Chapter XXIX: Act V: SCENE I. Salisbury. An open place (1)

_Enter the_ Sheriff, _and_ BUCKINGHAM, _with halberds, led to execution_.

_Buck._ Will not King Richard let me speak with him? [fea001]

_Sher._ No, my good lord; therefore be patient. [fea002]

_Buck._ Hastings, and Edward’s children, Rivers, Grey, [fea003] Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward, Vaughan, and all that have miscarried ·fea005· By underhand corrupted foul injustice, If that your moody discontented souls Do through the clouds behold this present hour, Even for revenge mock my destruction! This is All-Souls’ day, fellows, is it not? [fea010]

_Sher._ It is, my lord. [fea011]

_Buck._ Why, then All-Souls’ day is my body’s doomsday. [fea012] This is the day that in King Edward’s time [fea013] I wish’d might fall on me when I was found [fea014] False to his children or his wife’s allies; [fea015] This is the day wherein I wish’d to fall By the false faith of him I trusted most; [fea017] This, this All-Souls’ day to my fearful soul [fea018] Is the determined respite of my wrongs: [fea019] That high All-seer that I dallied with [fea020] Hath turn’d my feigned prayer on my head, And given in earnest what I begg’d in jest. Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men [fea023] To turn their own points on their masters’ bosoms: [fea024] Now Margaret’s curse is fallen upon my head; [fea025] ‘When he,’ quoth she, ‘shall split thy heart with sorrow, Remember Margaret was a prophetess.’ Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame; [fea028] Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. [fea029] [_Exeunt._

SCENE II. _The camp near Tamworth_.

_Enter_ RICHMOND, OXFORD, BLUNT, HERBERT, _and others, with drum and colours_.

_Richm._ Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends, [feb001] Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny, Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we march’d on without impediment; And here receive we from our father Stanley ·feb005· Lines of fair comfort and encouragement. The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar, [feb007] That spoil’d your summer fields and fruitful vines, [feb008] Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough [feb009] In your embowell’d bosoms, this foul swine [feb010] Lies now even in the centre of this isle, [feb011] Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn: From Tamworth thither is but one day’s march. In God’s name, cheerly on, courageous friends, [feb014] To reap the harvest of perpetual peace ·feb015· By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

_Oxf._ Every man’s conscience is a thousand swords, [feb017] To fight against that bloody homicide. [feb018]

_Herb._ I doubt not but his friends will fly to us. [feb019]

_Blunt._ He hath no friends but who are friends for fear, [feb020] Which in his greatest need will shrink from him. [feb021]

_Richm._ All for our vantage. Then, in God’s name, march: [feb022] True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. [_Exeunt._ [feb024]

SCENE III. _Bosworth Field_.

_Enter_ KING RICHARD _in arms with_ NORFOLK, _the_ EARL OF SURREY, _and others_.

_K. Rich._ Here pitch our tents, even here in Bosworth field. [fec001] My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad? [fec002]

_Sur._ My heart is ten times lighter than my looks. [fec003]

_K. Rich._ My Lord of Norfolk,--

_Nor._ Here, most gracious liege. [fec004]

_K. Rich._ Norfolk, we must have knocks; ha! must we not? [fec005]

_Nor._ We must both give and take, my gracious lord. [fec006]

_K. Rich._ Up with my tent there! here will I lie to night: [fec007] But where to-morrow? Well, all’s one for that. [fec008] Who hath descried the number of the foe? [fec009]

_Nor._ Six or seven thousand is their utmost power. [fec010]

_K. Rich._ Why, our battalion trebles that account: [fec011] Besides, the king’s name is a tower of strength, [fec012] Which they upon the adverse party want. [fec013] Up with my tent there! Valiant gentlemen, [fec014] Let us survey the vantage of the field; [fec015] Call for some men of sound direction: Let’s want no discipline, make no delay; [fec017] For, lords, to-morrow is a busy day. [_Exeunt._ [fec018]

_Enter, on the other side of the field_, RICHMOND, SIR
WILLIAM BRANDON, OXFORD, _and others. Some of the_ Soldiers
_pitch Richmond’s tent_.

_Richm._ The weary sun hath made a golden set, And by the bright track of his fiery car [fec020] Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow. [fec021] Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard. [fec022] Give me some ink and paper in my tent: [fec023] I’ll draw the form and model of our battle, Limit each leader to his several charge, ·fec025· And part in just proportion our small strength. [fec026] My Lord of Oxford, you, Sir William Brandon, [fec027] And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me. The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment: [fec029] Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him, ·fec030· And by the second hour in the morning Desire the earl to see me in my tent: Yet one thing more, good Blunt, before thou go’st, [fec033] Where is Lord Stanley quarter’d, dost thou know? [fec034]

_Blunt._ Unless I have mista’en his colours much, [fec035] Which well I am assured I have not done, His regiment lies half a mile at least [fec037] South from the mighty power of the king.

_Richm._ If without peril it be possible, Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him, [fec040] And give him from me this most needful scroll. [fec041]

_Blunt._ Upon my life, my lord, I’ll undertake it; [fec042] And so, God give you quiet rest to-night! [fec043]

_Richm._ Good night, good Captain Blunt. Come, gentlemen, [fec044] Let us consult upon to-morrow’s business: ·fec045· In to our tent! the air is raw and cold. [fec046] [_They withdraw into the tent._

_Enter, to his tent,_ KING RICHARD, NORFOLK, RATCLIFF,
CATESBY, _and others_.

_K. Rich._ What is’t o’clock?

_Cate._ It’s supper-time, my lord; [fec047] It’s nine o’clock.

_K. Rich._ I will not sup to-night. [fec048] Give me some ink and paper. [fec049] What, is my beaver easier than it was? ·fec050· And all my armour laid into my tent?

_Cate._ It is, my liege; and all things are in readiness.

_K. Rich._ Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge; [fec053] Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels. [fec054]

_Nor._ I go, my lord. ·fec055·

_K. Rich._ Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk.

_Nor._ I warrant you, my lord. [_Exit._ [fec057]

_K. Rich._ Catesby! [fec058]

_Cate._ My lord?

_K. Rich._ Send out a pursuivant at arms To Stanley’s regiment; bid him bring his power ·fec060· Before sunrising, lest his son George fall Into the blind cave of eternal night. [_Exit Catesby._ [fec062] Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch. [fec063] Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow. Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy. [fec065] Ratcliff!

_Rat._ My lord?

_K. Rich._ Saw’st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland? [fec068]

_Rat._ Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself, Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop [fec070] Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.

_K. Rich._ So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine: [fec072] I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. [fec074] Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?

