Uncharitably with me have you dealt, And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd. And in my shame still live my sorrow's rage! Q. Mar. O princely Buckingham, I kiss thy hand, In sign of league and amity with thee: Now fair befal thee, and thy noble house! Buck. Nor no one here; for curses never pass Q. Mar. I'll not believe but they ascend the sky, Look, when he fawns, he bites; and, when he bites, Glo. What does she say, my lord of Buckingham? And sooth the devil that I warn thee from? O, but remember this another day, When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow; [Exit. Hast. My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses. Riv. And so doth mine; I muse, why she's at liberty. Glo. 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. Glo. Yet you have all the vantage of her wrong. I was too hot to do some body good, That is too cold in thinking of it now. 8 Riv. A virtuous and a christian-like conclusion, Enter CATESBY. [Aside. Cates. Madam, his majesty doth call for you, — And for your grace, and you, my noble lords. Q. Eliz. Catesby, I come: - Lords, will you go with me? Riv. Madam, we will attend upon + your grace. [Exeunt all but GLOSTER. Glo. I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach, I lay unto the grievous charge of others. Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,— Namely, to Stanley, Hastings, Buckingham; And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; 7 He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains:] A frank is an old English word for a hog-sty or pen. 'Tis possible he uses this metaphor to Clarence, in allusion to the crest of the family of York, which was a boar. done scath to us.] Scath is harm, mischief. + Mr. Malone omits upon. Enter Two Murderers. But soft, here come my executioners. How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates? 1 Murd. We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant, That we may be admitted where he is. Glo. Well thought upon, I have it here about me: [Gives the Warrant, When you have done, repair to Crosby-place. But, sirs, be sudden in the execution, May move your hearts to pity, if you mark him. We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. Glo. Your eyes drop mill-stones, when fools' eyes drop tears: 9 Brak. Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, 9 Your eyes drop mill-stones, when fools' eyes drop tears:] This, I believe, is a proverbial expression. STEEVENS. 1 - faithful man,] Not an infidel. I would not spend another such a night, Brak. What was your dream, my lord? I pray you, tell me. Clar. Methought, that I had broken from the Tower, And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy; And, in my company, my brother Gloster: Upon the hatches; thence we look'd towards England, Methought, that Gloster stumbled; and, in falling, O Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Clar. Methought, I had; and often did I strive unvalued jewels,] Unvalued is here used for invaluable. But smother'd it within my panting bulk,3 Brak. Awak'd you not with this sore agony? I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Clar. O, Brakenbury, I have done these things, That now give evidence against my soul, For Edward's sake; and, see, how he requites meO God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee, But thou wilt be aveng'd on my misdeeds, Yet execute thy wrath on 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. 3 within my panting bulk,] Bulk is often used by Shakspeare and his contemporaries for body. |