rich_iii.xml

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<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,</LINE>
<LINE>That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:</LINE>
<LINE>Since every Jack became a gentleman</LINE>
<LINE>There's many a gentle person made a Jack.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN ELIZABETH</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Come, come, we know your meaning, brother</LINE>
<LINE>Gloucester;</LINE>
<LINE>You envy my advancement and my friends':</LINE>
<LINE>God grant we never may have need of you!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Meantime, God grants that we have need of you:</LINE>
<LINE>Your brother is imprison'd by your means,</LINE>
<LINE>Myself disgraced, and the nobility</LINE>
<LINE>Held in contempt; whilst many fair promotions</LINE>
<LINE>Are daily given to ennoble those</LINE>
<LINE>That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN ELIZABETH</SPEAKER>
<LINE>By Him that raised me to this careful height</LINE>
<LINE>From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,</LINE>
<LINE>I never did incense his majesty</LINE>
<LINE>Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been</LINE>
<LINE>An earnest advocate to plead for him.</LINE>
<LINE>My lord, you do me shameful injury,</LINE>
<LINE>Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>You may deny that you were not the cause</LINE>
<LINE>Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>RIVERS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>She may, my lord, for--</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?</LINE>
<LINE>She may do more, sir, than denying that:</LINE>
<LINE>She may help you to many fair preferments,</LINE>
<LINE>And then deny her aiding hand therein,</LINE>
<LINE>And lay those honours on your high deserts.</LINE>
<LINE>What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she--</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>RIVERS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What, marry, may she?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What, marry, may she! marry with a king,</LINE>
<LINE>A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:</LINE>
<LINE>I wis your grandam had a worser match.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN ELIZABETH</SPEAKER>
<LINE>My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne</LINE>
<LINE>Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:</LINE>
<LINE>By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty</LINE>
<LINE>With those gross taunts I often have endured.</LINE>
<LINE>I had rather be a country servant-maid</LINE>
<LINE>Than a great queen, with this condition,</LINE>
<LINE>To be thus taunted, scorn'd, and baited at:</LINE>
<STAGEDIR>Enter QUEEN MARGARET, behind</STAGEDIR>
<LINE>Small joy have I in being England's queen.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And lessen'd be that small, God, I beseech thee!</LINE>
<LINE>Thy honour, state and seat is due to me.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What! threat you me with telling of the king?</LINE>
<LINE>Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said</LINE>
<LINE>I will avouch in presence of the king:</LINE>
<LINE>I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower.</LINE>
<LINE>'Tis time to speak; my pains are quite forgot.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Out, devil! I remember them too well:</LINE>
<LINE>Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower,</LINE>
<LINE>And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king,</LINE>
<LINE>I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;</LINE>
<LINE>A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,</LINE>
<LINE>A liberal rewarder of his friends:</LINE>
<LINE>To royalize his blood I spilt mine own.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Yea, and much better blood than his or thine.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>In all which time you and your husband Grey</LINE>
<LINE>Were factious for the house of Lancaster;</LINE>
<LINE>And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband</LINE>
<LINE>In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain?</LINE>
<LINE>Let me put in your minds, if you forget,</LINE>
<LINE>What you have been ere now, and what you are;</LINE>
<LINE>Withal, what I have been, and what I am.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>A murderous villain, and so still thou art.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick;</LINE>
<LINE>Yea, and forswore himself,--which Jesu pardon!--</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Which God revenge!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>To fight on Edward's party for the crown;</LINE>
<LINE>And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up.</LINE>
<LINE>I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's;</LINE>
<LINE>Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine</LINE>
<LINE>I am too childish-foolish for this world.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world,</LINE>
<LINE>Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>RIVERS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days</LINE>
<LINE>Which here you urge to prove us enemies,</LINE>
<LINE>We follow'd then our lord, our lawful king:</LINE>
<LINE>So should we you, if you should be our king.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar:</LINE>
<LINE>Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN ELIZABETH</SPEAKER>
<LINE>As little joy, my lord, as you suppose</LINE>
<LINE>You should enjoy, were you this country's king,</LINE>
<LINE>As little joy may you suppose in me.</LINE>
<LINE>That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>A little joy enjoys the queen thereof;</LINE>
<LINE>For I am she, and altogether joyless.</LINE>
<LINE>I can no longer hold me patient.</LINE>
<STAGEDIR>Advancing</STAGEDIR>
<LINE>Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out</LINE>
<LINE>In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!</LINE>
<LINE>Which of you trembles not that looks on me?</LINE>
<LINE>If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,</LINE>
<LINE>Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels?</LINE>