_Rat._ It is, my lord. ·fec075·

_K. Rich._ Bid my guard watch. Leave me. Ratcliff, [fec076] About the mid of night come to my tent [fec077] And help to arm me. Leave me, I say. [fec078] [_Exeunt Ratcliff and the other attendants._

_Enter_ DERBY _to_ RICHMOND _in his tent, Lords and others
attending_.

_Der._ Fortune and victory sit on thy helm! [fec079]

_Richm._ All comfort that the dark night can afford ·fec080· Be to thy person, noble father-in-law! Tell me, how fares our loving mother? [fec082]

_Der._ I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother, Who prays continually for Richmond’s good: So much for that. The silent hours steal on, [fec085] And flaky darkness breaks within the east. [fec086] In brief, for so the season bids us be, Prepare thy battle early in the morning, And put thy fortune to the arbitrement Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war. [fec090] I, as I may--that which I would I cannot,-- With best advantage will deceive the time, And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms: But on thy side I may not be too forward, Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George, [fec095] Be executed in his father’s sight. Farewell: the leisure and the fearful time [fec097] Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love And ample interchange of sweet discourse Which so long sunder’d friends should dwell upon: [fec100] God give us leisure for these rites of love! [fec101] Once more, adieu: be valiant, and speed well!

_Richm._ Good lords, conduct him to his regiment: I’ll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap, [fec104] Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow, [fec105] When I should mount with wings of victory: Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen. [fec107] [_Exeunt all but Richmond._ O Thou, whose captain I account myself, Look on my forces with a gracious eye; [fec109] Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath, ·fec110· That they may crush down with a heavy fall [fec111] The usurping helmets of our adversaries! [fec112] Make us thy ministers of chastisement, That we may praise thee in the victory! [fec114] To thee I do commend my watchful soul, ·fec115· Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes: Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still! [_Sleeps._ [fec117]

_Enter the Ghost of_ PRINCE EDWARD, _son to_ HENRY the Sixth.

_Ghost._ [_To Richard_] Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow! [fec118] Think, how thou stab’dst me in my prime of youth [fec119] At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die! [fec120] [_To Richmond_] Be cheerful, Richmond; for the wronged souls [fec121] Of butcher’d princes fight in thy behalf: [fec122] King Henry’s issue, Richmond, comforts thee.

_Enter the Ghost of_ HENRY the Sixth.

_Ghost._ [_To Richard_] When I was mortal, my anointed body By thee was punched full of deadly holes: [fec125] Think on the Tower and me: despair, and die! Harry the Sixth bids thee despair and die! [fec127] [_To Richmond_] Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror! Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be king, Doth comfort thee in thy sleep: live, and flourish! [fec130]

_Enter the Ghost of_ CLARENCE.

_Ghost._ [_To Richard_] Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow! [fec131] I, that was wash’d to death with fulsome wine, [fec132] Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death. To-morrow in the battle think on me, And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die! ·fec135· [_To Richmond_] Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster, The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee: Good angels guard thy battle! live, and flourish!

_Enter the Ghosts of_ RIVERS, GREY, _and_ VAUGHAN.

_Ghost of R._ [_To Richard_] Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow, [fec139] Rivers, that died at Pomfret! despair, and die! ·fec140·

_Ghost of G._ [_To Richard_] Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair!

_Ghost of V._ [_To Richard_] Think upon Vaughan, and, with guilty fear, Let fall thy lance: despair, and die! [fec143]

_All._ [_To Richmond_] Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard’s bosom [fec144] Will conquer him! awake, and win the day! [fec145]

_Enter the Ghost of_ HASTINGS.

_Ghost._ [_To Richard_] Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake, [fec146] And in a bloody battle end thy days! Think on Lord Hastings: despair, and die! [fec148] [_To Richmond_] Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake! [fec149] Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England’s sake! ·fec150·

_Enter the Ghosts of the two young_ Princes.

_Ghosts._ [_To Richard_] Dream on thy cousins smother’d in the Tower: [fec151] Let us be lead within thy bosom, Richard, [fec152] And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death! [fec153] Thy nephews’ souls bid thee despair and die! [fec154] [_To Richmond_] Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy; [fec155] Good angels guard thee from the boar’s annoy! Live, and beget a happy race of kings! Edward’s unhappy sons do bid thee flourish. [fec158]

_Enter the Ghost of_ LADY ANNE.

_Ghost._ [_To Richard_] Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife, [fec159] That never slept a quiet hour with thee, ·fec160· Now fills thy sleep with perturbations: [fec161] To-morrow in the battle think on me, [fec162] And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die! [fec163] [_To Richmond_] Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep: [fec164] Dream of success and happy victory! ·fec165· Thy adversary’s wife doth pray for thee. [fec166]

_Enter the Ghost of_ BUCKINGHAM.

_Ghost._ [_To Richard_] The first was I that help’d thee to the crown; [fec167] The last was I that felt thy tyranny: [fec168] O, in the battle think on Buckingham, And die in terror of thy guiltiness! ·fec170· Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death: Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath! [_To Richmond_] I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid: [fec173] But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay’d: God and good angels fight on Richmond’s side; ·fec175· And Richard falls in height of all his pride. [fec176] [_The Ghosts vanish. King Richard starts out of his dream._

_K. Rich._ Give me another horse: bind up my wounds. Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft! I did but dream. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! [fec179] The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. [fec180] Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. [fec181] What do I fear? myself? there’s none else by: [fec182] Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. [fec183] Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am: Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why: [fec185] Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself? [fec186] Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? for any good [fec187] That I myself have done unto myself? [fec188] O, no! alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself! ·fec190· I am a villain: yet I lie, I am not. [fec191] Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter. [fec192] My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. ·fec195· Perjury, perjury, in the high’st degree; [fec196] Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree; All several sins, all used in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all ‘Guilty! guilty!’ [fec199] I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; [fec200] And if I die, no soul shall pity me: Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself [fec202] Find in myself no pity to myself? Methought the souls of all that I had murder’d [fec204] Came to my tent, and every one did threat [fec205] To-morrow’s vengeance on the head of Richard.

_Enter_ RATCLIFF.

_Rat._ My lord!

_K. Rich._ ’Zounds! who is there? [fec208]

_Rat._ Ratcliff, my lord; ’tis I. The early village-cock [fec209] Hath twice done salutation to the morn; [fec210] Your friends are up, and buckle on their armour.

_K. Rich._ O Ratcliff, I have dream’d a fearful dream! [fec212] What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true? [fec213]

_Rat._ No doubt, my lord.

