom,

And die, ere men can say, God save the queen!

♦ Q. Eliz. Go, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory;

65 To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm.

♦ Anne. No! why? When he that is my husband now

♦ Came to me, as I follow’d Henry’s corse,

♦ When scarce the blood was well wash’d from his hands

Which issued from my other angel husband

70 And that dead saint which then I weeping follow’d;

O, when, I say, I look’d on Richard’s face,

This was my wish: ‘Be thou,’ quoth I, ‘accursed,

For making me, so young, so old a widow!

And, when thou wed’st, let sorrow haunt thy bed;

75 And be thy wife—if any be so mad—

♦ As miserable by the life of thee

As thou hast made me by my dear lord’s death!’

♦ Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,

♦ Even in so short a space, my woman’s heart

80 Grossly grew captive to his honey words

♦ And proved the subject of my own soul’s curse,

♦ Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest;

For never yet one hour in his bed

♦ Have I enjoy’d the golden dew of sleep,

85 But have been waked by his timorous dreams.

Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick;

♦ And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.

♦ Q. Eliz. Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining.

♦ Anne. No more than from my soul I mourn for yours.

90 Q. Eliz. Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!

♦ Anne. Adieu, poor soul, that takest thy leave of it!

♦ Duch. [To Dorset] Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee!

♦ [To Anne] Go thou to Richard, and good angels guard thee!

♦ [To Queen Eliz.] Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee!

95 I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me!

♦ Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,

♦ And each hour’s joy wreck’d with a week of teen.

♦ Q. Eliz. Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.

Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes

100 Whom envy hath immured within your walls!

Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!

♦ Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow

For tender princes, use my babies well!

♦ So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell. [Exeunt.

fdb SCENE II. London. The Palace.

Sennet. Enter RICHARD, in pomp, crowned; BUCKINGHAM, CATESBY, a Page, and others.

♦ K. Rich. Stand all apart. Cousin of Buckingham!

♦ Buck. My gracious sovereign?

♦ K. Rich. Give me thy hand. [Here he ascendeth his throne.] Thus high, by thy advice

And thy assistance, is king Richard seated:

5 But shall we wear these honours for a day?

Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

♦ Buck. Still live they and for ever may they last!

♦ K. Rich. O Buckingham, now do I play the touch,

To try if thou be current gold indeed:

10 Young Edward lives: think now what I would say.

♦ Buck. Say on, my loving lord.

K. Rich. Why, Buckingham, I say, I would be king.

♦ Buck. Why, so you are, my thrice renowned liege.

♦ K. Rich. Ha! am I king? ’tis so: but Edward lives.

Buck. True, noble prince.

15 K. Rich. O bitter consequence,

♦ That Edward still should live! ‘True, noble prince!’

♦ Cousin, thou wert not wont to be so dull:

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead;

And I would have it suddenly perform’d.

20 What sayest thou? speak suddenly; be brief.

Buck. Your grace may do your pleasure.

♦ K. Rich. Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freezeth:

Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?

♦ Buck. Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord,

25 Before I positively speak herein:

♦ I will resolve your grace immediately. [Exit.

♦ Cate. [Aside to a stander by.] The king is angry: see, he bites the lip.

♦ K. Rich. I will converse with iron-witted fools

And unrespective boys: none are for me

30 That look into me with considerate eyes:

♦ High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.

Boy!

♦ Page. My lord?

K. Rich. Know’st thou not any whom corrupting gold

35 Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?

♦ Page. My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,

♦ Whose humble means match not his haughty mind:

Gold were as good as twenty orators,

And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing.

K. Rich. What is his name?

40 Page. His name, my lord, is Tyrrel.

♦ K. Rich. I partly know the man: go, call him hither. [Exit Page.

♦ The deep-revolving witty Buckingham

♦ No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel:

Hath he so long held out with me untired,

45 And stops he now for breath?

Enter STANLEY.

♦ How now! what news with you?

♦ Stan. My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset’s fled

To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea

♦ Where he abides. [Stands apart.

50 K. Rich. Catesby!

Cate. My lord?

♦ K. Rich. Rumour it abroad

That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:

I will take order for her keeping close.

55 Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,

♦ Whom I will marry straight to Clarence’ daughter:

The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.

♦ Look, how thou dream’st! I say again, give out

♦ That Anne my wife is sick, and like to die:

60 About it; for it stands me much upon,

♦ To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me. [Exit Catesby.

♦ I must be married to my brother’s daughter,

Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.

♦ Murder her brothers, and then marry her!

65 Uncertain way of gain! But I am in

♦ So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:

♦ Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

Re-enter Page, with TYRREL.

Is thy name Tyrrel?

Tyr. James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject.

K. Rich. Art thou, indeed?

70 Tyr. Prove me, my gracious sovereign.

K. Rich. Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?

♦ Tyr. Ay, my lord;

♦ But I had rather kill two enemies.

♦ K. Rich. Why, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,

75 Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep’s disturbers

Are they that I would have thee deal upon:

Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower.

♦ Tyr. Let me have open means to come to them,

And soon I’ll rid you from the fear of them.

80 K. Rich. Thou sing’st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel:

♦ Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear: [Whispers.

♦ There is no more but so: say it is done,

♦ And I will love thee, and prefer thee too.

♦ Tyr. ’Tis done, my gracious lord.

85 K. Rich. Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep.

♦ Tyr. Ye shall, my lord. [Exit.

Re-enter BUCKINGHAM.

♦ Buck. My lord, I have consider’d in my mind

♦ The late demand that you did sound me in.

♦ K. Rich. Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond.

90 Buck. I hear that news, my lord.

♦ K. Rich. Stanley, he is your wife’s son: well, look to it.

♦ Buck. My lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,

For which your honour and your faith is pawn’d;

♦ The earldom of Hereford and the moveables

95 The which you promised I should possess.

♦ K. Rich. Stanley, look to your wife: if she convey

Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.

♦ Buck. What says your highness to my just demand?

♦ K. Rich. As I remember, Henry the Sixth

100 Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,

When Richmond was a little peevish boy.

♦ A king, perhaps, perhaps,—

♦ Buck. My lord!

K. Rich. How chance the prophet could not at that time

105 Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?

Buck. My lord, your promise for the earldom,—

K. Rich. Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,

♦ The mayor in courtesy show’d me the castle,

♦ And call’d it Rougemont: at which name I started,

110 Because a bard of Ireland told me once,

I should not live long after I saw Richmond.

Buck. My lord!

K. Rich. Ay, what’s o’clock?

Buck. I am thus bold to put your grace in mind

Of what you promised me.

115 K. Rich. Well, but what’s o’clock?

Buck. Upon the stroke of ten.

K. Rich. Well, let it strike.

Buck. Why let it strike?

K. Rich. Because that, like a Jack, thou keep’st the stroke

Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.

120 I am not in the giving vein to-day.

♦ Buck. Why, then resolve me whether you will or no.

♦ R. Rich. Tut, tut,

♦ Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. [Exeunt all but Buckingham.

♦ Buck. Is it even so? rewards he my true service

125 With such deep contempt? made I him king for this?

O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone

To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on! [Exit.

fdc SCENE III. The same.

Enter TYRREL.

♦ Tyr. The tyrannous and bloody deed is done,

♦ The most arch act of piteous massacre

That ever yet this land was guilty of.

♦ Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn

5 To do this ruthless piece of butchery,

♦ Although they were flesh’d villains, bloody dogs,

♦ Melting with tenderness and kind compassion

♦ Wept like two children in their deaths’ sad stories.

♦ ‘Lo, thus,’ quoth Dighton, ‘lay those tender babes:’

10 ‘Thus, thus,’ quoth Forrest, ‘girdling one another

♦ Within their innocent alabaster arms:

♦ Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,

♦ Which in their summer beauty kiss’d each other.

♦ A book of prayers on their pillow lay;

15 Which once,’ quoth Forrest, ‘almost changed my mind;

♦ But O! the devil’—there the villain stopp’d;

♦ Whilst Dighton thus told on: ‘We smothered

The most replenished sweet work of nature

♦ That from the prime creation e’er she framed.’

20 Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse;

They could not speak; and so I left them both,

♦ To bring this tidings to the bloody king.

And here he comes.

Enter KING RICHARD.

♦ All hail, my sovereign liege!

♦ K. Rich. Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?

25 Tyr. If to have done the thing you gave in charge

Beget your happiness, be happy then,

For it is done, my lord.

♦ K. Rich. But didst thou see them dead?

Tyr. I did, my lord.

K. Rich. And buried, gentle Tyrrel?

Tyr. The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them;

30 But how or in what place I do not know.

♦ K. Rich. Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,

♦ And thou shalt tell the process of their death.

♦ Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,

And be inheritor of thy desire.

35 Farewell till soon. [Exit Tyrrel.

♦ The son of Clarence have I pent up close;

His daughter meanly have I match’d in marriage;

The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham’s bosom,

♦ And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.

40 Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims

At young Elizabeth, my brother’s daughter,

♦ And, by that knot, looks proudly o’er the crown,

♦ To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer.

Enter Catesby.

♦ Cate. My lord!

45 K. Rich. Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?

♦ Cate. Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;

And Buckingham, back’d with the hardy Welshmen,

Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.

♦ K. Rich. Ely with Richmond troubles me more near

50 Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army.

♦ Come, I have heard that fearful commenting

Is leaden servitor to dull delay;

♦ Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary:

♦ Then fiery expedition be my wing,

55 Jove’s Mercury, and herald for a king!

♦ Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield;

We must be brief when traitors brave the field. [Exeunt.

fdd SCENE IV. Before the palace.

Enter QUEEN MARGARET.

♦ Q. Mar. So, now prosperity begins to mellow

And drop into the rotten mouth of death.

♦ Here in these confines slily have I lurk’d,

♦ To watch the waning of mine adversaries.

5 A dire induction am I witness to,

And will to France, hoping the consequence

♦ Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.

♦ Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret: who comes here?

Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK.

♦ Q. Eliz. Ah, my young princes! ah, my tender babes!

10 My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!

If yet your gentle souls fly in the air

And be not fix’d in doom perpetual,

♦ Hover about me with your airy wings

And hear your mother’s lamentation!

15 Q. Mar. Hover about her; say, that right for right

Hath dimm’d your infant morn to aged night.

♦ Duch. So many miseries have crazed my voice,

♦ That my woe-wearied tongue is mute and dumb.

Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?

20 Q. Mar. Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet,

Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.

Q. Eliz. Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,

And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?

♦ When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?

25 Q. Mar. When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.

♦ Duch. Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,

Woe’s scene, world’s shame, grave’s due by life usurp’d,

♦ Brief abstract and record of tedious days,

♦ Rest thy unrest on England’s lawful earth, [Sitting down.

30 Unlawfully made drunk with innocents’ blood!

♦ Q. Eliz. O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave

As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!

Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.

♦ O, who hath any cause to mourn but I? [Sitting down by her.

35 Q. Mar. If ancient sorrow be most reverend,

♦ Give mine the benefit of seniory,

♦ And let my woes frown on the upper hand.

♦ If sorrow can admit society, [Sitting down with them.

♦ Tell o’er your woes again by viewing mine:

40 I had an Edward, till a Richard kill’d him;

♦ I had a Harry, till a Richard kill’d him:

Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill’d him;

Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard kill’d him.

Duch. I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him;

45 I had a Rutland too, thou holp’st to kill him.

♦ Q. Mar. Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard kill’d him.

From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept

A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:

That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,

50 To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,

That foul defacer of God’s handiwork,

♦ That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,

That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,

♦ Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.

55 O upright, just, and true-disposing God,

♦ How do I thank thee, that this carnal cur

Preys on the issue of his mother’s body,

♦ And makes her pew-fellow with others’ moan!

♦ Duch. O Harry’s wife, triumph not in my woes!

60 God witness with me, I have wept for thine.

Q. Mar. Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge,

And now I cloy me with beholding it.

♦ Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb’d my Edward;

♦ Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;

65 Young York he is but boot, because both they

♦ Match not the high perfection of my loss:

♦ Thy Clarence he is dead that kill’d my Edward;

♦ And the beholders of this tragic play,

♦ The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,

70 Untimely smother’d in their dusky graves.

♦ Richard yet lives, hell’s black intelligencer,

♦ Only reserved their factor, to buy souls

♦ And send them thither: but at hand, at hand,

Ensues his piteous and unpitied end:

75 Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray,

♦ To have him suddenly convey’d away.

♦ Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray,

♦ That I may live to say, The dog is dead!

♦ Q. Eliz. O, thou didst prophesy the time would come

80 That I should wish for thee to help me curse

♦ That bottled spider, that foul bunch-back’d toad!

♦ Q. Mar. I call’d thee then vain flourish of my fortune;

I call’d thee then poor shadow, painted queen;

The presentation of but what I was;

85 The flattering index of a direful pageant;

♦ One heaved a-high, to be hurl’d down below;

♦ A mother only mock’d with two sweet babes;

♦ A dream of what thou wert, a breath, a bubble,

A sign of dignity, a garish flag

90 To be the aim of every dangerous shot;

A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.

Where is thy husband now? where be thy brothers?

♦ Where are thy children? wherein dost thou joy?

♦ Who sues to thee and cries ‘God save the queen’?

95 Where be the bending peers that flatter’d thee?

♦ Where be the thronging troops that follow’d thee?

Decline all this, and see what now thou art:

For happy wife, a most distressed widow;

For joyful mother, one that wails the name;

100 For queen, a very caitiff crown’d with care;

♦ For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;

♦ For one that scorn’d at me, now scorn’d of me;

♦ For one being fear’d of all, now fearing one;

For one commanding all, obey’d of none.

105 Thus hath the course of justice wheel’d about,

♦ And left thee but a very prey to time;

♦ Having no more but thought of what thou wert,

To torture thee the more, being what thou art.

Thou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not

110 Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?

♦ Now thy proud neck bears half my burthen’d yoke;

♦ From which even here I slip my weary neck,

And leave the burthen of it all on thee.

Farewell, York’s wife, and queen of sad mischance:

115 These English woes will make me smile in France.

Q. Eliz. O thou well skill’d in curses, stay awhile,

And teach me how to curse mine enemies!

♦ Q. Mar. Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;

♦ Compare dead happiness with living woe;

120 Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,

And he that slew them fouler than he is:

♦ Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:

Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.

♦ Q. Eliz. My words are dull; O, quicken them with thine!

125 Q. Mar. Thy woes will make them sharp and pierce like mine. [Exit.

Duch. Why should calamity be full of words?

♦ Q. Eliz. Windy attorneys to their client woes,

♦ Airy succeeders of intestate joys,

Poor breathing orators of miseries!

130 Let them have scope: though what they do impart

♦ Help not at all, yet do they ease the heart.

♦ Duch. If so, then be not tongue-tied: go with me,

And in the breath of bitter words let’s smother

♦ My damned son, which thy two sweet sons smother’d.

135 I hear his drum: be copious in exclaims.

Enter KING RICHARD, marching, with drums and trumpets.

♦ K. Rich. Who intercepts my expedition?

♦ Duch. O, she that might have intercepted thee,

By strangling thee in her accursed womb,

From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done!

140 Q. Eliz. Hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown,

♦ Where should be graven, if that right were right,

The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,

♦ And the dire death of my two sons and brothers?

Tell me, thou villain slave, where are my children?

145 Duch. Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence?

♦ And little Ned Plantagenet, his son?

♦ Q. Eliz. Where is kind Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey?

K. Rich. A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!

Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women

150 Rail on the Lord’s anointed: strike, I say! [Flourish. Alarums.

Either be patient, and entreat me fair,

♦ Or with the clamorous report of war

♦ Thus will I drown your exclamations.

Duch. Art thou my son?

155 K. Rich. Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself.

♦ Duch. Then patiently hear my impatience.

K. Rich. Madam, I have a touch of your condition,

♦ Which cannot brook the accent of reproof.

Duch. O, let me speak!

♦ K. Rich. Do then; but I’ll not hear.

160 Duch. I will be mild and gentle in my speech.

K. Rich. And brief, good mother; for I am in haste.

♦ Duch. Art thou so hasty? I have stay’d for thee,

♦ God knows, in anguish, pain and agony.

K. Rich. And came I not at last to comfort you?

165 Duch. No, by the holy rood, thou know’st it well,

Thou camest on earth to make the earth my hell.

A grievous burthen was thy birth to me;

Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;

Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious,

170 Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous,

♦ Thy age confirm’d, proud, subtle, bloody, treacherous,

♦ More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred:

What comfortable hour canst thou name,

♦ That ever graced me in thy company?

175 K. Rich. Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that call’d your grace

♦ To breakfast once forth of my company.

♦ If I be so disgracious in your sight,

♦ Let me march on, and not offend your grace.

Strike up the drum.

♦ Duch. I prithee, hear me speak.

K. Rich. You speak too bitterly.

180 Duch. Hear me a word;

For I shall never speak to thee again.

K. Rich. So.

♦ Duch. Either thou wilt die, by God’s just ordinance,

♦ Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,

185 Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish

♦ And never look upon thy face again.

♦ Therefore take with thee my most heavy curse;

Which, in the day of battle, tire thee more

Than all the complete armour that thou wear’st!

190 My prayers on the adverse party fight;

♦ And there the little souls of Edward’s children

♦ Whisper the spirits of thine enemies

♦ And promise them success and victory.

♦ Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;

195 Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend. [Exit.

Q. Eliz. Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse

♦ Abides in me; I say amen to all.

♦ K. Rich. Stay, madam; I must speak a word with you.

♦ Q. Eliz. I have no moe sons of the royal blood

200 For thee to murder: for my daughters, Richard,

They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens;

And therefore level not to hit their lives.

K. Rich. You have a daughter call’d Elizabeth,

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

205 Q. Eliz. And must she die for this? O, let her live,

And I’ll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty;

Slander myself as false to Edward’s bed;

♦ Throw over her the veil of infamy:

♦ So she may live unscarr’d of bleeding slaughter,

210 I will confess she was not Edward’s daughter.

♦ K. Rich. Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.

Q. Eliz. To save her life, I’ll say she is not so.

♦ K. Rich. Her life is only safest in her birth.

Q. Eliz. And only in that safety died her brothers.

215 K. Rich. Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.

♦ Q. Eliz. No, to their lives bad friends were contrary.

K. Rich. All unavoided is the doom of destiny.

Q. Eliz. True, when avoided grace makes destiny:

My babes were destined to a fairer death,

220 If grace had bless’d thee with a fairer life.

♦ K. Rich. You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.

♦ Q. Eliz. Cousins, indeed; and by their uncle cozen’d

Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life.

♦ Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,

225 Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction:

No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt

Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart,

To revel in the entrails of my lambs.

But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,

230 My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys

Till that my nails were anchor’d in thine eyes;

And I, in such a desperate bay of death,

Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,

Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.

235 K. Rich. Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise

And dangerous success of bloody wars.

♦ As I intend more good to you and yours

♦ Than ever you or yours were by me wrong’d!

Q. Eliz. What good is cover’d with the face of heaven,

240 To be discover’d, that can do me good?

♦ K. Rich. The advancement of your children, gentle lady.

Q. Eliz. Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?

♦ K. Rich. No, to the dignity and height of honour,

♦ The high imperial type of this earth’s glory.

245 Q. Eliz. Flatter my sorrows with report of it;

Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,

♦ Canst thou demise to any child of mine?

♦ K. Rich. Even all I have; yea, and myself and all,

♦ Will I withal endow a child of thine;

250 So in the Lethe of thy angry soul

♦ Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs

Which thou supposest I have done to thee.

Q. Eliz. Be brief, lest that the process of thy kindness

♦ Last longer telling than thy kindness’ date.

255 K. Rich. Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.

Q. Eliz. My daughter’s mother thinks it with her soul.

K. Rich. What do you think?

Q. Eliz. That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:

♦ So from thy soul’s love didst thou love her brothers;

260 And from my heart’s love I do thank thee for it.

K. Rich. Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:

I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,

♦ And mean to make her queen of England.

♦ Q. Eliz. Say then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?

265 K. Rich. Even he that makes her queen: who should be else?

Q. Eliz. What, thou?

♦ K. Rich. I, even I: what think you of it, madam?

Q. Eliz. How canst thou woo her?

♦ K. Rich. That would I learn of you,

♦ As one that are best acquainted with her humour.

Q. Eliz. And wilt thou learn of me?

270 K. Rich. Madam, with all my heart.

Q. Eliz. Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,

♦ A pair of bleeding hearts; thereon engrave

♦ Edward and York; then haply she will weep:

♦ Therefore present to her,—as sometime Margaret

275 Did to thy father, steep’d in Rutland’s blood,—

♦ A handkerchief; which, say to her, did drain

♦ The purple sap from her sweet brother’s body,

♦ And bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith.

♦ If this inducement force her not to love,

280 Send her a story of thy noble acts;

Tell her thou madest away her uncle Clarence,

♦ Her uncle Rivers; yea, and, for her sake,

Madest quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne.

♦ K. Rich. Come, come, you mock me; this is not the way

To win your daughter.

285 Q. Eliz. There is no other way;

Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,

And not be Richard that hath done all this.

♦ K. Rich. Say that I did all this for love of her.

♦ Q. Eliz. Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,

290 Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.

K. Rich. Look, what is done cannot be now amended:

Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,

♦ Which after-hours give leisure to repent.

If I did take the kingdom from your sons,

295 To make amends, I’ll give it to your daughter.

If I have kill’d the issue of your womb,

To quicken your increase, I will beget

Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter:

A grandam’s name is little less in love

300 Than is the doting title of a mother;

They are as children but one step below,

♦ Even of your mettle, of your very blood;

Of all one pain, save for a night of groans

♦ Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.

305 Your children were vexation to your youth,

But mine shall be a comfort to your age.

The loss you have is but a son being king,

And by that loss your daughter is made queen.

I cannot make you what amends I would,

310 Therefore accept such kindness as I can.

Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul

♦ Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,

This fair alliance quickly shall call home

To high promotions and great dignity:

315 The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife,

Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother;

Again shall you be mother to a king,

And all the ruins of distressful times

Repair’d with double riches of content.

320 What! we have many goodly days to see:

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed

Shall come again, transform’d to orient pearl,

♦ Advantaging their loan with interest

♦ Of ten times double gain of happiness.

325 Go, then, my mother, to thy daughter go;

Make bold her bashful years with your experience;

Prepare her ears to hear a wooer’s tale;

Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame

Of golden sovereignty; acquaint the princess

330 With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys:

And when this arm of mine hath chastised

The petty rebel, dull-brain’d Buckingham,

♦ Bound with triumphant garlands will I come

And lead thy daughter to a conqueror’s bed;

335 To whom I will retail my conquest won,

♦ And she shall be sole victress, Cæsar’s Cæsar.

Q. Eliz. What were I best to say? her father’s brother

Would be her lord? or shall I say, her uncle?

Or, he that slew her brothers and her uncles?

340 Under what title shall I woo for thee,

That God, the law, my honour and her love,

Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?

♦ K. Rich. Infer fair England’s peace by this alliance.

Q. Eliz. Which she shall purchase with still lasting war.

345 K. Rich. Say that the king, which may command, entreats.

♦ Q. Eliz. That at her hands which the king’s King forbids.

K. Rich. Say, she shall be a high and mighty queen.

♦ Q. Eliz. To wail the title, as her mother doth.

K. Rich. Say, I will love her everlastingly.

350 Q. Eliz. But how long shall that title ‘ever’ last?

♦ K. Rich. Sweetly in force unto her fair life’s end.

♦ Q. Eliz. But how long fairly shall her sweet life last?

♦ K. Rich. So long as heaven and nature lengthens it.

♦ Q. Eliz. So long as hell and Richard likes of it.

355 K. Rich. Say, I, her sovereign, am her subject love.

Q. Eliz. But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty.

K. Rich. Be eloquent in my behalf to her.

Q. Eliz. An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

♦ K. Rich. Then in plain terms tell her my loving tale.

360 Q. Eliz. Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

♦ K. Rich. Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.

♦ Q. Eliz. O no, my reasons are too deep and dead;

♦ Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave.

♦ K. Rich. Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.

365 Q. Eliz. Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.

K. Rich. Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,—

Q. Eliz. Profaned, dishonour’d, and the third usurp’d.

K. Rich. I swear—

♦ Q. Eliz. By nothing; for this is no oath:

♦ The George, profaned, hath lost his holy honour;

370 The garter, blemish’d, pawn’d his knightly virtue;

♦ The crown, usurp’d, disgraced his kingly glory.

♦ If something thou wilt swear to be believed,

Swear then by something that thou hast not wrong’d.

K. Rich. Now, by the world—

Q. Eliz. ’Tis full of thy foul wrongs.

K. Rich. My father’s death—

375 Q. Eliz. Thy life hath that dishonour’d.

K. Rich. Then, by myself—

♦ Q. Eliz. Thyself thyself misusest.

K. Rich. Why then, by God—

♦ Q. Eliz. God’s wrong is most of all.

♦ If thou hadst fear’d to break an oath by Him,

♦ The unity the king thy brother made

380 Had not been broken, nor my brother slain:

♦ If thou hadst fear’d to break an oath by Him,

♦ The imperial metal, circling now thy brow,

♦ Had graced the tender temples of my child.

And both the princes had been breathing here,

385 Which now, two tender playfellows for dust,

♦ Thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms.

What canst thou swear by now?

♦ K. Rich. The time to come.

♦ Q. Eliz. That thou hast wronged in the time o’erpast;

For I myself have many tears to wash

390 Hereafter time, for time past wrong’d by thee.

♦ The children live, whose parents thou hast slaughter’d,

♦ Ungovern’d youth, to wail it in their age;

♦ The parents live, whose children thou hast butcher’d,

♦ Old wither’d plants, to wail it with their age.

395 Swear not by time to come; for that thou hast

♦ Misused ere used, by time misused o’erpast.

K. Rich. As I intend to prosper and repent,

♦ So thrive I in my dangerous attempt

Of hostile arms! myself myself confound!

400 Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours!

Day, yield me not thy light; nor, night, thy rest!

Be opposite all planets of good luck

♦ To my proceedings, if, with pure heart’s love,

♦ Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,

405 I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter!

In her consists my happiness and thine;

♦ Without her, follows to this land and me,

To thee, herself, and many a Christian soul,

♦ Death, desolation, ruin and decay:

410 It cannot be avoided but by this;

♦ It will not be avoided but by this.

♦ Therefore, good mother,—I must call you so—

Be the attorney of my love to her:

Plead what I will be, not what I have been;

415 Not my deserts, but what I will deserve:

♦ Urge the necessity and state of times,

♦ And be not peevish-fond in great designs.

Q. Eliz. Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?

♦ K. Rich. Ay, if the devil tempt thee to do good.

420 Q. Eliz. Shall I forget myself to be myself?

♦ K. Rich. Ay, if yourself’s remembrance wrong yourself.

♦ Q. Eliz. But thou didst kill my children.

♦ K. Rich. But in your daughter’s womb I bury them:

♦ Where in that nest of spicery they shall breed

425 Selves of themselves, to your recomforture.

Q. Eliz. Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?

♦ K. Rich. And be a happy mother by the deed.

♦ Q. Eliz. I go. Write to me very shortly,

♦ And you shall understand from me her mind.

430 K. Rich. Bear her my true love’s kiss; and so, farewell. [Exit Queen Elizabeth.

♦ Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!

Enter RATCLIFF; CATESBY following.

♦ How now! what news?

♦ Rat. My gracious sovereign, on the western coast

♦ Rideth a puissant navy; to the shore

435 Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends,

Unarm’d, and unresolved to beat them back:

’Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral;

♦ And there they hull, expecting but the aid

Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore.

440 K. Rich. Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:

Ratcliff, thyself, or Catesby; where is he?

♦ Cate. Here, my lord.

♦ K. Rich. Fly to the duke. [To Ratcliff] Post thou to Salisbury:

♦ When thou comest thither,—[To Catesby] Dull unmindful villain,

445 Why stand’st thou still, and go’st not to the duke?

♦ Cate. First, mighty sovereign, let me know your mind,

♦ What from your grace I shall deliver to him.

K. Rich. O, true, good Catesby: bid him levy straight

♦ The greatest strength and power he can make,

450 And meet me presently at Salisbury.

♦ Cate. I go. [Exit.

♦ Rat. What is ’t your highness’ pleasure I shall do

At Salisbury?

K. Rich. Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?

455 Rat. Your highness told me I should post before.

♦ K. Rich. My mind is changed, sir, my mind is changed.

Enter LORD STANLEY.

♦ How now, what news with you?

♦ Stan. None good, my lord, to please you with the hearing;

♦ Nor none so bad, but it may well be told.

460 K. Rich. Hoyday, a riddle! neither good nor bad!

♦ Why dost thou run so many mile about,

♦ When thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer way?

Once more, what news?

Stan. Richmond is on the seas.

K. Rich. There let him sink, and be the seas on him!

465 White-liver’d runagate, what doth he there?

Stan. I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.

♦ K. Rich. Well, sir, as you guess, as you guess?

♦ Stan. Stirr’d up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Ely,

♦ He makes for England, there to claim the crown.

470 K. Rich. Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway’d?

Is the king dead? the empire unpossess’d?

What heir of York is there alive but we?

And who is England’s king but great York’s heir?

♦ Then, tell me, what doth he upon the sea?

475 Stan. Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.

K. Rich. Unless for that he comes to be your liege,

♦ You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.

Thou wilt revolt and fly to him, I fear.

♦ Stan. No, mighty liege; therefore mistrust me not.

480 K. Rich. Where is thy power then to beat him back?

♦ Where are thy tenants and thy followers?

Are they not now upon the western shore,

♦ Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships?

Stan. No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.

485 K. Rich. Cold friends to Richard: what do they in the north,

When they should serve their sovereign in the west?

♦ Stan. They have not been commanded, mighty sovereign:

♦ Please it your majesty to give me leave,

I’ll muster up my friends, and meet your grace

490 Where and what time your majesty shall please.

♦ K. Rich. Ay, ay, thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond:

I will not trust you, sir.

♦ Stan. Most mighty sovereign,

You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful:

♦ I never was nor never will be false.

495 K. Rich. Well,

Go muster men; but, hear you, leave behind

♦ Your son, George Stanley: look your faith be firm,

Or else his head’s assurance is but frail.

♦ Stan. So deal with him as I prove true to you. [Exit.

Enter a Messenger.

500 Mess. My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,

As I by friends am well advertised,

♦ Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate

♦ Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,

♦ With many moe confederates, are in arms.

Enter another Messenger.

505 Sec. Mess. My liege, in Kent, the Guildfords are in arms;

♦ And every hour more competitors

♦ Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.

Enter another Messenger.

♦ Third Mess. My lord, the army of the Duke of Buckingham—

♦ K. Rich. Out on you, owls! nothing but songs of death? [He striketh him.

510 Take that, until thou bring me better news.

♦ Third Mess. The news I have to tell your majesty

Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,

Buckingham’s army is dispersed and scatter’d;

And he himself wander’d away alone,

No man knows whither.

