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<LINE>And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>DORSET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,</LINE>
<LINE>Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top,</LINE>
<LINE>And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas!</LINE>
<LINE>Witness my son, now in the shade of death;</LINE>
<LINE>Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath</LINE>
<LINE>Hath in eternal darkness folded up.</LINE>
<LINE>Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.</LINE>
<LINE>O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!</LINE>
<LINE>As it was won with blood, lost be it so!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BUCKINGHAM</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Have done! for shame, if not for charity.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Urge neither charity nor shame to me:</LINE>
<LINE>Uncharitably with me have you dealt,</LINE>
<LINE>And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd.</LINE>
<LINE>My charity is outrage, life my shame</LINE>
<LINE>And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BUCKINGHAM</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Have done, have done.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>O princely Buckingham I'll kiss thy hand,</LINE>
<LINE>In sign of league and amity with thee:</LINE>
<LINE>Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!</LINE>
<LINE>Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,</LINE>
<LINE>Nor thou within the compass of my curse.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BUCKINGHAM</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Nor no one here; for curses never pass</LINE>
<LINE>The lips of those that breathe them in the air.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I'll not believe but they ascend the sky,</LINE>
<LINE>And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace.</LINE>
<LINE>O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!</LINE>
<LINE>Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,</LINE>
<LINE>His venom tooth will rankle to the death:</LINE>
<LINE>Have not to do with him, beware of him;</LINE>
<LINE>Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,</LINE>
<LINE>And all their ministers attend on him.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BUCKINGHAM</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN MARGARET</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?</LINE>
<LINE>And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?</LINE>
<LINE>O, but remember this another day,</LINE>
<LINE>When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,</LINE>
<LINE>And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!</LINE>
<LINE>Live each of you the subjects to his hate,</LINE>
<LINE>And he to yours, and all of you to God's!</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>HASTINGS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>RIVERS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,</LINE>
<LINE>She hath had too much wrong; and I repent</LINE>
<LINE>My part thereof that I have done to her.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN ELIZABETH</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I never did her any, to my knowledge.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>But you have all the vantage of her wrong.</LINE>
<LINE>I was too hot to do somebody good,</LINE>
<LINE>That is too cold in thinking of it now.</LINE>
<LINE>Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,</LINE>
<LINE>He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains</LINE>
<LINE>God pardon them that are the cause of it!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>RIVERS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,</LINE>
<LINE>To pray for them that have done scathe to us.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>So do I ever:</LINE>
<STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>
<LINE>being well-advised.</LINE>
<LINE>For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>Enter CATESBY</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>CATESBY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Madam, his majesty doth call for you,</LINE>
<LINE>And for your grace; and you, my noble lords.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>QUEEN ELIZABETH</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>RIVERS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Madam, we will attend your grace.</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.</LINE>
<LINE>The secret mischiefs that I set abroach</LINE>
<LINE>I lay unto the grievous charge of others.</LINE>
<LINE>Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,</LINE>
<LINE>I do beweep to many simple gulls</LINE>
<LINE>Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;</LINE>
<LINE>And say it is the queen and her allies</LINE>
<LINE>That stir the king against the duke my brother.</LINE>
<LINE>Now, they believe it; and withal whet me</LINE>
<LINE>To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:</LINE>
<LINE>But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,</LINE>
<LINE>Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:</LINE>
<LINE>And thus I clothe my naked villany</LINE>
<LINE>With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;</LINE>
<LINE>And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.</LINE>
<STAGEDIR>Enter two Murderers</STAGEDIR>
<LINE>But, soft! here come my executioners.</LINE>
<LINE>How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates!</LINE>
<LINE>Are you now going to dispatch this deed?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>First Murderer</SPEAKER>
<LINE>We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant</LINE>
<LINE>That we may be admitted where he is.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Well thought upon; I have it here about me.</LINE>
<STAGEDIR>Gives the warrant</STAGEDIR>
<LINE>When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.</LINE>
<LINE>But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,</LINE>
<LINE>Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;</LINE>
<LINE>For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps</LINE>
<LINE>May move your hearts to pity if you mark him.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>First Murderer</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Tush!</LINE>
<LINE>Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;</LINE>
<LINE>Talkers are no good doers: be assured</LINE>
<LINE>We come to use our hands and not our tongues.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>GLOUCESTER</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears:</LINE>
<LINE>I like you, lads; about your business straight;</LINE>