_K. Rich._ O Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,-- [fec214]

_Rat._ Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows. ·fec215·

_K. Rich._ By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond. [fec219] It is not yet near day. Come, go with me; [fec220] Under our tents I’ll play the eaves-dropper, [fec221] To see if any mean to shrink from me. [_Exeunt._ [fec222]

_Enter the_ Lords _to_ RICHMOND, _sitting in his tent_.

_Lords._ Good morrow, Richmond! [fec223]

_Richm._ Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen, [fec224] That you have ta’en a tardy sluggard here. [fec225]

_Lords._ How have you slept, my lord?

_Richm._ The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams [fec227] That ever enter’d in a drowsy head, Have I since your departure had, my lords. Methought their souls, whose bodies Richard murder’d, [fec230] Came to my tent, and cried on victory: [fec231] I promise you, my soul is very jocund [fec232] In the remembrance of so fair a dream. How far into the morning is it, lords? [fec234]

_Lords._ Upon the stroke of four. ·fec235·

_Richm._ Why, then ’tis time to arm and give direction. [fec236]

_His oration to his soldiers_.

More than I have said, loving countrymen, The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this, [fec239] God and our good cause fight upon our side; ·fec240· The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls, Like high-rear’d bulwarks, stand before our faces. [fec242] Richard except, those whom we fight against [fec243] Had rather have us win than him they follow: For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen, ·fec245· A bloody tyrant and a homicide; One raised in blood, and one in blood establish’d; One that made means to come by what he hath, [fec248] And slaughter’d those that were the means to help him; [fec249] A base foul stone, made precious by the foil [fec250] Of England’s chair, where he is falsely set; One that hath ever been God’s enemy: Then, if you fight against God’s enemy, God will in justice ward you as his soldiers; [fec254] If you do sweat to put a tyrant down, [fec255] You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain; If you do fight against your country’s foes, Your country’s fat shall pay your pains the hire; [fec258] If you do fight in safeguard of your wives, [fec259] Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors; ·fec260· If you do free your children from the sword, Your children’s children quit it in your age. [fec262] Then, in the name of God and all these rights, Advance your standards, draw your willing swords. For me, the ransom of my bold attempt ·fec265· Shall be this cold corpse on the earth’s cold face; But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt [fec267] The least of you shall share his part thereof. Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully; [fec269] God and Saint George! Richmond and victory! [_Exeunt._ [fec270]

_Re-enter_ KING RICHARD, RATCLIFF, _Attendants and Forces_.

_K. Rich._ What said Northumberland as touching Richmond? [fec271]

_Rat._ That he was never trained up in arms.

_K. Rich._ He said the truth: and what said Surrey, then?

_Rat._ He smiled and said ‘The better for our purpose.’

_K. Rich._ He was in the right; and so indeed it is. [fec275] [_The clock striketh._ Tell the clock there. Give me a calendar. [fec276] Who saw the sun to-day?

_Rat._ Not I, my lord.

_K. Rich._ Then he disdains to shine; for by the book He should have braved the east an hour ago: [fec279] A black day will it be to somebody. [fec280] Ratcliff! [fec281]

_Rat._ My lord?

_K. Rich._ The sun will not be seen to-day; The sky doth frown and lour upon our army. I would these dewy tears were from the ground. Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me ·fec285· More than to Richmond? for the selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.

_Re-enter_ NORFOLK.

_Nor._ Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field. [fec288]

_K. Rich._ Come, bustle, bustle. Caparison my horse. Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power: ·fec290· I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain, And thus my battle shall be ordered: My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, [fec293] Consisting equally of horse and foot; Our archers shall be placed in the midst: ·fec295· John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey, Shall have the leading of this foot and horse. [fec297] They thus directed, we will follow [fec298] In the main battle, whose puissance on either side [fec299] Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse. ·fec300· This, and Saint George to boot! What think’st thou, Norfolk? [fec301]

_Nor._ A good direction, warlike sovereign. This found I on my tent this morning. [fec303] [_He sheweth him a paper._

_K. Rich._ [_Reads_] ‘Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, [fec304] For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.’ ·fec305· A thing devised by the enemy. [fec306] Go, gentlemen, every man unto his charge: [fec307] Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls: [fec308] Conscience is but a word that cowards use, [fec309] Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: ·fec310· Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law. [fec311] March on, join bravely, let us to’t pell-mell; [fec312] If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.

_His oration to his Army_.

What shall I say more than I have inferr’d? [fec314] Remember whom you are to cope withal; [fec315] A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, [fec316] A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, [fec317] Whom their o’er-cloyed country vomits forth To desperate ventures and assured destruction. [fec319] You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest; [fec320] You having lands and blest with beauteous wives, They would restrain the one, distain the other. [fec322] And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow, Long kept in Bretagne at our mother’s cost? [fec324] A milk-sop, one that never in his life [fec325] Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow? Let’s whip these stragglers o’er the seas again, Lash hence these overweening rags of France, These famish’d beggars, weary of their lives, Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit, ·fec330· For want of means, poor rats, had hang’d themselves: If we be conquer’d, let men conquer us, [fec332] And not these bastard Bretons, whom our fathers [fec333] Have in their own land beaten, bobb’d, and thump’d, And in record left them the heirs of shame. [fec335] Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our wives? [fec336] Ravish our daughters? [_Drum afar off._] Hark! I hear their drum. [fec337] Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! [fec338] Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! [fec339] Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; ·fec340· Amaze the welkin with your broken staves! [fec341]

_Enter a_ Messenger.

What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?

_Mess._ My lord, he doth deny to come. [fec343]

_K. Rich._ Off with his son George’s head! [fec344]

_Nor._ My lord, the enemy is past the marsh: ·fec345· After the battle let George Stanley die.

_K. Rich._ A thousand hearts are great within my bosom: Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! ·fec350· Upon them! Victory sits on our helms. [_Exeunt._ [fec351]

SCENE IV. _Another part of the field_.

_Alarum: excursions. Enter_ NORFOLK _and forces fighting; to him_ CATESBY.

_Cate._ Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue! [fed001] The king enacts more wonders than a man, Daring an opposite to every danger: [fed003] His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights, Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death. ·fed005· Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost! [fed006]

_Alarums. Enter_ KING RICHARD.

_K. Rich._ A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

_Cate._ Withdraw, my lord; I’ll help you to a horse.

_K. Rich._ Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. [fed010] I think there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain to-day instead of him. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! [_Exeunt._ [fed013]

SCENE V. _Another part of the field_.

_Alarum. Enter_ RICHARD _and_ RICHMOND; _they fight._ RICHARD _is slain. Retreat and flourish. Re-enter_ RICHMOND, DERBY _bearing the crown, with divers other Lords_.

