Q. ELIZ. Ah me, I see the ruin of my house! Upon the innocent and awless throne: DUCH. Accursed and unquiet wrangling days, Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors, Q. ELIZ. Come, come, my boy, we will to sanctuary. DUCH. Stay, I will go with you. Q. ELIZ. You have no cause. ARCH. My gracious lady, go, [To the QUEEN And thither bear your treasure and your goods. For my part, I'll resign unto your grace The seal I keep: And so betide to me, [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I.-London. A Street. The trumpets sound. Enter the PRINCE OF WALES, GLOSTER, BUCKINGHAM, CARDINAL BOUCHIER, and others. BUCK. Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your chamber. GLO. 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. GLO. Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit: No more can you distinguish of a man Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart. Those uncles which you want were dangerous; Your grace attended to their sugar'd words, But look'd not on the poison of their hearts: God keep you from them, and from such false friends! PRINCE. God keep me from false friends! but they were none. GLO. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. Enter the Lord Mayor, and his Train. MAY. God bless your grace with health and happy days! PRINCE. I thank you, good my lord;—and thank you all.— [Exeunt Mayor, &c. I thought my mother and my brother York Enter HASTINGS, BUCK. And in good time, here comes the sweating lord. The queen your mother, and your brother York, BUCK. Fie! what an indirect and peevish course If she deny, lord Hastings, go with him, And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce. CARD. My lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory Can from his mother win the duke of York, BUCK. You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord, Too ceremonious and traditional: Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, To those whose dealings have deserv'd the place, Oft have I heard of sanctuary men; But sanctuary children ne'er till now. CARD. My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once. Come on, lord Hastings, will you go with me? HAST. I go, my lord. PRINCE. Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may. [Exeunt CARDINAL and HASTINGS Say, uncle Gloster, if our brother come, Where shall we sojourn till our coronation? GLO. Where it seems best unto your royal self. If I may counsel you, some day or two Your highness shall repose you at the Tower: PRINCE. I do not like the Tower, of any place:— GLO. He did, my gracious lord, begin that place; PRINCE. But say, my lord, it were not register'd; As 't were retail'd to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day. GLO. So wise so young, they say, do never live long. PRINCE. What say you, uncle? GLO. I say, without characters, fame lives long. Thus, like the formal Vice Iniquity, I moralise two meanings in one word. } PRINCE. That Julius Cæsar was a famous man: PRINCE. An if I live until I be a man, [Aside. [Aside. GLO. Short summers lightly have a forward spring. [Aside, Enter YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL. BUCK. Now, in good time, here comes the duke of York. GLO. How fares our cousin, noble lord of York? YORK. Then he is more beholden to you than I. have power in me, as in a kinsman. YORK. Of my kind uncle, that I know will give; GLO. A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin. YORK. O then, I see, you will part but with light gifts; In weightier things you 'll say a beggar, nay. GLO. It is too weighty for your grace to wear. YORK. I weigh it lightly, were it heavier. GLO. What, would you have my weapon, little lord? YORK. I would, that I might thank you as you call me. GLO. How? YORK. Little. PRINCE. My lord of York will still be cross in talk; Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him. YORK. You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me: Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me; Because that I am little, like an ape, He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders. He prettily and aptly taunts himself: So cunning, and so young, is wonderful. GLO. My lord, will 't please you pass along? To meet you at the Tower, and welcome you. YORK. What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord? YORK. Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost; GLO. Nor none that live, I hope. PRINCE. An if they live, I hope I need not fear. But come, my lord, and, with a heavy heart, Thinking on. them, go I unto the Tower. [Exeunt PRINCE, YORK, HASTINGS, CARDINAL, and Attendants. |