<LINE>O gentle villain, do not turn away!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;</LINE>
<LINE>That will I make before I let thee go.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Wert thou not banished on pain of death?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I was; but I do find more pain in banishment</LINE>
<LINE>Than death can yield me here by my abode.</LINE>
<LINE>A husband and a son thou owest to me;</LINE>
<LINE>And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:</LINE>
<LINE>The sorrow that I have, by right is yours,</LINE>
<LINE>And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>The curse my noble father laid on thee,</LINE>
<LINE>When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper</LINE>
<LINE>And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,</LINE>
<LINE>And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout</LINE>
<LINE>Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland--</LINE>
<LINE>His curses, then from bitterness of soul</LINE>
<LINE>Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee;</LINE>
<LINE>And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN ELIZABETH</SPEAKER>
<LINE>So just is God, to right the innocent.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>HASTINGS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,</LINE>
<LINE>And the most merciless that e'er was heard of!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>RIVERS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>DORSET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>No man but prophesied revenge for it.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BUCKINGHAM</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What were you snarling all before I came,</LINE>
<LINE>Ready to catch each other by the throat,</LINE>
<LINE>And turn you all your hatred now on me?</LINE>
<LINE>Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven?</LINE>
<LINE>That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,</LINE>
<LINE>Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment,</LINE>
<LINE>Could all but answer for that peevish brat?</LINE>
<LINE>Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?</LINE>
<LINE>Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!</LINE>
<LINE>If not by war, by surfeit die your king,</LINE>
<LINE>As ours by murder, to make him a king!</LINE>
<LINE>Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales,</LINE>
<LINE>For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales,</LINE>
<LINE>Die in his youth by like untimely violence!</LINE>
<LINE>Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,</LINE>
<LINE>Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!</LINE>
<LINE>Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss;</LINE>
<LINE>And see another, as I see thee now,</LINE>
<LINE>Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine!</LINE>
<LINE>Long die thy happy days before thy death;</LINE>
<LINE>And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief,</LINE>
<LINE>Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen!</LINE>
<LINE>Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by,</LINE>
<LINE>And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son</LINE>
<LINE>Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him,</LINE>
<LINE>That none of you may live your natural age,</LINE>
<LINE>But by some unlook'd accident cut off!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.</LINE>
<LINE>If heaven have any grievous plague in store</LINE>
<LINE>Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,</LINE>
<LINE>O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,</LINE>
<LINE>And then hurl down their indignation</LINE>
<LINE>On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace!</LINE>
<LINE>The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!</LINE>
<LINE>Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,</LINE>
<LINE>And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!</LINE>
<LINE>No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,</LINE>
<LINE>Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream</LINE>
<LINE>Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!</LINE>
<LINE>Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!</LINE>
<LINE>Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity</LINE>
<LINE>The slave of nature and the son of hell!</LINE>
<LINE>Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb!</LINE>
<LINE>Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!</LINE>
<LINE>Thou rag of honour! thou detested--</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Margaret.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Richard!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Ha!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I call thee not.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought</LINE>
<LINE>That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Why, so I did; but look'd for no reply.</LINE>
<LINE>O, let me make the period to my curse!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>'Tis done by me, and ends in 'Margaret.'</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN ELIZABETH</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune!</LINE>
<LINE>Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider,</LINE>
<LINE>Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?</LINE>
<LINE>Fool, fool! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself.</LINE>
<LINE>The time will come when thou shalt wish for me</LINE>
<LINE>To help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>HASTINGS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,</LINE>
<LINE>Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>RIVERS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>To serve me well, you all should do me duty,</LINE>
<LINE>Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:</LINE>
<LINE>O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>DORSET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Peace, master marquess, you are malapert:</LINE>
<LINE>Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.</LINE>
<LINE>O, that your young nobility could judge</LINE>
<LINE>What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable!</LINE>
<LINE>They that stand high have many blasts to shake them;</LINE>