_Richm._ God and your arms be praised, victorious friends! [fee001] The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead. [fee002]

_Der._ Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee. [fee003] Lo, here, this long usurped royalty [fee004] From the dead temples of this bloody wretch ·fee005· Have I pluck’d off, to grace thy brows withal: Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it. [fee007]

_Richm._ Great God of heaven, say amen to all! But, tell me, is young George Stanley living? [fee009]

_Der._ He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town; ·fee010· Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us. [fee011]

_Richm._ What men of name are slain on either side? [fee012]

_Der._ John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers, [fee013] Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon. [fee014]

_Richm._ Inter their bodies as becomes their births: [fee015] Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled That in submission will return to us: And then, as we have ta’en the sacrament, We will unite the white rose and the red. Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction, [fee020] That long have frown’d upon their enmity! What traitor hears me, and says not amen? England hath long been mad, and scarr’d herself; The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood, The father rashly slaughter’d his own son, [fee025] The son, compell’d, been butcher to the sire: [fee026] All this divided York and Lancaster, [fee027] Divided in their dire division, [fee028] O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth, The true succeeders of each royal house, ·fee030· By God’s fair ordinance conjoin together! And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so, [fee032] Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace, [fee033] With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days! [fee034] Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, [fee035] That would reduce these bloody days again, And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land’s increase That would with treason wound this fair land’s peace! Now civil wounds are stopp’d, peace lives again: ·fee040· That she may long live here, God say amen! [fee041] [_Exeunt._

LINENOTES TO KING RICHARD III.

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[faa002] _sun_] Rowe. _sonne_ Qq. _Son_ Ff.

[faa003] _lour’d_] _lowrd_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _lowr’d_ Q6 Ff. _low’r_ Q7. _lowr_ Q8.

[faa004] _bosom_] _bowels_ Q8.

[faa007] _alarums_] _alarmes_ Q1.

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[faa009] _wrinkled_] _wringled_ Q3 Q4 Q5.

[faa010] _instead_] _in steed_ Q1 F2.

[faa011] _souls_] _foule_ Warburton conj.

[faa013] _lute_] Ff. _love_ Qq.

[faa014] _shaped for_] _shap’d for_ Ff. _shapte for_ Q1 Q2 Q3. _sharpe for_ Q4 Q5. _sharpe of_ Q6 Q7 Q8. _shapte of_ quoted in Steevens’s reprint.

[faa015] _Nor_] _Not_ Q2.

[faa016] _majesty_] _grace_ Hanmer.

[faa018] _of this_] _thus of_ Collier MS.

[faa021] _world, scarce_] _world; scarce_ Pope. ¶ _scarce_] om. Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[faa022] _unfashionable_] _unfashionably_ Pope.

[faa023] _by them_] _at them_ Q7 Q8.

[faa024] _Why_] _While_ Q8.

[faa026] _spy_] Qq. _see_ Ff.

[faa027] _on_] _one_ Q7.

[faa029] _days_] _dames_ Malone conj.

[faa031] _hate_] _bate_ Johnson conj.

[faa032] _inductions_] _inductious_ Q1 Q2.

[faa033] _By...dreams,_] Transferred to follow line 35 by Johnson.

[faa039], faa040: _About...be._] Omitted by Pope. ¶ faa039: _a prophecy_] _adrohesie_ Q4 Q5.

[faa040] _murderer_] _murtherers_ Q1 Q2. _murtherer_ the rest.

[faa041] _Dive...comes._] One line in Ff. Two in Qq. ¶ Enter...] Rowe (ed. 2). Enter Clarence and Brakenbury, guarded. Ff. Enter Clarence with a guard of men Qq (gard Q1 Q2).

[faa042] _day_] _dayes_ Qq (_daies_ Q6).

[faa043]–faa045: _His...Tower._] As in Pope. Two lines, the first ending _appointed_, in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _safety_, in Ff.

[faa048] _godfathers_] Q1 Q2 Q3 F1. _good fathers_ Q4 Q5 Q6. _god fathers_ Q7. _Grandfathers_ F2 F3 F4. _god-fathers_ Q8. _godfather_ quoted in Steevens’s reprint.

[faa049] _O, belike_] _Belike_ Pope.

[faa050] _shall be_] Qq (_shalbe_ Q1). _should be_ Ff.

[faa051] _what’s_] Ff. _whats_ Q1 Q2. _what is_ the rest.

[faa052] _I know_] _I doe know_ Q6 Q7 Q8. ¶ _for_] Qq. _but_ Ff.

[faa059] _It follows_] _If followes_ F2. _It fellowes_ Q5.

[faa060] _like_] om. F3 F4.

[faa061] _Have_] Qq F4. _Hath_ F1 F2 F3.

[faa065] _tempers him to this_] Q1. _tempts him to this_ Q2 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _temps him to this_ Q3 Q4. _tempts him to this harsh_ Ff. _tempts him now to this_ Anon. MS. apud Halliwell.

[faa067] _Woodville_] F2 F3. _Wooduile_ Qq. _Woodeulle_ F1. _Woodvil_ F4. _Woodeville_ Capell. ¶ _her_] _he her_ Hanmer. _her same_ Collier MS.

[faa068], faa069: _Tower,...deliver’d?_] _Tower,...delivered?_ Qq. _Tower?...delivered?_ F1. _Tower?...delivered._ F2 F3 F4.

[faa069] _present_] om. Rowe.

[faa071] _there’s no man is secure_] Capell. _there is no man is securde_ Q1 Q2 Q3. _there is no man securde_ Q4. _there is no man sceurde_ Q5. _there is no man secur’d_ Q6 Q7. _there is no man secure_ Ff. _there is no man securd_ Q8.

[faa073] _trudge betwixt_] _truge betweene_ Q7 Q8.

[faa074] _ye_] _you_ Ff Q7 Q8.

[faa075] _to her for his_] Qq. _was, for her_ F1. _was, for his_ F2 F3. _was for his_ F4.

[faa076], faa077: _Humbly...liberty._] Continued to Clarence. Johnson conj. ¶ faa076: _Humbly_] _Humble_ Q5 Q6.

[faa078] _it is_] _it were_ Q7 Q8.

[faa083] _this_] Qq. _our_ Ff.

[faa084] _beseech_] _beg_ Pope.

[faa087] _his_] Qq. _your_ Ff.

[faa088] _an’t_] Pope. _and_ or _&_ Qq Ff. _an_ Capell. ¶ _Brakenbury_] Ff. _Brokenbury_ Qq (and passim).

[faa091] _his_] _the_ Q7 Q8.

[faa092] _fair, and not jealous_] _fair, and not over-jealous_ Hanmer. _yet fair still, and not jealous_ Capell. ¶ _jealous_] _jealious_ F1 F2.

