Queen. Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks. Glo. And that I love the tree from whence thou fprang'ft, Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit.

To say the truth, so Judas kifs'd his master,
And cry'd, all hail! when as he meant all harm:
K. Edw. Now am I feated as my foul delights,
Having my country's peace and brothers loves.

[Afide.

Cla. What will your Grace have done with Margaret? Reignier her father to the King of France. Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerufalem,

And hither have they fent it for her ransom.

K. Edw. Away with her, and waft her hence to France.
And now what refts but that we spend the time
With stately triumphs, mirthful comick shows,
Such as befit the pleafure of the Court?

Sound, drums and trumpets; farewel, fow'r annoy!
For here, I hope, begins our lafting joy. [Exeunt omnes.

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THE

LIFE and DEATH

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RICHARD III.

KING Edward IV.

Edward, Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward V.7

Richard, Duke of York.

George, Duke of Clarence, Brother to Edward IV.

Sons to Edw. IV.

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Brother to Edward IV. afterwards

King Richard III.

Cardinal, Archbishop of York.

Duke of Buckingham.

Duke of Norfolk.

Earl of Surrey.

Marquifs of Dorfet, Son to the Queen.

Earl Rivers, Brother to the Queen.

Lord Gray, Son to the Queen.

Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII.

Bishop of Ely.

Lord Haftings.

Sir Thomas Vaughan,

Sir Richard Ratcliff,
Lord Lovel,

Catesby,

a Friend to the Queen's Family.

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Friends to the Duke of Gloucester.

Sir James Tyrrel, a Villain.

Lord Stanley, Steward of the Houbold to Edward IV.

Earl of Oxford,

Blount,

Herbert,

Sir William Brandon,

Friends to the Earl of Richmond.

Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower.

Two Children of the Duke of Clarence.

Lord Mayor.

Sir Chriftopher Urfwick, a Prieft and Chaplain to the Countess of Richmond.

Queen of Edward IV.

Queen Margaret, Widow of Henry VI.

Anne, Widow of Edward Prince of Wales, Son to Henry VI. afterwards married to the Duke of Gloucester.

Dutchess of York, Mother to Edward IV, Clarence, and Richard III.

Sheriff, Purfuivant, Citizens, Ghofis of thofe murder'd by Richard III. with Soldiers and other Attendants.

The SCENE in ENGLAND.

The

The LIFE and DEATH of

RICHARD III.

ACTI.

SCENE I.

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The COURT.

Enter Richard Duke of Gloucefter, folus.

OW is the Winter of our discontent

Made glorious fummer by this Sun of York: And all the clouds that lowr'd upon our house,

In the deep bofom of the ocean bury'd.

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruifed arms hung up for monuments;
Our ftern alarums chang'd to merry meetings;
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-vifag'd War hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now inftead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the fouls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a Lady's chamber,
To the lafcivious pleafing of a lute.
But I, that am not fhap'd for fportive tricks,
Nor made to court an am'rous looking-glafs,
I, that am rudely stampt, and want love's 'grace,

I majesty,

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