515 K. Rich. I cry thee mercy:

♦ There is my purse to cure that blow of thine.

♦ Hath any well-advised friend proclaim’d

♦ Reward to him that brings the traitor in?

♦ Third Mess. Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.

Enter another Messenger.

520 Fourth Mess. Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset,

♦ ’Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms.

♦ Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace,

♦ The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest:

♦ Richmond, in Dorsetshire, sent out a boat

525 Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks

If they were his assistants, yea or no;

♦ Who answer’d him, they came from Buckingham

Upon his party: he, mistrusting them,

♦ Hoised sail and made away for Brittany.

530 K. Rich. March on, march on, since we are up in arms;

If not to fight with foreign enemies,

♦ Yet to beat down these rebels here at home.

Re-enter Catesby.

Cate. My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken;

♦ That is the best news: that the Earl of Richmond

535 Is with a mighty power landed at Milford,

♦ Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.

K. Rich. Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,

A royal battle might be won and lost:

Some one take order Buckingham be brought

540 To Salisbury; the rest march on with me. [Flourish. Exeunt.

fde SCENE V. Lord DERBY’S house.

Enter DERBY and Sir CHRISTOPHER URSWICK.

♦ Der. Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me:

♦ That in the sty of this most bloody boar

My son George Stanley is frank’d up in hold:

If I revolt, off goes young George’s head;

5 The fear of that withholds my present aid.

♦ But, tell me, where is princely Richmond now?

♦ Chris. At Pembroke, or at Ha’rford-west, in Wales.

♦ Der. What men of name resort to him?

♦ Chris. Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier;

10 Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley;

♦ Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,

♦ And Rice ap Thomas, with a valiant crew,

♦ And many moe of noble fame and worth:

♦ And towards London they do bend their course,

15 If by the way they be not fought withal.

♦ Der. Return unto thy lord; commend me to him:

Tell him the queen hath heartily consented

He shall espouse Elizabeth her daughter.

♦ These letters will resolve him of my mind.

20 Farewell. [Exeunt.

ACT V.

fea SCENE I. Salisbury. An open place.

Enter the Sheriff, and BUCKINGHAM, with halberds, led to execution.

♦ Buck. Will not King Richard let me speak with him?

♦ Sher. No, my good lord; therefore be patient.

♦ Buck. Hastings, and Edward’s children, Rivers, Grey,

Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward,

5 Vaughan, and all that have miscarried

By underhand corrupted foul injustice,

If that your moody discontented souls

Do through the clouds behold this present hour,

Even for revenge mock my destruction!

10 This is All-Souls’ day, fellows, is it not?

♦ Sher. It is, my lord.

♦ Buck. Why, then All-Souls’ day is my body’s doomsday.

♦ This is the day that in King Edward’s time

♦ I wish’d might fall on me when I was found

15 False to his children or his wife’s allies;

This is the day wherein I wish’d to fall

♦ By the false faith of him I trusted most;

♦ This, this All-Souls’ day to my fearful soul

♦ Is the determined respite of my wrongs:

20 That high All-seer that I dallied with

Hath turn’d my feigned prayer on my head,

And given in earnest what I begg’d in jest.

♦ Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men

♦ To turn their own points on their masters’ bosoms:

25 Now Margaret’s curse is fallen upon my head;

‘When he,’ quoth she, ‘shall split thy heart with sorrow,

Remember Margaret was a prophetess.’

♦ Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame;

♦ Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. [Exeunt.

feb SCENE II. The camp near Tamworth.

Enter RICHMOND, OXFORD, BLUNT, HERBERT, and others, with drum and colours.

♦ Richm. Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,

Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,

Thus far into the bowels of the land

Have we march’d on without impediment;

5 And here receive we from our father Stanley

Lines of fair comfort and encouragement.

♦ The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,

♦ That spoil’d your summer fields and fruitful vines,

♦ Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough

10 In your embowell’d bosoms, this foul swine

♦ Lies now even in the centre of this isle,

Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn:

From Tamworth thither is but one day’s march.

♦ In God’s name, cheerly on, courageous friends,

15 To reap the harvest of perpetual peace

By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

♦ Oxf. Every man’s conscience is a thousand swords,

♦ To fight against that bloody homicide.

♦ Herb. I doubt not but his friends will fly to us.

20 Blunt. He hath no friends but who are friends for fear,

♦ Which in his greatest need will shrink from him.

♦ Richm. All for our vantage. Then, in God’s name, march:

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings;

♦ Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. [Exeunt.

fec SCENE III. Bosworth Field.

Enter KING RICHARD in arms with NORFOLK, the EARL OF SURREY, and others.

♦ K. Rich. Here pitch our tents, even here in Bosworth field.

♦ My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?

♦ Sur. My heart is ten times lighter than my looks.

K. Rich. My Lord of Norfolk,—

♦ Nor. Here, most gracious liege.

5 K. Rich. Norfolk, we must have knocks; ha! must we not?

♦ Nor. We must both give and take, my gracious lord.

♦ K. Rich. Up with my tent there! here will I lie to night:

♦ But where to-morrow? Well, all’s one for that.

♦ Who hath descried the number of the foe?

10 Nor. Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.

♦ K. Rich. Why, our battalion trebles that account:

♦ Besides, the king’s name is a tower of strength,

♦ Which they upon the adverse party want.

♦ Up with my tent there! Valiant gentlemen,

15 Let us survey the vantage of the field;

Call for some men of sound direction:

♦ Let’s want no discipline, make no delay;

♦ For, lords, to-morrow is a busy day. [Exeunt.

Enter, on the other side of the field, RICHMOND, SIR WILLIAM BRANDON, OXFORD, and others. Some of the Soldiers pitch Richmond’s tent.

Richm. The weary sun hath made a golden set,

20 And by the bright track of his fiery car

♦ Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow.

♦ Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard.

♦ Give me some ink and paper in my tent:

I’ll draw the form and model of our battle,

25 Limit each leader to his several charge,

♦ And part in just proportion our small strength.

♦ My Lord of Oxford, you, Sir William Brandon,

And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me.

♦ The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment:

30 Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him,

And by the second hour in the morning

Desire the earl to see me in my tent:

♦ Yet one thing more, good Blunt, before thou go’st,

♦ Where is Lord Stanley quarter’d, dost thou know?

35 Blunt. Unless I have mista’en his colours much,

Which well I am assured I have not done,

♦ His regiment lies half a mile at least

South from the mighty power of the king.

Richm. If without peril it be possible,

40 Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him,

♦ And give him from me this most needful scroll.

♦ Blunt. Upon my life, my lord, I’ll undertake it;

♦ And so, God give you quiet rest to-night!

♦ Richm. Good night, good Captain Blunt. Come, gentlemen,

45 Let us consult upon to-morrow’s business:

♦ In to our tent! the air is raw and cold. [They withdraw into the tent.

Enter, to his tent, KING RICHARD, NORFOLK, RATCLIFF, CATESBY, and others.

K. Rich. What is’t o’clock?

♦ Cate. It’s supper-time, my lord;

It’s nine o’clock.

♦ K. Rich. I will not sup to-night.

♦ Give me some ink and paper.

50 What, is my beaver easier than it was?

And all my armour laid into my tent?

Cate. It is, my liege; and all things are in readiness.

♦ K. Rich. Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge;

♦ Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels.

55 Nor. I go, my lord.

K. Rich. Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk.

♦ Nor. I warrant you, my lord. [Exit.

♦ K. Rich. Catesby!

Cate. My lord?

K. Rich. Send out a pursuivant at arms

60 To Stanley’s regiment; bid him bring his power

Before sunrising, lest his son George fall

♦ Into the blind cave of eternal night. [Exit Catesby.

♦ Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch.

Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow.

65 Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.

Ratcliff!

Rat. My lord?

♦ K. Rich. Saw’st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?

Rat. Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,

70 Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop

Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.

♦ K. Rich. So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine:

I have not that alacrity of spirit,

♦ Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.

Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?

75 Rat. It is, my lord.

♦ K. Rich. Bid my guard watch. Leave me. Ratcliff,

♦ About the mid of night come to my tent

♦ And help to arm me. Leave me, I say. [Exeunt Ratcliff and the other attendants.

Enter DERBY to RICHMOND in his tent, Lords and others attending.

♦ Der. Fortune and victory sit on thy helm!

80 Richm. All comfort that the dark night can afford

Be to thy person, noble father-in-law!

♦ Tell me, how fares our loving mother?

Der. I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother,

Who prays continually for Richmond’s good:

85 So much for that. The silent hours steal on,

♦ And flaky darkness breaks within the east.

In brief, for so the season bids us be,

Prepare thy battle early in the morning,

And put thy fortune to the arbitrement

90 Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war.

I, as I may—that which I would I cannot,—

With best advantage will deceive the time,

And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms:

But on thy side I may not be too forward,

95 Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George,

Be executed in his father’s sight.

♦ Farewell: the leisure and the fearful time

Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love

And ample interchange of sweet discourse

100 Which so long sunder’d friends should dwell upon:

♦ God give us leisure for these rites of love!

Once more, adieu: be valiant, and speed well!

Richm. Good lords, conduct him to his regiment:

♦ I’ll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap,

105 Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow,

When I should mount with wings of victory:

♦ Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen. [Exeunt all but Richmond.

O Thou, whose captain I account myself,

♦ Look on my forces with a gracious eye;

110 Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,

♦ That they may crush down with a heavy fall

♦ The usurping helmets of our adversaries!

Make us thy ministers of chastisement,

♦ That we may praise thee in the victory!

115 To thee I do commend my watchful soul,

Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:

♦ Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still! [Sleeps.

Enter the Ghost of PRINCE EDWARD, son to HENRY the Sixth.

♦ Ghost. [To Richard] Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!

♦ Think, how thou stab’dst me in my prime of youth

120 At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!

♦ [To Richmond] Be cheerful, Richmond; for the wronged souls

♦ Of butcher’d princes fight in thy behalf:

King Henry’s issue, Richmond, comforts thee.

Enter the Ghost of HENRY the Sixth.

Ghost. [To Richard] When I was mortal, my anointed body

125 By thee was punched full of deadly holes:

Think on the Tower and me: despair, and die!

♦ Harry the Sixth bids thee despair and die!

[To Richmond] Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror!

Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be king,

130 Doth comfort thee in thy sleep: live, and flourish!

Enter the Ghost of CLARENCE.

♦ Ghost. [To Richard] Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!

♦ I, that was wash’d to death with fulsome wine,

Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death.

To-morrow in the battle think on me,

135 And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!

[To Richmond] Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster,

The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee:

Good angels guard thy battle! live, and flourish!

Enter the Ghosts of RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN.

♦ Ghost of R. [To Richard] Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow,

140 Rivers, that died at Pomfret! despair, and die!

Ghost of G. [To Richard] Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair!

Ghost of V. [To Richard] Think upon Vaughan, and, with guilty fear,

♦ Let fall thy lance: despair, and die!

♦ All. [To Richmond] Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard’s bosom

145 Will conquer him! awake, and win the day!

Enter the Ghost of HASTINGS.

♦ Ghost. [To Richard] Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,

And in a bloody battle end thy days!

♦ Think on Lord Hastings: despair, and die!

♦ [To Richmond] Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake!

150 Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England’s sake!

Enter the Ghosts of the two young Princes.

♦ Ghosts. [To Richard] Dream on thy cousins smother’d in the Tower:

♦ Let us be lead within thy bosom, Richard,

♦ And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death!

♦ Thy nephews’ souls bid thee despair and die!

155 [To Richmond] Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy;

Good angels guard thee from the boar’s annoy!

Live, and beget a happy race of kings!

♦ Edward’s unhappy sons do bid thee flourish.

Enter the Ghost of LADY ANNE.

♦ Ghost. [To Richard] Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife,

160 That never slept a quiet hour with thee,

♦ Now fills thy sleep with perturbations:

♦ To-morrow in the battle think on me,

♦ And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!

♦ [To Richmond] Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep:

165 Dream of success and happy victory!

♦ Thy adversary’s wife doth pray for thee.

Enter the Ghost of BUCKINGHAM.

♦ Ghost. [To Richard] The first was I that help’d thee to the crown;

♦ The last was I that felt thy tyranny:

O, in the battle think on Buckingham,

170 And die in terror of thy guiltiness!

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:

Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath!

♦ [To Richmond] I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid:

But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay’d:

175 God and good angels fight on Richmond’s side;

♦ And Richard falls in height of all his pride. [The Ghosts vanish. King Richard starts out of his dream.

K. Rich. Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.

Have mercy, Jesu!—Soft! I did but dream.

♦ O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

180 The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.

♦ Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.

♦ What do I fear? myself? there’s none else by:

♦ Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.

Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am:

185 Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why:

♦ Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?

♦ Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? for any good

♦ That I myself have done unto myself?

O, no! alas, I rather hate myself

190 For hateful deeds committed by myself!

♦ I am a villain: yet I lie, I am not.

♦ Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale,

195 And every tale condemns me for a villain.

♦ Perjury, perjury, in the high’st degree;

Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree;

All several sins, all used in each degree,

♦ Throng to the bar, crying all ‘Guilty! guilty!’

200 I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;

And if I die, no soul shall pity me:

♦ Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself

Find in myself no pity to myself?

♦ Methought the souls of all that I had murder’d

205 Came to my tent, and every one did threat

To-morrow’s vengeance on the head of Richard.

Enter RATCLIFF.

Rat. My lord!

♦ K. Rich. ’Zounds! who is there?

♦ Rat. Ratcliff, my lord; ’tis I. The early village-cock

210 Hath twice done salutation to the morn;

Your friends are up, and buckle on their armour.

♦ K. Rich. O Ratcliff, I have dream’d a fearful dream!

♦ What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true?

Rat. No doubt, my lord.

♦ K. Rich. O Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,—

215 Rat. Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.

K. Rich. By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night

Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard

Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers

♦ Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.

220 It is not yet near day. Come, go with me;

♦ Under our tents I’ll play the eaves-dropper,

♦ To see if any mean to shrink from me. [Exeunt.

Enter the Lords to RICHMOND, sitting in his tent.

♦ Lords. Good morrow, Richmond!

♦ Richm. Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,

225 That you have ta’en a tardy sluggard here.

Lords. How have you slept, my lord?

♦ Richm. The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams

That ever enter’d in a drowsy head,

Have I since your departure had, my lords.

230 Methought their souls, whose bodies Richard murder’d,

♦ Came to my tent, and cried on victory:

♦ I promise you, my soul is very jocund

In the remembrance of so fair a dream.

♦ How far into the morning is it, lords?

235 Lords. Upon the stroke of four.

♦ Richm. Why, then ’tis time to arm and give direction. His oration to his soldiers.

More than I have said, loving countrymen,

The leisure and enforcement of the time

♦ Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,

240 God and our good cause fight upon our side;

The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,

♦ Like high-rear’d bulwarks, stand before our faces.

♦ Richard except, those whom we fight against

Had rather have us win than him they follow:

245 For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen,

A bloody tyrant and a homicide;

One raised in blood, and one in blood establish’d;

♦ One that made means to come by what he hath,

♦ And slaughter’d those that were the means to help him;

250 A base foul stone, made precious by the foil

Of England’s chair, where he is falsely set;

One that hath ever been God’s enemy:

Then, if you fight against God’s enemy,

♦ God will in justice ward you as his soldiers;

255 If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,

You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain;

If you do fight against your country’s foes,

♦ Your country’s fat shall pay your pains the hire;

♦ If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,

260 Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors;

If you do free your children from the sword,

♦ Your children’s children quit it in your age.

Then, in the name of God and all these rights,

Advance your standards, draw your willing swords.

265 For me, the ransom of my bold attempt

Shall be this cold corpse on the earth’s cold face;

♦ But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt

The least of you shall share his part thereof.

♦ Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully;

270 God and Saint George! Richmond and victory! [Exeunt.

Re-enter KING RICHARD, RATCLIFF, Attendants and Forces.

♦ K. Rich. What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?

Rat. That he was never trained up in arms.

K. Rich. He said the truth: and what said Surrey, then?

Rat. He smiled and said ‘The better for our purpose.’

275 K. Rich. He was in the right; and so indeed it is. [The clock striketh.

♦ Tell the clock there. Give me a calendar.

Who saw the sun to-day?

Rat. Not I, my lord.

K. Rich. Then he disdains to shine; for by the book

♦ He should have braved the east an hour ago:

280 A black day will it be to somebody.

♦ Ratcliff!

Rat. My lord?

K. Rich. The sun will not be seen to-day;

The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.

I would these dewy tears were from the ground.

285 Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me

More than to Richmond? for the selfsame heaven

That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.

Re-enter NORFOLK.

♦ Nor. Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field.

K. Rich. Come, bustle, bustle. Caparison my horse.

290 Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:

I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,

And thus my battle shall be ordered:

♦ My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,

Consisting equally of horse and foot;

295 Our archers shall be placed in the midst:

John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,

♦ Shall have the leading of this foot and horse.

♦ They thus directed, we will follow

♦ In the main battle, whose puissance on either side

300 Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.

♦ This, and Saint George to boot! What think’st thou, Norfolk?

Nor. A good direction, warlike sovereign.

♦ This found I on my tent this morning. [He sheweth him a paper.

♦ K. Rich. [Reads] ‘Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,

305 For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.’

♦ A thing devised by the enemy.

♦ Go, gentlemen, every man unto his charge:

♦ Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls:

♦ Conscience is but a word that cowards use,

310 Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:

♦ Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.

♦ March on, join bravely, let us to’t pell-mell;

If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell. His oration to his Army.

♦ What shall I say more than I have inferr’d?

315 Remember whom you are to cope withal;

♦ A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,

♦ A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants,

Whom their o’er-cloyed country vomits forth

♦ To desperate ventures and assured destruction.

320 You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;

You having lands and blest with beauteous wives,

♦ They would restrain the one, distain the other.

And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow,

♦ Long kept in Bretagne at our mother’s cost?

325 A milk-sop, one that never in his life

Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow?

Let’s whip these stragglers o’er the seas again,

Lash hence these overweening rags of France,

These famish’d beggars, weary of their lives,

330 Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit,

For want of means, poor rats, had hang’d themselves:

♦ If we be conquer’d, let men conquer us,

♦ And not these bastard Bretons, whom our fathers

Have in their own land beaten, bobb’d, and thump’d,

335 And in record left them the heirs of shame.

♦ Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our wives?

♦ Ravish our daughters? [Drum afar off.] Hark! I hear their drum.

♦ Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!

♦ Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!

340 Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;

♦ Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

Enter a Messenger.

What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?

♦ Mess. My lord, he doth deny to come.

♦ K. Rich. Off with his son George’s head!

345 Nor. My lord, the enemy is past the marsh:

After the battle let George Stanley die.

K. Rich. A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:

Advance our standards, set upon our foes;

Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,

350 Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

♦ Upon them! Victory sits on our helms. [Exeunt.

fed SCENE IV. Another part of the field.

Alarum: excursions. Enter NORFOLK and forces fighting; to him CATESBY.

♦ Cate. Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!

The king enacts more wonders than a man,

♦ Daring an opposite to every danger:

His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,

5 Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.

♦ Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!

Alarums. Enter KING RICHARD.

K. Rich. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

Cate. Withdraw, my lord; I’ll help you to a horse.

K. Rich. Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,

10 And I will stand the hazard of the die.

I think there be six Richmonds in the field;

Five have I slain to-day instead of him.

♦ A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! [Exeunt.

fee SCENE V. Another part of the field.

Alarum. Enter RICHARD and RICHMOND; they fight. RICHARD is slain. Retreat and flourish. Re-enter RICHMOND, DERBY bearing the crown, with divers other Lords.

♦ Richm. God and your arms be praised, victorious friends!

♦ The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead.

♦ Der. Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.

♦ Lo, here, this long usurped royalty

5 From the dead temples of this bloody wretch

Have I pluck’d off, to grace thy brows withal:

♦ Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.

Richm. Great God of heaven, say amen to all!

♦ But, tell me, is young George Stanley living?

10 Der. He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town;

♦ Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.

♦ Richm. What men of name are slain on either side?

♦ Der. John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers,

♦ Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.

15 Richm. Inter their bodies as becomes their births:

Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled

That in submission will return to us:

And then, as we have ta’en the sacrament,

We will unite the white rose and the red.

20 Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,

That long have frown’d upon their enmity!

What traitor hears me, and says not amen?

England hath long been mad, and scarr’d herself;

The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood,

25 The father rashly slaughter’d his own son,

♦ The son, compell’d, been butcher to the sire:

♦ All this divided York and Lancaster,

♦ Divided in their dire division,

O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,

30 The true succeeders of each royal house,

By God’s fair ordinance conjoin together!

♦ And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so,

♦ Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,

♦ With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!

35 Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,

That would reduce these bloody days again,

And make poor England weep in streams of blood!

Let them not live to taste this land’s increase

That would with treason wound this fair land’s peace!

40 Now civil wounds are stopp’d, peace lives again:

♦ That she may long live here, God say amen! [Exeunt.

