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 this world, Thou cacodæmon! there thy kingdom is. Riv. My lord of Gloster, in those busy days, Q. Eliz. As little joy, my lord, as you suppose That I enjoy, being the queen thereof. Q. Mar. A little joy enjoys the queen thereof; I can no longer hold me patient.- [Advancing. Glo. Foul wrinkled witch, what mak'st thou in my sight? Q. Mar. But repetition of what thou hast marr'd; That will I make, before I let thee go. Glo. Wert thou not banished, on pain of death? Q. Mar. I was; but I do find more pain in banish ment, Than death can yield me here by my abode'. A husband, and a son, thou ow'st to me,— 6 5 our SOVEREIGN king ;] So the folio: the quarto, “lawful king.” 1 BEING queen,] So the quartos: the folio, less intelligibly, “I am queen." 7 Than death can yield me here by my abode.] Gloster's question and queen Margaret's reply, thus far, are only in the folio. And thou, a kingdom;-all of you, allegiance: Glo. The curse my noble father laid on thee, When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper, And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes; And then, to dry them, gav'st the duke a clout Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland ;His curses, then from bitterness of soul Denounc'd against thee, are all fallen upon thee; And God, not we, hath plagu'd 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. Riv. Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported. Dors. 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, And turn you all your hatred now on me? Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven, Long may'st thou live, to wail thy children's death; 9 - to wail thy children's DEATH ;] So the folio: the quartos, loss, which seems less forcible. Above, the quartos have "my son" for "our son." VOL. V. B b Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine! But by some unlook'd accident cut off! Glo. 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, Glo. Margaret. Thou rag of honour thou detested- -] In all the quarto copies, " &c." follows "detested," rather needlessly, to show that the sentence was incomplete. The folio prints it as in our text. Glo. I cry thee mercy then; for I did think, Glo. 'Tis done by me, and ends in—Margaret. Q. Eliz. Thus have you breath'd your curse against yourself. Q. Mar. Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune; Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider, Q. Mar. Foul shame upon you; you have all mov'd mine. Riv. Were you well serv'd, 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. Q. Mar. Peace, master marquess! you are malapert: They that stand high have many blasts to shake them, And if they fall they dash themselves to pieces. Glo. Good counsel, marry :—learn it, learn it, mar quess. Dor. It touches you, my lord, as much as me. Glo. Ay, and much more; but I was born so high: Our eyry buildeth in the cedar's top, And dallies with the wind, and scorns the sun. Q. Mar. And turns the sun to shade,-alas! alas!- Your eyry buildeth in our eyry's nest.— Buck. Peace, peace! for shame, if not for charity. Q. Mar. Urge neither charity nor shame to me: Uncharitably with me Have you dealt, And shamefully my hopes by you are butcher'd. And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage! 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! Buck. Nor no one here; for curses never pass O Buckingham! take heed of yonder dog : Look, when he fawns, he bites; and, when he bites, Have not to do with him, beware of him; Glo. What doth she say, my lord of Buckingham? 1 As it was won] The folio, less correctly," As it is won." 2 I will not THINK-] The quartos have, "I'll not believe." 3 will RANKLE TO THE death:] The quarto, 1597, has, "will rackle thee to death," &c.; the later quartos, "will rankle thee to death." That of the folio is doubtless the true reading. |