[faa094] One line in Qq Ff; two, the first ending _lip_, in Steevens. ¶ _cherry_] _chery_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _lip,_] _lip, fair forehead, dimpled cheeks,_ Seymour conj. ¶ _a bonny eye,_] Omitted by Pope. _a boony eye_ Becket conj.

[faa095] _And that the_] _That the_ Rowe. _And the_ Steevens. ¶ _gentle-folks_] _gentle-folk_ Theobald.

[faa097] _have_] _hath_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _nought_] Q1 Ff Q6 Q7 Q8. _naught_ the rest.

[faa098], faa99: _Naught...naught_] Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Ff. _Nought...nought_ Q7 Q8. _Nought...naught_ Pope. ¶ faa098–faa100: Arranged as in Qq. The lines end _Shore?...her...alone,_ in Ff. See note (II).

[faa100] _Were best he do_] Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7. _Were best to do_ Ff Q8. _’Twere best he do_ Capell. ¶ _secretly, alone_] _secretly:--ay, one_ Jackson conj.

[faa102] _me?_] _me? ha?_ Capell.

[faa103] _I beseech_] Qq. _I do beseech_ Ff. ¶ faa103, faa104: Arranged as by Capell. The first line ends _forbeare_ in Qq. As three lines in Ff, ending _Grace...forbeare...Duke_. ¶ _and withal Forbear_] _And to forbear_ Pope.

[faa104] _conference_] _conferencs_ Rowe (ed. 1). _conferences_ Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ _noble_] om. Pope.

[faa105] _We know...obey._] _We’re the King’s subjects, and we will obey._ Seymour conj.

[faa106] _abjects_] _objects_ Jackson conj.

[faa108] _whatsoever you will_] Qq. _whatsoe’re you will_ Ff. _whatsoever you’ll_ Capell.

[faa111] _in_] Qq F1. _of_ F2 F3 F4.

[faa115] _or else_] Ff. _or_ Qq.

[faa116] S. Walker would end the line at _perforce_. ¶ [Exeunt......] Capell. Exit Clar., or Exit Cla. Qq Ff.

[faa117] _ne’er_] _neare_ Q1 Q2.

[faa120] _our_] _my_ Hanmer.

[faa121] _new-deliver’d_] _new delivered_ Qq Ff. ¶ _Hastings?_] _Hastings._ Q7 Q8.

[faa124] _Well are you_] _Well, are you_ Q7. _Well, you are_ Q8. ¶ _the_] Q1 Q2. _this_ the rest.

[faa132] _eagle_] Qq. _Eagles_ Ff.

[faa133] _While_] Qq. _Whiles_ Ff. ¶ _kites_] _keihts_ Q1. _kights_ Q2. ¶ _buzzards_] _bussards_ Q1 Q2. _buzars_ Q3 Q4 Q5. _buzards_ F1. ¶ _prey_] Qq. _play_ Ff.

[faa134] _What_] _The times are bad, my lord; what_ Seymour conj.

[faa138] _Saint Paul_] Qq. _S. John_ Ff. ¶ _this_] Qq. _that_ Ff.

[faa139] _an evil_] _on ill_ Q7. _an ill_ Q8.

[faa142] _What, is he_] Q5 Q6. _What is he_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q7. _Where is he,_ Ff. _What! is he_ Q8.

[faa143] _He is_] _He is, my lord_ Hanmer.

[faa146] _post-horse_] _post haste_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[faa148] _With_] _Which_ Q8 F3 F4.

[faa154] _kill’d_] _kill_ Q7 Q8.

[faa159] _By marrying her which I..._] _Which I, by marrying her,..._ Hanmer. _Which I must reach unto--by marring her._ Anon. conj. ¶ _marrying_] _marring_ Q7.

[faa161] _breathes...reigns_] _liues, Edward still raignes_ Q7 Q8. (_Ehward_ Q7).

[fab001] The same. Another street.] Capell. Changes to a street. Theobald. ¶ Enter the corpse of King Henry...] Enter the coarse of Henrie... Ff. Enter Lady Anne, with the hearse of Harry the 6. Qq (Henry the sixt Q7 Q8). ¶ Gentlemen] om. Qq Ff. ¶ fab001: _Set...set_] _Sit...sit_ Q2. ¶ _load_] Ff. _lo:_ Q1. _lord_ the rest.

[fab003] _Whilst_] Q1 Q8. _Whilest_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _Whil’st_ Q7 Ff.

[fab005] _key-cold_] _clay-cold_ Hanmer.

[fab008] _Be it_] _Be’t_ Hanmer.

[fab011] _hand_] Ff. _hands_ Qq. ¶ _wounds_] Ff. _holes_ Qq.

[fab012] _these_] Ff. _those_ Qq.

[fab013] _balm_] _blame_ Q5 Q6 Q7.

[fab014] _Cursed_] _Curst_ Qq. _O cursed_ Ff. ¶ _these fatal_] Q1 Q2. _the fatall_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _these_ Ff.

[fab015] _Cursed be_] _Curst be_ Qq. _Cursed_ Ff. ¶ _do it_] _do’t_ S. Walker conj.

[fab016] _Cursed...hence_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[fab019] _adders, spiders_] Qq. _wolves, to spiders_ Ff.

[fab021] _be it_] _be’t_ S. Walker conj.

[fab025] _And...unhappiness_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[fab026] _made_] _mad:_ Q6. _mad,_ Q7.

[fab027], fab028: _As...As I_] _More...Then I_ Ff (_Than_ F4).

[fab028] _poor_] Qq. _young_ Ff.

[fab029] _Chertsey_] _Chertley_ Q6 Q7. _Chersey_ Q8.

[fab031] _weary_] _awearie_ Q3. _a wearie_ Q4 Q5 Q6. ¶ _the_] Qq. _this_ Ff.

[fab032] _whiles_] _while_ Pope. ¶ _corse_] _course_ Q4. ¶ [Bearers take up the Corpse, and move forward. Capell. ¶ Enter Gloucester] Enter Glocester (or Gloster) Qq. Enter Richard Duke of Gloster Ff.

[fab036] _Villains_] F2 F3 F4. _Villaines_ F1. _Villaine_ Qq.

[fab038] _My lord_] om. Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fab039] _Unmanner’d...command_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ _Unmanner’d_] _Unmannerly_ Q8. ¶ _stand_] _stand’st_ F1 Q8.

[fab040] _halberd_] Capell. _halbert_ Ff.

[fab042] [Corpse set down. Capell.

[fab046] _dreadful_] _feareful_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fab048] _have_] _hurt_ Hanmer.

