Uncharitably with me have you dealt, And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd. Q. Mar. O princely Buckingham, I kiss thy hand, 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, Sin, death, and hell, have set their marks on him ; Glo. What doth she say, my lord of Buckingham? Q. Mar. What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel ? And sooth the devil that I warn thee from? O, but remember this another day, 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. 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. For had I curs'd now, I had curs'd myself. Enter CATESBY. Cates. Madam, his majesty doth call for you,— And for your grace,—and you, my noble lords. [Aside. 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; 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. 8 done scath to us.] Scath is harm, mischief. + Mr. Malone omits upon. Enter Two Murderers. But soft, here come my executioners.- 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. May move your hearts to pity, if you mark him. 1 Murd. Tut, tut, my lord, we will not stand to prate, Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd, We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. Glo. Your eyes drop mill-stones, when fools' eyes drop tears': I like you, lads ;-about your business straight; Brak. Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? Clar. O, I have pass'd a miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, That, as I am a christian faithful man', 9 Your eyes drop mill-stones, when fools' eyes drop tears :] This, I believe, is a proverbial expression. STEEVENS. I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days; 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 toward 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. VOL. VI. Ꭰ But smother'd it within my panting bulk3, I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Brak. No marvel, lord, though it affrighted you; Clar. O, Brakenbury, I have done these things,- For Edward's sake; and, see, how he requites me!- 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. |