Found, that the issue was not his begot; Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu. Glo. If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's castle;9 Where you shall find me well accompanied, [Exit BUCK. [Exeunt Lov. and CATES. Now will I in, to take some privy order To draw the brats of Clarence3 out of sight; 9 to Baynard's castle;] It was originally built by Baynard, a nobleman who (according to Stowe's account) came in with the conqueror. This edifice which stood in Thames Street, has long been pulled down, though parts of its strong foundations are still visible at low The site of it is now a timber-yard. Steevens. water. 1- to doctor Shaw, -] This and the two following lines are not in the quarto. Shaw and Penker were two popular preachers. Instead of a pamphlet being published by the Secretary of the Treasury, to furnish the advocates for the administration of the day, with plausible topicks of argument on great political measures, (the established mode of the present time) formerly it was customary to publish the court creed from the pulpit at Saint Paul's Cross. As Richard now employed Doctor Shaw to support his claim to the crown, so, about fifteen years before, the great Earl of Warwick employed his chaplain Doctor Goddard to convince the people that Henry VI ought to be restored, and that Edward IV was an usurper. Malone. 2 This Pinker or Penker was provincial of the Augustine friars. See Speed. Steevens. 3 the brats of Clarence-] Edward Earl of Warwick, who the day after the battle of Bosworth, was sent by Richmond from Sherif-hutton Castle (where Gloster had confined him) to the Tower, without even the shadow of an allegation against him, VOL. XI. L And to give notice, that no manner of person SCENE VI. A Street. Enter a Scrivener. [Exeunt. Scriv. Here is the indictment of the good lord Has tings; Which in a set hand fairly is engross❜d, That it may be to-day read o'er in Paul's.5 and executed with equal injustice on Tower-hill on the 21st of November, 1499; and Margaret, afterwards married to Sir Richard de la Pole, the last Princess of the house of Lancaster; who was created by King Henry VIII, Countess of Salisbury, and in the 31st year of his reign, (1540) at the age of seventy, was put to death by the sanguinary king then on the throne, as her unfor tunate and innocent brother had before fallen a victim to the jealous policy of that crafty tyrant Henry VII. The immediate cause of his being put to death was, that Ferdinand King of Spain was unwilling to consent to the marriage of his daughter Katharine to Arthur Prince of Wales, while the Earl of Warwick lived, there being during his life-time (as Ferdinand conceived) no assurance of the Prince's succession to the crown. The murder of the Earl of Warwick (for it deserves no other name) made such an impression on Katharine, that when she was first informed of Henry the Eighth's intention to repudiate her, she exclaimed, "I have not offended, but it is a just judg ment of GOD, for my former marriage was made in blood." Malone. 4 ———no manner of person] The folio reads-no manner person, which is nonsense. I suppose the true reading is--no man, or person; as in the latter term females are included. Steevens. 5 -read o'er in Paul's.] The substance of this speech is from Hall's Chronicle, p. 16: “Nowe was thys proclamation made within twoo houres after he was beheaded, and it was so curiously endyted, and so fayre writen in parchement, in a fayre sette hande, and therewith of itselfe so long a processe, that every chyld might perceyve that it was prepared and studyed before, (and as some men thought, by Catesby,) for all the tyme betwene his death and the proclamation-coulde scant have suffyced unto the bare writyng alone, albeit that it had bene in paper and scribeled furthe in haste at adventure -And a marchaunte that stoode by-sayed that it was wrytten by inspiracyon and prophesye." Mr. Malone adds-" So Holinshed, after Sir Thomas More;" and then repeats the same quotation. Steevens. And mark how well the sequel hangs together:- Here's a good world the while!—Who is so gross, Yet who so bold, but says he sees it not? Bad is the world; and all will come to nought, When such bad dealing must be seen in thought.7 SCENE VII. The same. Court of Baynard's Castle. [Exit. Enter GLOSTER, and BUCKINGHAM, meeting. Glo. Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children? 6 The precedent-] The original draft from which the engrossment was made. Malone. 7-seen in thought.] That is, seen in silence, without notice or detection. Johnson. 8 Baynard's Castle.] A castle in Thames Street, which had be longed to Richard Duke of York, and at this time was the property of his grandson King Edward V. Malone. 