Your brother's fon fhall never reign our king; [Exeunt. CAT. Call them again, fweet prince, accept their fuits; If you deny them, all the land will rue it. GLO. Will you inforce me to a world of cares? Exit. Re-enter Buckingham and the reft. MAY. God bless your grace; we fee it, and will fay it. BUCK. To-morrow may it please you to be crown'd? GLO. Ev'n when you pleafe, for you will have it fo. Buck. To morrow then we will attend your grace, And fo moft joyfully we take our leave. GLO. [To the clergymen,] Come, let us to our holy work again. —Farewel, my coufin; farewel, gentle friends. [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I Before the Tower. Enter queen, dutchess of York, and marquis of Dorset, at one door; Anne, dutchefs of Gloucester, leading lady Margaret Plantagenet, Clarence's young daughter, at the other. W DUTCHESS. HO meets us here?my niece Plantagenet, ANNE. God give your graces both A happy and a joyful time of day. QUEEN. Sifter, well met; whither away so fast? ANNE. No farther than the Tower; and as I guess, Upon the like devotion as yourselves, To gratulate the gentle princes there. QUEEN. Kind fifter, thanks; we'll enter all together. Enter the lieutenant. And in good time here the lieutenant comes. -Mafter lieutenant, pray you, by your leave How doth the prince, and my young son of York? LIEUT. Right well.-Dear madam; by your patience I may not fuffer you to vifit them; The king hath strictly charg'd the contrary. QUEEN. The king? who's that? LIEUT. I mean, the lord protector. QUEEN. The Lord protect him from that kingly title! Hath he fet bounds between their love and me? I am their mother, who fhall bar me from them? DUTCH. I am their father's mother. I will see them. ANNE Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother; Then bring me to their fights, I'll bear the blame, And take thy office from thee on my peril. LIEUT. No, madam, no, I may not leave it so. I'm bound by oath, and therefore pardon me, Enter Stanley. [Exit Lieut. STAN. Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence, And I'll falute your grace of York as mother And rev'rend looker on of two fair queens. -Come, madam, you must strait to Westminster, [To the dutchess of Gloucester, There to be crowned Richard's royal queen. That my pent heart may have some scope to beat, ANNE. Despightful tidings, O unpleafing news! Thy mother's name is ominous to children. And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curfe; You shall have letters from me to my fon In your behalf, to meet you on the way: DUTCH. O ill-dispersing wind of misery !— STAN. Come, madam, come, I in al' hafte was fent. ANNE. And I with all unwillingness will go. O, 'would to God, that the inclusive verge And die, ere men can fay, "God fave the queen!" ANNE. No! why ?-When he, that is my husband now, Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's coarse, When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands, And that dear faint, which then I weeping follow'd, "For making me fo' young, fo old a widow ! "And when thou wed'ft, let forrow haunt thy bed; "And be thy wife, if any be fo mad, "More miferable by the life of thee, "Than thou haft made me by my dear lord's death!" Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again, Within fo fmall a time, my woman's heart And prov'd the fubject of mine own foul's curse, Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep, But with his tim'rous dreams was ftill awak'd. QUEEN. Poor heart, adieu, I pity thy complaining. thee! [To Dorfet. Go thou to Richard, and good angels tend thee. [To Anne. Go thou to Sanctuary, good thoughts possess thee! [To the queen. I to my grave, where peace and reft lie with me! And each hour's joy wreck'd with a week of teen. QUEEN. Stay; yet look back, with me, unto the Tower. Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes, Whom envy hath immur'd within your walls! Rough cradle for fuch little pretty ones! Rude ragged nurse! old fullen play-fellow, For tender princes! use my babies well! So foolish forrow bids your ftones farewel. [Exeunt, |