<LINE>Go, go, dispatch.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>First Murderer</SPEAKER>
<LINE>We will, my noble lord.</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
</SCENE>

<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE IV.  London. The Tower.</TITLE>
<STAGEDIR>Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Why looks your grace so heavily today?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>CLARENCE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>O, I have pass'd a miserable night,</LINE>
<LINE>So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,</LINE>
<LINE>That, as I am a Christian faithful man,</LINE>
<LINE>I would not spend another such a night,</LINE>
<LINE>Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,</LINE>
<LINE>So full of dismal terror was the time!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>CLARENCE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,</LINE>
<LINE>And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy;</LINE>
<LINE>And, in my company, my brother Gloucester;</LINE>
<LINE>Who from my cabin tempted me to walk</LINE>
<LINE>Upon the hatches: thence we looked toward England,</LINE>
<LINE>And cited up a thousand fearful times,</LINE>
<LINE>During the wars of York and Lancaster</LINE>
<LINE>That had befall'n us. As we paced along</LINE>
<LINE>Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,</LINE>
<LINE>Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling,</LINE>
<LINE>Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,</LINE>
<LINE>Into the tumbling billows of the main.</LINE>
<LINE>Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!</LINE>
<LINE>What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!</LINE>
<LINE>What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!</LINE>
<LINE>Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;</LINE>
<LINE>Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon;</LINE>
<LINE>Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,</LINE>
<LINE>Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,</LINE>
<LINE>All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea:</LINE>
<LINE>Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes</LINE>
<LINE>Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,</LINE>
<LINE>As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,</LINE>
<LINE>Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep,</LINE>
<LINE>And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Had you such leisure in the time of death</LINE>
<LINE>To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>CLARENCE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Methought I had; and often did I strive</LINE>
<LINE>To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood</LINE>
<LINE>Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth</LINE>
<LINE>To seek the empty, vast and wandering air;</LINE>
<LINE>But smother'd it within my panting bulk,</LINE>
<LINE>Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Awaked you not with this sore agony?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>CLARENCE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>O, no, my dream was lengthen'd after life;</LINE>
<LINE>O, then began the tempest to my soul,</LINE>
<LINE>Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood,</LINE>
<LINE>With that grim ferryman which poets write of,</LINE>
<LINE>Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.</LINE>
<LINE>The first that there did greet my stranger soul,</LINE>
<LINE>Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick;</LINE>
<LINE>Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury</LINE>
<LINE>Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?'</LINE>
<LINE>And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by</LINE>
<LINE>A shadow like an angel, with bright hair</LINE>
<LINE>Dabbled in blood; and he squeak'd out aloud,</LINE>
<LINE>'Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,</LINE>
<LINE>That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury;</LINE>
<LINE>Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!'</LINE>
<LINE>With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends</LINE>
<LINE>Environ'd me about, and howled in mine ears</LINE>
<LINE>Such hideous cries, that with the very noise</LINE>
<LINE>I trembling waked, and for a season after</LINE>
<LINE>Could not believe but that I was in hell,</LINE>
<LINE>Such terrible impression made the dream.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you;</LINE>
<LINE>I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>CLARENCE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>O Brakenbury, I have done those things,</LINE>
<LINE>Which now bear evidence against my soul,</LINE>
<LINE>For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!</LINE>
<LINE>O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,</LINE>
<LINE>But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,</LINE>
<LINE>Yet execute thy wrath in me alone,</LINE>
<LINE>O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!</LINE>
<LINE>I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me;</LINE>
<LINE>My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest!</LINE>
<STAGEDIR>CLARENCE sleeps</STAGEDIR>
<LINE>Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,</LINE>
<LINE>Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night.</LINE>
<LINE>Princes have but their tides for their glories,</LINE>
<LINE>An outward honour for an inward toil;</LINE>
<LINE>And, for unfelt imagination,</LINE>
<LINE>They often feel a world of restless cares:</LINE>
<LINE>So that, betwixt their tides and low names,</LINE>
<LINE>There's nothing differs but the outward fame.</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>Enter the two Murderers</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>First Murderer</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Ho! who's here?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>In God's name what are you, and how came you hither?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>First Murderer</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Yea, are you so brief?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>Second Murderer</SPEAKER>
<LINE>O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. Show</LINE>
<LINE>him our commission; talk no more.</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>BRAKENBURY reads it</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>BRAKENBURY</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I am, in this, commanded to deliver</LINE>
<LINE>The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:</LINE>
<LINE>I will not reason what is meant hereby,</LINE>
<LINE>Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.</LINE>
<LINE>Here are the keys,