And may direct his courfe as please himself.
As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,
In my opinion ought to be prevented.

Glo. I hope, the King made peace with all of us s And the compact is firm, and true in me.

Riv. And fo in me; and fo, I think, in all.
Yet fince it is but green, it fhould be put
To no apparent likelihood of breach,

Which, haply, by much company might be urg'd
Therefore I fay, with noble Buckingham,

That it is meet fo few fhould fetch the Prince.
Haft. And fo fay I.

Glo. Then be it fo; and go we to determine,
Who they shall be that strait shall post to Ludlow.
-Madam, and you my fifter, will you go,
To give your cenfures in this weighty business?

[Exeunts [Manent Buckingham and Gloucester. Buck. My Lord, whoever journies to the Prince, For God's fake, let not us Two stay at home; For by the way, I'll fort occafion,

As index to the ftory we late talk'd of,

To part the Queen's proud kindred from the Prince.
Glo. My other felf, my counfel's confistory,

My oracle, my prophet;My dear cousin,
I, as a child, will go by thy direction.

Tow'rd Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind.

[Exeunt.

Changes to a Street near the Court.

Enter one Citizen at one door, and another at the other.

1 Cit.

OOD morrow, neighbour, whither away fo fast?

2 Cit. I promife you, I hardly know myself:

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Hear

Hear you the news abroad?

1. Cit. Yes, the King's dead.

2 Cit. Ill News, by'r lady; feldom comes a better: I fear, I fear, 'twill prove a giddy world.

Enter another Citizen.

3 Cit. Neighbours, God speed!

1 Cit. Give you good morrow, Sir.

3 Cit. Doth the news hold of good King Edward's death?

2 Cit. Ay, Sir, it is too true; God help, the while!

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Cit. Then, mafters, look to fee a troublous world. 1 Cit. No, no, by God's good grace his fon fhall reign. 3 Git. Wo to that Land that's govern'd by a child! 2 Cit. In him there is a hope of government,

* Which in his nonage, council under him,
And, in his full and ripen'd years himself,
No doubt fhall then, and till then, govern well.
1 Cit. So ftood the State, when Henry the fixth
Was crown'd in Paris, but at nine months old.

3

Cit. Stood the State fo? no, no, good friends,
God wot;

For then this Land was famously enrich'd

With politick grave counfel; then the King
Had virtuous Uncles to protect his Grace.

1 Cit. Why, fo hath this, both by his father and mother.

3 Cit. Better it were they all came by his father, Or by his father there were none at all:

For emulation, who fhall now be nearest,
Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.
O, full of danger is the Duke of Glofter;

And the Queen's fons and brothers haughty, proud;
And were they to be rul'd, and not to rule,

* Which in his nonage.] The word which has no antecedent, nor can the fenfe or connection be easily restored by any change.

I believe a line to be loft in which fome mention was made of the Land or the People.

This fickly land might folace as before.

1 Cit. Come, come, we fear the worst; all will be well.

3 Cit. When clouds are feen, wife men put on their cloaks?

When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
When the Sun fets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.
All may be well; but if God fort it fo,
'Tis more than we deferve or I expect.

2 Cit. Truly, the hearts of men are full of fear,
You cannot reafon almost with a man
That looks not heavily, and full of dread.

3 Cit. Before the days of change, still is it fo;
By a divine inftinct men's minds mistrust
Enfuing danger; as by proof we fee,

The waters fwell before a boift'rous storm.
But leave it all to God. Whither away?

2 Cit. Marry, we were fent for to the juftices.
Cit. And fo was I, I'll bear you company. [Exeunt.

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SCENE V.

Changes to the Court.

Enter Archbishop of York, the young Duke of York, the Queen, and the Dutchess of York.

Arch.

I

Heard, they lay the last night at Northamp

ton,

At Stony Stratford they do reft to night;

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

Dutch. I long with all my heart to fee the Prince;
I hope, he is much grown fince last I saw him.
Queen. But I hear, not; they fay, my son of York
Has almoft over-ta'en him in his growth.

York. Ay, mother, but I would not have it fo.
Dutch. Why, my young Coufin, it is good to grow.
York. Grandam, one night as we did fit at fupper,

My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow

More than my brother. Ay, quoth my uncle Glofter,
Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.
And fince, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Because fweet flow'rs are flow, and weeds make hafte,
Dutch. Good faith, good faith, the faying did not

hold

In him, that did object the fame to thee.

2

He was the wretched'ft thing, when he was young; So long a growing, and fo leifurely,

That, if his Rule were true, he fhould be gracious, York. And fo, no doubt, he is, my gracious Madam. Dutch. I hope, he is; but yet let mothers doubt. York. Now, by my troth, if I had been re

member'd

I could have giv'n my Uncle's Grace a flout
To touch his growth, nearer than he touch'd mine.
Dutch. How, my young York? I pr'ythee, let me

hear it.

York. Marry, they say, my uncle grew so fast, That he could gnaw a cruft at two hours old; 'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth, Grandam, this would have been a biting jeft.

Dutch. I pr'ythee, pretty York, who told thee this? York. Grandam, his nurse.

Dutch. His nurfe! why, fhe was dead ere thou waft born.

Tark. If 'twere not the, I cannot tell who told me. Queen. A per'lous boy-go to, you are too fhrewd, Dutch. Good Madam, be not angry with a child. Queen. Pitchers have ears,

the wretched't thing.] 8 Been remembered.] To be reWretched is here used in a fenfemembered is in Shakespeare, to have yet retained in familiar language, one's memory quick, to have for paltry, pitiful, being below one's thoughts about one. Expectation.

Enter

Enter a Meffenger.

Arch. Here comes a Meffenger: what news?

Mef. Such news, my Lord, as grieves me to report. Queen. How doth the Prince?

Mef. Well, Madam, and in health.

Dutch. What is thy news?

Mef. Lord Rivers and Lord Gray are fent to Pomfret, With them, Sir Thomas Vaughan, prifoners.

Dutch. Who hath committed them?

Mef. The mighty Dukes,

Glofter and Buckingham.

*

Queen. For what offence?

Mef. The fum of all I can, I have difclos'd: Why, or for what, the Nobles were committed, Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.

Queen. Ah me! I fee the ruin of my houfe;
The tyger now hath feiz'd the gentle hind.
Infulting tyranny begins to jut

Upon the innocent and + awless throne?
Welcome, deftruction, blood and maffacre!
I fee, as in a map, the end of all.

Dutch. Accurfed and unquiet wrangling days!
How many of you have mine eyes beheld;
My husband loft his life to get the Crown,
And often up and down my fons were toft,
For me to joy, and weep, their gain, and lofs.
And being feated, and domeftick broils
Clean over-blown, themfelves the Conquerors
Make war upon themselves, blood against blood,
Self against felf; O most prepofterous
And frantick outrage; end thy damned spleen;
? Or let me die, to look on death no more.

For what offence?] This queftion is given to the Archbishop in former copies, but the meffenger plainly fpeaks to the Queen or Dutche fs.

Queen.

awe, not reverenced. To jut upon, is to encroach.

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Awless.] Not producing_firft Edition put out by the Players,

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