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LINENOTES TO KING RICHARD III.
faa001 THE TRAGEDY...] See note (I). ¶ London. A street.] Capell. The Court. Pope. ¶ faa001: our] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. om. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. sour Strutt conj.
faa002 sun] Rowe. sonne Qq. Son Ff.
faa003 lour’d] lowrd Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. lowr’d Q₆ Ff. low’r Q₇. lowr Q₈.
faa004 bosom] bowels Q₈.
faa007 alarums] alarmes Q₁.
faa008 measures] pleasures Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
faa009 wrinkled] wringled Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
faa010 instead] in steed Q₁ F₂.
faa011 souls] foule Warburton conj.
faa013 lute] Ff. love Qq.
faa014 shaped for] shap’d for Ff. shapte for Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. sharpe for Q₄ Q₅. sharpe of Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. shapte of quoted in Steevens’s reprint.
faa015 Nor] Not Q₂.
faa016 majesty] grace Hanmer.
faa018 of this] thus of Collier MS.
faa021 world, scarce] world; scarce Pope. ¶ scarce] om. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
faa022 unfashionable] unfashionably Pope.
faa023 by them] at them Q₇ Q₈.
faa024 Why] While Q₈.
faa026 spy] Qq. see Ff.
faa027 on] one Q₇.
faa029 days] dames Malone conj.
faa031 hate] bate Johnson conj.
faa032 inductions] inductious Q₁ Q₂.
faa033 By...dreams,] Transferred to follow line 35 by Johnson.
faa039, faa040: About...be.] Omitted by Pope. ¶ faa039: a prophecy] adrohesie Q₄ Q₅.
faa040 murderer] murtherers Q₁ Q₂. murtherer the rest.
faa041 Dive...comes.] One line in Ff. Two in Qq. ¶ Enter...] Rowe (ed. 2). Enter Clarence and Brakenbury, guarded. Ff. Enter Clarence with a guard of men Qq (gard Q₁ Q₂).
faa042 day] dayes Qq (daies Q₆).
faa043–faa045: His...Tower.] As in Pope. Two lines, the first ending appointed, in Qq. Two lines, the first ending safety, in Ff.
faa048 godfathers] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ F₁. good fathers Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. god fathers Q₇. Grandfathers F₂ F₃ F₄. god-fathers Q₈. godfather quoted in Steevens’s reprint.
faa049 O, belike] Belike Pope.
faa050 shall be] Qq (shalbe Q₁). should be Ff.
faa051 what’s] Ff. whats Q₁ Q₂. what is the rest.
faa052 I know] I doe know Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ for] Qq. but Ff.
faa059 It follows] If followes F₂. It fellowes Q₅.
faa060 like] om. F₃ F₄.
faa061 Have] Qq F₄. Hath F₁ F₂ F₃.
faa065 tempers him to this] Q₁. tempts him to this Q₂ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. temps him to this Q₃ Q₄. tempts him to this harsh Ff. tempts him now to this Anon. MS. apud Halliwell.
faa067 Woodville] F₂ F₃. Wooduile Qq. Woodeulle F₁. Woodvil F₄. Woodeville Capell. ¶ her] he her Hanmer. her same Collier MS.
faa068, faa069: Tower,...deliver’d?] Tower,...delivered? Qq. Tower?...delivered? F₁. Tower?...delivered. F₂ F₃ F₄.
faa069 present] om. Rowe.
faa071 there’s no man is secure] Capell. there is no man is securde Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. there is no man securde Q₄. there is no man sceurde Q₅. there is no man secur’d Q₆ Q₇. there is no man secure Ff. there is no man securd Q₈.
faa073 trudge betwixt] truge betweene Q₇ Q₈.
faa074 ye] you Ff Q₇ Q₈.
faa075 to her for his] Qq. was, for her F₁. was, for his F₂ F₃. was for his F₄.
faa076, faa077: Humbly...liberty.] Continued to Clarence. Johnson conj. ¶ faa076: Humbly] Humble Q₅ Q₆.
faa078 it is] it were Q₇ Q₈.
faa083 this] Qq. our Ff.
faa084 beseech] beg Pope.
faa087 his] Qq. your Ff.
faa088 an’t] Pope. and or & Qq Ff. an Capell. ¶ Brakenbury] Ff. Brokenbury Qq (and passim).
faa091 his] the Q₇ Q₈.
faa092 fair, and not jealous] fair, and not over-jealous Hanmer. yet fair still, and not jealous Capell. ¶ jealous] jealious F₁ F₂.
faa094 One line in Qq Ff; two, the first ending lip, in Steevens. ¶ cherry] chery Q₇ Q₈. ¶ lip,] lip, fair forehead, dimpled cheeks, Seymour conj. ¶ a bonny eye,] Omitted by Pope. a boony eye Becket conj.
faa095 And that the] That the Rowe. And the Steevens. ¶ gentle-folks] gentle-folk Theobald.
faa097 have] hath Q₇ Q₈. ¶ nought] Q₁ Ff Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. naught the rest.
faa098, faa99: Naught...naught] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Ff. Nought...nought Q₇ Q₈. Nought...naught Pope. ¶ faa098–faa100: Arranged as in Qq. The lines end Shore?...her...alone, in Ff. See note (II).
faa100 Were best he do] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. Were best to do Ff Q₈. ’Twere best he do Capell. ¶ secretly, alone] secretly:—ay, one Jackson conj.
faa102 me?] me? ha? Capell.
faa103 I beseech] Qq. I do beseech Ff. ¶ faa103, faa104: Arranged as by Capell. The first line ends forbeare in Qq. As three lines in Ff, ending Grace...forbeare...Duke. ¶ and withal Forbear] And to forbear Pope.
faa104 conference] conferencs Rowe (ed. 1). conferences Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ noble] om. Pope.
faa105 We know...obey.] We’re the King’s subjects, and we will obey. Seymour conj.
faa106 abjects] objects Jackson conj.
faa108 whatsoever you will] Qq. whatsoe’re you will Ff. whatsoever you’ll Capell.
faa111 in] Qq F₁. of F₂ F₃ F₄.
faa115 or else] Ff. or Qq.
faa116 S. Walker would end the line at perforce. ¶ [Exeunt......] Capell. Exit Clar., or Exit Cla. Qq Ff.
faa117 ne’er] neare Q₁ Q₂.
faa120 our] my Hanmer.
faa121 new-deliver’d] new delivered Qq Ff. ¶ Hastings?] Hastings. Q₇ Q₈.
faa124 Well are you] Well, are you Q₇. Well, you are Q₈. ¶ the] Q₁ Q₂. this the rest.
faa132 eagle] Qq. Eagles Ff.
faa133 While] Qq. Whiles Ff. ¶ kites] keihts Q₁. kights Q₂. ¶ buzzards] bussards Q₁ Q₂. buzars Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. buzards F₁. ¶ prey] Qq. play Ff.
faa134 What] The times are bad, my lord; what Seymour conj.
faa138 Saint Paul] Qq. S. John Ff. ¶ this] Qq. that Ff.
faa139 an evil] on ill Q₇. an ill Q₈.
faa142 What, is he] Q₅ Q₆. What is he Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₇. Where is he, Ff. What! is he Q₈.
faa143 He is] He is, my lord Hanmer.
faa146 post-horse] post haste Collier (Collier MS.).
faa148 With] Which Q₈ F₃ F₄.
faa154 kill’d] kill Q₇ Q₈.
faa159 By marrying her which I...] Which I, by marrying her,... Hanmer. Which I must reach unto—by marring her. Anon. conj. ¶ marrying] marring Q₇.
faa161 breathes...reigns] liues, Edward still raignes Q₇ Q₈. (Ehward Q₇).
fab001 The same. Another street.] Capell. Changes to a street. Theobald. ¶ Enter the corpse of King Henry...] Enter the coarse of Henrie... Ff. Enter Lady Anne, with the hearse of Harry the 6. Qq (Henry the sixt Q₇ Q₈). ¶ Gentlemen] om. Qq Ff. ¶ fab001: Set...set] Sit...sit Q₂. ¶ load] Ff. lo: Q₁. lord the rest.
fab003 Whilst] Q₁ Q₈. Whilest Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. Whil’st Q₇ Ff.
fab005 key-cold] clay-cold Hanmer.
fab008 Be it] Be’t Hanmer.
fab011 hand] Ff. hands Qq. ¶ wounds] Ff. holes Qq.
fab012 these] Ff. those Qq.
fab013 balm] blame Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
fab014 Cursed] Curst Qq. O cursed Ff. ¶ these fatal] Q₁ Q₂. the fatall Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. these Ff.
fab015 Cursed be] Curst be Qq. Cursed Ff. ¶ do it] do’t S. Walker conj.
fab016 Cursed...hence] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fab019 adders, spiders] Qq. wolves, to spiders Ff.
fab021 be it] be’t S. Walker conj.
fab025 And...unhappiness] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fab026 made] mad: Q₆. mad, Q₇.
fab027, fab028: As...As I] More...Then I Ff (Than F₄).
fab028 poor] Qq. young Ff.
fab029 Chertsey] Chertley Q₆ Q₇. Chersey Q₈.
fab031 weary] awearie Q₃. a wearie Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. ¶ the] Qq. this Ff.
fab032 whiles] while Pope. ¶ corse] course Q₄. ¶ [Bearers take up the Corpse, and move forward. Capell. ¶ Enter Gloucester] Enter Glocester (or Gloster) Qq. Enter Richard Duke of Gloster Ff.
fab036 Villains] F₂ F₃ F₄. Villaines F₁. Villaine Qq.
fab038 My lord] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fab039 Unmanner’d...command] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ Unmanner’d] Unmannerly Q₈. ¶ stand] stand’st F₁ Q₈.
fab040 halberd] Capell. halbert Ff.
fab042 [Corpse set down. Capell.
fab046 dreadful] feareful Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fab048 have] hurt Hanmer.
fab050 Foul...not] One line in Qq. Two in Ff, the first ending Dwell. ¶ and] om. Pope.
fab059 where...dwells] whence...wells Warburton conj.
fab060, fab061: deed...Provokes] Qq. deeds...Provokes F₁ F₂ F₃. deeds...Provoke F₄.
fab063 revenge] revenges Q₅.
fab064 Either] Or Pope.
fab065 earth,] F₃ F₄. earth Qq F₁ F₂.
fab066 dost] didst Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fab067 his] this F₃ F₄.
fab068 rules] rule Q₇ Q₈.
fab069 renders] render Q₇ Q₈.
fab070 no] Qq. norFf.
fab073 truth] troth Q₁.
fab075 Vouchsafe] Voutsafe Q₁.
fab076 evils] Qq. crimes Ff.
fab078 Vouchsafe] Voechsafe Q₂. ¶ defused] Qq. defus’d F₁ F₂. diffus’d F₃ F₄.
fab079 For] Qq. Of Ff.
fab083, fab084: Fouler...thyself] As in Qq. As three lines in Ff, ending thee...currant...thy selfe.
fab084 current, but to] that will be currant, Unless thou Rowe.
fab086 shouldst] Qq. shalt Ff.
fab088 Which] Qq. That Ff. ¶ didst] diddest Q₄ Q₅.
fab089 not?] Q₂. not. the rest. ¶ Why...dead] Qq. Then say they were not slaine Ff (slain F₃ F₄). ¶ Why, then] Then Seymour conj.
fab091 Why...alive.] Then he lives. Seymour conj.
fab092 hand] Qq. hands Ff.
fab093 In thy...saw] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ foul] soul’s Malone.
fab094 murderous] murd’rous Ff. bloudy Q₁ Q₂. bloodly Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. bloody Q₇ Q₈.
fab095 didst] did Q₂.
fab096 thy brothers] thy brother Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. my brother Q₇ Q₈.
fab097 provoked] provok’d F₄.
fab098 Which] Qq. That Ff. ¶ their] her Q₇ Q₈. ¶ guilt] guift Q₆.
fab100 Which] Qq. That Ff. ¶ dreamt] Qq. dream’st Ff.
fab101 king?] king. Q₁. ¶ ye] Ff. yea Q₁ Q₂. yee Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ye, yea Ritson conj.
fab102 Dost...too] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fab105 fitter] Qq. better Ff.
fab107 holp] help’d Pope.
fab110 you] Q₁ Q₂ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. ye Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
fab111 Some dungeon. Glou. Your] Some dungeon perhaps. Glou. Your Steevens conj. Some dungeon then. Glou. No, lady; your Seymour conj.
fab114 I know] And I know Hanmer.
fab115 keen] Q₁ F₃ F₄. keene F₁ F₂. kinde Q₂. kind Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ our] your Q₇ Q₈.
fab116 somewhat] Qq. something Ff.
fab117 timeless] teem-lesse Q₄.
fab119 executioner?] executioner. Q₁ F₁.
fab120 art] Qq. was’t F₁ F₂ F₃. wast F₄. ¶ cause, and...effect.] cause, and...th’ effect. Hanmer. cause of that most curs’d effect. Edwards conj.
fab122 which] Qq. that Ff.
fab124 live] Ff. rest Qq. ¶ one] that Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fab126 These] My quoted in Steevens’s reprint. ¶ rend] Qq. rent Ff. ¶ my] their Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fab127 never] Qq. not Ff. ¶ sweet] Qq. y^e F₁ F₂. that F₃ F₄.
fab128 it] Ff. them Qq.
fab129 cheered] cleared Q₇ Q₈.
fab131 o’ershade] ore-shade F₁ F₂. o’re-shade F₃ F₄. overshade or overshad Qq.
fab132 Curse...both] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fab135 you] Qq. thee Ff.
fab137 that] tha Q₆. ¶ slew] Qq. kill’d Ff.
fab138 thee] Qq F₄. the F₁ F₂ F₃.
fab141 He] Ff. Go to, he Q₁ Q₂. Go too, he Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ you] Qq. thee Ff.
fab142 Why, that] Why that Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Whye what the rest.
fab144 he?] he. Q₁.
fab145 Glou.] Glo. Qq. Rich. F₁ F₃ F₄. om. F₂. ¶ [She spitteth at him.] Spits at him. Ff. She spittes at him. Q₈. ¶ thou] om. Q₇ Q₈. ¶ me?] me. Q₁. him? Q₈.
fab147 a place] place Rowe (ed. 1).
fab149 my] Qq. mine Ff.
fab153 they] thy Q₅. ¶ kill] kils F₂.
fab155 aspect] Qq. aspects Ff. ¶ drops:] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff. drops. Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fab156–fab167: These...weeping] Omitted in Qq.
fab157 No,] Not Pope.
fab160 thy] F₁ F₂. my F₃ F₄.
fab168 friend] friends Q₆. frinds Q₇ Q₈.
fab169 smoothing] Ff Q₇ Q₈. soothing the rest. ¶ words] Qq. word Ff.
fab171 [She looks...] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fab172 thy] my Q₇ Q₈. ¶ lips...they were] Qq. lip...it was Ff.
fab176 this true] true this Q₃. ¶ bosom] Qq. brest F₁ F₂. breast F₃ F₄.
fab177 forth] fourth F₂. ¶ adoreth] adorneth Q₇ Q₈.
fab178 the] thy Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ F₃.
fab179 knee] knees Q₈. ¶ [He lays...at it...] F₂ F₃ F₄. He layes...at.... F₁.
fab180 for...Henry] Ff. twas I that kild your husband Qq.
fab182 ’twas...Edward] Ff. t’was I that kild king Henry Qq. ¶ [offers at it again. Capell.
fab183 [Here...] Qq. She fals the sword. Ff.
fab184 the sword] thy sword Q₈.
fab186 the] Qq. thy Ff.
fab188 Tush, that was] Qq. That was Ff. Tush ’twas Anon. conj. ¶ thy rage] the rage Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
fab189 the word] thy word F₂ F₃ F₄.
fab190 That] Qq. This Ff. ¶ for thy love] for my love Q₈.
fab192 thou shalt] Qq. shalt thou Ff.
fab193 I knew] know Q₇ Q₈. ¶ fab193–fab202: I would...ring] Steevens arranges as six lines of verse, ending figur’d in...man...sword...know...men...ring.
fab196 never man was] never was man Q₁ Q₂. man Was never Steevens.
fab199 shall you] Qq. shall thou Ff.
fab200 shall I...hope?] F₂ F₃ F₄. shall I...hope. Q₁ F₁. I shall...hope. the rest.
fab202 Glou.] Gol. Q₂. Glo. Q₁ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. om. Ff, continuing the speech to Anne. ¶ Vouchsafe] Voutsafe Q₁.
fab203 Anne. To take...give.] Qq. Omitted in Ff. ¶ [She puts on the ring. Johnson.
fab204 this] Qq. my F₁. thy F₂ F₃ F₄. ¶ thy] Qq F₁. my F₂ F₃ F₄. ¶ [putting it on. Capell.
fab205 my] me Q₅ Q₆.
fab206 Wear] Were Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fab207 devoted suppliant] Q₁. suppliant Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. devoted servant Ff.
fab209 his] this F₃ F₄.
fab210 What] Wat Q₃.
fab211 would] Qq. may Ff. ¶ thee] Qq. you Ff.
fab212 more] Qq. most Ff.
fab213 Place] Qq. House Ff.
fab222 Tressel] Ff. Tressill Qq. Trassel Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ Berkeley] Barkley Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Bartley Q₃ Q₄. Bartly Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fab225 [Exeunt...] Exit two with Anne. Ff (Ex. F₄). Exit. Qq.
fab226 Glo. Sirs...corse] Omitted in Ff. Take up the corse, sirs Capell. ¶ corse] course Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ lord?] lord. Q₁.
fab227 No,] Q₁ Q₂. No: Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁. No Q₇ Q₈. Now F₂ F₃ F₄. ¶ [Exeunt...] Exeunt. manet Gl. Qq. Exit Coarse. Ff.
fab228 woo’d?] woed, Q₁.
fab229 won?] wonne: Q₁.
fab231 What! I, that] What I that Q₁ Q₂ Q₅ Q₆. What I? that Q₃ Q₄. What? I that F₁ F₂. What I have Q₇. What? I have Q₈ F₃ F₄. ¶ his father] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. her father the rest.
fab232 hate] Q₁ Ff. heate the rest.
fab234 her] Qq. my Ff.
fab235 Having] With Pope.
fab236 nothing] Qq. no friends Ff. ¶ at all] Q₁ Q₂. withall Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. with all Q₄.
fab238 her, all...to nothing!] her all...to nothing. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. her all...to nothing? Q₆. her? All...to nothing. Ff. her all...is nothing? Q₇ Q₈.
fab239 Ha!] Hah! Ff. Hah Q₁. Hah? the rest (at end of line 238, in Qq).
fab243 a lovelier] lovelier Q₇ Q₈.
fab245 valiant, wise] wise and valiant Pope. valiant, wise, kind S. Walker conj. ¶ royal] loyal Johnson conj.
fab246 world] word F₂.
fab247 yet] Qq F₁. om. F₂. thus F₃ F₄. ¶ debase] abase Ff.
fab248 the] he Q₈.
fab249 bed?] bed, Q₁.
fab250 moiety] moity Qq. moytie Ff.
fab251 halt] Qq. halts Ff. ¶ unshapen] Qq. mishapen Ff.
fab252 to a] to be a Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. to bee a Q₈. ¶ denier] taniere Warburton conj.
fab256 charges] charge Q₈.
fab257 some score] Qq. a score Ff.
fab258 adorn] adore Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
fab260 some] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. a the rest.
fab261 yon] you Q₅ Q₆.
fab263 bought] brought Q₈.
fac001 The palace.] Theobald. ¶ Enter Queen Elizabeth,...] Enter the Queene Mother.... Ff. Enter Queene, Lord Rivers, and Gray. Qq (and om. Q₁ Q₂).
fac003 brook] boroke Q₂. ¶ it ill, it] it, ill it Q₁.
fac005 with] om. Q₁. ¶ words] Qq. eyes Ff.
fac006 If...me] Repeated in F₁. ¶ of] Qq. on Ff.
fac007 Riv.] Ri. Qq. Gray. Ff.
fac008 harm] harme Qq. harmes F₁ F₂ F₃. harms F₄.
fac011 Oh] Qq. Ah Ff.
fac012 unto] in Q₇ Q₈. into Theobald. under Anon. conj. ¶ Richard] Ff Q₈. Rich. the rest.
fac014 Is it] It is Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac016 Derby.] Ff. Darby. Qq. Stanley. Theobald (and passim). See note (III).
fac017 come the lords] Q₁ Q₂. comes the lords Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. comes the lord Ff.
fac021 prayers] prayer Ff. ¶ scarcely] scarce Q₇ Q₈.
fac024 arrogance] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. arrogancie or arrogancy the rest.
fac025 do beseech] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. beseech the rest.
fac026 false accusers] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. accusers the rest.
fac027 in true] Qq. on true Ff.
fac030 Riv.] Q₂. Ry. Q₁. Ri. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Qu. Ff. ¶ of] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac032 Are come] Ff. Came Qq.
fac033 What] With Q₁ Q₂.
fac034 speaks] speaketh Q₃.
fac036 Madam, we did] Madame we did Qq. I Madam F₁ F₂ F₃. I, Madam, F₄. Ay, madam Capell. We did, madam Anon. conj. ¶ desires] seeks Pope. ¶ to make] make Q₄.
fac037, fac038: Betwixt...betwixt] Qq. Betweene...betweene Ff.
fac039 to warn] lo warne Q₄. ¶ to his] ot his Q₆. of his Q₇ Q₈.
fac041 highest] Qq. height Ff. ¶ Enter......] Enter Richard; Hastings, and Dorset, with him. Capell. Enter Glocester. Qq. Enter Richard. Ff. Enter Gloucester and Hastings. Hanmer.
fac043 are they that complain] Q₈. are they that complaines Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. is it that complaines Ff. ¶ fac043, fac044: king,...not?] Ff. king,...not: Q₁. king?...not: the rest.
fac044 and] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac045 holy] wholy Q₆.
fac046 dissentious] discentions Q₂.
fac047 speak] speake Qq. looke Ff.
fac048 smooth] sooth Theobald conj.
fac052 his simple] in simple Q₅ Q₇ Q₈. in simpla Q₆.
fac053 By] Qq. With Ff.
fac054 Riv.] Ri. Qq. Grey. F₁ F₂. Gray. F₃ F₄. ¶ whom] home Q₆ Q₇. who F₁. ¶ all] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac055 hast nor] hast not Q₄. hath no Q₇ Q₈.
fac057 faction?] faction: Q₁.
fac058 person] Qq. grace Ff.
fac059 would] can Q₇ Q₈.
fac063 of] Qq. on Ff.
fac064 provoked] provoke Q₈.
fac066 Which...actions] Qq. That...action Ff.
fac067 kindred] Q₁ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. kinred Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. children Ff. ¶ brothers] brother Pope.
fac068, fac069: Makes......it.] Steevens. Makes......to remove it. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Makes......grounds......to remove it. Q₆. Makes him to send, that he may learne the ground. Ff (omitting of...it.). Makes...whereby wee...ground...to remove it. Q₇ Q₈. Makes him to send, that he may learn the ground Of your ill will, and thereby to remove it. Pope. Hath sent for you, that he may learn the ground Of your ill will, and thereby may remove it. Hanmer. Hath sent for you; that thereby he may gather The ground of your ill will, and so remove it. Capell.
fac071 make] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. may Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. way Q₇ Q₈.
fac075 my advancement] Q₁ Ff. mine advancement the rest. ¶ friends’] Knight. friends Qq Ff.
fac077 grants] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. grant the rest. ¶ we] Qq. I Ff.
fac080 whilst many fair] Qq. while great Ff. while many fair Pope.
fac089 in...suspects] in, such vile suspect Q₇ Q₈. ¶ vile] wild Pope.
fac090 deny that you were not] deny too that you were Capell. ¶ cause] Qq. meane Ff.
fac092 lord, for—] Ff. lord. Qq.
fac095 fair] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fac097 deserts] Qq. desert Ff.
fac098 What may] What my Q₅. ¶ not?] not, Q₁ Q₂ F₁ F₂. ¶ yea] Qq. I Ff. ay Rowe. ¶ she,—] she— Pope. she, F₂. she. the rest.
fac099 she?] she. Q₁.
fac101 a handsome] Qq. and a handsome Ff.
fac102 a worser] worser Q₅.
fac106 With] Qq. Of Ff. ¶ I often] Qq. that oft I Ff.
fac108 great] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fac109 thus...at] Qq. so baited, scorn’d, and stormed at Ff. ¶ Enter...behind.] Enter...at a distance. Capell. Enter Qu. Margaret. Qq. Enter old Queene Margaret. Ff (after line 110).
fac111 SCENE IV. Pope. ¶ thee] Qq. him Ff.
fac113 telling of] telling, or Q₂. telling Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac114 Tell...said] Omitted in Ff. ¶ have] om. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac115 avouch] Qq. (auoch Q₆ Q₇ Q₈). avouch’t Ff.
fac116 I dare...Tower] Omitted in Qq. ¶ to be] be Steevens conj.
fac117 ’Tis...forgot] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fac118 Out...well] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ Out,] No, Warburton. ¶ remember] Qq. do remember Ff. ¶ them] thee Warburton.
fac119 slewest] Qq. killd’st F₁ F₂ F₃. kild’st F₄.
fac121 Ere...king] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ yea, or] yea of Q₂. I, or Ff. ay, or Rowe.
fac125 spilt] Qq. spent Ff.
fac126 Yea...thine] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ fac126, fac136: Yea] Qq. I Ff. Ay Rowe.
fac129 you. Was] you, was Q₁.
fac131 minds] minde Q₅. mind Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ if you] Ff. if yours Qq.
fac132 ere now] Qq. ere this Ff.
fac142 childish-foolish] Theobald. childish, foolish Q₁ Q₂. childish foolish the rest.
fac143 Hie] Qq. High F₁ F₂. Hye F₃ F₄. ¶ the] Qq. this Ff.
fac147 follow’d] follow Q₇. ¶ lawful] Qq. soveraigne Ff.
fac148 if you should] Qq F₁ F₂. if you would F₃ F₄.
fac149 If I should] If should Q₆.
fac150 of it] Qq. thereof Ff.
fac151 Q. Eliz.] Qu. Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Q. M. Q₃ Q₄. Qu. Nar. Q₅. Qu. Mar. Q₆ Q₇. Q. Mar. Q₈.
fac153 may you] Qq. you may Ff.
fac155 Q. Mar.] om. Q₇ Q₈. ¶ A little] Qq Ff. As little Dyce (Heath conj.). And little Grant White. Ah, little Anon. conj.
fac157 [Advancing.] Capell. Coming forward. They all start. Collier (Collier MS.).
fac159 In sharing] Q₁ Ff. In sharing out Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. I shaking out Q₇ Q₈. ¶ you] yon F₂.
fac160 of] off F₁. ¶ trembles] tremble Q₈. ¶ looks] looke Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac161 being] Qq. am Ff.
fac162 by you] byou Q₃. by on Q₄. ¶ deposed] disposd Q₇ Q₈. ¶ rebels] reabels Q₇. Reblls F₂.
fac163 O gentle] Ah gentle Ff. O gentile Q₇. Ungentle Warburton. Ah, gently, Jackson conj.
fac167–fac169: Glou. Wert thou......abode.] Omitted in Qq.
fac169 my] F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
fac170 owest to] owest unto Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac172 The sorrow] Qq. This sorrow Ff.
fac173 pleasures] pleasure Q₇. ¶ are] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. is the rest.
fac176 scorns] F₄. scornes F₁ F₂ F₃. scorne Qq. ¶ drew’st] drew Q₈. ¶ from] frow Q₆.
fac178 faultless] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. The rest omit.
fac180 all] Q₁ Q₂ F₁. The rest omit. now Rowe.
fac181 hath] have F₃ F₄. has Pope. ¶ plagued] plaugde Q₄. plagude Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
fac182 Q. Eliz.] Qu. Qq Ff. Q. Mar. Rowe.
fac184 e’er] ere F₁ F₂. e’re F₃ F₄. ever Qq.
fac190 all...now] Q₁ Ff. now...all Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. now...now Q₇ Q₈. ¶ on] one Q₇.
fac193 loss] lost Q₇ Q₈.
fac194 Could] Qq. Should Ff. ¶ but] not Mason conj.
fac197 If] Qq. Though Ff.
fac198 ours] our Q₃ Q₅ Q₆. out Q₄.
fac199 thy] my Q₇ Q₈. ¶ which] Qq. that Ff.
fac200 my] Qq. our Ff. ¶ which] Qq. that Ff. ¶ was] was a Q₇. was the Q₈.
fac201 Die] Died Q₈. ¶ violence] violences Q₆ Q₇.
fac204 loss] Qq. death Ff.
fac205 thee] thee thee F₂.
fac206 rights] Q₁ Ff. glorie the rest. rites Anon. conj.
fac208 lengthen’d] length’ned Ff. lengthened Qq.
fac211 wast] Q₁ Q₂ Ff Q₈. was the rest. ¶ son] soone Q₇.
fac213 your] Qq. his Ff.
fac214 But...off] By some unlook’d for accident all cut off Hanmer. ¶ unlook’d] un-look’d-for F₃ F₄.
fac216 thee? stay] the stay Q₁ Q₂.
fac217 heaven] heavens Rowe.
fac221 the troubler] thou troubler Rowe.
fac224 for thy] forth, Q₄.
fac225 that deadly eye] the deadly eyes Q₇ Q₈.
fac226 whilst] Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. whilest Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. while Ff.
fac227 ugly] ougly F₁ F₂.
fac228 elvish-mark’d] elvish-markt Pope. elvish markt Qq. elvish mark’d F₁ F₂. elvish, mark’d F₃ F₄.
fac230 slave] shame Anon. apud Theobald conj. stain Collier MS. ¶ son] F₃ F₄. sonne the rest. scorne Collier MS.
fac231 mother’s heavy] Qq. heavie mothers Ff. mother’s Johnson.
fac233 rag] wrack Warburton. ¶ detested—] F₁ F₃ F₄. detested, &c. Qq. detested. F₂.
fac234 Ha!] F₄. Ha. the rest. ¶ thee] the Q₆ Q₇.
fac235 I cry...then] Ff. Then I crie thee mercie Qq (I om. Q₈). ¶ had thought] Qq. did think Ff.
fac236 That thou hadst] Q₁ Ff. Thou hadst Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. Thou hast Q₇ Q₈.
fac237 look’d] looke Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac239 in] by Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac240 Thus...yourself.] Continued to Gloucester in Q₇ Q₈.
fac242 bottled spider] bloated spider Grey conj. bottle-spider Collier MS.
fac245 time...that] Q₁. day...that Ff. time...when the rest.
fac246 that] Qq. this Ff. ¶ poisonous] Q₁ Ff. poisoned the rest.
fac247 False-boding] False boading Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄. False boding F₁ F₂. False bosting Q₇. False boasting Q₈.
fac249 all] oll Q₅.
fac251 all] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fac252 you] yon Q₂.
fac253 O, serve] Observe Q₇ Q₈.
fac257 O, that...could] Of that...can Long MS. ¶ could] Qq F₁. can F₂ F₃ F₄.
fac259 many] mighty Q₈. ¶ blasts] blast Q₁.
fac260 themselves] them Q₇ Q₈.
fac262 toucheth] Qq. touches Ff.
fac263 Yea,] Qq. I, Ff. Ay, Rowe. ¶ high,] Qq. high: Ff.
fac267 son] sunne Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac270 aery buildeth......nest] airey building in our airey nest Becket conj.
fac272 was] Qq. is Ff. ¶ lost be it so!] so be it lost. Pope.
fac273 Have...charity.] S. Walker doubts whether this speech be Buckingham’s. ¶ Have done] Qq. Peace, peace Ff.
fac276 by you my hopes] Qq. my hopes (by you) Ff.
fac278 that shame] Ff. my shame Qq. ¶ still] shall Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac279 Have done, have done.] Ff. Have done. Qq.
fac280 I’ll] Ile F₁ F₂. I’le F₃ F₄. I will Qq. I Capell.
fac282 noble] Ff. princely Qq.
fac285 no one] none Q₇ Q₈.
fac286 of those] of them Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac287 I’ll not believe] Qq. I will not think Ff.
fac288 gentle-sleeping] Theobald. gentle sleeping Qq Ff.
fac289 take heed] Ff. beware Qq.
fac291 venom] Ff. venome Qq. venom’d Capell conj. ¶ rankle] rackle Q₁. ¶ to the death] Ff. thee to death Qq.
