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London. The palace.
[Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and RIVERS]
RIVERS
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Madam,| what makes | you in | this sud|den
change?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Why broth|er riv|ers, are | you yet | to learn
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What late | misfor/tune is be|fallen
King^|Edward?
RIVERS
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What loss | of some pitched | battle
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Against |
Warwick?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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No, but the | loss of | his own | royal | person.
RIVERS
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Then is | my sov|ereign | slain?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Aye al||most slain,| for he | is tak|en
pris|oner,
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Either | betrayed | by false|hood of | his guard,
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Or by | his foe | surprised | at un|awares:
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And as | I furth|er have | to und|erstand,
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Is new | commit|ted to | the Bish|op of York,
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Fell War|wick's broth|er, and | by that | our
foe.
RIVERS
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These news | I must | confess | are full | of
grief,
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Yet gra|cious mad|am, bear | it as | you may,
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Warwick | may lose,| that now | hath won | the
day.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Till then,| fair hope | must hind|er life's |
decay:
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And I | the rath|er wean | me from | despair
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For love | of Ed|ward's off|spring^in | my womb:
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This is | it that | makes me | bridle | passion,
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And bear | with mild|ness my | misfor|tune's
cross:
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Aye, aye, for this | I draw | in ma|ny a tear,
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And stop | the ris|ing of / blood-suck|ing sighs,
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Lest with | my sighs | or tears,| I blast | or
drown
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King Ed|ward's fruit,| true^heir | to the
Eng|lish crown.
RIVERS
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But mad|am,
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Where | is War|wick then | become?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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I am | informed | that he / comes towards |
London,
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To set | the crown | once^more | on Hen|ry's
head,
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Guess thou the rest,| King^Ed|ward's friends |
must^down,
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But to | prevent | the tyr|ant's vi|olence,
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(For trust | not him | that hath / once brok|en
faith)
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I'll hence | forthwith | unto | the sanc|tuary,
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To save |(at least)| the heir | of Ed|ward's
right:
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There shall | I rest | secure | from force | and
fraud:
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Come* there|fore let | us fly,| while* we | may* fly,
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If War|wick take | us, we | are sure | to die.
[Exeunt]