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ACT IV.

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.
Anne. God give your graces both
A happy and a joyful time of day!

ACT III.

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
Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy:
I want more uncles here to welcome me.
Glou. Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years

ACT II.

Scene I. London. The palace .

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

K. Edw. Why, so: now I have 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;
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.

ACT I.

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;
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;

ACT V.

Scene I. Fields between Dartford and Blackheath .

Enter Y ORK , and his army of Irish, with drum and colours .

York. From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right,
And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head:
Ring, bells, aloud; burn, bonfires, clear and bright,
To entertain great England's lawful king.
Ah! sancta majestas, who would not buy thee dear?
Let them obey that know not how to rule;
This hand was made to handle nought but gold.
I cannot give due action to my words,

ACT IV.

Scene I. The coast of Kent .

Alarum. Fight at sea. Ordnance goes off. Enter a Captain, a Master, a Master's-Mate, W ALTER W HITMORE , and others; with them S UFFOLK , and others, prisoners .

Cap. The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea;
And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades
That drag the tragic melancholy night;
Who, with their drowsy, slow and flagging wings,
Clip dead men's graves and from their misty jaws

ACT III.

Scene I. The Abbey at Bury St Edmund's .

Sound a sennet. Enter the K ING , the Q UEEN , C ARDINAL , B EAUFORT , S UFFOLK , Y ORK , B UCKINGHAM , S ALISBURY and W ARWICK to the Parliament .

King. I muse my Lord of Gloucester is not come:
'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,
Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now,
Queen. Can you not see? or will ye not observe
The strangeness of his alter'd countenance?
With what a majesty he bears himself,
How insolent of late he is become,

Scene I. Saint Alban's.

Enter the K ING , Q UEEN , G LOUCESTER , C ARDINAL , and S UFFOLK , with Falconers halloing.

Queen. Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook,
I saw not better sport these seven years' day:
Yet, by your leave, the wind was very high;
And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out.
King. But what a point, my lord, your falcon made,
And what a pitch she flew above the rest!
To see how God in all his creatures works!
Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high.

ACT I.

Scene I. London. The palace .

Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter the K ING , H UMPHREY , Duke of G LOUCESTER , S ALISBURY , W ARWICK , and Cardinal B EAUFORT , on the one side; the Q UEEN , S UFFOLK , York , S OMERSET , and B UCKINGHAM , on the other .

Suf. As by your high imperial majesty
I had in charge at my depart from France,
As procurator to your excellence,
To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,
So, in the famous ancient city of Tours,

ACT V.

Scene I. London. The palace.

Sennet. Enter KING , GLOUCESTER , and EXETER .

King. Have you perused the letters from the pope,
The emperor and the Earl of Armagnac?
Glou. I have, my lord: and their intent is this:
They humbly sue unto your excellence
To have a godly peace concluded of
Between the realms of England and of France.
King. How doth your grace affect their motion?
Glou. Well, my good lord; and as the only means
To stop effusion of our Christian blood
And stablish quietness on every side.