fac292 Have not] Have nought Anon. conj.
fac293 marks on him] marks upon him Pope.
fac297 One line in Qq. Two lines, the first ending me, in Ff.
fac298 soothe] soothd Q₆. smooth Anon. conj.
fac301 say poor Margaret was] Qq. say (poore Margaret) was Ff.
fac302 subjects to] Ff. subiects of Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. subiect of Q₇ Q₈. subject to Pope.
fac303 yours] Ff. your Q₁ Q₂. you the rest. ¶ God’s] God Q₈.
fac304 Hast.] Qq. Buc. Ff. ¶ on end] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. an end Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fac305 muse why] Ff. wonder Qq.
fac308 to her] Ff. om. Qq.
fac309 Q. Eliz.] Qu. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Hast. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Mar. F₁ F₂. Der. F₃ F₄. Dors. Rowe.
fac310 But] Qq. Yet Ff. ¶ her wrong] Ff. this wrong Qq.
fac311 hot] hoat Q₁. hotte Q₈.
fac312 of it] one it Q₇. on it Q₈.
fac313 as] om. Pope.
fac315 of it] Qq. thereof Ff.
fac316 and a] and Q₇ Q₈.
fac318, fac319: So...myself.] Marked as ‘Aside’ by Rowe. ¶ fac318: [Aside] being] Edd. (S. Walker conj.). being Qq Ff.
fac319 For...] Qq. Speakes to himselfe. For... Ff. ¶ cursed now, I] curst now, I Q₄ Ff. curst, now I the rest. Enter Catesby.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fac321 And......noble lords.] Capell. And...noble Lo: Q₁ Q₂. And for your noble Grace: and you my noble Lord. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. And for your Grace, and yours my gracious Lord. Ff. (yours, F₄). And for your noble grace and you my Lord. Q₇ Q₈ (grace, Q₈). And for your grace, and you, my noble lord. Pope.
fac322 we come...us?] Qq. I come...me? Ff. See note (IV).
fac323 Madam, we will attend] Qq. We wait upon Ff. ¶ [Exeunt...] Ff. Exeunt man. Ri. Q₁ Q₂. Exeunt. ma. Glo. the rest (substantially).
fac324 the wrong] thee wrong Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. ¶ begin] Ff. began Qq. ¶ to brawl] the brawl Anon. conj.
fac325 mischiefs] mischiefe Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac326 grievous] greevious Q₇. grevious Q₈.
fac327 whom] who F₁. ¶ laid] Qq (layd Q₈). cast Ff.
fac329 Hastings, Derby] Qq. Derby, Hastings Ff. Stanley, Hastings Theobald.
fac330 say it is] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. say it was Q₈. tell them ’tis Ff.
fac331 stir] strires Q₈.
fac332 it] Ff. me Qq. ¶ whet] wet Q₇. wish Q₈.
fac333 on] one Q₇. ¶ Vaughan Qq. Dorset Ff.
fac334 I sigh] sigh Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac335 do] to do Q₅. to doe Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fac337 old odd] Qq. odde old Ff. ¶ out] Qq. forth Ff.
fac338 saint] S. Q₇. Enter...] Ff. Enter Executioners. Qq. Enter two villains. Rowe.
fac339 come] Q₁ Ff. comes the rest.
fac340 hardy] handy Pope (ed. 2). ¶ stout resolved] stout-resolved Singer, and S. Walker conj.
fac341 you now] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. ye now Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. ye not Q₆. yea not Q₇ Q₈. ¶ deed] Qq. thing Ff.
fac342, fac350: First Mur.] 1. M. Capell. Execu. Qq (substantially). Vil. Ff.
fac344 Well] Ff. It was well Qq. ¶ [Gives the warrant.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
fac350, fac351: Tush! Fear not,] Tush, feare not, Qq (in one line). Tut, tut, Ff. Fear not, Pope.
fac352 doers: be assured] doers; be assur’d, F₄. doers, be assured: Q₂ F₁ F₂ F₃ (dooers, F₁ F₂). doers be assured: the rest.
fac353 come] Qq. go Ff.
fac354 drop tears] Qq. fall tears Ff.
fac355, fac356: business straight. Go,...lord.] Ff. busines. Qq (omitting straight...lord.). business; go. Pope. business [straight. Go,...lord.] Staunton.
fac356 First Murd.] 1. M. Capell. Vil. Ff.
fad001 SCENE IV.] SCENE V. Pope. ¶ London. The Tower.] The Tower. Pope. ¶ Enter...] Enter Clarence, Brokenbury. Qq. Enter Clarence and Keeper Ff. ¶ fad001: Brak.] Brok. or Bro. Qq. Keep. Ff (and throughout the scene). ¶ your] you Q₆. ¶ to-day] om. F₃ F₄.
fad003 of ugly...dreams] Qq. of fearefull dreames, of ugly sights Ff.
fad006 buy] by Q₇ Q₈.
fad008 dream? I long...it] Qq (dreame, Q₁). dream my lord, I pray you tell me Ff.
fad009 Methoughts] Methought Pope. ¶ fad009, fad010: Methoughts......Burgundy] Ff. Me thoughts I was imbarkt for Burgundy Qq (Me thought Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈).
fad013 thence] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. there Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. ¶ we look’d] he lookes Q₇ Q₈. ¶ toward] towards Q₆ Q₈.
fad014 fearful] Qq. heavy Ff.
fad015–fad017: Lancaster That...us. As...hatches,] Lancaster: That...vs as...hatches: Q₁.
fad016 us] us us F₂. ¶ we] Qq F₁. he F₂ F₃ F₄. ¶ paced] pact Q₁. pac’d Ff. past the rest.
fad018 falling] Ff. stumbling Qq.
fad019 thought] sought Pope.
fad021 Lord, Lord] Qq. O Lord Ff.
fad022 waters] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. water Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. ¶ fad022, fad023: mine] my Q₁.
fad023 ugly sights of] sights of ugly Ff. a sight of Q₇ Q₈.
fad024 Methought] Me thought Qq. Me thoughts F₁ F₂ F₃. Methoughts F₄.
fad025 Ten] Qq. A Ff.
fad028 All...sea] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fad029 those] Qq. the Ff.
fad031 ’twere] if it twere Q₇. if it t’were Q₈.
fad032 Which] Qq. That Ff. ¶ woo’d] wade Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. strew’d Heath conj.
fad035 the] Qq F₄. these F₁ F₂ F₃.
fad036, fad037: and often......ghost] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fad037 but] Ff. for Qq.
fad038 Kept] Qq. Stop’d Ff.
fad039 seek] seeke Q₁ Q₂. keepe Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. find Ff. ¶ empty, vast and] emptie vast and Q₁ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. emptie, vast, and Q₂ Q₆. empty, vast, and Ff Q₇ Q₈. empty vast, and Malone conj.
fad041 Which] Qq. Who Ff.
fad042 with] Qq. in Ff. ¶ agony?] agony. Q₁.
fad043 O no] Qq. No, no Ff.
fad044 to my] of my Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ fad044, fad045: soul, Who] Qq. soule. I F₁. soule, I F₂ F₃ F₄.
fad046 grim] Qq. sowre Ff.
fad048 stranger soul] stranger-soule Ff (soul F₃ F₄). strangers soule Q₈.
fad049 renowned] renowmed Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
fad050 cried] Qq. spake Ff.
fad051 Clarence?] Clarence, Q₁.
fad053 with] Ff. in Qq.
fad054 Dabbled] Dadled Q₆ Q₇. ¶ squeak’d] squakt Q₁. shriek’d Ff. squeakt the rest.
fad056 by] at Q₇ Q₈.
fad057 to your torments] Qq. unto torment Ff.
fad058 methoughts] me thoughts Q₁. methought F₄. me thought the rest.
fad059 about] Qq. om. Ff.
fad063 impression] impressions Rowe (ed. 1). ¶ the] Qq. my Ff.
fad064 my] Qq. om. Ff. ¶ though] that Pope.
fad065 I promise...afraid] Qq. I am afraid (me thinkes) Ff.
fad066 O Brakenbury] O Brokenbury Qq. Ah keeper, keeper Ff. Ah Brakenbury Pope. ¶ those] Qq. these Ff.
fad067 Which Qq. That Ff. ¶ bear] beares Q₈. give Ff.
fad068 requites] requits F₁.
fad069–fad072: O God!...children!] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fad071 in me] on me Rowe.
fad073 I pray thee...me] Qq. Keeper, I prythee sit by me a-while Ff. ¶ gentle] gentile Q₇. ¶ gentle keeper] Brakenbury Pope. ¶ [retiring to a chair. Capell.
fad075 See note (V). ¶ [Clarence sleeps. Johnson.
fad076 breaks] breake Q₁.
fad078 titles] title Q₇. ¶ glories] troubles Johnson conj.
fad080 imagination] imaginations Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fad082 betwixt] Qq. betweene Ff. ¶ their] your Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ names] Qq. name Ff.
fad083 Enter...] Enter two Murtherers. Ff. The murtherers enter. Qq.
fad084 First Murd.] 1. Mur. Ff. om. Qq. ¶ Ho! who’s here?] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ here] there Warburton.
fad085 In...hither?] Qq. What would’st thou fellow? And how camm’st thou hither? Ff (cam’st F₃ F₄). In God’s name, what art thou? how cam’st thou hither? Pope.
fad086 First Murd.] Execu. or Exec. Qq. 2. Mur. Ff.
fad088 Yea, are you] Q₁ Q₂ Q₈. Yea, are ye Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. What F₁ F₂ F₃. What, F₄.
fad089 Sec. Murd.] 2 Exe. Qq. 1. Ff. ¶ O sir...tedious] Q₁ Q₂ Q₇ Q₈. O sir it is better be brief then tedious Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. ’Tis better (sir) then to be tedious Ff (than F₄).
fad090 Show him] Qq. Let him see Ff. ¶ our] your Q₇ Q₈. ¶ talk] and talke Ff. ¶ [Brakenbury reads it.] He readeth it. Qq (reades Q₈). Reads. Ff.
fad093 hereby] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. thereby the rest.
fad094 of] Qq. from F₁ F₃ F₄. ftom F₂.
fad095 Here...asleep] Qq. There lies the duke asleepe, and there the keyes Ff.
fad096 I’ll......him] Ff. Ile to his Maiestie, and certifie his Grace Qq.
fad097 my charge to you] Q₁ Q₂. my place to you Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. to you my charge Ff.
fad098 First Murd.] Exe. Qq. 1. Ff. ¶ Do so, it is] Qq. You may, sir, ’tis Ff. ¶ fad098, fad099: fare you well] Ff (Far F₁) in a separate line. Omitted in Qq.
fad099 [Exit...] Exit. Ff (after line 97). om. Qq.
fad100 Sec. Murd.] 2. Qq Ff (and throughout). ¶ we] I Q₁ Q₂.
fad101 then he will] Qq. hee’l F₁ F₂. he’ll F₃ F₄.
fad103 When...fool] Qq. Why Ff.
fad104 till the] Qq. untill the great Ff (until F₃ F₄).
fad105 he will] Qq. hee’l F₁ F₂. he’ll F₃ F₄.
fad109 thou] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fad110 See note (VI). ¶ for it] Qq. om. Ff.
fad111 which] Qq. the which Ff.
fad112 us] Qq. me Ff.
fad113, fad114: I thought...live] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fad115 Back...tell] Qq. Ile backe...and tell Ff.
fad117 I pray thee...while] Qq. Nay, I prythee...little F₁ F₂. Nay, prethee...little F₃. Nay, prithee...little F₄. ¶ fad117, fad118: my holy humour] Qq. this passionate humour of mine Ff. this compassionate humour of mine Capell.
fad118 ’twas] Qq. It was Ff.
fad119 would tell twenty] would tel xx. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. could tell xx. Q₇ Q₈. tels twenty Ff.
fad121 Faith, some] Qq. Some Ff.
fad123 our] the F₃ F₄. ¶ deed is] Qq. deed’s Ff.
fad125 ’Zounds] Qq. Come Ff.
fad126 Where is] Qq. Where’s Ff.
fad127 In] Qq. O, in Ff.
fad128 So when] Qq. When Ff.
fad130 Let] Qq. ’Tis no matter, let Ff. ¶ it go] us go Q₂ F₃ F₄.
fad131 How] Qq. What Ff.
fad132–fad141: I’ll...without it.] As prose in Ff. As verse, eleven lines, in Qq. ¶ fad132, fad133: it is...thing] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fad134 he...he] Qq. A man...A man Ff. ¶ swear] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. steale the rest.
fad135 it is] Qq. ’tis Ff.
fad136 shamefast] Q₁ Q₃ Q₆. shamfast Q₂ Q₄ Q₅. shamefac’d Ff. shamfull Q₇. shamefull Q₈.
fad137 one] Qq. a man Ff.
fad138 purse] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. piece or peece the rest. ¶ that I found] Qq. that (by chance) I found Ff.
fad139 all] Qq. om. Ff.
fad140 well endeavours] well, and endeavours Q₇ Q₈.
fad141 trust to] trust to To Q₁. ¶ to live] live Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fad142 ’Zounds, it is] Qq. ’Tis Ff.
fad144 Take the devil in] Shake off this devil in Heath conj. Shake the devil out of Capell. ¶ fad144, fad145: him...he] it...it Warburton.
fad145 but to make] Ff. to make Qq.
fad146 Tut,] Qq. om. Ff. ¶ strong-framed] strong-fram’d Ff. strong in fraud Qq. strong in frame Anon. conj.
fad147 I warrant thee] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fad148 Spoke] Stood Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ fellow] Qq. man Ff. ¶ his] Qq. thy Ff.
fad149 we to this gear?] Qq (geere Q₁). we fall to worke? Ff. me fall to work? Rowe (ed. 1).
fad150 over] Qq. on Ff. ¶ hilts] hilt Q₇ Q₈.
fad151 thy] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. my the rest. ¶ we will chop him in] Qq. throw him into Ff. ¶ fad151, fad152: malmsey-butt] Malmsey, but Q₇ Q₈.
fad153 make] Qq. and make Ff. ¶ sop] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. scoope Q₃. soppe the rest.
fad154, fad155: Hark!......him] Qq. 1. Soft, he wakes. 2. Strike. 1. No, wee’ll reason with him. Ff. 1. Vil. Soft, he wakes. Shall I strike? 2 Vil. No, we’ll reason with him. Pope. ¶ fad154: strike?] strike. Q₁.
fad157 Sec. Murd.] 2 Ff. 1 Qq.
fad158 thou?] thou. Q₁.
fad159, fad163: Sec. Murd.] 2 Qq. 1 Ff.
fad161 Sec. Murd.] 2 Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. 1 Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fad165 Your...pale?] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fad166 Who...come?] Ff. Tell me who are you, wherefore come you hither? Qq (came Q₇ Q₈).
fad167 Both. To, to, to—] Am. To, to, to. Qq. 2 To, to, to— Ff. To, to, to, to— Capell conj.
fad168 me?] me. Q₁ Q₂.
fad169 Both. Ay, ay.] Am. I. Qq. Both. I, I. Ff.
fad170 scarcely] scarce Q₇ Q₈. ¶ hearts] heart Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fad171 hearts] heart Q₇ Q₈.
fad176 call’d...from out] Qq. drawne...among Ff. cull’d...from out Johnson conj.
fad177 What is] What’s F₃ F₄.
fad178 are...that do] Q₁ Q₂. are...to Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. is...that doth Ff.
fad179 have] hath Q₇ Q₈.
fad181 Clarence’] Rowe (ed. 2). Clarence Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. Clarence’s F₄. ¶ fad181, fad182: death?...law,] F₂ F₃ F₄. death,...law? Qq F₁.
fad183 threaten] thteaten Q₃. thereaten Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
fad184, fad185: to have...sins] Qq. for any goodnesse Ff (omitting line 185). to have redemption Pope (omitting line 185).
fad186 hands on] hand one Q₇.
fad189 is] us is Q₇ Q₈. ¶ the] Qq. our Ff.
fad190 vassal] vassaile Qq. vassals Ff.
fad191 the tables] Q₁ Q₂. his tables Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. the table Ff. his table Q₇ Q₈. ¶ his law] this law Rowe (ed. 1).
fad192 shalt] shall F₂. ¶ and wilt thou] Qq. Will you Ff.
fad194 hands] Qq. hand Ff.
fad196 hurl] Ff. throw Qq.
fad198, fad199: holy sacrament, To fight] Qq. sacrament, to fight Ff.
fad199 in] the Q₇ Q₈.
fad202 Unrip’dst] Rowe (ed. 2). Unripst Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. Unrip’st F₁ F₂ F₃. Unript Q₇ Q₈. Unripp’st F₄.
fad203 wert] Qq. was’t Ff.
fad205 broke] brooke Q₇. ¶ so dear] Qq. such deere F₁ F₂. such high F₃ F₄.
fad208 Why, sirs,] Qq. om. Ff.
fad209 ye] you Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fad210 this] Qq. that Ff.
fad211 revenged...this] Qq. avenged...the Ff.
fad212 O...publicly] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ you yet,] you, that Steevens (Farmer conj.).
fad214 nor lawless] Q₁. nor lawfull Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. or lawlesse Ff.
fad217 gallant-springing] Pope. gallant springing Q₁ Ff. gallant spring the rest. gallant springall Capell conj. gallant-spirited Anon. conj.
fad218 That] The Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fad220 our duty, and thy fault] Pope. our duty and thy faults Ff. the divell and thy fault Qq.
fad221 Provoke] Ff. Have brought Qq. ¶ slaughter] Ff. murder Qq.
fad222 Oh, if you love my brother] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈. Oh, if you love brother Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. If you do love my brother Ff.
fad224 be] Qq. are Ff. ¶ hired for meed, go] hired, for meed go Becket conj. ¶ meed] Q₁ Ff. neede the rest.
fad226 shall] Ff. will Qq.
fad228 You are...you.] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fad230 Both. Ay,] Am. I, Qq. 1. I Ff.
fad233 And...other,] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fad235 think of this] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. think on this Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fad236 First Murd. Ay,] 1 I Ff. Am. I, Qq.
fad238 Right,] om. Pope. ¶ fad238, fad239: Right...thyself] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending harvest:, in Ff.
fad239 Thou deceivest thyself] Qq. Come, you deceive yourself Ff. You deceive yourself Pope.
fad240 sent...thee] Q₁. sent...murder thee Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. sends us to destroy you here Ff. ¶ hither] om. Anon. conj.
fad241, fad242: for...He] Qq. for he bewept my fortune, And Ff.
fad242 hugg’d] hudg Q₅.
fad244, fad246: Sec. Murd. Why,... First Murd.] 2 Why... 1 Qq. 1 Why... 2 Ff. ¶ fad244: now...thee] Qq. when...you Ff.
fad245 world’s] Qq. earths Ff.
fad246 Make] Makes Q₁.
fad247–fad250: Hast thou...thy soul...art thou...thy own soul...thou wilt] Qq. Have you...your soules...are you...your own soules...you will Ff. Have you...your soul...are you...your own souls...you will Pope.
fad250 by] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. for the rest.
fad251 Ah] Qq. O Ff. ¶ he] Qq. they Ff.
fad252 the deed] Ff. this deed Qq.
fad254 Relent! ’tis] Relent, tis Qq. Relent? no: ’Tis Ff. Relent! no, no, ’tis Keightley conj.
fad255 savage,] Q₁ Ff. savage, and the rest.
fad256–fad264: Which of you...pities not?] See note (VII).
fad260 friend] friends Q₇ Q₈. ¶ thy] your Q₆ Q₈. yous Q₇.
fad261 thine] Ff. thy Qq. ¶ eye] eyes Q₈.
fad265 Sec. Murd. Look...my lord.] Omitted in Qq.
fad266 First Murd.] 1 Qq F₁ F₃ F₄. om. F₂. ¶ Take...do] Ff. I thus, and thus: if this wil not serve Qq. Ay, thus, and thus; [stabbing him.] and, if this will not serve Capell. ¶ [Stabs him.] Ff. He stabs him. Qq.
fad267 drown you...within] Ff. chop thee...in the next roome Qq. ¶ [Exit...] Steevens. Exit Ff. om. Qq, and Capell.
fad268 dispatch’d] Ff. performd Qq.
fad269 like Pilate, would I] would I like Pilate Q₇ Q₈. ¶ hands] Ff Q₈. hand the rest.
fad270 guilty murder done] Qq. murther Ff. ¶ Re-enter......] Enter 1 Murtherer. Ff. om. Qq, and Capell.
fad271, fad272: As verse in Qq. As prose in Ff. ¶ fad271: How now! what...not?] Ff. Why doest thou not helpe me? Qq (me, Q₁). Why dost not thou help me? Staunton.
fad272 heavens] heaven Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. ¶ thou art] Qq. you have been Ff. you’ve been Rowe (ed. 2).
fad277 Now must I hide his] Qq. Well, Ile go hide the Ff.
fad278 Until the duke take] Qq. Till that the Duke give Ff.
fad279 must away] Qq. will away Ff.
fad280 here] Qq. then Ff. ¶ [Exit.] Ff. Exeunt. Qq. Exit, with the Body. Capell.
fba001 London. The palace.] The same. A Room in the Palace. Capell. The court. Pope. ¶ Flourish.] Ff. om. Qq and Theobald. ¶ Enter King Edward...] Substantially as Capell. Enter the King sicke, the Queene, Lord Marquesse Dorset, Rivers, Hastings, Catesby, Buckingham, Woodvill. Ff. Enter King, Queene, Hastings, Ryvers, Dorcet, &c. Q₁ Q₂. Enter...Rivers &c. the rest. ¶ fba001: Why, so: now have I] Why so: now have I Ff. So, now I have Qq.
fba002 this] the Q₇ Q₈.
fba004 redeem] recall Pope.
fba005 now in peace] Qq. more to peace Ff. more at peace Capell. more in peace Steevens. ¶ part to] part from Q₁ Q₂. part for quoted in Steevens’s reprint, and adopted by Grant White.
fba006 set] Qq. made Ff. ¶ friends] friend Q₆.
fba007 Rivers and Hastings] Qq (Hasting Q₇). Dorset and Rivers Ff. Hastings and Rivers Rowe.
fba009 soul] Ff. heart Qq.
fba011 truly] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. om. the rest.
fba018 are not] is not Ff Q₇ Q₈. ¶ in this] Qq. from this Ff.
fba019 your son] Qq. you sonne Ff.
fba023 Here] Qq. There Ff.
fba025 K. Edw. Dorset......marquess] One line in Rowe (ed. 2). Two in Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fba026 This] Q₁ Ff. Thus the rest.
fba027 unviolable] Qq. inviolable Ff.
fba028 swear I] I sweare Q₇. I swere Q₈. ¶ my lord] Qq. om. Ff. ¶ [They embrace.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
fba029 thou] up Q₇ Q₈.
fba030 embracements] embracement Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ wife’s] wives Qq Ff.
fba031 your] his Q₇. this Q₈.
fba033 On you or yours but with all] Qq. Upon your Grace, but with all Ff. Upon your grace, and not with Pope. ¶ [To the Queen] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.
fba039 unto] to Pope. ¶ God] Qq. heaven Ff.
fba040 zeal] Qq. love Ff. ¶ [They embrace.] Embrace. Ff. om. Qq.
fba044 perfect] Qq. blessed Ff.
fba045 And...duke.] Qq. And in good time, Heere comes Sir Richard Ratcliffe, and the Duke. Ff. ¶ Enter Gloucester.] Qq. Enter Ratcliffe, and Gloster. Ff.
fba049 Brother] Qq. Gloster Ff.
fba051 wrong-incensed] Rowe (ed. 2). wrong insenced Q₁ Q₂. wrong inscensed Q₇ Q₈. wrong incensed the rest.
fba052 my] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. om. the rest. ¶ liege] Qq. lord Ff.
fba053 Amongst] Qq. Among Ff.
fba055, fba056: Hold...rage] As in Malone (Capell conj.). One line in Qq Ff.
fba056 unwittingly] Qq. unwillingly Ff. ¶ or in my rage] Omitted by Pope.
fba057 aught] thought Q₇ Q₈. ought the rest.
fba058 By] Qq. To Ff.
fba059 his] this Q₂.
fba062 First] Fird F₂. ¶ true] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. om. the rest.
fba063 will] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fba066 Of you, Lord...of you] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Of you my Lord...of you Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Of you and you, Lord Rivers and of Dorset Ff. Of you, Lord Rivers and, Dorset, of you Grant White conj.
fba067 Here the Folios, after frown’d on me, insert Of you Lord Woodvill, and Lord Scales of you.
fba073 holy day] holy-day Rowe.
fba074 strifes] strife Q₇ Q₈.
fba075 liege] Qq. lord Ff. ¶ your] you Q₆. ¶ majesty] Qq. highnesse Ff.
fba078 so flouted] Ff. thus scorned Qq.
fba079 noble] Qq. gentle Ff. ¶ [They all start.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fba081 Riv.] Qq. King. Ff. ¶ Who...he is?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fba084 no one] no man Ff. noone Q₇. none Q₈. ¶ this presence] Qq. the presence Ff.
fba087 soul] Qq. man Ff. ¶ your] our Q₇ Q₈.
fba088 winged] wingled Q₁.
fba089 bore] Qq. bare Ff. had Pope.
fba090 came] Qq F₁. come F₂ F₃ F₄.
fba092 but] Qq. and Ff.
fba093 not worse] Qq F₁ F₂. no worse F₃ F₄.
fba094 Enter Derby.] Enter Darby. Qq. Enter Earle of Derby. Ff. Enter Stanley. Theobald. See note (III).
fba096 pray thee] Qq. prethee F₁ F₂ F₃. prithee F₄.
fba097 grant.] Q₁. graunt. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. heare me. Ff. graunt, Q₆ Q₇. grant, Q₈.
fba098 speak] Qq. say Ff. ¶ demand’st] Qq. requests F₁ F₂. request’st F₃ F₄.
fba099 Der.] om. Q₁.
fba101 attendant on] attending one Q₇. attending on Q₈.
fba103 that tongue] Ff. the same Qq.
fba104 slew] Qq. kill’d Ff. ¶ thought] nought Q₈.
fba105 cruel] Qq. bitter Ff.
fba106 rage] Qq. wrath Ff.
fba107 bade Q₁ Q₂. bad Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. bid Ff.
fba108 Who spake] Qq. Who spoke Ff. ¶ who spake of love] who spoke of love F₁. who of love Qq. who spoke in love F₂ F₃ F₄.
fba111 by] at Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fba114 in] ie Q₂.
fba115 did lap] Ff. did lappe Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. lappe Q₇. lapt Q₈.
fba116 his own garments] his owne garments Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. his owne armes Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. his garments Ff. ¶ gave] Qq. did give Ff.
fba117 and naked] and and naked Q₁ Q₂.
fba123 dear] dearest Q₈.
fba126 man] mast Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
fba127 speak unto] spake unto Rowe.
fba128 of] one Q₇ Q₈.
fba129 beholding] beholden Q₅ Q₆.
fba130 plead] Qq. begge Ff.
fba132 yours] your Q₆.
fba133 Come...Clarence] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending closet, in Ff. Pope ends the first line Ah. ¶ Come, Hastings, help] Come, [to Hast.] help Capell. ¶ help] prithee, help Collier MS. ¶ Oh] Qq. Ah Ff. ¶ [Exeunt...] Ff. Exit. Qq.
fba134 This is the fruit] Qq. This is the fruits Ff. These are the fruits Pope. ¶ rashness] rawnes Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. rawnesse Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ Mark’d] marke Q₇ Q₈. markt the rest.
fba135 guilty] Qq F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
fba136 Clarence’] Rowe (ed. 2). Clarence Qq Ff. Clarence’s Rowe (ed. 1).
fba138 But come, let us in,] But come lets in Qq. Come Lords will you go Ff.
fba140 Buck. We...grace] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fbb001 The palace.] The same Capell. ¶ Enter...] Enter the old Dutchesse of Yorke... Ff. Enter Dutches of Yorke, with Clarence children. Qq. ¶ fbb001: Boy.] Qq. Edw. Ff. ¶ Tell me, good grandam] Tell me good Granam Qq. Good grandam, tell us Ff.
fbb003 Boy.] Qq. Daugh. Ff. ¶ wring your hands and] Qq. weepe so oft and Ff. weep so, and oft Collier MS.
fbb005 Girl.] Qq. Boy. Ff.
fbb006 wretches, orphans] orphans, wretches Ff. wretched, orphanes Q₇ Q₈.
fbb007 be] Qq. were Ff.
fbb008 much] Qq. both Ff.
fbb010 not your fathers death] now your fathers dead Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fbb011 sorrow to wail] Ff. labour, to weepe for Qq.
fbb012 grandam, you conclude that] granam you conclude that Qq. you conclude, (my grandam) Ff.
fbb013 my] Qq. mine Ff. ¶ to blame] too blame Qq F₁. ¶ this] Qq. it Ff.
fbb015 daily] Qq. earnest Ff. daily earnest Pope. ¶ all to that effect] Omitted by Pope.
fbb016 Girl. And...I] Daugh. And...I Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fbb020, fbb031: Grandam] Ff. Granam Qq.
fbb021 provoked] Qq. provok’d to it Ff. provok’d to’t Pope.
fbb023 my uncle] Ff. he Qq.
fbb024 And...arm] And hugd me in his arme, Qq (armes Q₇ Q₈). And pitied me Ff. ¶ kindly] om. Edd. conj. ¶ cheek] cheekes Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fbb025 Bade] Bad Ff. And bad Qq. ¶ on my] in my Qq.
fbb026 his] Qq. a Ff.
fbb027 Oh] Qq. Ah Ff. ¶ shapes] Qq. shape Ff.
fbb028 vizard] vizor Ff. visard Q₁ Q₂. ¶ foul guile] Qq. deepe vice Ff.
fbb029 yea] I Ff. om. Q₄. ay Rowe.
fbb033 Enter Queen Elizabeth...] Enter Queene.... Ff. Enter the Quee. Qq.
fbb034 Oh] Q₁ Q₂. Ah Ff. Wh Q₃ Q₄. om. the rest. Who Staunton.
fbb036 soul] selfe Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fbb037 enemy.] enemy— Rowe.
fbb040 your] Qq. thy Ff.
fbb041 now......wither’d] Qq. when the root is gone Ff.
fbb042 the sap being gone] that want their sap Ff.
fbb046 perpetual rest] Qq. nere-changing night Ff. nere-changing light Collier MS. perpetual light Keightley conj.
fbb047 Ah] Qq Ff. Ay Pope. ¶ I] om. F₁.
fbb048 title in] Qq F₁ F₂. title to F₃ F₄. ¶ thy] my Q₇ Q₈.
fbb050 by] Qq. with Ff. ¶ images] image Q₈.
fbb054 Which] Qq. That Ff.
fbb056 thee] Qq. om. Ff.
fbb057 husband] Ff. children Qq.
fbb058 limbs] limmes Qq. hands Ff.
fbb059 Edward and Clarence] Qq. Clarence and Edward Ff.
fbb060 Thine] Ff. Then, Qq. Thou Anon. MS. (in Capell’s copy of Q₃). ¶ a moiety] a moity Ff. moity Q₁ Q₂ Q₈. moitie Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. motitie Q₆. motity Q₇. ¶ grief] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. selfe Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. moane Ff.
fbb061 plaints] Qq (plants Q₂). woes Ff. ¶ thy cries] the cries Q₅ Q₆. my cries F₂.
fbb062 Good] Qq. Ah Ff. ¶ wept] weept Q₆ Q₇. ¶ our] my Q₇ Q₈. your F₂ F₃.
fbb063 kindred] Ff. kindreds Qq.
fbb064 Girl.] Qq. Daugh. Ff.
fbb065 widow-dolour] Ff. widdowes dolours Qq. widow dolours Pope.
fbb067 complaints] Ff. laments Qq.
fbb068–fbb070: All...world!] Put in the margin by Pope.
fbb069 moon] F₃ F₄. moone F₁ F₂ Q₇ Q₈. moane the rest.
fbb071 Oh] Qq. Ah Ff. ¶ for my husband] my husband Q₇ Q₈. ¶ dear] F₃ F₄. deere F₁ F₂. eire Q₁. eyre Q₂. heire Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fbb072, fbb075, fbb078: Chil.] Ff. Ambo. Qq. ¶ fbb072: Oh] Qq. Ah Ff.
fbb073 Clarence] my Clarence Long MS.
fbb074, fbb075: he’s] Ff. he is Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₈. is he Q₆ Q₇.
fbb076 stays] stay Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fbb077 Was never] Was ever Q₄ Q₇ Q₈.