[fab050] _Foul...not_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff, the first ending _Dwell_. ¶ _and_] om. Pope.

[fab059] _where...dwells_] _whence...wells_ Warburton conj.

[fab060], fab061: _deed...Provokes_] Qq. _deeds...Provokes_ F1 F2 F3. _deeds...Provoke_ F4.

[fab063] _revenge_] _revenges_ Q5.

[fab064] _Either_] _Or_ Pope.

[fab065] _earth,_] F3 F4. _earth_ Qq F1 F2.

[fab066] _dost_] _didst_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fab067] _his_] _this_ F3 F4.

[fab068] _rules_] _rule_ Q7 Q8.

[fab069] _renders_] _render_ Q7 Q8.

[fab070] _no_] Qq. _nor_Ff.

[fab073] _truth_] _troth_ Q1.

[fab075] _Vouchsafe_] _Voutsafe_ Q1.

[fab076] _evils_] Qq. _crimes_ Ff.

[fab078] _Vouchsafe_] _Voechsafe_ Q2. ¶ _defused_] Qq. _defus’d_ F1 F2. _diffus’d_ F3 F4.

[fab079] _For_] Qq. _Of_ Ff.

[fab083], fab084: _Fouler...thyself_] As in Qq. As three lines in Ff, ending _thee...currant...thy selfe._

[fab084] _current, but to_] _that will be currant, Unless thou_ Rowe.

[fab086] _shouldst_] Qq. _shalt_ Ff.

[fab088] _Which_] Qq. _That_ Ff. ¶ _didst_] _diddest_ Q4 Q5.

[fab089] _not?_] Q2. _not._ the rest. ¶ _Why...dead_] Qq. _Then say they were not slaine_ Ff (_slain_ F3 F4). ¶ _Why, then_] _Then_ Seymour conj.

[fab091] _Why...alive._] _Then he lives._ Seymour conj.

[fab092] _hand_] Qq. _hands_ Ff.

[fab093] _In thy...saw_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ _foul_] _soul’s_ Malone.

[fab094] _murderous_] _murd’rous_ Ff. _bloudy_ Q1 Q2. _bloodly_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _bloody_ Q7 Q8.

[fab095] _didst_] _did_ Q2.

[fab096] _thy brothers_] _thy brother_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _my brother_ Q7 Q8.

[fab097] _provoked_] _provok’d_ F4.

[fab098] _Which_] Qq. _That_ Ff. ¶ _their_] _her_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _guilt_] _guift_ Q6.

[fab100] _Which_] Qq. _That_ Ff. ¶ _dreamt_] Qq. _dream’st_ Ff.

[fab101] _king?_] _king._ Q1. ¶ _ye_] Ff. _yea_ Q1 Q2. _yee_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _ye, yea_ Ritson conj.

[fab102] _Dost...too_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fab105] _fitter_] Qq. _better_ Ff.

[fab107] _holp_] _help’d_ Pope.

[fab110] _you_] Q1 Q2 Q6 Ff Q7 Q8. _ye_ Q3 Q4 Q5.

[fab111] _Some dungeon._ Glou. _Your_] _Some dungeon perhaps._ Glou. _Your_ Steevens conj. _Some dungeon then._ Glou. _No, lady; your_ Seymour conj.

[fab114] _I know_] _And I know_ Hanmer.

[fab115] _keen_] Q1 F3 F4. _keene_ F1 F2. _kinde_ Q2. _kind_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. ¶ _our_] _your_ Q7 Q8.

[fab116] _somewhat_] Qq. _something_ Ff.

[fab117] _timeless_] _teem-lesse_ Q4.

[fab119] _executioner?_] _executioner._ Q1 F1.

[fab120] _art_] Qq. _was’t_ F1 F2 F3. _wast_ F4. ¶ _cause, and...effect._] _cause, and...th’ effect._ Hanmer. _cause of that most curs’d effect._ Edwards conj.

[fab122] _which_] Qq. _that_ Ff.

[fab124] _live_] Ff. _rest_ Qq. ¶ _one_] _that_ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fab126] _These_] _My_ quoted in Steevens’s reprint. ¶ _rend_] Qq. _rent_ Ff. ¶ _my_] _their_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fab127] _never_] Qq. _not_ Ff. ¶ _sweet_] Qq. _y^e_ F1 F2. _that_ F3 F4.

[fab128] _it_] Ff. _them_ Qq.

[fab129] _cheered_] _cleared_ Q7 Q8.

[fab131] _o’ershade_] _ore-shade_ F1 F2. _o’re-shade_ F3 F4. _overshade_ or _overshad_ Qq.

[fab132] _Curse...both_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fab135] _you_] Qq. _thee_ Ff.

[fab137] _that_] _tha_ Q6. ¶ _slew_] Qq. _kill’d_ Ff.

[fab138] _thee_] Qq F4. _the_ F1 F2 F3.

[fab141] _He_] Ff. _Go to, he_ Q1 Q2. _Go too, he_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. ¶ _you_] Qq. _thee_ Ff.

[fab142] _Why, that_] _Why that_ Q1 Q2 Ff. _Whye what_ the rest.

[fab144] _he?_] _he._ Q1.

[fab145] Glou.] Glo. Qq. Rich. F1 F3 F4. om. F2. ¶ [She spitteth at him.] Spits at him. Ff. She spittes at him. Q8. ¶ _thou_] om. Q7 Q8. ¶ _me?_] _me._ Q1. _him?_ Q8.

[fab147] _a place_] _place_ Rowe (ed. 1).

[fab149] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff.

[fab153] _they_] _thy_ Q5. ¶ _kill_] _kils_ F2.

[fab155] _aspect_] Qq. _aspects_ Ff. ¶ _drops:_] Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. _drops._ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fab156]–fab167: _These...weeping_] Omitted in Qq.

[fab157] _No,_] _Not_ Pope.

[fab160] _thy_] F1 F2. _my_ F3 F4.

[fab168] _friend_] _friends_ Q6. _frinds_ Q7 Q8.

[fab169] _smoothing_] Ff Q7 Q8. _soothing_ the rest. ¶ _words_] Qq. _word_ Ff.

[fab171] [She looks...] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[fab172] _thy_] _my_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _lips...they were_] Qq. _lip...it was_ Ff.

[fab176] _this true_] _true this_ Q3. ¶ _bosom_] Qq. _brest_ F1 F2. _breast_ F3 F4.

[fab177] _forth_] _fourth_ F2. ¶ _adoreth_] _adorneth_ Q7 Q8.

[fab178] _the_] _thy_ Q6 Q7 Q8 F3.

[fab179] _knee] knees_ Q8. ¶ [He lays...at it...] F2 F3 F4. He layes...at.... F1.

