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London. The palace.
[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, young YORK, QUEEN ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS
OF YORK]
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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Last night I heard | they lay | at Sto|ny-Strat||ford,
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And | at Northamp|ton they | do rest | tonight:
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Tomor|row, or / next day,| they will | be here.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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I long | with all | my heart | to see | the
prince:
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I hope | he is much | grown since^|last I | saw
him.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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But I / hear no,| they say | my son | of York
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Has al|most ov|ertane | him in | his growth.
YORK
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Aye moth/er, but | I would / not have | it so.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Why my / good cous|in, it | is good | to grow.
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Grandam,| one^night | as we | did sit | at supper,
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My unc|le Riv|ers talked | how I | did grow
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More than my | brother.| Aye, quoth my | uncle |
Gloucester,
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Small herbs | have grace,| great weeds / do*
grow^|apace.
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And since,| methinks | I would | not grow | so
fast,
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Because sweet flowers | are slow,| and weeds |
make^haste.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Good* faith,| good* faith,| the say|ing did | not^hold
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In him | that did | object | the same | to thee.
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He was | the wretch|edst thing | when he | was
young,
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So long | a-grow|ing, and | so leis|urely,
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That if | this rule | were true,| he should | be
gra||cious.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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And so | no doubt | he is,| my gra|cious madam.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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I hope | he is,| but yet | let moth|ers doubt.
YORK
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Now by | my troth,| if I | had been |
remem||bered,
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I | could have given | my unc|le's grace,| a
flout,
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To touch | his growth,| nearer | than he touched mine.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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How my young York,
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I prith|ee let | me hear it.
YORK
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Marry |(they say)| my unc|le grew | so fast,
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That he | could gnaw | a crust | at two |
hours^old,
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'Twas full | two* years | ere I | could get | a
tooth.
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Grandam*,| this would | have been | a bit|ing jest.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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I prith|ee pret|ty York,| who told | thee this?
YORK
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Grandam*,| his nurse. \\
DUCHESS OF YORK
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His nurse?| Why she | was dead,| ere thou | wast
born.
YORK
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If 'twere | not she,| I can|not tell | who told
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QUEEN ELIZABETH
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A parl|ous boy:| go to,| you are / too shrewd.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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Good* mad|am, be | not ang|ry with | the child.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Pitchers | have | ears. \\
[Enter a MESSENGER]
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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Here comes | a mes|senger:| What | news?
MESSENGER
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Such^news | my lord,| as grieves | me to |
report.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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How doth | the prince?
MESSENGER
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Well mad/am, and | in health.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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What is thy | news then?
MESSENGER
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Lord^Riv|ers,
and / Lord Gray,
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Are sent | to Pom|fret, and | with them,
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Sir Thom|as Vaugh|an, pris|oners.
(tetra
with prev)
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Who hath | commit|ted them? (pickup)
MESSENGER
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The migh|ty dukes,| Gloucester | and Buck|ingham.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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For what | offense? (picked up)
MESSENGER
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The sum | of all | I can,| I have | disclosed:
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Why, or for | what, these | nobles | were com|mitted,
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Is all | unknown | to me,| my gra|cious Lord.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Aye me!| I see | the ru|in of | my house:
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The tig|er now | hath seized | the gent|le hind,
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insult|ing tyr|anny | begins | to jut
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Upon | the in|nocent | and awe|less throne:
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Welcome | destruc|tion, blood,| and mas|sacre,
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I see |(as in | a map)| the end | of all.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Accurs|ed, and | unqui|et wrang|ling days,
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How ma|ny of | you have | mine eyes | beheld?
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My hus|band lost | his life,| to get | the crown,
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And of|ten up | and down | my sons | were tossed,
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For me | to joy,| and weep,| their gain | and
loss.
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And be|ing seat|ed, and | domest|ic broils
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Clean^ov|er-blown,| themselves | the con|querors,
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Make^war | upon | themselves,| brother to | brother;
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Blood to | blood, self against | self:| O
pre|posterous
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And frant|ic out|rage,| end thy | damn|ed spleen,
(hex with prev)
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Or let | me die,| to look | on death | no more.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Come*, come | my boy,| we will | to sanc|tuary.
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Madam,| farewell.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Stay, I | will go | with you.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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You have | no cause.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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My gra|cious la|dy go,
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And thith|er bear | your treas|ure and | your
goods,
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For my | part, I'll | resign | unto | your grace
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The seal | I keep,| and so | betide | to me,
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As well | I tend|er you,| and all | of yours.
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Go, I'll | conduct | you to | the sanc|tuary.
[Exeunt]