fbb078 Were never] Ff. Was never Q₁. Was ever the rest. ¶ so dear a] Ff Q₇ Q₈. a dearer the rest.
fbb079 never] Ff. ever Qq. ¶ so dear a] Ff. a dearer Qq.
fbb080 moans] Qq. greefes F₁ F₂. griefs F₃ F₄.
fbb081 are] Qq. is Ff.
fbb082 an] Ff. om. Qq.
fbb083 weep] weepes F₁.
fbb084, 85: and so...weep] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fbb085 I...they:] omitted by Pope. ¶ so do not they] Q₁ Ff. and so do they the rest.
fbb087 Pour] Proue Q₂. ¶ all your] all yours F₂.
fbb088 lamentations] Qq. lamentation Ff.
fbb089–fbb100: Dor. Comfort...throne] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fbb090 you take with unthankfulness] with unthankfulness you take Pope.
fbb092 repay] pay Pope.
fbb100 Enter Gloucester...] Enter Richard... Ff. Enter Glocester with others. Qq.
fbb101 SCENE III. Pope. ¶ Madam] Qq. Sister Ff.
fbb103 cure their] Qq. helpe our Ff.
fbb105 your grace] you Pope. ¶ on] on on Q₆. ¶ knee] knees Q₈.
fbb107 mind] Qq. breast Ff.
fbb109 and make me die] make me die Q₆. make me to die Q₇ Q₈. ¶ fbb109: [Aside] Hanmer.
fbb110 That is] Ff. Thats Qq. ¶ of a] Q₁ Ff. of my the rest.
fbb111 why] Qq. that Ff.
fbb113 mutual heavy] Qq. heavie mutuall Ff.
fbb114 other] others Q₇.
fbb115 of] Q₁ Ff. for the rest.
fbb116 son] soone Q₆.
fbb117 hearts] Qq. hates Ff.
fbb118 lately] lastly Q₇ Q₈. ¶ splinter’d] F₁. splinterd Q₁. splintred F₂ F₃. splintr’d F₄. splinted the rest.
fbb119 gently] Q₁ Ff. greatly the rest.
fbb121 fetch’d] fetcht Qq. fet Ff.
fbb123–fbb140: Riv. Why...say I] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ fbb123: Why......Buckingham?] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.
fbb127 green and] om. Pope.
fbb132 Glou.] Rich. Ff. Riv. Long MS.
fbb134 Riv.] Ff. Stan. Hanmer. Rich. Long MS. ¶ fbb134–fbb140: Riv. And......prince. Hast. And...I.] Hast. And...prince. Sta. And...I. Capell.
fbb139 so few] but few Hanmer.
fbb142 Ludlow] Qq. London Ff.
fbb143 mother] Qq. sister Ff.
fbb144 censures] sensures Q₇ Q₈. ¶ weighty] Qq. om. Ff.
fbb145 Q. Eliz. Duch. With...hearts.] Ans. With...hearts. Qq. Omitted in Ff. ¶ [Exeunt......] Exeunt. man. Glo. Buck. Qq (substantially). Exeunt. Manent Buckingham, and Richard. Ff (Manet F₁).
fbb147 be behind] Qq. stay at home Ff.
fbb149 late] Q₁ F₁ F₂ F₃. lately the rest.
fbb150 king] Qq. prince Ff.
fbb152 prophet!—My] Theobald Warburton). prophet, my Qq Ff.
fbb153 like] Qq. as Ff.
fbb154 Towards] Qq. Toward Ff. ¶ Ludlow] Qq. London Ff. ¶ we’ll] Ff. we will Qq.
fbc001 SCENE III.] SCENE IV. Pope. In Collier MS. the whole scene is erased. ¶ London. A street.] A street near the court. Theobald. ¶ Enter...] Capell. Enter two Citizens. Qq. Enter one Citizen at one doore, and another at the other. Ff. ¶ fbc001: Neighbour, well met] Qq. Good morrow, neighbour Ff. ¶ whither] whether Q₈.
fbc002 scarcely] Qq. hardly Ff.
fbc003 Hear] Ff. 1 Heare Qq. ¶ First Cit. 1Ff. 2Qq. ¶ Ay] I Qq. Yes Ff. ¶ that] Qq F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
fbc004 Sec. Cit.] 2 Ff. 1 Qq. ¶ Bad] Qq. Ill Ff. ¶ the better] better Q₇ Q₈. a better Pope.
fbc005 troublous] Q₁. troublesome Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. giddy Ff.
fbc006 Neighbours, God speed!] Ff. Good morrow, neighbours. Qq. ¶ First Cit. Give...sir.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fbc007 this] Qq. the Ff.
fbc008 Sec. Cit. Ay, sir...while] 2. I sir,...while Ff. 1 It doth. Qq.
fbc009 troublous] troublesome Q₈.
fbc010 good] Q₁ Ff. The rest omit.
fbc012 a hope] hope Q₇ Q₈. ¶ government] See note (VIII).
fbc013 That] Qq. Which Ff. With Collier MS. ¶ council under him] counsel under them (i.e. the regency) Seymour conj.
fbc014 full and] full Q₇ Q₈. ¶ ripen’d] ripened Qq Ff.
fbc016 state] case Q₇ Q₈. ¶ Henry] Ff. Henrie Q₈. Harry the rest. ¶ the Sixth] nam’d the sixth Seymour conj.
fbc017 in Paris] Ff. at Paris Qq. ¶ nine] ix. Q₁. xi. Q₂.
fbc018 No,...wot] Ff. no good my friend not so Qq.
fbc019 this] our Q₈.
fbc020 With] Which F₄.
fbc022 Why, so] Ff. So Qq. ¶ fbc022, fbc023, fbc024: the father] Qq. his father Ff. ¶ fbc022, fbc031: First Cit.] 1 Ff. 2 Qq.
fbc025 emulation now, who shall] Qq. emulation who shall now Ff. ¶ nearest] earnest Q₇ Q₈.
fbc026 Will] Ff. Which Qq.
fbc028 sons......haught] Ff. kindred hauty Qq. kindred hautie are Capell conj. ¶ haught and proud] haughty, proud Pope.
fbc029 to rule] rule Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fbc030 land] Qq. land, Ff.
fbc031 First Cit.] 1. Ff. 2 Qq. ¶ shall] Qq. will Ff.
fbc032 appear] Qq. are seen Ff.
fbc033 the] Qq. then Ff.
fbc035 make] makes F₁ Q₈. ¶ men] them Q₇ Q₈.
fbc036 may] men Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fbc038 Sec. Cit.] 2. Ff. 1. Qq. ¶ souls] Qq. hearts Ff. ¶ dread] Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. bread Q₁ Q₂. feare Ff.
fbc039 Ye] Yea Q₇ Q₈. You Ff. ¶ reason almost] Ff. almost reason Qq (almast Q₆).
fbc040 heavily] heauy Q₇ Q₈. ¶ fear] Qq. dread Ff.
fbc041 times] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. days Ff. time Q₇ Q₈. ¶ is it] it is Q₈.
fbc043 Ensuing dangers] Qq. Pursuing danger Ff. Ensuing danger Pope.
fbc044 waters] Qq. water Ff. ¶ boisterous] boystous Q₆.
fbc045 Whither] Whether Q₇ Q₈.
fbc046 Marry] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ were] Ff. are Qq. ¶ justices] Ff. justice Qq. justice’s Anon conj.
fbd001 SCENE IV.] SCENE V. Pope. ¶ London. The palace.] The same. A Room in the Palace. Capell. The Court. Theobald. ¶ Enter...] Enter Cardinall, Dutches of Yorke, Quee. young Yorke. Qq. Enter Arch-bishop, yong Yorke, the Queene, and the Dutchesse. Ff. ¶ fbd001: hear] Q₁ Q₂ Q₇ Q₈. heard the rest. ¶ Northampton] Qq. Stony Stratfort Ff. See note (IX).
fbd003 they will] will they Q₇ Q₈.
fbd005 last I] I last Q₈.
fbd006 no] not Pope.
fbd007 Hath] Qq. Ha’s F₁ F₂ F₃. Has F₄. ¶ almost] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ his] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fbd009 young] Q₈. good Ff. yong the rest. ¶ cousin,] cousin? Capell.
fbd010 Grandam] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Granam the rest.
fbd012 Gloucester] Glocester Q₁ Q₄. Clo. Q₃ Q₅. Glo. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Glouster F₁ F₂. Gloster F₃ F₄.
fbd013 herbs] earbs Q₇. ¶ do] Ff. om. Qq.
fbd020 if this rule were true] Edd. if this were a true rule Q₁ Q₂. if this were a rule Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. if his rule were true Ff.
fbd021 Arch.] Arc. Capell. Car. Qq. York. Ff. ¶ Why, madam,...is] Qq. And so no doubt he is, my gracious Madam. Ff. S. Walker suspects a corruption in gracious.
fbd022 so too] Qq. he is Ff.
fbd025 To touch...mine.] That should have neerer toucht his growth then he did mine Qq.
fbd026 As one line in Qq. As two in Ff. ¶ pretty] Qq. young Ff. ¶ pray thee] Qq. prythee Ff.
fbd027 they] thy Q₄. ¶ my] Q₁ Ff. that my the rest. ¶ fast] faw Q₆.
fbd028 old] hold Q₅.
fbd030, fdb032: Grandam] Ff. Granam Qq. ¶ fbd030: biting] F₃ F₄. byting F₁ F₂. pretie or prettie, or prittie or pritty Qq.
fbd031 pray thee] Qq. prythee F₁ F₂. prethee F₃. prithee F₄. ¶ this] Ff. so Qq.
fbd033 His nurse] Q₁ Ff. om. the rest. ¶ wert] Qq, wast Ff.
fbd035 parlous] Ff. perilous Qq (perillous Q₆). ¶ go to] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. go too the rest. ¶ you are] thou art Q₇ Q₈.
fbd036 Arch.] Arc. Capell. Car. Qq. Dut. Ff. ¶ the] a F₃ F₄.
fbd037 have] hath Q₇ Q₈. ¶ Enter a Messenger.] Ff. Enter Dorset. Qq.
fbd038 Arch. Here comes...news?] Ff. Here comes your sonne. Lo: M. Dorset. What newes Lo: Marques? Qq. (Lo: Marques......Lo: Marques Q₂; Lord Marques......Lord Marques the rest). See note (X). ¶ What news?] What news with you? Collier (Collier MS.).
fbd039 Mess.] Mes. Ff. Dor. Qq and throughout the scene. ¶ unfold] Qq. report Ff.
fbd040 fares] Qq. doth Ff.
fbd041 thy news then?] Q₁. thy newes? Ff. the newes then? the rest.
fbd042, fdb043: Lord Riuers...With them...prisoners] Qq. Lord Rivers...and with them,......prisoners Ff, ending the lines Grey...them,...prisoners. ¶ Pomfret...Vaughan, prisoners] Pomfret prisoners; and with them...Vaughan Capell.
fbd044, fdb045: The mighty...Buckingham.] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff.
fbd045 Gloucester] Clocester Q₃. ¶ Q. Eliz.] Queen. Johnson. Car. Qq. Arch. Ff.
fbd047 for what] what Q₂. ¶ these] Qq. the Ff.
fbd048 lady] Qq. lord Ff.
fbd049 Ay] Ah Rowe. ¶ downfall] Qq. ruin Ff. ¶ our] Qq. my Ff.
fbd050 seized] seaze Q₇.
fbd051 jet] iet Qq. Iutt F₁ F₂. Jut F₃. jut F₄.
fbd052 aweless] Ff. lawlesse Qq.
fbd053 death] Qq. blood Ff.
fbd058 And often] Too often Collier MS.
fbd059 their] were Q₈.
fbd060, dbd061: seated, and...broils clean over-blown, themselves] seated and...broiles, clean ouer-blowne themselves Q₁.
fbd062, fbd063: blood against blood, Self] Qq. brother to brother; Blood to blood, selfe Ff.
fbd063 preposterous] prepostorous F₁. most preposterous Pope. prepost’rous Rowe.
fbd064 outrage] courage Reed (1803). ¶ thy] the Q₈.
fbd065 death] Qq. earth Ff.
fbd067 Madam, farewell] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ I’ll go along] Qq. Stay, I will go Ff.
fbd068 [To the Queen. Malone.
fbd069 thither] thether F₁. ¶ bear] bare Q₆.
fbd071 to me] Qq F₁. it me F₂ F₃ F₄.
fbd073 Come] Qq. Go Ff.
fca001 London.] Pope. ¶ A street.] Capell. ¶ Cardinal Bourchier, Catesby, and others] Capell, substantially. Cardinall, &c. Qq. Lord Cardinall, with others. Ff. ¶ fca001: Welcome...chamber.] One line Qq. Two, the first ending London, in Ff.
fca005 Have] Hath Q₈.
fca008 Hath] Have Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fca009 Nor] No Ff Q₈.
fca016 Prince.] Prince [Aside. Edd. conj. ¶ God...none] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ from false] frō such false Q₄.
fca017 mayor] F₄. Maior Qq F₁. Major F₂ F₃. ¶ Enter the Lord Mayor...] Capell. Enter Lord Maior. Qq F₁ (Maire Q₇). Enter Lord Major. F₂ F₃. Enter Lord Mayor. F₄.
fca019 [They kiss his hand and retire. Capell.
fca028 Have] Hath Q₈.
fca029 have come] Q₁ Q₂ Q₄ Ff. come the rest.
fca031 an] an an F₂. ¶ peevish] peenish Q₃.
fca033 to send] the send Q₃. they send Q₅.
fca035 go] you goe F₂. you go F₃ F₄. ¶ him] them Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fca038 the] to Q₃.
fca039 Anon] om. Steevens conj. ¶ fca039, fca040: be obdurate To mild entreaties] be Obdurate to entreaties Pope.
fca040 in heaven] Q₁ Q₂. om. the rest.
fca042 blessed] om. Pope.
fca043 deep] Q₁ Q₂. great the rest.
fca044–fca046: too......Weigh it but] to sense, less obstinate, my lord: Too...traditional Weight is but Jackson conj. ¶ fca044: senseless-obstinate] Theobald. sencelesse obstinate Qq Ff. strict and abstinent Collier (Collier MS.). needless-obstinate Staunton conj.
fca046 grossness of this] greatnesse of this Q₆. greatnesse of his Q₇ Q₈. greenness of his Hanmer (Warburton). goodness of his Collier (Collier MS.). grossness of his Hunter conj.
fca052 And therefore] Qq F₁. Therefore F₂ F₃ F₄.
fca053 taking] take Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ thence] hence Dyce.
fca056 ne’er] ne’re Ff. never Qq.
fca057 o’er rule] Ff. overrule Qq.
fca060 Good] My Capell (corrected in Errata). ¶ Exeunt...] om. Q₁ Q₂. Exit...the rest (after line 59).
fca063 seems] Q₁ Q₂. thinkst Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. think’st Ff. thinks S. Walker conj.
fca064 may] my Q₃ Q₄.
fca066 and] as Q₇ Q₈.
fca070 Buck.] Glou. Steevens. ¶ gracious] om. Steevens conj., reading as one line He...since.
fca071 re-edified] rebuilt Hanmer.
fca074 Upon] It is upon Capell.
fca077 retail’d] intail’d Warburton.
fca078 all-ending] Q₁. ending the rest.
fca079 [Aside.] Johnson. ¶ never] ne’er Pope.
fca081 lives] ne’er lives Mason conj.
fca082 [Aside.] F₂ F₃ F₄. om. the rest. ¶ Thus] That Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ formal vice, Iniquity] formal wise antiquary Hanmer. formal-wise antiquity Warburton. formal vice, hypocrisy Long MS. form, all vice; iniquity, Jackson conj.
fca083 moralize two] moralize: two Warburton. moralize,—two Capell.
fca087 makes] made Hanmer. ¶ this] Q₁. his the rest.
fca088 now] yet Capell.
fca090 gracious] good Capell.
fca091 An if] Theobald. And if Qq Ff.
fca094 [Aside.] Johnson. ¶ summers...have] Qq Ff. summers...has Pope (ed. 1). summer...has Pope (ed. 2). summer...hath Capell conj. ¶ lightly] likely Q₈.
fca096 Richard] Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. Rich. the rest. ¶ loving] Q₁ Q₂. noble the rest.
fca097 dread] Q₁ Q₂. deare or dear the rest.
fca099 late] soon Hanmer. ¶ that] this Q₇ Q₈.
fca104 outgrown] overgrown Q₈.
fca107 beholding] beholden Pope.
fca109 in me as in] o’er me as Collier MS.
fca110 uncle] uncle then, Hanmer. gentle uncle Keightley conj. ¶ this] this your Warburton.
fca113 York. Of...] York. Ay, a a beggar, brother, Of.... Anon. conj.
fca114 And] om. Mitford conj. ¶ being] om. Anon. conj. ¶ but] Qq F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄. ¶ which is] Qq F₁. it is F₂ F₃ F₄. om. Steevens conj. ¶ grief] gift Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ to give] to lack Anon conj.
fca116 to] too Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
fca118 then] thā Q₂. than Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. ¶ you will] you’ll Pope. ¶ gifts] gift Rowe.
fca120 heavy] Q₁. waightie Q₂. weightie Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ F₂. weighty Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. ¶ your] you Q₆.
fca121 I] I’d Hanmer.
fca123 thank] thinke Q₈. ¶ as] as as Q₃. as, as, F₁. as—as— S. Walker conj.
fca132 Buck.] Card. or Hast. Anon. conj. ¶ sharp-provided] Theobald. sharpe provided Qq Ff. sharply pointed Collier MS.
fca133 gives] give Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
fca136 lord] gracious lord Hanmer. ¶ will’t] Pope. wilt Qq Ff. ¶ you] your highness Capell. your grace to Collier (Collier MS.).
fca141 needs] Q₁. om. the rest. here Hanmer. e’en Collier MS.
fca143 Why] Why, sir Hanmer.
fca144 Clarence’] Pope. Clarence Qq Ff.
fca145 grandam] Ff. granam Qq.
fca148 An if] Theobald. And if Qq Ff.
fca149 and with] Ff. with Qq.
fca150 A Sennet.] A Senet. F₁. om. the rest. ¶ Exeunt...] Exeunt Prin. Yor. Hast. Dors. manet, Rich. Buck. Qq (Bich. Q₅. Bish. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈). Exeunt Prince, Yorke, Hastings, and Dorset. Manet Richard, Buckingham, and Catesby. Ff (Manent F₂). Exeunt Prince, York, Hastings, and Archbishop. Hanmer.
fca151 SCENE II. Pope.
fca154 parlous] perlous Q₇ Q₈. perilous or perillous the rest.
fca157 hither] om. Pope, ending the line at sworn. hither, gentle Capell, ending the lines rest...sworn.
fca158 Thou art sworn] As a separate line Edd. conj.
fca160 know’st] Ff. knowest Qq.
fca161 think’st] Ff. thinkest Qq.
fca162 William Lord] lord William Pope.
fca167 what will he?] Qq. Will not hee? Ff.
fca169, fca170: Well...Hastings] As in Pope. As three lines in Ff, ending this:...off,...Hastings. See note (XI). ¶ fca169: but] than Rowe (ed. 2).
fca170 sound thou] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. sound the rest.
fca171 our] your Q₄.
fca172, fca173: And summon...coronation] Omitted in Qq.
fca175 show] Qq. tell Ff.
fca176 leaden] laden F₃ F₄. ¶ icy-cold] Edd. (Ingleby conj.). icie, cold Qq Ff.
fca177 your] Qq. the Ff.
fca180 shalt] shall Q₈.
fca184 friend] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. friends Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. lord Ff.
fca185 Mistress] gentle Mistresse Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. gentle Mistris Q₆. gentile M^is Q₇. gentle Mis Q₈. ¶ one gentle] one gentile Qq.
fca186 go] Ff. om. Qq.
fca187 with all] withall Q₂. ¶ may] Qq. can Ff.
fca188 Shall] Sall Q₄.
fca190 Crosby Place] Qq. Crosby House Ff. ¶ shall you] you shall Rowe. ¶ [Exit Catesby.] Ff. om. Q₁ Q₂. The rest place it after line 189.
fca191 Now...perceive] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ Now] om. Pope.
fca192 Lord] Ff. William Lo: Qq.
fca193 head, man...do] Qq. head: Something wee will determine Ff.
fca195 Hereford] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Herford Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₇ Q₈. Hertford Q₆. ¶ and the] Qq. and all the Ff.
fca196 stood] Qq. was Ff.
fca197 grace’s] om. Q₇ Q₈.] ¶ hands] Qq. hand Ff.
fca198 all willingness] Q₁. all kindnesse Ff. willingnesse the rest.
fca200 complots] complot Q₄.
fcb001 SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope. ¶ Before...house.] Theobald. ¶ Enter...] Enter a messenger to Lo: Hastings. Qq. Enter a Messenger to the doore of Hastings. Ff. ¶ fcb001: What, ho!] Qq. My lord, Ff.
fcb002 [Within] Theobald. ¶ at the door] Qq. om. Ff.
fcb003 A messenger from the Lord] Qq. One from the Lord Ff. One from Lord Pope. ¶ Enter...] Qq. In Ff after line 5.
fcb004 What is’t] Ff. Whats Qq.
fcb006 thy master] Qq. my Lord Stanley Ff. ¶ these] Q₁ Ff. the the rest. ¶ tedious] teditous Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. ¶ nights] night Q₈.
fcb007 should seem] Qq. appeares Ff. ¶ that] what Rowe (ed. 2).
fcb008 lordship] Qq. selfe Ff.
fcb009 And then?] And then. Qq. What then? Ff.
fcb010, fcb011: And...to-night] Qq. Then certifies your Lordship, that this night He dreamt Ff. ¶ fcb010: word] word, my lord Capell.
fcb011 boar] F₄. boare Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. bore F₁ F₂ F₃. beare the rest. ¶ razed] raste Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. caste Q₅. cast Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. rased off F₁ F₂. raised off F₃ F₄.
fcb012 held] Qq. kept Ff.
fcb013 may be] many be Q₇ Q₈.
fcb016 presently you will] Qq. you will presently Ff.
fcb017 speed] speedy Q₇. ¶ with him toward] Ff. into Qq. with him towards Rowe (ed. 2). hence into Capell.
fcb019 Go, fellow] Good fellow Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcb020 councils] councells Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. counsels Q₇ Q₈. councell F₁ F₂. counsell F₃. councill F₄.
fcb022 servant] Qq. good friend Ff.
fcb025 wanting instance] Q₁. wanting instancie Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. wanting instancy Q₇ Q₈. without instance Ff.
fcb026 he is so fond] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. hee’s so simple Ff. he is fond Q₄.
fcb028 pursues] Ff. pursues us Q₁ Q₂. pursue us Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. persues us Q₇ Q₈.
fcb030 no chase] to chase Q₇ Q₈.
fcb034 My gracious lord, I’ll] Qq. Ile goe, my Lord, and Ff. ¶ [Exit.] om. Q₁ Q₂. ¶ Enter Catesby.] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Enter Catesby to L. Hastings. Qq.
fcb039 ’twill] twill Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. it will Q₁ Q₂. will Ff.
fcb041 How...crown?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ How!] How? Q₁ Q₂ Q₈. How Ff. Who? Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
fcb044 Ere I will] Qq. Before Ile Ff.
fcb046 Ay, on my life] I, on my life Ff. Upon my life, my L. Qq (Lo: Q₁ Q₂).
fcb051 that] this Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcb052 mine enemies] Qq. my adversaries Ff.
fcb058 who] Qq. which Ff.
fcb060–fcb062: I tell...my lord? Hast. Ere] Qq. Well, Catesby, ere Ff. ¶ fcb060: thee] the Q₃ Q₅ Q₆.
fcb062 elder] Qq. older Ff.
fcb063 think] thinkes Q₈. ¶ on it] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. on’t Ff. one it Q₇ Q₈.
fcb066 falls it] it fals Q₈.
fcb068 who] Qq. that Ff.
fcb069 know’st] knowest Q₁ Q₂.
fcb070 and to] Qq F₁. and F₂ F₃ F₄.
fcb072 [Aside] Rowe.
fcb073 it] i Q₃ Q₅.
fcb074 Come on, come on] Ff. What my Lo: Q₁. What my L: the rest. What, my good Lord! Anon. conj.
fcb075 go] goe you Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcb076 morrow; good] morrow, and good Pope.
fcb079, fcb080: My lord...yours] As in Johnson. One line in Qq.
fcb080 you do] Qq. om. Ff.
fcb081 life] Qq. dayes Ff.
fcb082 more...than ’tis] Capell. more...then it is Qq. so...as tis Ff.
fcb083 our state] the state F₃ F₄.
fcb085 at Pomfret] of Pomfret Q₆ Q₇.
fcb086 state was] Edd. states was Qq. states were Ff.
fcb087 they] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. om. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcb088 o’ercast] overcast Q₁ Q₂.
fcb089 stab] Ff. scab Qq.
fcb090 I say] om. Q₄.
fcb091–fcb093: What......beheaded.] Ff. See note (XII).
fcb092 Come......lord?] One line in Pope. Two in Ff. ¶ Wot you] Wot ye Rowe (ed. 1). Wot he Rowe (ed. 2). Wot yet Warburton.
fcb093 talk] F₃ F₄. talkt Q₁ Q₂. talke the rest.
fcb095 hats] Q₁ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. hat the rest.
fcb096 But...away] But come, my lord, away Pope. Come, let us away Capell. ¶ let us] Qq. let’s Ff. ¶ fcb096–fcb098: But...sirrah!] As two lines, ending before...sirrha? in Capell.
fcb097 Enter a Pursuivant.] Ff. Enter Hastings a Pursivant. Qq (Hastin. Q₁, Hast. Q₂). This stage direction follows line 97 in all Quartos but Q₁ and Q₂. ¶ fcb097: Go on...fellow.] Ff. Go you before, Ile follow presently. Qq. ¶ [Exeunt...] Exit L. Standley, and Cat. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. om. Q₁ Q₂. Exit Lord Stanley, and Catesby. Ff. Exit L. Stanley, and Cat. Q₇ Q₈.
fcb098 How now, sirrah!] Ff. Well met Hastings, Qq. Sirrah, how now? Pope.
fcb099 that your lordship please] Ff. that it please your Lo: Q₁ Q₂. that it please your good Lordship the rest.
fcb100 man] Ff. fellow Qq.
fcb101 I met thee] Qq. thou met’st me Ff.
fcb106 e’er] ere F₁ F₂ F₃. e’re F₄. ever Qq.
fcb108 fellow] Ff. Hastings Qq. ¶ there...me] Ff. hold spend thou that Qq. ¶ [Throws...] Ff. He gives... Qq.
fcb109 God save your lordship] Qq. I thank your honour Ff. ¶ [Exit.] Exit Pursuivant. Ff. om. Q₁ Q₂. Exit. Pur. the rest.
fcb110, fcb111: Priest. Well...heart.] Ff. Hast. What sir Iohn you are well met. Qq. ¶ fcb110, fcb112: I am] I’m Pope.
fcb112 I...exercise] Ff. I am beholding to you for your last daies exercise Qq (execise Q₃ Q₄ Q₅).
fcb113 Sabbath] Q₈ F₃ F₄. Sabaoth Q₁ Q₂. Sabboth Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ F₂ Q₇. ¶ [He whispers...] Qq (whis- Q₂). Omitted in Ff. ¶ Here follows ‘Priest. Ile wait upon your Lordship.’ in Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcb114 What......chamberlain?] Ff. How now Lo: Chamberlaine, what talking with a priest, Qq.
fcb116 shriving] striving Q₇ Q₈.
fcb118 Those] Qq. The Ff.
fcb119 toward] Ff. to Qq. ¶ Tower?] Ff. tower my Lord? Qq.
fcb120 my lord] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ shall not stay] Qq. cannot stay there Ff.
fcb122 ’Tis] Qq. Nay Ff.
fcb123 [Aside] Rowe. ¶ know’st] knowest Q₁ Q₂ Q₇ Q₈. knowh Q₆.
fcb124 Come.... Hast. I’ll...lordship.] Ff. Come shall we go along? Qq. ¶ [Exeunt.] om. Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcc001 SCENE III.] SCENE IV. Pope. ¶ Pomfret Castle.] Theobald. Pomfret. Before the Castle. Capell. ¶ Enter...] Enter Sir Richard Ratliffe, with the Lo: Rivers, Gray, and Vaughan, prisoners. Qq. Enter Sir Richard Ratcliffe, with Halberds, carrying the Nobles to death at Pomfret. Ff. ¶ fcc001: Rat. Come......prisoners.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fcc005 keep] Qq. bless Ff.
fcc007, fcc008: Vaugh. You...Rat. Dispatch...out] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcc010 ominous] dominious Q₂ Q₃. ominious Q₄ Q₅.
fcc013 seat] Ff. soule Qq. soile Capell conj.
fcc014 give thee up...blood] Q₇ Q₈. give thee up...blouds Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. give to thee...blood Ff.
fcc015 Margaret’s...is] Margarts...if Q₆. ¶ Here follows: When she exclaim’d on Hastings, you, and I, in Ff. Omitted in Qq. I, is changed to me, Collier (Collier MS.).
fcc017 Then......Buckingham,] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ fcc017, fcc018: Hastings...Richard] Qq. Richard...Hastings Ff. ¶ fcc017: then cursed she Buckingham] curs’d she Buckingham Pope.
fcc018 cursed] cus’d F₂.
fcc019 prayers] Qq. prayer Ff.
fcc020 And] As F₄. ¶ sons] F₃ F₄. sonnes F₁ F₂. sonne Qq.
fcc021 blood] Ff. blouds Qq.
fcc023 Make......expiate.] F₁. Come, come, dispatch, the limit of your lives is out. Qq (linea Q₁. lines Q₂). Make...now expir’d F₂ F₃ F₄. Make......expirate. Singer (Steevens conj.). Make haste, the hour of death is:—expiate. Jackson conj. Make...expedite. Collier conj.
fcc024 all] Qq. here Ff.
fcc025 And take our leave, until we meet] Qq (leaves Q₆ Q₇ Q₈). Farewell, untill we meet againe Ff.
fcd001 SCENE IV.] SCENE V. Pope. ¶ The Tower of London.] The Tower. Pope. ¶ Enter...others, and take their seats at a table.] Enter...others, at a Table. Ff. Enter the Lords to Councell. Qq (counsell Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈). ¶ fcd001: My lords, at once] Qq. Now Noble Peeres F₁. Now Noble Peere F₂. Now Noble Peers F₃ F₄.
fcd003 speak] Ff. say Qq. ¶ the] Ff. this Qq.
fcd004 Are...fitting] Qq. Is...ready Ff. ¶ that] Qq. the Ff.
fcd005 It is, and wants but] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. It is, and let but Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. It is, and lack but Q₄. It is, and yet in Q₈. They are, and want but Rowe. They are, and wants but Capell. See note (XIII).
fcd006 Ely.] Riu. Q₁ Q₂. Bish. the rest. ¶ judge...day] Ff. guesse...time Qq.
fcd009 Your...think] Ff. Why you my Lo: me thinkes you Qq.
fcd010 Who...lord!] Qq. Omitted in Ff. See note (XIV).
fcd018 gracious] Ff. graces Qq.
fcd019 my noble lords] Singer. my noble Lo: Q₁ Q₂. my L. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. my Lord Q₈. my honourable Lords F₁. my honourable Lord F₂ F₃ F₄. my noble Lord Pope.
fcd021 he’ll...gentle] Ff. he will...gentle Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. he will...good Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ Enter G.] Ff. En. Glo. Qq (after line 22).
fcd022 Now in good] Qq. In happie Ff.
fcd023 lords] Ff. L. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. lord Q₈.
fcd024 a sleeper] a sleepe Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ I hope] Q₁. I trust Ff. now I hope the rest.
fcd025 designs] Qq. designe Ff.
fcd027 not you] Qq. you not Ff. ¶ your cue] your kew Qq. your Q. Ff.
fcd028 had] Ff. had now Qq. ¶ your] you Q₃. ¶ fcd028, fcd029: part,—...voice,—] Capell. part:...voice Qq. part;...voice, Ff.
fcd029 for] from Q₇ Q₈.
fcd030 Than] Q₁ F₄. Then the rest.
fcd032, fcd033: Hast. I... Glou. My... Ely. My lord? Glou. When] Qq. My Lord of Ely, when Ff.
fcd034 your] you Q₈.
fcd035 do] now Q₄.
fcd036 Marry...heart.] Ff. I go my Lord. Qq. ¶ [Exit.] Exit Bishop. Ff. om. Qq.
fcd037 of] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ [Drawing him aside.] Capell.
fcd039 testy] resty Q₄.
fcd040 As] Qq. That Ff. ¶ ere] eare Q₁. are Q₅.
fcd041 son] Qq. child Ff. ¶ worshipful] Qq. worshipfully Ff.
fcd043 you...you.] Qq. your selfe a while, Ile goe with you. Ff. ¶ [Exit...] Ex. Gl. Qq. Exeunt. Ff.
fcd045 mine opinion] Qq. my judgement Ff. ¶ sudden] Ff. sodaine Q₁. soone the rest.
fcd047 Re-enter...] Enter.... Qq Ff.
fcd048, fcd049: As prose, Edd. One line in Qq. Two, the first ending Gloster? in Ff. ¶ fcd048: protector] Qq. the Duke of Gloster Ff. ¶ sent] sent straitway Hanmer.
fcd049 these] these same Capell, ending line 48 protector? I have sent.
fcd050 to-day] to day Qq. this morning Ff.
fcd052 he doth bid...such a] Qq. that he bids...such Ff.
fcd053 there’s never] Ff. there is never Qq. there’s ne’er Pope.
fcd054 That can less] That can lesse Q₈. That can lesser Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. Can lesser Ff.
fcd057 likelihood] Qq. livelihood Ff.
fcd058 he is] he’s Pope.
fcd059 were he, he had] Ff. if he were, he would have Qq. ¶ shown] shewde Q₇ Q₈. ¶ looks] Q₁ Ff. face the rest.