[fab180] _for...Henry_] Ff. _twas I that kild your husband_ Qq.

[fab182] _’twas...Edward_] Ff. _t’was I that kild king Henry_ Qq. ¶ [offers at it again. Capell.

[fab183] [Here...] Qq. She fals the sword. Ff.

[fab184] _the sword_] _thy sword_ Q8.

[fab186] _the_] Qq. _thy_ Ff.

[fab188] _Tush, that was_] Qq. _That was_ Ff. _Tush ’twas_ Anon. conj. ¶ _thy rage_] _the rage_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7.

[fab189] _the word_] _thy word_ F2 F3 F4.

[fab190] _That_] Qq. _This_ Ff. ¶ _for thy love_] _for my love_ Q8.

[fab192] _thou shalt_] Qq. _shalt thou_ Ff.

[fab193] _I knew_] _know_ Q7 Q8. ¶ fab193–fab202: _I would...ring_] Steevens arranges as six lines of verse, ending _figur’d in...man...sword...know...men...ring_.

[fab196] _never man was_] _never was man_ Q1 Q2. _man Was never_ Steevens.

[fab199] _shall you_] Qq. _shall thou_ Ff.

[fab200] _shall I...hope?_] F2 F3 F4. _shall I...hope._ Q1 F1. _I shall...hope._ the rest.

[fab202] Glou.] Gol. Q2. Glo. Q1 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. om. Ff, continuing the speech to Anne. ¶ _Vouchsafe_] _Voutsafe_ Q1.

[fab203] Anne. _To take...give._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. ¶ [She puts on the ring. Johnson.

[fab204] _this_] Qq. _my_ F1. _thy_ F2 F3 F4. ¶ _thy_] Qq F1. _my_ F2 F3 F4. ¶ [putting it on. Capell.

[fab205] _my_] _me_ Q5 Q6.

[fab206] _Wear_] _Were_ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fab207] _devoted suppliant_] Q1. _suppliant_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _devoted servant_ Ff.

[fab209] _his_] _this_ F3 F4.

[fab210] _What_] _Wat_ Q3.

[fab211] _would_] Qq. _may_ Ff. ¶ _thee_] Qq. _you_ Ff.

[fab212] _more_] Qq. _most_ Ff.

[fab213] _Place_] Qq. _House_ Ff.

[fab222] _Tressel_] Ff. _Tressill_ Qq. _Trassel_ Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ _Berkeley_] _Barkley_ Q1 Q2 Ff. _Bartley_ Q3 Q4. _Bartly_ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fab225] [Exeunt...] Exit two with Anne. Ff (Ex. F4). Exit. Qq.

[fab226] Glo. _Sirs...corse_] Omitted in Ff. _Take up the corse, sirs_ Capell. ¶ _corse_] _course_ Q6 Q7 Q8. ¶ _lord?_] _lord._ Q1.

[fab227] _No,_] Q1 Q2. _No:_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 F1. _No_ Q7 Q8. _Now_ F2 F3 F4. ¶ [Exeunt...] Exeunt. manet Gl. Qq. Exit Coarse. Ff.

[fab228] _woo’d?_] _woed,_ Q1.

[fab229] _won?_] _wonne:_ Q1.

[fab231] _What! I, that_] _What I that_ Q1 Q2 Q5 Q6. _What I? that_ Q3 Q4. _What? I that_ F1 F2. _What I have_ Q7. _What? I have_ Q8 F3 F4. ¶ _his father_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _her father_ the rest.

[fab232] _hate_] Q1 Ff. _heate_ the rest.

[fab234] _her_] Qq. _my_ Ff.

[fab235] _Having_] _With_ Pope.

[fab236] _nothing_] Qq. _no friends_ Ff. ¶ _at all_] Q1 Q2. _withall_ Q3 Q5 Q6 Ff Q7 Q8. _with all_ Q4.

[fab238] _her, all...to nothing!_] _her all...to nothing._ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _her all...to nothing?_ Q6. _her? All...to nothing._ Ff. _her all...is nothing?_ Q7 Q8.

[fab239] _Ha!_] _Hah!_ Ff. _Hah_ Q1. _Hah?_ the rest (at end of line 238, in Qq).

[fab243] _a lovelier_] _lovelier_ Q7 Q8.

[fab245] _valiant, wise_] _wise and valiant_ Pope. _valiant, wise, kind_ S. Walker conj. ¶ _royal_] _loyal_ Johnson conj.

[fab246] _world_] _word_ F2.

[fab247] _yet_] Qq F1. om. F2. _thus_ F3 F4. ¶ _debase_] _abase_ Ff.

[fab248] _the_] _he_ Q8.

[fab249] _bed?_] _bed,_ Q1.

[fab250] _moiety_] _moity_ Qq. _moytie_ Ff.

[fab251] _halt_] Qq. _halts_ Ff. ¶ _unshapen_] Qq. _mishapen_ Ff.

[fab252] _to a_] _to be a_ Q5 Q6 Q7. _to bee a_ Q8. ¶ _denier_] _taniere_ Warburton conj.

[fab256] _charges_] _charge_ Q8.

[fab257] _some score_] Qq. _a score_ Ff.

[fab258] _adorn_] _adore_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6.

[fab260] _some_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _a_ the rest.

[fab261] _yon_] _you_ Q5 Q6.

[fab263] _bought_] _brought_ Q8.

[fac001] The palace.] Theobald. ¶ Enter Queen Elizabeth,...] Enter the Queene Mother.... Ff. Enter Queene, Lord Rivers, and Gray. Qq (and om. Q1 Q2).

[fac003] _brook_] _boroke_ Q2. ¶ _it ill, it_] _it, ill it_ Q1.

[fac005] _with_] om. Q1. ¶ _words_] Qq. _eyes_ Ff.

[fac006] _If...me_] Repeated in F1. ¶ _of_] Qq. _on_ Ff.

[fac007] Riv.] Ri. Qq. Gray. Ff.

[fac008] _harm_] _harme_ Qq. _harmes_ F1 F2 F3. _harms_ F4.

[fac011] _Oh_] Qq. _Ah_ Ff.

[fac012] _unto_] _in_ Q7 Q8. _into_ Theobald. _under_ Anon. conj. ¶ _Richard_] Ff Q8. _Rich._ the rest.

[fac014] _Is it_] _It is_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac016] Derby.] Ff. Darby. Qq. Stanley. Theobald (and passim). See note (III).

[fac017] _come the lords_] Q1 Q2. _comes the lords_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _comes the lord_ Ff.

[fac021] _prayers_] _prayer_ Ff. ¶ _scarcely_] _scarce_ Q7 Q8.