9 —with his contract with lady Lucy,] The king had been familiar with this lady before his marriage, to obstruct which his mother alledged a pre-contract between them: "Whereupon, says the historian, dame Elizabeth, Lucye was sente for, and albeit she was by the kyng hys mother, and many other, put in good comfort to affirme that she was assured to the kynge, yet when she was solempnly sworne to saye ye truth, she confessed she was never ensured. Howbeit, she sayd his grace spake suche loving wordes to her, that she verily hoped that he would have maried her; and that yf such kinde woordes had not bene, she woulde never have showed such kindnesse to him to lette hym so kyndely gette her with chylde." Hall, Edward V, fol. 19. Ritson. This objection to King Edward's marriage with Lady Grey, is said by Sir Thomas More to have been made by the Duchess And his contract by deputy in France: Both in your form and nobleness of mind: Dowager of York, Edward's mother, who was averse to the match, before he espoused that lady. But Elizabeth Lucy, the daughter of one Wyat, and the wife of one Lucy, being sworn to speak the truth, declared that the King had not been affianced to her, though she owned she had been his concubine. Philip de Comines, a contemporary historian, says that Edward, previous to his marriage with Lady Grey, was married to an English lady by the Bishop of Bath, who revealed the secret; and according to the Chronicle of Croyland this Lady was Lady Eleanor Butler, widow of Lord Butler of Sudley, and daughter to the great Earl of Shrewsbury. On this ground the children of Edward were declared illegitimate by the only parliament assembled by King Richard III; but no mention was made of Elizabeth Lucy. Shakspeare followed Holinshed, who copied Hall, as Hall transcribed the account given by Sir Thomas More. Malone. As being got, your father then in France;] This tale is supposed to have been first propagated by the Duke of Clarence, soon after he, in conjunction with his father-in-law the Earl of Warwick, restored King Henry VI to the throne; at which time he obtained a settlement of the crown on himself and his issue, after the death of Henry and his heirs male. Sir Thomas More says, that the Duke of Glocester soon after Edward's death revived this tale; but Mr. Walpole very justly observes, that it is highly improbable that Richard should have urged such a topick to the people; that he should "start doubts concerning his own legitimacy, which was too much connected with that of his brothers to be tossed and bandied about before the multitude." The same ingenious writer has also shown, that Richard "lived in perfect harmony with his mother, and lodged with her in her palace at this very time." Historick Doubts, quarto, 1768. Malone. I bade them, that did love their country's good, Buck. No, so God help me, they spake not a word; But, like dumb statuas, or breathless stones,2 Star'd on each other, and look'd deadly pale. Which when I saw, I reprehended them; And ask'd the mayor, what meant this wilful silence: His answer was, the people were not us'd To be spoke to, but by the recorder. Then he was urg'd to tell my tale again;Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr'd; But nothing spoke in warrant from himself. When he had done, some followers of mine own, At lower end o' the hall, hurl'd up their caps, And some ten voices cried, God save king Richard! And thus I took the vantage of those few,Thanks, gentle citizens, and friends, quoth I; This general applause, and cheerful shout, Argues your wisdom, and your love to Richard: And even here brake off, and came away. Glo. What tongueless blocks were they; Would they not speak? "Will not the mayor then, and his brethren, come? Buck. The mayor is here at hand; intend some fear:3 . Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit: And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, Play the maid's part, still answer nay, and take it. 2 But, like dumb statuas, or breathless stones,] See Mr. Reed's very decisive account of the word-statua, in a note on The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Vol. II, p. 226, n. 5. The eldest quartos, 1597 and 1598, together with the first folio, read-breathing. The modern editors, with Mr. Rowe,—unbreathing Breathless is the reading of the quarto 1612. Steevens. 3 intend some fear:] Perhaps, pretend; though intend will stand in the sense of giving attention. Johnson. One of the ancient senses of to intend was certainly to pretend. So, in sc. v, of this Act: "Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, 86 |