fcd060 Der. I pray...say.] Dar. I pray...say. Qq. Omitted in Ff. Stan. Ay, pray...say. Staunton. ¶ Re-enter Gloucester...] Enter Glocester (or Glo.) Qq. Enter Richard... Ff.
fcd061 tell me what they] Ff. what doe they Qq.
fcd066 noble] Qq. princely Ff.
fcd067 offenders,...be:] offenders. Whosoe’er they be, Johnson. ¶ whatsoever] Qq. whosoe’re Ff.
fcd069 this ill] Qq. their evill Ff.
fcd070 See] Qq. Looke Ff.
fcd071 wither’d] Ff. withered Qq.
fcd072 And this is] Ff. This is that Qq.
fcd073 harlot strumpet] Qq. harlot, strumpet Ff.
fcd074 witchcraft] Q₁ Ff Q₇ Q₈. witchcrafts the rest.
fcd075 thing] Qq. deed Ff. ¶ gracious] Qq. noble Ff. ¶ lord,—] lord— Rowe. Lo: or Lord. Qq. Lord. Ff.
fcd077 Tellest thou me] Telst thou me Qq. Talk’st thou to me Ff. ¶ ‘ifs’] Ifts F₂.
fcd078–fcd080: See note (XV).
fcd081 rise] Ff. come Qq. ¶ [Exeunt...] Exeunt. Ff (after line 80, F₁ F₂). Manet Lovell and Ratcliffe, with the Lord Hastings. Ff. (Manent F₂ F₄). Exeunt. manet Cat. with Ha. Qq. Exeunt. Manent Lovel and Catesby, with the lord Hastings. Theobald.
fcd084 raze his helm] race his helme Qq. rowse our Helmes Ff. rase our helms Rowe.
fcd085 But I disdain’d...did scorn] Qq. And I did scorne...disdaine Ff.
fcd087 startled] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. started Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fcd089 want] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. need Ff. warrant Q₇ Q₈.
fcd091 ’twere...at] Qq. too...how Ff.
fcd092 How they] Qq. To-day Ff.
fcd095 lighted] lightened Q₆ Q₇. lightned Q₈.
fcd096 Rat.] Ra. Ff. Cat. Qq. ¶ Dispatch, my lord] Qq. Come, come, dispatch Ff.
fcd098 grace of mortal] Ff. state of worldly Qq.
fcd099 than the] then for the Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ God] Ff. heaven Qq.
fcd100 hopes] Qq. hope Ff. ¶ air] F₄. aire Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ F₃. aier Q₄. ayre F₁ F₂. the aire Q₇. the ayre Q₈. ¶ fair] Qq. good Ff. ¶ looks] looke Q₄.
fcd104–fcd107: Lov. Come......upon.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcd109 that] Qq. who Ff.
fce001 SCENE V.] SCENE VI. Pope. ¶ The Tower-walls.] Theobald. ¶ Enter Gloucester...] Enter Richard... Ff. Enter Duke of Glocester and Buckingham in armour. Qq. ¶ rotten armour,] rusty armour, Rowe. ¶ fce001: Come...colour] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fce002 Murder] Smother quoted in Steevens’s reprint.
fce003 begin again] Qq. againe begin Ff.
fce004 wert] Qq. were Ff. ¶ distraught] destraught Q₆ Q₇. destract Q₈.
fce005 Tut, I can] Ff. Tut feare not me. I can Qq. Tut, fear not me, my lord of Gloucester, I Can Anon. conj.
fce007 Tremble...straw] Ff. Omitted in Qq. Misplaced, Capell conj.
fce008, fce009: suspicion: ghastly looks Are] suspition, gastly lookes Are Qq F₁ F₄. suspition, gastly lookes: Are F₂ F₃.
fce010–fce021: And both...Lovel.] Ff. See note (XVI).
fce013 Enter the Mayor...] F₃ F₄. Enter the Maior.... F₁. Enter the Major... F₂. Enter Maior. Qq. Enter the Lord Mayor, attended. Theobald.
fce014 mayor] Major F₂.
fce016 Hark!] Hark, hark! Capell.
fce017 Catesby] Some one Hanmer.
fce018 Lord mayor...sent—] Rowe. Lord maior...sent. Ff. The reason we have sent for you. Qq. Lord mayor, the reason...you,— Capell.
fce019 thee] Qq F₁. three F₂. there F₃ F₄.
fce020 innocency] innocence Q₁. ¶ and guard] Ff. om. Qq.
fce021 Enter...] Ff (after line 20). ¶ head.] head on a spear Collier MS.
fce022 Lov.] Lovell. Ff. Cat. Qq.
fce025 harmless] harmless’t Steevens. ¶ creature] Ff. man Qq.
fce026 this] Qq. the Ff. ¶ Christian] Here follows Looke ye my Lo: Maior as a separate line in Qq.
fce027 Made] I made Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fce032 lived] liv’d Ff. laid Qq (layd Q₈). ¶ suspect] Qq. suspects Ff.
fce033, fce034: traitor That ever lived.] traitor— Pope. traitor...liv’d.—Look yon, my lord mayor, Capell.
fce035 imagine] Ff. have imagined Qq, reading That ever...imagined as one line.
fce036 Were’t] wer’t F₃ F₄. wert the rest. ¶ that] Ff. om. Qq, reading as one line or...preservation.
fce037 it you, the] it you? The Qq. it, that the Ff.
fce038 This day had] Ff. Had this day Qq.
fce040 What, had he so?] Qq. Had he done so? Ff. Ay, had he so? Capell conj.
fce041 you] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. ye the rest.
fce042 would] should Q₇ Q₈. ¶ form] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. course the rest.
fce043 to the] Qq. in the Ff.
fce044 extreme] very extreame Q₄.
fce046 this] that Q₄. ¶ execution?] execution. Q₁ Ff.
fce048 you, my good lords] you my good Lords Q₁ Q₄ Qq. you my good Lo: Q₂. you my good L. Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. your good Graces Ff.
fce050, fce051: I never...Shore] As in Qq. Given to ‘Buck.’ in Ff.
fce052 Glou.] Glo. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Dut. Q₁ Q₂. Clo. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Continued to ‘Buck.’ in Ff. ¶ not we] Qq. we not Ff.
fce053 death] Qq. end Ff.
fce054 loving] Ff. longing Qq.
fce055 Somewhat......meaning] Qq. Something...meanings Ff. Something...meaning Pope. ¶ have] hath Pope.
fce056 we] Qq. I Ff. ¶ heard] hear Keightley conj.
fce058 treason] Qq. treasons Ff.
fce060 haply] Ff. happily Qq.
fce061 Misconstrue] Q₆ F₄. Misconster Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂ F₃. Misconsture Q₇ Q₈.
fce062 But] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. The rest omit. Tut Hanmer. ¶ grace’s] gracious Q₇ Q₈. ¶ word] Qq. words Ff.
fce063 as I] as if I Q₈. ¶ and heard] Ff. or heard Qq.
fce064 doubt you not] Qq. doe not doubt Ff.
fce065 our] Ff. your Qq.
fce066 cause] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. ease Q₆. case Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fce067 wish’d] wish Q₆ Q₇.
fce068 carping censures of the] Qq. censures of the carping Ff. ¶ world] word Q₃.
fce069 But] Qq. Which Ff. ¶ come] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. came the rest. ¶ too late of] too late for Capell. ¶ intents] Qq. intent Ff.
fce070, fce071: Yet...farewell] Ff. Yet witnesse what we did intend, and so my Lord adue Qq.
fce072 Go] om. Qq.
fce074 meet’st advantage] meetst advantage Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. meetest advantage Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. meetest vantage Ff. meerest vantage Rowe (ed. 2).
fce081 bestial] beastly Q₈.
fce082 stretched to] Qq. stretchtvnto Ff. ¶ daughters] daughter F₂.
fce083 lustful] Qq. raging Ff. ranging Pope.
fce084 listed] Qq. lusted Ff. ¶ his prey] Qq. a prey Ff.
fce087 unsatiate] Qq. insatiate Ff.
fce088 wars] wares Q₆.
fce089 just] Qq. true Ff.
fce093 But] Qq. Yet Ff. ¶ ’twere] Ff. it were Qq. ¶ far] a farre Q₄.
fce094 you know, my lord] Qq. my lord, you know Ff. ¶ my mother] my brother Q₅ Q₇ Q₈. me brother Q₆.
fce095 Fear] Qq. Doubt Ff.
fce097 and...adieu] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fce101, fce102: I go...affords] Ff. About three or foure a clocke looke to heare What news Guildhall affordeth, and so my Lord farewell. Qq.
fce102 [Exit] Exit (or Ex.) Buc. Qq. Exit Buckingham. Ff. Exe. Buck. and Catesby severally. Pope.
fce103–fce105: Go...Castle] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fce104 [To Cate.] Capell. ¶ Penker] Capell. Peuker F₁. Reuker F₂. Beuker F₃ F₄.
fce105 [Exeunt...] Exit. Ff. Exeunt Lov. and Cates. severally. Theobald.
fce106 in] Qq. goe Ff.
fce108 notice] Qq. order Ff. ¶ manner of person] manner person Q₃ Q₄ Ff. sort of person Pope. man or person Steevens conj.
fce109 At any time have] Qq. Have any time Ff. ¶ [Exit.] Qq F₃ F₄. Exeunt. F₁ F₂.
fcf001 SCENE VI.] Capell. The Folios. Pope &c. continue the scene. ¶ The same. A street.] Capell. ¶ with...hand.] Qq. om. Ff. ¶ fcf001: This] Qq. Here Ff.
fcf003 this day] Qq. to day Ff. ¶ o’er] over Qq.
fcf005 I spent] Qq. I have spent Ff. I’ve spent Pope.
fcf006 brought] Qq. sent Ff.
fcf007 precedent] Ff. president Qq.
fcf008 lived Lord Hastings] Qq. Hastings liv’d Ff.
fcf010 Why who’s] Qq (whoes Q₁). who is Ff, ending lines 10, 11 at while...device?
fcf011 seeth not] Edd. sees not Qq. cannot see Ff. ¶ palpable] palpaple Q₃. palpapale Q₄.
fcf012 who’s] Q₈. whoes Q₁. whose Q₂. who Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇. ¶ blind] Qq. bold Ff. ¶ but] that Q₈.
fcf013 nought] naught Q₁ Q₂.
fcf014 bad] Qq. ill Ff. ¶ dealing] dealings Q₄. ¶ in] or Collier MS.
fcg001 SCENE VII.] Pope. The Folios continue the scene. ¶ Baynard’s Castle.] Theobald. Enter...] Ff. Enter Gloster at one dore, Buckingham at another. Qq. ¶ fcg001: my lord] Qq. how now Ff. ¶ say] sayes Q₇ Q₈.
fcg003 and speak] Qq. say Ff.
fcg005, fcg006: his...France] Ff. Omitted in Qq, reading as one line I did...desires.
fcg007 The] Th’ Ff. with the Qq. ¶ insatiate] Qq. unsatiate Ff. ¶ desires] Qq. desire Ff.
fcg008 And...wives] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcg011 And...duke] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ his resemblance] disresemblance Collier MS.
fcg014 your] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. one Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. om. Q₇ Q₈.
fcg015 open] upon Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ victories] victorie Q₄.
fcg018 the purpose] Qq. your purpose Ff.
fcg020 mine] Q₁ Q₂. my the rest. ¶ grew] Qq. drew Ff. ¶ to an end] Q₁ Q₂. to end Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. toward end Ff.
fcg021 bid] bad Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ did love] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. loves the rest.
fcg023 Ah! and] A, and Qq (A and Q₁). And Ff.
fcg024 they...word] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcg025 statuas] Steevens (Reed). statues Qq Ff. ¶ breathing] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. breathlesse the rest. unbreathing Rowe.
fcg026 Gazed] Gazde Qq. Star’d Ff.
fcg028 meant] meanes Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg029 wont] Qq. used Ff.
fcg030 spoke to] spoken unto Keightley conj. ¶ but] except Pope. ¶ the] their own Capell.
fcg033 spake] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₇ Q₈. speake Q₆. spoke Ff.
fcg035 the lower end of the] Qq. lower end of the Ff. lower end o’ th’ Pope. lower end the Capell.
fcg037 And...few] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcg038 gentle] Ff. loving Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. noble Q₇ Q₈.
fcg039 loving] Qq. chearefull Ff.
fcg040 wisdoms] wisedomes Q₁ Q₂. wisedome Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. wisdome F₁ F₂ Q₈ F₃. wisdom F₄. ¶ love] loves Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
fcg041 even here] Ff. so Qq.
fcg042 What...speak!] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ they! would they] they, they would Hanmer.
fcg043 Buck. No...lord] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fcg045 at hand] om. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ intend] Ff. and intend Qq. pretend Pope. ¶ some] somes Q₆.
fcg046 Be...suit] Ff. Be not spoken withall, but with mighty sute Qq.
fcg048 betwixt] Qq. betweene Ff.
fcg049 build] Qq. make Ff.
fcg050 And be not easily] Ff. Be not easily Q₁. Be not easie the rest. ¶ request] Qq. requests Ff.
fcg051 still...take it] Ff. say no, but take it Qq. say no, and no, but take it Anon. conj.
fcg052 I go; and if you plead] Ff. Feare not me, if than canst pleade Qq.
fcg053 can...thee] must say nay to them Johnson conj. ¶ myself,] my selfe? Q₁.
fcg054 we’ll] weele Qq. we Ff.
fcg055 Go, go...knocks] Ff. You shal see what I can do, get you up to the leads. Qq (get up Q₈). ¶ [Exit Gloucester.] Exit. or Ex. Qq. om. Ff. ¶ Enter...] Ff. om. Qq.
fcg056 Welcome, my lord] Ff. Now my Lord Maior Qq (L. Q₁). ¶ I dance] you dance Q₇ Q₈.
fcg057 spoke] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. spoken the rest.
fcg058, fcg059: Here...says he?] Qq (in one line). Now Catesby, what sayes your Lord to my request? Ff. Catesby, what...request? Pope.
fcg059 My Lord, he...grace] Qq. He doth intreat your grace, my noble lord Ff.
fcg061 with two right] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. with two Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. and two Q₇ Q₈ and two right quoted in Steevens’s reprint. but with two Hanmer.
fcg063 suite] sute Qq. suites Ff.
fcg065 thy lord again] Qq. the gracious duke Ff.
fcg066 citizens] Qq. aldermen Ff.
fcg067 designs and matters] Qq. designes, in matter Ff.
fcg068 than] them then Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg070 I’ll...lord] Qq. He signifie so much unto him straight Ff. ¶ tell] om. Q₆.
fcg072 lolling] Pope. lulling Qq Ff. ¶ day-bed] love-bed Ff.
fcg078 gracious] Qq. vertuous Ff.
fcg079 himself] Qq. his grace Ff. ¶ thereof] Ff. thereon Qq.
fcg080 sure] sore Singer (Collier MS.). ¶ ne’er] Capell. never Qq. not Ff.
fcg081 forbid] Qq. defend Ff. shield Pope.
fcg082 I fear he will] Qq. I feare he will: here Catesby comes againe Ff.¶ Re-enter...] Enter... Qq Ff.
fcg083 How now...your lord?] Qq. Now Catesby, what sayes his grace? Ff. Catesby, what...grace? Pope. ¶ My lord] Qq. om. Ff.
fcg085 speak with] Qq. come to Ff. ¶ fcg085, fcg086: him,...before:] Ff. him,...before, Qq. him:...before, Collier.
fcg087 My lord, he fears] Qq. He feares, my lord Ff.
fcg090 I come...to him] Qq. we come to him in perfit love Ff (perfect F₃ F₄). ¶ perfect] perfest Q₅.
fcg091 [Exit Catesby.] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. Exit. Ff. om. Q₇ Q₈.
fcg093 their] there Q₄. ¶ hard] Qq. much Ff. ¶ thence] hence Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg094 Enter Gloucester...Bishops.] Enter Richard...Bishops. Ff. Enter Rich. with two Bishops aloft. Qq (a loste. Q₁. and two... Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈). ¶ Catesby returns] Theobald. om. Qq Ff. Catesby again, below. Capell.
fcg095 SCENE VIII. Pope. ¶ he stands between] Qq. his grace stands, tweene Ff.
fcg098, fcg099: And see...man] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcg099 ornaments] Ff. ornament Dyce.
fcg101 ears] eares Qq. eare F₁ F₂. ear F₃ F₄. ¶ our] Q₁ Ff. my the rest. ¶ request] Qq. requests Ff.
fcg105 I......pardon] Qq. I doe beseech your grace to pardon Ff.
fcg106 my God] Qq F₁. God F₂. th’ high God F₃ F₄.
fcg107 Neglect] Qq. Deferr’d Ff.
fcg112 seems] seeme Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ eyes] Qq. eye Ff.
fcg114 You...grace] One line in Qq; two in Ff. ¶ might] Ff. om. Qq.
fcg115 At] Qq. On Ff. ¶ that] Qq. your Ff.
fcg117 Then know] Qq. Know then Ff.
fcg119 scepter’d] scepter Q₇ Q₈.
fcg120 Your...birth] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ due] F₃ F₄. deaw F₁ F₂.
fcg123 Whilst] Qq. Whiles Ff. While Pope. ¶ your] you Q₂.
fcg124 our] your Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg125 This] Qq. The Ff. ¶ her] Q₁ Q₂. his the rest.
fcg126 Her] Qq. His Ff. ¶ scars] Q₁ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. stars Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. skarres F₁ F₂. skarrs F₃. skars F₄.
fcg127 Her royal...plants] Pope. His royal...plants Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcg128 shoulder’d] shouldred Qq Ff. smoulder’d Johnson conj. smother’d Mason conj. shoaled Becket conj. founder’d Anon. conj. ¶ in the] into th’ Hanmer. ¶ the] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. this Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg129 blind......dark] Qq. darke...deepe Ff.
fcg130 recure] recover Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg131 you] yon Q₂. ¶ fcg131, fcg132: the charge......land] Ff. the soveraingtie thereof Qq, reading Your...thereof as one line.
fcg134 Or] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Nor the rest.
fcg138 very worshipful and loving] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. worshipfull and very loving the rest.
fcg140 suit] sute Qq. cause Ff.
fcg141 know not whether] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. know not whither Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. cannot tell, if Ff.
fcg143 fitteth] fittest Q₇. fits Q₈.
fcg144–153: If not...answer you.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ fcg144: If, not] If not F₁. For not F₂ F₃ F₄.
fcg152 not to] Ff. not Pope.
fcg155 shuns] shames S. Walker conj.
fcg158 my ripe] Q₁. the ripe Ff. my right the rest. ¶ by birth] Qq. of birth Ff.
fcg161 As I had] Qq. That I would Ff.
fcg165 thanked, there’s] Qq. thank’d, there is Ff. ¶ of me] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. for me the rest.
fcg166 if need were] Qq. were there need Ff.
fcg170 no doubt, us] Qq F₁. us (no doubt) F₂ F₃ F₄. us doubtless Pope.
fcg171 what] Qq. that Ff. ¶ would lay] would Q₇ Q₈.
fcg179 he was] Qq. was he Ff. ¶ contract] contracted Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg180 that] Qq. his Ff.
fcg181 afterward] afterwards Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ betroth’d] Ff. betrothed Qq.
fcg183 put by] Qq. put off Ff.
fcg184 of...children] Q₁. of many children Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. to a many sonnes Ff.
fcg187 prize] Q₄ Ff. price Q₇ Q₈. prise the rest. ¶ lustful] Qq. wanton Ff.
fcg188 Seduced] Seduce Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ all his thoughts] Qq. his degree Ff.
fcg189 and loath’d] and loathed Q₆. loathed Q₇ Q₈.
fcg190 his] this Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg191 term] Qq. call Ff.
fcg192 I] om. Q₆ Q₇.
fcg193 to some] of some F₃ F₄.
fcg195 your] you F₃.
fcg196 proffer’d] Ff. proffered Qq.
fcg198 forth......ancestry] Ff. out your royall stocke Qq.
fcg199 abusing times] Ff. abusing time Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. a busing time Q₆. a busie time Q₇. a busy time Q₈.
fcg200 true-derived] Theobald. true derived Qq Ff. true, derived Pope.
fcg202 Buck. Refuse......love] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fcg204 would] should Q₇ Q₈. ¶ these cares] Q₁. those cares Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. this care Ff.
fcg205 majesty] Ff. dignitie Qq.
fcg212 kin] Qq. kindred Ff.
fcg213 egally] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁. egallie Q₁. equally Q₇ F₂ Q₈ F₃ F₄.
fcg214 whether] Qq. know, where Ff. know, whe’r Theobald. ¶ accept] except Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fcg217 downfall] downfull Q₂.
fcg218 we] I Q₇ Q₈.
fcg219 Come...I’ll] Qq. Come, citizens, we will Ff. ’Zounds, citizens, we will Collier MS.
fcg220 O,...Buckingham.] Qq. Omitted in Ff. ¶ [Exit...Citizens.] Capell. Exeunt. Ff. om. Qq.
fcg221 Call...accept] Qq. Call him againe, sweet Prince, accept Ff. Call them again, sweet Prince, accept Pope.
fcg222 Another] Ano. Qq. Continued to Catesby in Ff. ¶ Do...it] Qq. If you deny them, all the land will rue it. Ff. ¶ rue it] rue’t S. Walker conj.
fcg223 Would...care?] Qq. Will...cares? Ff.
fcg224 Well] Qq. om. Ff. ¶ them] him Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ [Exit Catesby. Theobald. ¶ stone] Pope. stones Qq Ff.
fcg225 entreat] intreates Q₁ Q₂. intreats Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. entreaties Ff. intents Q₈.
fcg226 Re-enter...] Enter... Ff. om. Qq.
fcg227 you] Qq. om. Ff.
fcg228 you] your Q₃.
fcg229 her] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. the the rest. ¶ whether] where F₁. whe’r Steevens.
fcg231 foul-faced] foule-fac’t Q₁. soule-fac’t Q₂. so foule fac’t Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. foule-fac’d F₁ F₂. four-fac’d F₃. foul-fac’d F₄.
fcg234 blots] plots Q₈.
fcg235 he knows] Qq. doth know Ff.
fcg236 thereof] Qq. of this Ff.
fcg239 this] the Q₄. ¶ kingly] Qq. royall Ff.
fcg240 Richard] Qq. King Richard Ff. great Richard Anon. conj. ¶ royal] worthie Ff.
fcg241 May. and Cit.] Mai. Qq. All. Ff.
fcg242 will] Qq. may Ff.
fcg243 since] Qq. for Ff.
fcg245 And so...leave] Omitted in Qq.
fcg246 task] Qq. worke Ff. ¶ [To the Clergymen. Johnson.
fcg247 good cousin] Qq. my cousins Ff. my cousin Pope. ¶ [Exeunt.] om. Q₂.
fda001 ACT IV. SCENE I.] ACT. III. SCENE VIII. Rann (Johnson conj.). ¶ Before the Tower.] Theobald. The Tower. Pope. ¶ Enter...] Malone (after Theobald). Enter Quee. mother, Duchesse of Yorke, Marques Dorset, at one doore, Duchesse of Glocest. at another doore. Qq. Enter the Queene, Anne Duchesse of Gloucester, the Duchesse of Yorke, and Marquesse Dorset. Ff. ¶ fda001: Who......Plantagenet.] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fda002–fda006: Led...day!] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fda004 princes] Theobald. prince Qq Ff.
fda005, fda006: As in Pope. Line 5 ends at happie in Ff.
fda007 As...away?] Ff. Sister well met, whether awaie so fast? Qq (whither Q₅ Q₆ Q₇).
fda008 Anne.] Ff. Duch. Q₁. Du. Q₂. Dut. Glo. the rest.
fda010 gentle] Ff. tender Qq.
fda012 Enter Brakenbury] Capell. Enter Lieutenant. Q₁ Q₂. Enter the Lieutenant of the Tower. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Enter the Lieutenant. Ff.
fda014 How...York?] Ff. How fares the Prince? Qq.
fda015 Right......patience] Ff. Well madam, and in health, but by your leave Qq.
fda016 them] Ff. him Qq.
fda017 straitly] Qq. strictly Ff. ¶ the] to the Q₇ Q₈.
fda018 why, who’s that?] Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. whie, whose that? Q₁ Q₂. why who is that? Q₈. who’s that? Ff.
fda019 I...mercy:] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fda021 he] be F₂. ¶ bounds] bonds Q₇ Q₈. ¶ betwixt] Qq. betweene Ff. ¶ their] there Q₇ Q₈.
fda022 should keep] Qq. shall barre Ff.
fda023 Duch. I am...] Du. yor. I am... Q₁. Duch Yorke. I am... Ff. Continued to the Queen in the rest. ¶ their father’s mother; I] Ff. their fathers, mother, I Q₁. their father, mother, and Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. theirs father mother and Q₄.
fda025 Then bring...sights] Ff. Then feare not thou Qq.
fda027, fda028: No,...me] Ff. I doe beseech your graces all to pardon me: I am bound by oath, I may not doe it. Qq.
fda028 I am] I’m Pope. ¶ [Exit.] Exit Lieutenant. Ff. om. Qq. ¶ Enter Lord Stanley.] Qq. Enter Stanley. Ff.
fda029 you, ladies] your ladies Q₆ Q₇. ¶ one] Ff. an Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. at an Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fda030 mother,] Ff. mother: Qq.
fda031 reverend] Ff Q₈. reverente Q₁. reverent the rest. ¶ on] one Q₇ Q₈.
fda032 [To Anne] Capell. ¶ straight] Ff. go with me Qq.
fda034 O] Qq. Ah Ff. ¶ in sunder] Qq. asunder Ff. ¶ fda034–fda036: Arranged as in Qq. The lines end asunder...beat...newes, in Ff.
fda035 I swoon] Ff. sound Q₂ Q₄. I sound the rest.
fda036 dead-killing] Ff. dead killing Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. dead liking Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. dead-striking Capell conj.
fda037 Anne. Despiteful...news!] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fda038 Be of good cheer: mother,] Ff. Madam, have comfort, Qq.
fda039 hence] Qq. gone Ff.
fda040 dog] dogge Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. dogges F₁ F₂. dogs Q₈ F₃ F₄. ¶ the heels] Qq. thy heeles Ff.
fda041 ominous] ominious Q₅. ¶ children] her children Collier MS.
fda042 outstrip] overstrip Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fda043 reach] race Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fda047 Nor] Not Q₈.
fda049 of the hours] Ff. of the time Qq (af Q₇).
fda050 my] me Q₆.
fda051 To meet...you] Qq. In your behalfe, to meet you on the way: Ff.
fda052 ta’en] tane Q₁. ta’ne Ff. taken the rest. ¶ delay] delays Capell conj.
fda053 ill-dispersing] Theobald. ill dispersing Qq Ff.
fda055 hast] hath Q₇. ¶ hatch’d] hatch Q₁.
fda057 Come, madam, come] Ff. Come madam Qq. ¶ Come...sent] Come, madam; I...sent for you. Capell conj. ¶ sent] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. sent for the rest.
fda058 Anne.] Ff. Duch. Qq. ¶ in] Qq. with Ff.
fda059 I would] Qq. O would Ff. ¶ inclusive] idclusive Q₅.
fda061 brain] Qq. braines Ff.
fda062 venom] Ff. poison Qq.
fda064 Go, go] Ff. Alas Qq. ¶ thy] the Q₂.
fda066 why?] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fda067 as] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ fda067, fda070: follow’d] Ff. followed Qq. ¶ fda067: corse] Ff. course Qq.
fda068 scarce......well] the blood was scarse Q₇ Q₈.
fda070 dead] Qq. deare Ff. ¶ which] whom Capell conj.
fda075 so mad—] so—made Ferrers conj. ¶ mad] Ff. madde Q₁ Q₂. badde Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. bad Q₈.
fda076, fda077: As...life...As] More...life...Than Ff. As...death...As Qq.
fda078 ere] Ff. eare Q₁. even the rest.
fda079 Even...space] Qq. Within so small a time Ff.
fda080 Grossly] Ff. Grosselie Q₁. Crosselie Q₂. Crosly the rest.
fda081 subject] Ff Q₈. subiecte Q₁. subiectes Q₂. subsects Q₃. subiects Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. ¶ my] mine Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fda082 ever since] Qq. hitherto Ff. ¶ kept] Qq. held Ff. ¶ my] mine Ff Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ rest] Ff. sleepe Qq (steepe Q₅).
fda084 Have I enjoy’d] Qq. Did I enjoy Ff. ¶ dew] Q₁ Q₂ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. deaw Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂.
fda085 But...dreams] Qq. But with his timorous dreams was still awak’d Ff.
fda087 no doubt] Q₁ Ff. Omitted by the rest.
fda088 Poor heart,...complaining.] Ff. Alas poore soule, I pitie thy complaints. Qq.
fda089 from] Qq. with Ff.
fda090 Q. Eliz.] Qu. Qq. Dors. Ff.
fda091 that] Ff. thou Qq.
fda092–fda094: Go thou] Go F₂ F₃. See note (XVII).
fda093 guard] Qq. tend Ff.
fda094 and] Ff. om. Qq.
fda096 odd] olde Q₅. old Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fda097 wreck’d] wrackt Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. wrack’d F₄. wreak’d or rack’d Anon. conj. ¶ teen] anguish Pope.
fda098–fda104: Q. Eliz. Stay...farewell.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ fda098: Stay, yet] Ff. Stay yet; Capell.
fda102, fda103: [To the Lieutenant. Johnson conj.
fda104 sorrow bids] Rowe. sorrowes bids F₁ F₂. sorrows bids F₃. sorrows bid F₄.
fdb001 London. The palace.] The Court. Pope. The same. A Room of State in the Palace. Capell. ¶ Sennet.] Sound a Sennet. F₁. Sound a Sonnet. F₂ F₃ F₄. The Trumpets sound. Qq. ¶ Enter R....crowned,] Enter R. crownd, Qq. Enter R. in pompe, Ff. Richard upon his Throne, Capell. ¶ a Page, and others.] Capell. with other Nobles. Qq. Ratcliffe, Lovel. Ff.
fdb002 Buck. My gracious sovereign?] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdb003 [Here...throne.] Qq. Sound. Ff. om. Rowe. ¶ fdb003, fdb004: Give...seated.] As in Qq. As three lines ending hand...assistance,...seated: in Ff.
fdb005 honours] Qq. glories Ff.
fdb007 for] for for Q₂. ¶ may they] Qq. let them Ff.
fdb008 O] Qq. Ah Ff. ¶ play] ply Warburton. apply Heath conj. ¶ do I] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. I do the rest.
fdb010 say] Qq. speake Ff.
fdb011 loving lord] Ff. gracious soueraigne Qq.
fdb013 renowned] renowmed Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. ¶ liege] Qq. lord Ff.
fdb014 king] a King Pope.
fdb016 live! ‘True...] live—true... Theobald. live true... Qq Ff. live, True Rowe (ed. 1).
fdb017 wert] Qq. wast Ff.
fdb020 sayest thou?] saist thou? Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. saiest thou? Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. say’st thou now? Ff.
fdb022 freezeth] Qq. freezes Ff.
fdb024 some...lord] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. some litle breath, some pawse, deare Lord Ff. some breath, my lord. Q₇ Q₈. some breath, some little pause, dear lord Pope.
fdb025 herein] Qq. in this Ff.
fdb026 your grace immediately] Qq. you herein presently Ff. ¶ [Exit.] Q₁. Exit Buck. Ff. The rest omit.
fdb027 [Aside to a stander by.] Capell. Aside. Hanmer. ¶ bites the] gnawes his Ff. bites his Q₇ Q₈.
fdb028 [Descends from his throne. Malone. ¶ iron-witted] iron wittie Q₇. iron witty Q₈.
fdb031, fdb032: High-reaching...Boy] Ff. Boy, high reaching... Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. Boy. High reaching... Q₈.
fdb033 Page.] Ff. Boy. Qq. ¶ My lord] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Lord the rest.
fdb035 Would] Qq. Will Ff.
fdb036 My lord,] Qq. om. Ff.
fdb037 mind] Qq. spirit Ff.
fdb040 Tyrrel] Capell. Tirrell Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. Terrill Q₆ Q₇. Terrel Q₈.
fdb041 I partly...hither. [Exit Page.] I partly...hither. Exit Boy. Pope. I partly...hither, Boy. Exit. Ff. Go call him hither presentlie. Qq.
fdb042 deep-revolving] Pope. deepe resolving Q₇ Q₈. deepe revolving the rest.
fdb043 counsel] counsell Qq. counsailes Ff.
fdb045 breath?] Qq. breath? Well, be it so. Ff. ¶ Enter Stanley.] Ff. Enter Darby. Qq.
fdb046 How...with you?] Qq. How now, Lord Stanley, what’s the newes? Ff.
fdb047–fdb052: My lord,...abroad] See note (XVIII).
fdb049 [Stands apart.] Edd.
fdb052 it] is Q₇. this Q₈.
fdb055 mean-born] meane borne Qq. meane poore Ff.
fdb056 Clarence’] Pope. Clarence Qq Ff.
fdb058 dream’st] dreamest Q₈.
fdb059 wife] Qq. Queene Ff.
fdb061 [Exit Catesby.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
fdb062 brother’s] brother Q₇ Q₈.
fdb064 brothers] brother Q₇ Q₈.
fdb066 will pluck] Q₁ Ff. plucke Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. plucks Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdb067 Tear-falling] Ff. Teares falling Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Teare falling the rest. ¶ Re-enter......] Capell. Enter Tyrrel. Ff.
fdb070 [He takes him aside. Pope. ¶ sovereign] Qq. lord Ff.
fdb072, fdb073: Ay,...had] I my Lord, but I had Qq, reading 72, 73 as one line. Please you: But I had Ff. Please you, I’d Pope, reading as one line.
fdb073 two enemies] Q₁ Ff. two deepe enemies the rest.
fdb074 there] Qq. then Ff. ¶ two] to Q₈.
fdb075 and] that Q₇ Q₈. ¶ sleep’s] sleepe Q₈. ¶ disturbers] Ff. disturbs Qq.
fdb078 open] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fdb080 Thou......Tyrrel] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ music. Hark, come] musique: Hearke, come Ff. musicke. Come Qq. music to me. Come Anon. conj.
fdb081 this] Ff. that Qq. ¶ [Whispers.] Ff. He whispers in his eare. Qq (wispers Q₁).
fdb082 There is] Ff. Tis Qq. ¶ it is] Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. is it Q₁ Q₂ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdb083 too] Qq. for it Ff.
fdb084 ’Tis done......lord] I will dispatch it straight Ff. ¶ gracious] good Q₇ Q₈.
fdb085, fdb086: K. Rich. Shall...my lord.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fdb086 Ye shall, my lord] Yea my good lord Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ Re-enter......] Enter... Ff Q₇ Q₈. In Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ it is put after line 85.
fdb087 consider’d] Ff. considered Qq.
fdb088 demand] Qq. request Ff.
fdb089 pass] Qq. rest Ff.
fdb090 that] Qq. the Ff.
fdb091 son] sonnes Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. ¶ to it] Qq. unto it Ff.
fdb092 your] Qq. the Ff.
fdb094 Hereford] Herford Qq. (Herfort Q₄). Hertford F₁.
fdb095 The which...should] Qq (your Q₂). Which you have promised I shall Ff.
fdb096 she] they Q₇ Q₈.
fdb098 demand] Qq. request Ff.
fdb099 As I remember] Qq. I doe remember me Ff.
fdb102 A king, perhaps, perhaps,—] A king perhaps, perhaps. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Q₈. A king perhaps, Q₄. A King perhaps. Ff. A king perhaps, perhaps, Q₇.
fdb103–fdb120: Buck. My lord!...to-day.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fdb108 show’d] showd Q₁. shewed the rest.
fdb109 Rougemont] Ruge-mount Qq.
fdb110 bard] lord Q₈.
fdb115 Well,] om. Pope.
fdb121 Why, then...or no.] Qq. May it please you to resolve me in my suit. Ff. ¶ whether] if Pope. ¶ no.] Pope. no? Qq.
fdb122, fdb123: Tut...vein] One line in Qq. ¶ fdb122: Tut, tut] Qq. om. Ff.
fdb123 [Exeunt......] Exit. Qq Ff. Exeunt Richard and Train. Capell.
fdb124 Is it even so?] Qq. And is it thus? Ff. ¶ rewards] rewardst Q₁. repayes Ff. ¶ true] Qq. deepe Ff.
fdb125 deep] Qq. om. Ff.
fdc001 SCENE III.] Pope. om. Qq Ff. ¶ The same.] Capell. ¶ Enter Tyrrel] Ff. Enter Sir Francis Tirrel. Qq. ¶ fdc001: deed] Qq. act Ff.
fdc002 arch act] Q₈. arch-act Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. arch-acts Q₇. arch deed Ff.
fdc004 whom] who F₁.
fdc005 this ruthless...butchery] Q₁ Q₂. thir ruthfull...butchery Q₃. this ruthfull butchery Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. this peece of ruthfull butchery Ff. this piece of ruthless butchery Pope.
fdc006 Although] Qq. Albeit Ff. ¶ bloody] blooded Collier (Collier MS.).
fdc007 Melting] Qq. Melted Ff. ¶ kind] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. milde Ff.
fdc008 two] Qq. to Ff. ¶ deaths’] Theobald. deaths Qq Ff. death’s Collier. ¶ stories] Qq. story Ff.
fdc009 Lo, thus] Qq. O thus Ff. ¶ those tender] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. these tender Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. the gentle Ff.
fdc010 girdling] girding Q₈. ¶ one] on Q₁ Q₂.
fdc011 innocent alabaster] Q₈. innocent alablaster Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. alablaster innocent F₁ F₂ F₃. alabaster innocent F₄.
fdc012 were] Q₁ Ff. om. Q₂. like the rest.
fdc013 Which in] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. When in Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. And in F₁ F₂. And F₃ F₄. ¶ their] there Q₇ Q₈.
fdc014 prayers] prayer Q₇ Q₈. ¶ on] one Q₇.
fdc015 once] Qq. one Ff.
fdc016 devil’—there] Rowe. diuell their Q₁. diuel: their Q₂. diuel: there Q₃ Q₄. divel! there Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Diuell, there Ff.
fdc017 Whilst] Qq. When Ff. ¶ told on: ‘We] told on, we Ff. told on we Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. told, on we Q₇. told, one we Q₈.
fdc019 e’er she] ere she Ff. ever he Qq.
fdc020 Thus...remorse] Q₁ Q₂. Omitted in Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Hence...remorse Ff. ¶ gone with] Qq Ff. gone; with Hanmer.
fdc022 bring] Qq. beare Ff. ¶ this] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. these Q₆ Q₇ F₂ Q₈ F₃ F₄.
fdc023 comes] come Q₆. ¶ Enter King Richard.] Qq. Enter Richard. Ff. ¶ hail] Qq. health Ff. ¶ liege] Qq. lord Ff.
fdc024 am] and Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdc025 gave] give Q₁ Q₂.
fdc027 my lord] Qq. om. Ff.
fdc030 how or in what place] Qq. where (to say the truth) Ff.
fdc031 soon at after] soone, and after Ff. soone after Q₇ Q₈. soon, soon after Rowe.
fdc032 And thou shalt] Qq. When thou shalt F₁. When thou there shalt F₂ F₃ F₄.
fdc033 Meantime, but] Mean time—but Rowe.
fdc035, fdc036: soon. The son] Qq. then. Tir. I humbly take my leave. Rich. The Sonne Ff (take leave F₂ F₃ F₄). ¶ fdc035: [Exit Tyrrel.] Exit Tirrel. Qq (after line 34). om. Ff.
fdc036 pent] pend Q₇ Q₈.
fdc039 the world] Qq. this world Ff.
fdc040 Breton] Capell. Brittaine Qq. Britaine F₁ F₂. Brittain F₃. Britain F₄. Briton Rowe.
fdc042 o’er] ore Qq. on Ff.
fdc043 I go] Qq. go I Ff. ¶ Enter Catesby.] Qq. Enter Ratcliffe. Ff.
fdc044, fdc046: Cate.] Rat. Ff.
fdc045 news or bad] Qq. or bad newes Ff. ¶ in] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fdc046 Ely] Qq. Mourton Ff.
fdc049 near] om. Q₈.
fdc050 rash-levied] Pope. rash levied Qq Ff (leveld Q₇ Q₈). ¶ army] Qq. strength Ff. arms Anon. conj.
fdc051 heard] Qq. learn’d Ff.
fdc053 leads] leds F₁.
fdc054 wing] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. wings the rest.
fdc055 Jove’s] Ioues Q₁ Q₂ F₁. Ioue, Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Loue, Q₄. Ioves F₂. Joves F₃ F₄. ¶ Jove’s Mercury, and] Jove’s Mercury’s an Theobald conj. and Long MS.
fdc056 Come] Qq. Go Ff.
fdd001 SCENE IV.] Pope. Scena Tertia. Ff. ¶ Before the palace.] Capell. ¶ Enter...] Enter Queene Margaret sola. Qq. Enter old Queene Margaret. Ff.
fdd003 slily] sllie Q₇.
fdd004 adversaries] Qq. enemies Ff.
fdd007 bitter, black] bitter-black S. Walker conj.
fdd008 Enter...] Enter the Qu. and the Dutchesse of Yorke. Qq. Enter Dutchesse and Queene. Ff.
fdd009 young] Qq. poore Ff. ¶ princes] princess F₄.
fdd010 unblown] unblowed F₁. ¶ flowers] flower Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ new-appearing] Pope. new appearing Qq Ff. ¶ sweets] sweet Q₈.
fdd013 about] above Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd015 right for right] wrong for wrong Warburton.
fdd017–fdd019: Duch. So......dead?] Arranged as in Ff. In Qq these lines are placed after line 34. ¶ fdd017: have] hath Q₈.
fdd018 mute and dumb] Qq. still and mute Ff.
fdd020, fdd021: Q. Mar. Plantagenet...debt] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd024 When] Qq F₁. Why F₂ F₃ F₄.
fdd025 Harry] Q₁ Q₂ F₁. Mary Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Henry F₂ F₃ F₄. ¶ sweet] swee F₂.
fdd026 Blind...life] Qq. Dead life, blind sight Ff. ¶ fdd026–fdd030: Blind...blood.] Put in the margin by Pope.
fdd028 Brief...days] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd029 thy] they Q₅. their Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ [Sitting down.] Sitting down on it. Capell. throws herself upon the ground. Long MS. om. Qq Ff.
fdd030 Unlawfully] Unlawfull Q₆ Q₇. ¶ innocents’] innocents Qq. innocent Ff.
fdd031 O] Qq. Ah Ff. ¶ as well] Qq. assoone Ff.
fdd034 O...I?] Qq. Ah...wee? Ff. ¶ [Sitting...] Throwing herself down upon the earth. Hanmer (at line 31). om. Qq Ff.
fdd035 ancient] any ancient Pope. ¶ reverend] reverent Qq Ff.
fdd036 seniory] signorie Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. signiorie Q₆ Q₇. signeurie F₁. signiory Q₈. signeury F₂ F₃ F₄. seigneurie Rowe (ed. 1). seniority Pope.
fdd037 woes] Qq. greefes Ff. ¶ fdd037, fdd038: hand. If...society,] Warburton. hand, If...societie, Qq. hand If...society. Ff.
fdd038 [Sitting...] joining, and taking Seat between them. Capell.
fdd039 Tell...mine] Qq. Omitted in Ff. ¶ o’er] Warburton. over Qq.
fdd041 Harry] Edd. Henry Rann (Capell conj.). Richard Qq. husband Ff.
fdd045 thou holp’st] F₂ F₃ F₄. thou hopst Q₁ Q₂. thou hop’st F₁. and thou holp’st the rest.
fdd046 Thou...him] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ and Richard] Q₁ Ff. till Richard the rest.
fdd050 blood] Ff Q₈. bloods the rest.
fdd052, fdd053: That...earth, That...souls] Capell. That...soules: That...earth Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd054 chase] chafe Q₈.
fdd056 that this] for this Q₇ Q₈.
fdd058 And......moan!] Omitted by Pope. ¶ makes] make Q₇ Q₈. ¶ pew-fellow] pue-fellow Q₈. puefellow Q₁ Q₂. pue-fellow the rest.
fdd059 wife] wifes Q₁.
fdd060 thine] Q₁ Ff. thee the rest.
fdd063 stabb’d] Qq. kill’d Ff.
fdd064 Thy other] Qq. The other Ff. ¶ quit] quite Q₆.
fdd066 Match] Qq. Matcht F₁ F₂. Match’d F₂ F₄.
fdd067 kill’d] Qq. stab’d Ff.
fdd068 tragic play] Qq. franticke play Ff. tragick scene Capell conj.
fdd069 adulterate] adulterer Warburton. ¶ Vaughan] Vaugham Q₅.
fdd070 dusky] dusty Anon. conj.
fdd071 intelligencer] intelligence S. Walker conj.
fdd072 their] the Hanmer.
fdd073 them] then F₂. ¶ at hand, at hand,] at hand at handes, Q₁. at hand, Q₇ Q₈.
fdd075, fdd076: Seymour proposes to invert these lines. ¶ fdd075: Earth gapes] Earth gapes, heaven lowers Seymour conj. ¶ hell burns] hell burns, heaven weeps S. Walker conj. ¶ hell] hels Q₆. ¶ roar] roar for him Capell. ¶ pray,] pray for vengeance. Pope.
fdd076 To have...away] Omitted by Pope. ¶ away] Qq. from hence Ff.
fdd077 bond] bonds Q₇ Q₈.
fdd078 to say] Qq. and say Ff.
fdd079 didst] dids Q₄.
fdd081 bottled spider] bloated spider Grey conj. bottle-spider Collier MS. ¶ bunch-back’d] Q₁ Ff. hunch-backt the rest.
fdd082, fdd083: call’d] call Q₇.
fdd085 pageant] page Warburton.
fdd086 a-high] a high Qq Ff. on high Pope.
fdd087 only mock’d] onely mockt Ff Q₈. onelie, mockt the rest. ¶ sweet] Qq. faire Ff.
fdd088 what thou wert,] which thou wert, Q₁ Q₂. which thou wert, Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. what thou wast, Ff. ¶ fdd088–fdd090: a breath...shot] Qq. a garish flagge To be...shot; A signe of dignity, a breath, a bubble: Ff.
fdd093 are thy children] Q₁ Q₂. be thy children Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. be thy two sonnes Ff.
fdd094 to thee and cries] Qq (me Q₇). and kneeles, and sayes, Ff.
fdd095 flatter’d] Pope. flattered Qq Ff.
fdd096 follow’d] Pope. followed Qq Ff.
fdd100, fdd101: For queen...sues] As in Qq. In Ff these two lines are transposed.
fdd101 humbly] humble Q₇.
fdd102–fdd104: For...none] Arranged as in Ff. In Qq line 103 is omitted, and lines 102, 104 are transposed. ¶ fdd102, fdd104: one] Qq. she Ff.
fdd103 For one] Pope. For she Ff.
fdd105 wheel’d] Qq. whirl’d Ff.
fdd106 thee] me Q₇ Q₈.
fdd107 wert] Q₁ Q₂. wast Ff. art the rest.
fdd111 burthen’d] Ff. burdened Q₈. burthened the rest.
fdd112 weary neck] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. wearied necke Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. wearied head Ff.
fdd115 woes] wars Q₄. ¶ will] Qq. shall Ff.
fdd118 nights...days] Q₁ Q₂. night...day the rest.
fdd119 dead] deaths Q₇ Q₈.
fdd120 thy] om. Q₄. ¶ fairer] Qq. sweeter Ff.
fdd122 Bettering......worse] Bettering thy loss, make the bad causer worse or (Bettering thy loss makes...worse) Mason conj. ¶ makes] make Q₇ Q₈. ¶ bad causer worse] bad causes worse Q₄. bad cause worser Q₈. bad-causer worse Steevens.
fdd124 words] word F₂.
fdd125 Thy...mine] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ [Exit] Exit Margaret Ff. Exit Mar. Qq, after line 126.
fdd127 their client] Hanmer. your client Qq. their clients F₁ F₃ F₄. their cliens F₂. your client’s Pope.
fdd128 intestate] Qq. intestine Ff.
fdd130 do] Qq. will Ff.
fdd131 not at all] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. nothing els Ff. not all Q₇ Q₈. ¶ do they] not doe they Q₇. they do Rowe (ed. 2).
fdd132 If so, then] If so then, F₁ F₂ F₃. If so then Q₈.
fdd134 which] Qq. that Ff. ¶ sweet] om. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd135 I...drum] Qq. The Trumpet sounds Ff. ¶ marching......trumpets] Qq. and his Trane. Ff.
fdd136 SCENE V. Pope. ¶ my] Qq. me in my Ff.
fdd137 O, she] O she, Ff. A she, Qq.
fdd140 Hidest] Had’st Q₇. Hast Q₈.
fdd141 Where...right,] Qq. (Where would...... Q₄). Where ’t should be branded...right? Ff. Where...branded...right, Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ fdd141, fdd142: Where...The slaughter] Where’t...For slaughter Collier MS.
fdd143 two] Qq. poore Ff.
fdd145 One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fdd146 Plantagenet] Plantaget Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
fdd147 Where is kind Hastings,...Grey?] Qq. Where is the gentle Rivers, Vaughan, Gray? Dut. Where is kinde Hastings? Ff.
fdd150 on] one Q₇. ¶ Flourish. Alarums.] Ff. The trumpets Q₁. The trumpets sound. Q₂ Q₈. The trumpets sounds. the rest.
fdd152 report] reports Q₇ Q₈.
fdd153 drown] drownd Q₈.
fdd155 Ay, I] Rowe. I, I Qq Ff.
fdd156 hear] F₃ F₄. here Q₁. heare the rest. bear Collier MS.
fdd158 Which] Qq. That Ff.
fdd159 Duch. O, let...K. Rich. Do,...hear.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd160 speech] Qq. words Ff.
fdd162 have stay’d] once stay’d Collier MS.
fdd163 anguish, pain and agony] Qq. torment and in agony Ff.
fdd170 Thy prime...venturous,] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. Omitted in the rest.
fdd171 bloody, treacherous] Qq. slye, and bloody Ff.
fdd172 More mild......hatred:] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ harmful, kind] harmfull; Kinde Ff. harmful-kind S. Walker conj.
fdd174 in] Qq. with Ff.
fdd175 Faith...grace] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending Hower, in Ff. ¶ Humphrey] Humphreys Q₈. ¶ fdd175, fdd176: Faith...company.] Put in the margin by Pope.
fdd176 my] om. Q₄.
fdd177 I] Q₁ Ff. it the rest. ¶ disgracious] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. so gratious Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. so grieious Q₈. ¶ sight] Qq. eye Ff.
fdd178 your grace] Qq. you Madam Ff.
fdd179 Strike up the drum] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ fdd179–fdd182: Duch. I prithee......K. Rich. So.] Ff. Du. O heare me speake for I shal never see thee more. King. Come, come, you are too bitter. Qq (the more Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. you art Q₁). Pope reads with the Quartos, omitting more.
fdd183 thou wilt] thou’lt Pope.
fdd184 Ere] Eeare Q₁. ¶ this] his Q₇.
fdd185 and] or Johnson (1771).
fdd186 look upon] Qq. more behold Ff.
fdd187 heavy] Qq. greevous Ff.
fdd191 Edward’s] Edward Q₂.
fdd192 spirits] spirit Q₄.
fdd193 and victory] in victory Q₇ Q₈.
fdd194 art,] art, and Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. be] by Q₅.
fdd197 all] Qq. her Ff. ¶ [going. Theobald.
fdd198 speak] Qq. talke Ff.
fdd199 moe] Q₁. more the rest.
fdd200 murder: for] murther for Q₁. murther, for the other Quartos. slaughter. For Ff.
fdd208 veil] vale Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
fdd209 unscarr’d of] Ff. unskard from Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. vn scard from Q₅. vnscarde from Q₆ Q₇. vnscard from Q₈.
fdd211 of royal blood] Qq. a Royall Princesse Ff.
fdd213 only safest] Qq. safest onely Ff.
fdd215 Lo,] No, Pope. ¶ births] Qq. birth Ff. ¶ were] are Q₇ Q₈.
fdd216 bad] Qq. ill Ff.
fdd221–fdd234: K. Rich. You...bosom.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd222, fdd223: Cousins,...life.] Omitted by Pope.
fdd224 lanced] Rowe (ed. 2). lanch’d Ff.
fdd235, fdd236: enterprise And...wars] Ff. dangerous attempt of hostile armes Qq.
fdd237 I intend] I Intend Q₆. intend Q₇.
fdd238 or yours] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. and yours Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. ¶ were by me wrong’d] Qq. by me were harm’d Ff.
fdd240 good?] Q₃ Q₄ F₂ F₃ F₄. good, Q₁. good. the rest.
fdd241 gentle] Ff. mightie Qq.
fdd243 No, to] Qq. Unto Ff. ¶ honour] Qq. fortune Ff.
fdd244 high] Q₁ Ff. height Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₈. hight Q₇.
fdd245 sorrows] Qq. sorrow Ff.
fdd247 demise] Qq F₁. devise F₂ F₃ F₄.
fdd248 yea, and] Qq. I, and Ff.
fdd249 withal] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fdd251 drown] drownd Q₈.
fdd254 kindness’ date] Capell. kindnesse date Ff. kindnes doe Q₁. kindnesse doo the rest. kindness doth Heath conj.
fdd255 Then...daughter] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending know, in Ff. ¶ thy] my Q₈.
fdd259 soul’s love, didst thou love her] Q₁ Ff. soules love didst thou her Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. soule didst thou love her Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd260 do] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fdd263 mean] Qq. do intend Ff.
fdd264 Say then] Qq. Well then Ff.
fdd265 Even...else?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ who should be else?] Q₁. who should else? Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. how should else? Q₅. Who else should bee? Ff.
fdd267 I, even I......madam?] Qq. Even so: How thinke you of it? Ff. ¶ I, even I] Even I Capell. Ay, even I Malone conj.
fdd268 That] om. Pope. ¶ would I] Q₁ Q₂. I would the rest.
fdd269 that are] Q₁ Q₂. that were Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. being Ff.
fdd270 Madam,] om. Pope.
fdd272 engrave] engraven Collier (Collier MS.).
fdd273 haply] Ff. happelie Q₁ Q₂. happily the rest. ¶ she will] Qq. will she Ff.
fdd274 sometime] sometimes Q₁ Q₂ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd275 thy] my Q₈. ¶ fdd275, fdd276: steep’d...A handkerchief] Ff. a handkercher steept in Rutlands bloud, Qq (handkercheffe Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈).
fdd276, fdd277: which...body,] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd277 sap] tide Pope. ¶ brother’s body] brothers body Ff. brothers bodies Rowe. brothers’ bodies Warburton.
fdd278 dry] Qq. wipe Ff. ¶ therewith] Qq. withall Ff.
fdd279 force] Qq. move Ff.
fdd280 story...acts] Qq. letter...deeds Ff.
fdd282 yea, and] Qq. I (and Ff. ay, and Rowe.
fdd284 Come, come, you mock me;] Qq (ye Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈). You mocke me Madam, Ff. ¶ is] om. F₁.
fdd285 There is] There’s Pope.
fdd288–fdd342: K. Rich. Say...years?] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ fdd288: her.] her? Capell.
fdd289 hate] have Steevens (Mason conj.). love Grant White (Tyrwhitt conj.). take Jervis conj.
fdd290 bought] brought Pope.
fdd293 give] Rowe. gives Ff. ¶ repent] repent of Rowe.
fdd302 mettle] F₃. mettall F₁ F₂. metal F₄.
fdd304 bid] ’bid Capell (Heath conj.). had Long MS.
fdd312 Leads] Treads Collier, ed. 2 (Capell conj.).
fdd323 loan] Theobald. Loue, F₁. Love, F₂ F₃. love F₄.
fdd324 Of ten times] Theobald. Often-times Ff.
fdd333 garlands] laurels Capell.
fdd336 victress] F₄. victoresse F₁ F₂ F₃.
fdd343 this] his Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd345 Say that...which] Qq. Tell her...that Ff.
fdd346 forbids] Q₁ Ff. forbid the rest.
fdd348 wail] Qq. vaile F₁ F₂ F₃. vail F₄.
fdd350 title] little Roderick conj. ¶ ever] om. Q₅.
fdd351 in force] Ff. inforce Qq.
fdd352 her sweet life] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. that title the rest.
fdd353, fdd354: So long...So long] Qq. As long...As long Ff. ¶ fdd353: lengthens] lengthen Pope.
fdd354 likes] like Pope.
fdd355 love] Qq. low Ff. now Pope.
fdd359 in plain terms tell her] Qq. plainly to her, tell Ff.
fdd361 Your] Ff. Madame your Qq.
fdd362–fdd365: Q. Eliz. O no,...break.] Put in the margin by Pope. ¶ fdd362: my] your Rann.
fdd363 Too deep] To deep Rowe (ed. 2). Two deep Pope. ¶ their grave] Qq. their graves Ff. your graves Capell.
fdd364, fdd365: K. Rich. Harp...past. Q. Eliz. Harp......break.] As in Q₁. See note (XIX).
fdd368 I swear—] I sweare. Ff. I sweare by nothing. Qq.
fdd369, fdd370, fdd371: The...The...The] Qq. Thy...Thy...Thy Ff. ¶ fdd369: holy] Qq. Lordly Ff.
fdd370 knightly] Qq F₁. Kingly F₂ F₃ F₄.
fdd371 glory] Ff. dignitie Qq.
fdd372 something thou wilt] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. something thou wouldst Ff. nothing thou wilt Q₇ Q₈.
fdd375 life] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. selfe the rest. ¶ that] Qq. it Ff.
fdd376 K. Rich. Then...misusest.] Qq. This line is placed after 374, not wrong’d, in Ff. ¶ Thyself thyself misusest] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. Thy Selfe is selfe-misus’d Ff. Thy selfe, thy selfe misused Q₈.
fdd377 God—...God’s] Qq. Heaven...Heavens Ff. Heaven—...God’s Malone.
fdd378 hadst fear’d] Qq. didd’st feare Ff. ¶ by Him] by him Qq. with him Ff. with heav’n Pope.
fdd379 thy brother] Q₇ Q₈. my brother Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. my husband Ff.
fdd380 Had not been] Qq. Thou had’st not Ff. ¶ brother slain] Qq. brothers died Ff.
fdd381 by Him] by him Qq Ff. with heav’n Pope.
fdd382 thy brow] thy head Ff. my brow Q₈.
fdd383 graced] grac’d Ff. grast Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. grac’t Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd385 playfellows] Qq. bed fellowes Ff. ¶ two...for] are tender bedfellowes in Long MS. too tender bedfellows for Capell (Roderick conj.).
fdd386 hath] had Q₈. ¶ a prey for] Qq. the prey for Ff. a prey to Pope. ¶ worms] worme Q₆.
fdd387 What...now?] Ff. Omitted in Qq and Pope. ¶ The time] Ff. By the time Qq. By time Pope.
fdd388 wronged in the time] Ff. wrongd in time Qq.
fdd390 past wrong’d by thee] Ff. by the past wrongd Qq (thee Q₅ Q₆).
fdd391 parents] Qq. fathers Ff. slaughter’d] slaughtered Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd392 in their] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. with their Q₅ Ff. with her Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. in her quoted in Steevens’s reprint.
fdd393 butcher’d] butchered Q₇ Q₈.
fdd394 wither’d] withered Qq. barren Ff. ¶ with] in Pope.
fdd395, fdd396: Swear...o’erpast] Put in the margin by Pope.
fdd396 ere] eare Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅. nere Q₄. ¶ time misused o’erpast] Qq. times ill-us’d repast Ff.
fdd398 attempt] Qq. affaires Ff.
fdd400 Heaven...hours] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ Heaven] So heaven Keightley conj.
fdd403 proceedings] Qq. proceeding Ff. ¶ pure] Qq. deere Ff.
fdd404 Immaculate] Q₁ Ff. Immaculatd Q₂. Immaculated the rest.
fdd405 tender] Q₁ Q₂ Ff Q₈. render Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
fdd407, fdd408: this land...herself] Qq. my selfe, and thee; Her selfe, the land Ff.
fdd409 Death, desolation] Ff. Sad desolation Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. Sad desolate Q₇ Q₈.
fdd411 but by this] but this Q₁.
fdd412 good] Qq. deare Ff.
fdd415 my] Ff. by Qq. ¶ deserts] desires F₄.
fdd416 and state of] of state and Collier MS.
fdd417 peevish-fond] Staunton (Malone conj.). pieuish, fond Q₁. peeuish, fond Q₂. peeuish fond Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. peeuish found Ff.
fdd419, fdd421: Ay] Rowe. I Qq Ff. ¶ fdd419: thee] Qq. you Ff.
fdd421 yourself] your selves Q₈.
fdd422 But] Qq. Yet Ff. ¶ my children] my harmless children S. Walker conj.
fdd423 I bury] I burie Q₃ Q₄ Ff. I buried Q₁ Q₂. Ile burie Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd424 Where in] Wherein Q₇ Q₈. ¶ they shall] Q₁ Q₂. there shall Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. they will Ff.
fdd425 recomforture] Ff. recomfiture Qq.
fdd427 by the deed] in the deed Q₇ Q₈.
fdd428 to me] to me, Richard Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ very] om. Pope.
fdd429 And...mind] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd430 and so] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ [Kissing her. Johnson. ¶ [Exit...] Exit. Qq. Exit Q. Ff, after line 430.
fdd431 shallow, changing woman] shallow changing woman Qq. shallow-changing woman Ff. shallow, changing—woman Capell. ¶ Enter...] Capell. Enter Rat. Qq. Enter Ratcliffe. Ff (after news? line 433).
fdd432 How...news?] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd433 SCENE VI. Pope. ¶ My gracious] Qq. Most mightie Ff.
fdd434 Rideth] Rides F₄. ¶ the shore] Qq. our shores Ff.
fdd438 they] thy Q₂.
fdd440 Norfolk] Norff. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
fdd442 my lord] Qq. my good lord Ff.
fdd443 Fly...Salisbury:] See note (XX). ¶ [To Ratcliff] Edd.
fdd444 thither] Ff. there Qq. ¶ [To Catesby] Rowe.
fdd445 stand’st...still] Qq (stands Q₄ Q₇). stay’st...here Ff.
fdd446 sovereign...mind] Qq. liege, tell me your Highnesse pleasure Ff.
fdd447 to him] Ff. them Q₁ Q₂. him the rest.
fdd449 he] Qq. that he Ff.
fdd450 presently] Qq. suddenly Ff.
fdd451 Cate. I go.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq.
fdd452, fdd453: What...Salisbury?] Edd. What...Salisbury Qq, reading as one line. What, may it please you, shall I doe at Salisbury? Ff. ¶ fdd452: is ’t] Edd. is it Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. it is Q₅. is Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fdd456, fdd457: My mind...you?] Qq. My mind is chang’d: Stanley, what newes with you? Ff.
fdd457 Enter Lord Stanley.] Ff. Enter Darbie. Qq.
fdd458 None good, my lord] None good my lord Qq. None, good my liege Ff. None good, my liege Theobald. ¶ the] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fdd459 it...told] Qq. well may be reported Ff.
fdd460 Hoyday] Heyday Pope.
fdd461 Why dost] Qq. What need’st Ff. ¶ mile] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. miles Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fdd462 a nearer] Qq. the neerest Ff.
fdd467 Well...guess?] Well...guesse. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ (sir? Q₄). Well, as you guesse. Ff. Well, sir, as you guesse, Q₇. Well, sir, as you guesse. Q₈.
fdd468 Ely] Qq. Morton Ff.
fdd469 there] Qq. here Ff.
fdd474 doth he] makes he Ff. makes him Hanmer. ¶ sea] seas Ff Q₈.
fdd475 guess.] guess— Hunter conj.
fdd477 Welshman] Welchmen Q₇ Q₈. ¶ comes.] comes? Staunton.
fdd479 mighty liege] Qq. my good lord Ff.
fdd480 then] now Q₇ Q₈. ¶ him] them Q₈.
fdd481 are] Qq. be Ff.
fdd483 Safe-conducting] Conducting safe Pope.
fdd485 Richard] Qq. me Ff.
fdd487 sovereign] Qq. king Ff.
fdd488 Please it] Qq. Pleaseth Ff.
fdd491 Ay, ay, thou wouldst] I, I, thou wouldst Qq. I, thou would’st Ff. Ay, thou would’st Rowe. Ay, thou would’st fain Pope.
fdd492 I will...sir] Qq. But Ile not trust thee Ff. ¶ Most] om. Pope.
fdd494 nor never] nor ever Pope.
fdd495, fdd496: Well...behind] Qq (thy men Q₈), in one line. Goe then, and muster men: but leave behind Ff.
fdd497 faith] Qq. heart Ff.
fdd499 [Exit.] Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. om. Q₁ Q₂. Exit Dar. Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Exit Stanley. Ff.
fdd502 Edward] Ff. William Qq. Edmond Pope.
fdd503 brother there] Qq. elder brother Ff.
fdd504 moe] Q₄ Q₆ F₁. mo Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅. more Q₇ F₂ Q₈ F₃ F₄.
fdd505 My liege, in Kent] Qq. In Kent, my liege Ff.
fdd506 more competitors] still more competitors Pope. still more complices Hanmer.
fdd507 their...increaseth] Qq. the rebels, and their power growes strong Ff.
fdd508 the Duke of] Qq. great Ff.
fdd509 you] ye Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. ¶ of] off Q₁. ¶ [He striketh him.] Qq Ff. In Qq it is put after line 509.
fdd510 Take......me] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Take...you bring me Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. There, take thou that, till thou bring Ff.
fdd511–fdd516: The news...thine] Ff. See note (XXI). ¶ fdd511: [Kneeling. Collier (Collier MS.).
fdd515 I cry] Oh! I cry Pope.
fdd516 [3 Mess. rises. Collier (Collier MS.).
fdd517 proclaim’d] Ff. given out Qq.
fdd518 Reward] Ff. Rewardes Qq. ¶ the traitor in] Ff. in Buckingham Qq.
fdd519 liege] Qq. lord Ff.
fdd521 in Yorkshire are] Ff. are up Qq.
fdd522 Yet...grace] Qq. But...highnesse Ff.
fdd523 Breton] Capell. Brittaine Qq F₁ F₂. Britain F₃ F₄. Bretagne Theobald. ¶ by tempest] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fdd524 Dorsetshire] Dorshire Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅, reading The Brittaine...Dorshire as one line. ¶ fdd524, fdd525: sent...banks] Ff. Sent out a boate to aske them on the shore Qq (one Q₇ Q₈).
fdd527 answer’d] Ff. answered Qq.
fdd529 Hoised......Brittany] Edd. Hoist...Brittaine Qq. Hoys’d saile, and made his course againe for Brittaine. Ff.
fdd532 Beat] bare Q₈. ¶ Re-enter...] Dyce. Enter... Qq Ff. Enter another Messenger. Edd. conj.
fdd534 That is] Ff. Thats Qq.
fdd536 tidings] newes Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. ¶ yet they] Qq. but yet they Ff. but yet it Rowe.
fdd540 [Flourish. Exeunt.] Florish. Exeunt. F₁. Exeunt. Q₁ F₂ F₃ F₄. The rest omit.
fde001 SCENE V.] Capell. Scena Quarta. Ff. SCENE VII. Pope. ¶ Lord Derby’s house.] Lord Stanley’s house. Hanmer. ¶ Enter...] Enter Darbie, Sir Christopher. Qq (Entee Q₁). Enter Derby, and Sir Christopher. Ff. Enter Lord Stanley, and Sir Christopher. Pope. Enter Lord Stanley, and Sir Christopher Urswick. Theobald.
fde002 this most bloody] Qq. the most deadly Ff. the most bloody Collier.
fde005 withholds] Qq. holds off Ff.
fde006–fde020: See note (XXII).
fde007 Pembroke] Penbroke F₁ F₂. Penbrook F₃. ¶ Ha’rford-west] Capell. Harford-west Q₁. Herford-west Q₂ Q₅. Hertford-west Q₃ Q₄. Hertford west Q₆ Q₇. Hertford West Ff. Hertford, west Q₈.
fde008 name] name and mark Collier (Collier MS.). note and name S. Walker conj. ¶ resort] have made resort Anon. conj.
fde009 renowned] renowmed Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
fde010 Sir William] and Sir William Pope.
fde011 redoubted] doubted Q₄.
fde012 And] Ff. om. Qq.
fde013 moe] other Ff. more Q₇ Q₈. others Warburton. ¶ noble fame] Qq. great name Ff.
fde014 they do] Qq. do they Ff. ¶ course] Qq. power Ff.
fde016 thy] Q₁ Ff. my the rest.
fde019 These letters] Qq. My letter Ff. Those letters Capell. See note (XXII.)
fea001 ACT V. SCENE I.] Actus Quintus. Scena Prima. Ff. ¶ Salisbury.] Pope. ¶ An open place.] Capell. The Market-place Grant White. ¶ Enter...] Rowe. Enter Buckingham to execution. Qq. Enter Buckingham with Halberds, led to Execution. Ff.
fea002, fea011: Sher.] Ff. Rat. Qq. ¶ fea002: my good lord] Ff. my lord Qq. good my lord Rowe.
fea003 Rivers, Grey] Rivers, Gray Qq. Gray & Rivers Ff.
fea010 fellows] Qq. fellow Ff.
fea011 my lord] Qq. om. Ff.
fea012 Why...doomsday] omitted by Pope.
fea013 that] Qq. which Ff.
fea014 on] one Q₇.
fea015 or] and Ff Q₈.
fea017 I trusted most] Qq. whom most I trusted Ff.
fea018 This, this] This is Q₇ Q₈.
fea019 Is] This Pope, omitting line 18, This...soul. ¶ respite] despite Q₇ Q₈. respect Warburton. restrict Becket conj.
fea020 That high] What high Q₂. ¶ that I] Qq. which I Ff. whom I Capell.
fea023 swords] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. sword Q₃ Q₄ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. sowrd Q₅.
fea024 own] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. The rest omit. ¶ on] Qq. in Ff. ¶ bosoms] Ff. bosome Qq.
fea025 Now] Qq. Thus Ff. ¶ is fallen...head] Qq. falles heavy on my necke Ff. falls heavy on my head Pope.
fea028 Come, sirs, convey me] Qq. Come lead me Officers Ff.
fea029 [Exeunt.] om. Qq. Exeunt Buckingham with Officers. Ff.
feb001 Scene II.] Scena Secunda. Ff. ¶ The camp...] Hanmer. The Camp. Pope. On the borders of Leicestershire. A Camp. Theobald. ¶ Enter...] Ff. Enter Richmond with drums and trumpets. Qq.
feb007 The wretched] The recklesse Collier (Collier MS.). The raged Anon. conj.
feb008 spoil’d] spoils Capell. ¶ summer fields] Ff. somer-fieldes Q₁. summer-fields Q₂. sommer-field the rest.
feb009 Swills...makes] Swill’d...made Pope.
feb010 bosoms] bosome Q₇ Q₈.
feb011 Lies now] Qq. Is now Ff. ¶ centre] centry F₁.
feb014 cheerly] Q₁ Ff. Cheere or cheare the rest.
feb017 Oxf] Ff. 1 Lo. Qq. ¶ swords] Qq. men Ff.
feb018 that bloody] Qq. this guilty Ff.
feb019 Herb.] Her. Ff. 2 Lo. Qq. ¶ fly] Qq. turne Ff.
feb020 Blunt.] Blun. Ff. 3 Lo. Qq. ¶ who] what Ff Q₈.
feb021 greatest] Qq. deerest Ff. ¶ shrink] Qq. flye Ff.
feb022 vantage] advantage Q₇ Q₈.
feb024 makes] make Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. ¶ [Exeunt.] Exit. Q₁. Exeunt omnes. Ff. the rest omit.
fec001 SCENE III.] Pope. ¶ Bosworth Field.] Pope. ¶ Enter...] Enter King Richard, Norffolke, Ratcliffe, Catesbie, with others. Qq. Enter King Richard in Armes, with Norfolke, Ratcliffe, and the Earle of Surrey. Ff. ¶ fec001: tents] Qq. tent Ff.
fec002 My...sad] Ff. Whie, how now Catesbie, whie lookst thou so bad. Q₁. Whie, how now Catesbie, why lookest thou so sad? the rest.
fec003 Sur.] Ff. Cat. Qq.
fec004 My Lord...liege] Ff. Norffolke, come hither Qq (hether Q₁).
fec005 Norfolk...not?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fec006 gracious] Qq. loving Ff.
fec007 there] om. Ff Q₇ Q₈.
fec008 all’s] Ff. all is Qq.
fec009 foe] Qq. traitors Ff.
fec010 utmost power] Ff. greatest number Qq.
fec011 battalion] Q₁ Q₄ Q₆. battailon Q₂ Q₃ Q₅. battalia Ff. battalian Q₇ Q₈.
fec012 the] that a Q₇ Q₈.
fec013 party] Qq. faction Ff.
fec014 my tent there! Valiant] my tent there, valiant Qq. the tent: come noble Ff.
fec015 of] or Q₈. ¶ field] Qq. ground Ff.
fec017 want] Qq. lacke Ff.
fec018 Enter......and others.] Enter Richmond...and Dorset. Ff. Enter Richmond with the Lordes, &c. Qq (Richard Q₈). ¶ on the other side...] Capell. om. Ff. ¶ and others] Capell. ¶ Some...tent] Capell, substantially. ¶ fec018: Scene changes to another part of Bosworth field. Theobald. ¶ set] Ff. sete Q₁. seate Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. seat Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fec020 track] Qq. tract Ff.
fec021 signal] Qq. token Ff.
fec022 Sir...standard] Ff. Where is Sir William Brandon, he shall beare my standerd Qq.
fec023–fec026: Give...strength.] Arranged as in Ff. See note (XXIII). ¶ fec023, fec024: paper in my tent: I’ll] paper; in my tent I’ll Pope.
fec026 strength] Qq. power Ff.
fec027, fec028: My Lord...with me] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fec029 keeps] Ff. keepe Qq.
fec033 good Blunt, before thou go’st] Qq. (good captain) do for me Ff.
fec034 dost thou] doest thou Qq. do you Ff.
fec035 colours] quarters Warburton.
fec037 lies] Q₁ Q₂ F₁ F₃ F₄. liet Q₃ Q₅. lieth Q₄ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. lyes F₂.
fec040 Good......to him] Qq. Sweet Blunt, make some good meanes to speak with him Ff.
fec041 scroll] scrowle Qq. note Ff.
fec042 life] selfe F₂ F₃ F₄.
fec043 And so...to-night] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fec044 Good...gentlemen] Two lines in Ff.
fec046 In to our] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Into our Q₆ Q₇. Into my Ff. In our Q₈. ¶ air] Qq. dew Ff. ¶ [They withdraw...] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ Enter, to his tent...] Capell. SCENE changes back to King Richard’s Tent. Enter... Theobald. ¶ Catesby, and others.] Catesby &c. Q₁ Q₂. Catesby. the rest.
fec047, fec048: What is’t...nine o’clock] Ff. What is a clocke. Cat. It is sixe of clocke, full supper time. Qq (of the Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.) ¶ It’s supper-time...nine o’clock.] As in Pope. One line in Ff.
fec048 It’s nine] It’s six Dyce (Steevens conj.) from Qq. ¶ fec048, fec049: I will...paper.] As in Ff. As one line in Qq.
fec049 Give......paper.] Omitted by Pope.
fec053 charge] charge, away Capell.
fec054 sentinels] Centinels Ff. Centinell Qq.
fec057 [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq.
fec058, fec059: Catesby! Cat. My lord?] As in Pope. Catesby! Rat. My lord. Qq. Ratcliffe. Rat. My lord. Ff.
fec062 [Exit Catesby.] Edd. om. Qq Ff.
fec063 [To Ratcliff. Pope. To Catesby. Capell. ¶ watch] watch-light Keightley conj.
fec065, fec066: Look......Ratcliff] As in Rowe (ed. 2). As one line in Qq Ff.
fec068 Saw’st thou] Qq. Saw’st Ff.
fec070 about] like Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fec072 So, I am] I’m Pope. ¶ fec072–fec075: So, I am...Set] I’m...So, set Capell. I’m...There, set Pope.
fec074 cheer] cleare Q₆ Q₇.
fec076 Leave me. Ratcliff,] and leave me. Pope. So leave me. Keightley conj.
fec077 mid] midst Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fec078 arm me] arme F₃. arm F₄. arm me, Ratcliff Capell. ¶ Leave me] Leave me now Pope. ¶ [Exeunt......] Edd. Exit Ratcliffe. Qq Ff. K. Richard retires into his tent. Exeunt Ratcliffe and Catesby. Malone. ¶ Enter...attending.] Edd. Enter Darby to Richmond in his tent. Qq Ff (Derby Ff).
fec079 SCENE III. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE IV. Pope (ed. 2). ¶ sit] set Q₁.
fec082 Tell me,] Tell me, I pray Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ fares] fares it with Hanmer. ¶ loving] Q₁ Q₂. noble the rest. ¶ mother] mother now Keightley conj.
fec085 that. The] Ff. that the Q₁. that: the the rest.
fec086 And] A Q₆ Q₇.
fec090 mortal-staring] Steevens. mortall staring Qq Ff. mortal-fearing Capell. mortal-scaring Malone conj. mortal starry Becket conj. mortal-staving Jackson conj. mortal-stabbing Staunton conj. mortal-daring Anon. conj.
fec095 brother, tender] Ff. brother tender Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. tender brother Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fec097 Farewell: the leisure] Farewell: The lack of leisure Anon. conj. ¶ leisure] lesion Becket conj.
fec100 sunder’d] sundred Ff Q₇ Q₈. sundried Q₁ Q₂. sundired Q₃ Q₄. sundered Q₅ Q₆.
fec101 us] on Q₇ Q₈. ¶ for] of Q₇ Q₈. ¶ rites] Ff. rights Qq.
fec104 with troubled thoughts] Qq. with troubled noise Ff. troubled with noise Grant White.
fec105 peise] Qq. peize F₁ F₂. poize F₃ F₄.
fec107 gentlemen] gentilemen Q₇. ¶ [Exeunt......] Exeunt. Manet Richmond Ff. Exunt. Q₁ Q₂. Exeunt. the rest.
fec109 on] one Q₇. ¶ forces with a gracious eye] force with thy gracious eyes Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fec111 a] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fec112 helmets] helmet Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fec114 the] Q₁ Q₂ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. thy Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff.
fec117 [Sleeps.] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ Enter...]Enter...young Prince Edward, sonne Harry the sixt, to Ri. Q₁. yoong Prince Edward,... to Ri. Q₂.
fec118 SCENE IV. Between the Tents of Richard and Richmond: They sleeping. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE V. Pope (ed. 2).
fec119 stab’dst] stabb’dst Rowe. stabst Qq. stab’st F₁ F₂. stabb’st F₃ F₄. ¶ my prime] the prime F₃ F₄.
fec120 despair, therefore] therefore despair Pope. ¶ therefore] om. Q₇ Q₈.
fec121 Be...souls] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fec122 butcher’d] Ff. butchered Qq.
fec125 deadly] Q₁. Omitted in the rest.
fec127 Harry] Qq F₁. Henry F₂ F₃ F₄.
fec130 in thy sleep: live] Qq. in sleepe: Live Ff. in sleep: live thou Rowe (ed. 2). in sleep: live, live Anon. conj. in sleep; flourish and live or in thy sleep; now live and flourish or in slumber; live and flourish. Keightley conj.
fec131 sit] set Q₁. ¶ fec131, fec139: on] Q₅ Q₆ Q₈. one Q₇. in the rest.
fec132 wash’d] wak’d Jackson conj. ¶ with] in F₃ F₄.
fec139 Ghost of R.] King. Q₁ Q₂. Riu. the rest. ¶ on] in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. one Q₇.
fec143 lance] hurtless lance Capell. pointless lance Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ despair] Richard, despair Pope.
fec144 Richard’s] Q₁ Ff Q₈. Ri. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Ric. Q₆. Rich. Q₇.
fec145 Will] Wel Q₁. ¶ him] Qq F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄. ¶ Hastings.] Q₁ Q₂. L. Hastings, the other Quartos. Lord Hastings. Ff. See note (XXIV).
fec146 guiltily] Qq F₁. guilty F₂ F₃ F₄.
fec148 despair] and despair Pope. so despair Collier (Collier MS.).
fec149 Quiet...awake!] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fec151 Dream...Tower:] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fec152 lead] Q₁. laid or layd the rest.
fec153 thee] the Q₆ F₃.
fec154 souls bid] Qq F₄. soule bids F₁ F₂ F₃.
fec155 Sleep...joy;] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fec158 Lady Anne.] Q₁ Q₂. Queene Anne, the other Quartos. Anne, his Wife. Ff.
fec159 Richard...wife,] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fec161 perturbations] preturbations Q₁.
fec162, fec163: To-morrow...die!] Spurious; the true lines being lost. Lettsom conj.
fec163 edgeless sword] powerless arm Collier (Collier MS.).
fec164 Thou...sleep:] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fec166 Enter the Ghost...] Enter the Ghosts... F₂.
fec167 The first...crown;] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fec168 thy] the Q₇.
fec173 I...aid:] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ for hope] for holpe Theobald conj. forsoke Hanmer. forholpe Steevens conj. fore-done Tyrwhitt conj. sore hope! Jackson conj.
fec176 falls] Qq. fall Ff. ¶ [The Ghosts vanish.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. ¶ King...dream.] Richard starteth up out of a dreame. Qq (starteth out Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. started out of his Q₇ Q₈). Richard starts out of his dreame. Ff.
fec179 coward] See note (XXV).
fec180 It is now] Q₁. It is not the rest. Is it not Rowe (ed. 2).
fec181 stand] stands Q₅.
fec182–fec203: What do I...to myself?] Ritson would put this passage in the margin. ¶ fec182: What do I fear? myself?] Q₁. What do I feare my selfe? Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. What? do I feare my selfe? Ff.
fec183 Richard...am I] omitted by Pope. ¶ I am I] I and I Q₁.
fec185–fec192: Then fly...flatter.] Put in the margin by Pope. ¶ fec185: fly.] flie, Qq. flye; F₁. flye? F₂ F₃ F₄. ¶ reason why:] reason why, Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. reason whie? Q₁. reason why? Q₂. reason: why? Ff.
fec186 What,] What Qq. What? Ff. om. Capell. ¶ upon] on Pope.
fec187 Alack] om. Pope.
fec188 I] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ have] hath Q₇ Q₈.
fec191 yet] yea Q₈.
fec192 speak well: fool] speak—well Fool Rowe (ed. 1).
fec196 Perjury, perjury] Perjurie, perjurie Q₁ Q₂. Perjurie (once only) the rest. Perjury, foul perjury Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ the] om. Pope.
fec199 Throng] Q₁ Q₂. Throng all the rest. ¶ bar] barrr Q₆. boare Q₈. ¶ crying all] all crying Pope.
fec200 shall] will Pope. ¶ creature] creatuees F₂. creatures F₃.
fec202, fec203: Nay...myself?] Put in the margin by Pope. ¶ fec202: Nay,] Ff. And Qq.
fec204–fec206: Methought...Richard.] See note (XXVI). ¶ fec204: had] Q₁ Ff. om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. have Q₇ Q₈.
fec205 Came] Came all Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. ¶ one] on Q₄.
fec208 ’Zounds! who is] Qq. Who’s Ff.
fec209 Ratcliff] om. Q₇ Q₈. ¶ ’tis I] om. Pope.
fec210 twice] thrice Q₇ Q₈.
fec212–fec214: K. Rich. O Ratcliff...my lord.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
fec213 thinkest] Capell. thinkst Qq.
fec214 O] om. Pope. ¶ O...fear] O Ratcliff, I have dream’d a fearful dream. Collier MS.
fec219 Armed] Arm’d all Cibber’s version.
fec220 It is] Pope. Tis or ’Tis Qq Ff. ¶ fec220, fec221: me;...tents] me,...tents Qq F₁ (me,...tents, Q₈). me,...tents; F₂ F₃ F₄.
fec221 eaves-dropper] F₄. ease dropper Q₁. ewse dropper Q₂. ewse-dropper Q₃. eawse-dropper Q₄. ewese-dropper Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ease-dropper F₁ F₂ F₃.
fec222 see] Q₁ Q₂. heare the rest. ¶ mean to shrink] Qq F₁ F₂ (means to shrinke Q₄). man shrink F₃ F₄. ¶ [Exeunt.] Qq. Exeunt Richard & Ratliffe. Ff. ¶ Enter...] Ff. Enter the Lordes to Richmond. Qq. Richmond wakes. Enter Oxford, and Others, to him. Capell.
fec223 SCENE V. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE IV. Pope, ed. 2 (a misprint). SCENE VI. Warburton.
fec224 Cry mercy] Qq F₁. Cry you mercy F₂ F₃ F₄. I cry you mercy Pope.
fec225 a] om. Q₄.
fec227 The...dreams] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ fairest-boding] Theobald. fairest boding Qq. fairest boading Ff.
fec230 bodies] body Q₇ Q₈.
fec231 cried on victory] Qq Ff. cried out Victory Pope. cried On! Victory Warburton.
fec232 soul] Qq. heart Ff.
fec234 morning] mourning Q₈.
fec236 [arms, and comes forth. Capell. ¶ His Oration...] Qq Ff. To his Troops; who now gather about the Tent. Capell.
fec239 upon] on Pope.
fec242 high-rear’d] high read Q₄.
fec243 Richard except,] Richard, except Q₁ Q₂.
fec248 what] that Q₇ Q₈.
fec249 slaughter’d] Ff. slandered Q₄. slaughtered the rest.
fec250 foil] foile Q₁ Q₂. soile Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. soyle Q₆ F₁ F₂ Q₇ Q₈ F₃. soyl F₄.
fec254 ward] reward Q₈.
fec255 do] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ¶ sweat] sweate Q₁ Q₂. sweare the rest.
fec258 fat] fate Long MS.
fec259 do] stoe F₂.
fec262 quit] Pope. quits Qq Ff.
fec267 attempt] attempt— Seymour conj.
fec269 trumpets] trumpet F₂. ¶ boldly and] boldly Pope. bold Staunton.
fec270 [Exeunt.] Shouts, &c. and Exeunt. Capell. om. QqFf. ¶ Re-enter...] Re-enter Richard, and Ratcliffe; Attendants, and Forces, with them. Capell. Enter King Richard, Rat. &c. Qq. Enter King Richard, Ratcliffe, and Catesby. Ff.
fec271 SCENE VI. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE VII. Pope (ed. 2).
fec275 in the] i’ th’ Pope. ¶ [The clock striketh.] Qq. Clocke strikes. Ff (Clockes F₂).
fec276, fec277: Tell...to-day?] As in Pope. As two lines in QqFf, ending there...to day?
fec279 braved] brac’d Jackson conj.
fec280 will it] it will Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ fec280, fec281: somebody. Ratcliff!] somebody.—Ratcliff,— Capell. some bodie Rat. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. somebody. Ratcliffe. Ff. some body, Q₇. some body. Q₈.
fec281 Ratcliff] Put in a separate line first by Johnson.
fec288 vaunts] vants Q₄.
fec293 shall be drawn out all] battel shall be drawn Hanmer. ¶ out all] Q₁. The rest omit.
fec297 this] Q₁ Q₂. the the rest.
fec298 we] we our self Pope. ¶ follow] follow them Collier (Collier MS.).
fec299 whose puissance] which Pope.
fec301 This...Norfolk] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ boot] bootes Q₁ Q₂. ¶ think’st] think Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ Norfolk] Norffolke Q₁. Nor. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. not Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Norfolke Ff.
fec303 This] This paper Pope. ¶ [He sheweth...] Qq. om. Ff. Giving a Scrowl. Rowe.
fec304 K. Rich. [Reads] Capell. Reads. Rowe. om. QqFf. ¶ too] Capell. to Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. so the rest.
fec306 A thing] Capell. King. A thing QqFf. ¶ [throws it away. Capell.
fec307 every man unto] Qq. every man to Ff. go each man to Pope.
fec308–fec311: Let not...law] Spoken aside, Mason conj.
fec309 Conscience is but] Q₁ Q₂. For conscience is Ff. Conscience is the rest.
fec311 conscience] consciences Q₇. ¶ swords] our swords Q₇ Q₈.
fec312 to ’t] F₄. too ’t F₁ F₂ F₃. to it Q₁ Q₂ Q₈. too it Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
fec314 [His oration...] Qq. Omitted in Ff. turning to his Troops. Capell.
fec315 whom] who Q₇ Q₈. ¶ to cope] in cope Q₇ Q₈.
fec316 rascals, and] rascals, F₂ F₃ F₄. of rascals, Pope.
fec317 Bretons] Capell. Brittains Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Brittaines Q₆ F₁ F₂ Q₇ Q₈. Britains F₃ F₄. Britons Pope.
fec319 ventures and assured] Capell. adventures and assured Qq Ff. adventures and Pope.
fec320 to you] Q₁. you to the rest.
fec322 restrain] distrain Hanmer (Warburton).
fec324 Bretagne] Hanmer. Brittaine Qq. Britaine F₁ F₂. Britain F₃ F₄. ¶ our mother’s] his mother’s Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). our brother’s Capell.
fec325 milk-sop] F₃ F₄. milkesopt Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. milkesope Q₆. milke-sop F₁ F₂ Q₇ Q₈.
fec332 conquer’d] Rowe. conquered Qq Ff.
fec333 these] those Rowe. ¶ bastard Bretons] Capell. bastard Brittains or Brittaines Qq. bastard Britaines F₁. bastard Brittaines F₂. bastard-Britains F₃ F₄. bastard-Britons Pope.
fec335 in record] Q₁ Q₂. on record the rest. ¶ heirs] heire Q₇.
fec336 lands] land Q₈.
fec337 Ravish...drum] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ [Drum...] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ their] there Q₇ Q₈.
fec338 Fight] Q₁ Q₂ Q₈. Right the rest. ¶ bold] Q₁. boldly the rest.
fec339 your] you Q₇.
fec341 Enter......] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
fec343 come] come to you Capell.
fec344 Off] Off instantly Hanmer.
fec351 on] one Q₇. ¶ helms] helmes Q₁ Q₂ Q₄ Q₈. helpes Q₃ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ F₂ Q₇. helps F₃ F₄. ¶ [Exeunt.] Rowe. om. Qq. Ff. Drums, and Exeunt. Capell.
fed001 SCENE IV.] Capell. SCENE VII. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE VIII. Pope (ed. 2). Scene continued in Ff. ¶ Another...] Capell. ¶ Alarum: excursions] Qq Ff. ¶ Enter Norfolk......] Capell. Enter Catesby. Qq Ff. ¶ fed001: Rescue...rescue] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
fed003 Daring an opposite] Daring and opposite Q₈. A daring opposite Warburton conj.
fed006 Alarums...] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ Enter...] Enter Richard. Qq Ff.
fed010 die] day Qq.
fed013 [Exeunt.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.
fee001 SCENE V.] Dyce. Ff, Pope, Capell, &c. continue the Scene. ¶ Another part...] Dyce. ¶ Alarum. Enter...... Re-enter Richmond......] Alarum. Enter...... Enter Richmond...... Ff. Alarum, Enter Richard and Richmond, they fight, Richard is slain then retrait being sounded. Enter Richmond, Darby, bearing the Crowne, with other Lords Qq (Lords, &c. Q₁). See note (XXVII). ¶ fee001: God...friends] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ arms] arme Q₇.
fee002 dog] hog Anon, apud Rann conj.
fee003, &c.: Der.] Stan. Pope. ¶ fee003, fee004: Courageous...royalty] As in Qq. As three lines in Ff, ending Richmond...Loe...Royalties.
fee004 this...royalty] Q₁. this...roialties Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. these...royalties Ff.
fee007 enjoy it] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit. ¶ make much] make use Rowe.
fee009 tell me] tell me first Pope. tell me pray Keightley conj. ¶ young] your son Capell.
fee011 if it please you] Qq (ift Q₈). if you please Ff. if you so please Pope. ¶ if...now] if you please we will withdraw us now Keightley conj. ¶ now] Qq. om. Ff.
fee012 name] Qq F₁ F₂. note F₃ F₄.
fee013, fee014: John...Brandon] As prose in Qq. ¶ fee013: Der.] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ Walter] Ff Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Water Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Walter the Pope. ¶ Ferrers] Capell. Ferris Qq Ff.
fee014 Brakenbury] F₄. Brookenbury Q₁ Q₂. Brokenbury the rest. ¶ and] om. Pope.
fee015 becomes] Rowe. become Qq Ff.
fee020 Smile heaven] Smile, heaven, Anon. conj. ¶ fee020, fee021: heaven...have] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂ F₃. heaven...hath Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ F₄. heavens...have S. Walker conj.
fee025 rashly] madly Capell.
fee026 son....butcher....the] sonnes...butcher...the F₂. sons...butcher...the F₃. sons...butchers...the F₄. sons...butchers...their Johnson. ¶ sire] father Q₈.
fee027, fee028: All...division] Put in the margin by Pope. ¶ fee027: this] that Rann (Johnson conj.). ¶ fee027, fee028: Lancaster, Divided] Lancaster. Divided Grant White.
fee028 Divided in their] Did usher in. Their Anon. conj. ¶ division,] Rann (Johnson conj.). division. Qq Ff.
fee032 their] Q₁ Q₂ Q₈. thy the rest. ¶ thy] they Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fee033 smooth-faced] smooth-fac’d Ff. smooth-faste Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅. smooth-fast Q₄. smooth-fac’t Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
fee034 days] day Rowe (ed. 1).
fee035 Abate] Rebate Collier (Collier MS.).
fee041 here] Q₈ Ff. heare the rest. ¶ [Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq.

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KING RICHARD THE THIRD.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ*.

THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III. ACT I.

faa SCENE I. London. A street.

fab SCENE II. The same. Another street.

fac SCENE III. The palace.

fad SCENE IV. London. The Tower.

ACT II.

fba SCENE I. London. The palace.

fbb SCENE II. The palace.

fbc SCENE III. London. A street.

fbd SCENE IV. London. The palace.

ACT III.

fca SCENE I. London. A street.

fcb SCENE II. Before Lord Hastings’ house.

fcc SCENE III. Pomfret Castle.

fcd SCENE IV. The Tower of London.

fce SCENE V. The Tower-walls.

fcf SCENE VI. The same. A street.

fcg SCENE VII. Baynard’s Castle.

ACT IV.

fda SCENE I. Before the Tower.

fdb SCENE II. London. The Palace.

fdc SCENE III. The same.

fdd SCENE IV. Before the palace.

fde SCENE V. Lord DERBY’S house.

ACT V.

fea SCENE I. Salisbury. An open place.

feb SCENE II. The camp near Tamworth.

fec SCENE III. Bosworth Field.

fed SCENE IV. Another part of the field.

fee SCENE V. Another part of the field.

LINENOTES TO KING RICHARD III.