[fac024] _arrogance_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _arrogancie_ or _arrogancy_ the rest.

[fac025] _do beseech_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _beseech_ the rest.

[fac026] _false accusers_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _accusers_ the rest.

[fac027] _in true_] Qq. _on true_ Ff.

[fac030] Riv.] Q2. Ry. Q1. Ri. Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. Qu. Ff. ¶ _of_] om. Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac032] _Are come_] Ff. _Came_ Qq.

[fac033] _What_] _With_ Q1 Q2.

[fac034] _speaks_] _speaketh_ Q3.

[fac036] _Madam, we did_] _Madame we did_ Qq. _I Madam_ F1 F2 F3. _I, Madam,_ F4. _Ay, madam_ Capell. _We did, madam_ Anon. conj. ¶ _desires_] _seeks_ Pope. ¶ _to make_] _make_ Q4.

[fac037], fac038: _Betwixt...betwixt_] Qq. _Betweene...betweene_ Ff.

[fac039] _to warn_] _lo warne_ Q4. ¶ _to his_] _ot his_ Q6. _of his_ Q7 Q8.

[fac041] _highest_] Qq. _height_ Ff. ¶ Enter......] Enter Richard; Hastings, and Dorset, with him. Capell. Enter Glocester. Qq. Enter Richard. Ff. Enter Gloucester and Hastings. Hanmer.

[fac043] _are they that complain_] Q8. _are they that complaines_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7. _is it that complaines_ Ff. ¶ fac043, fac044: _king,...not?_] Ff. _king,...not:_ Q1. _king?...not:_ the rest.

[fac044] _and_] om. Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac045] _holy_] _wholy_ Q6.

[fac046] _dissentious_] _discentions_ Q2.

[fac047] _speak_] _speake_ Qq. _looke_ Ff.

[fac048] _smooth_] _sooth_ Theobald conj.

[fac052] _his simple_] _in simple_ Q5 Q7 Q8. _in simpla_ Q6.

[fac053] _By_] Qq. _With_ Ff.

[fac054] Riv.] Ri. Qq. Grey. F1 F2. Gray. F3 F4. ¶ _whom_] _home_ Q6 Q7. _who_ F1. ¶ _all_] om. Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac055] _hast nor_] _hast not_ Q4. _hath no_ Q7 Q8.

[fac057] _faction?_] _faction:_ Q1.

[fac058] _person_] Qq. _grace_ Ff.

[fac059] _would_] _can_ Q7 Q8.

[fac063] _of_] Qq. _on_ Ff.

[fac064] _provoked_] _provoke_ Q8.

[fac066] _Which...actions_] Qq. _That...action_ Ff.

[fac067] _kindred_] Q1 Q6 Q7 Q8. _kinred_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _children_ Ff. ¶ _brothers_] _brother_ Pope.

[fac068], fac069: _Makes......it._] Steevens. _Makes......to remove it._ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _Makes......grounds......to remove it._ Q6. _Makes him to send, that he may learne the ground._ Ff (omitting _of...it._). _Makes...whereby wee...ground...to remove it._ Q7 Q8. _Makes him to send, that he may learn the ground Of your ill will, and thereby to remove it._ Pope. _Hath sent for you, that he may learn the ground Of your ill will, and thereby may remove it._ Hanmer. _Hath sent for you; that thereby he may gather The ground of your ill will, and so remove it._ Capell.

[fac071] _make_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _may_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _way_ Q7 Q8.

[fac075] _my advancement_] Q1 Ff. _mine advancement_ the rest. ¶ _friends’_] Knight. _friends_ Qq Ff.

[fac077] _grants_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _grant_ the rest. ¶ _we_] Qq. _I_ Ff.

[fac080] _whilst many fair_] Qq. _while great_ Ff. _while many fair_ Pope.

[fac089] _in...suspects_] _in, such vile suspect_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _vile_] _wild_ Pope.

[fac090] _deny that you were not_] _deny too that you were_ Capell. ¶ _cause_] Qq. _meane_ Ff.

[fac092] _lord, for--_] Ff. _lord._ Qq.

[fac095] _fair_] om. Q7 Q8.

[fac097] _deserts_] Qq. _desert_ Ff.

[fac098] _What may_] _What my_ Q5. ¶ _not?_] _not,_ Q1 Q2 F1 F2. ¶ _yea_] Qq. _I_ Ff. _ay_ Rowe. ¶ _she,--_] _she--_ Pope. _she,_ F2. _she._ the rest.

[fac099] _she?_] _she._ Q1.

[fac101] _a handsome_] Qq. _and a handsome_ Ff.

[fac102] _a worser_] _worser_ Q5.

[fac106] _With_] Qq. _Of_ Ff. ¶ _I often_] Qq. _that oft I_ Ff.

[fac108] _great_] om. Q7 Q8.

[fac109] _thus...at_] Qq. _so baited, scorn’d, and stormed at_ Ff. ¶ Enter...behind.] Enter...at a distance. Capell. Enter Qu. Margaret. Qq. Enter old Queene Margaret. Ff (after line 110).

[fac111] SCENE IV. Pope. ¶ _thee_] Qq. _him_ Ff.

[fac113] _telling of_] _telling, or_ Q2. _telling_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac114] _Tell...said_] Omitted in Ff. ¶ _have_] om. Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac115] _avouch_] Qq. (_auoch_ Q6 Q7 Q8). _avouch’t_ Ff.

[fac116] _I dare...Tower_] Omitted in Qq. ¶ _to be_] _be_ Steevens conj.

[fac117] _’Tis...forgot_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fac118] _Out...well_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ _Out,_] _No,_ Warburton. ¶ _remember_] Qq. _do remember_ Ff. ¶ _them_] _thee_ Warburton.

[fac119] _slewest_] Qq. _killd’st_ F1 F2 F3. _kild’st_ F4.

[fac121] _Ere...king_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ _yea, or_] _yea of_ Q2. _I, or_ Ff. _ay, or_ Rowe.

[fac125] _spilt_] Qq. _spent_ Ff.

[fac126] _Yea...thine_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ fac126, fac136: _Yea_] Qq. _I_ Ff. _Ay_ Rowe.

[fac129] _you. Was_] _you, was_ Q1.

[fac131] _minds_] _minde_ Q5. _mind_ Q6 Q7 Q8. ¶ _if you_] Ff. _if yours_ Qq.

[fac132] _ere now_] Qq. _ere this_ Ff.

[fac142] _childish-foolish_] Theobald. _childish, foolish_ Q1 Q2. _childish foolish_ the rest.

[fac143] _Hie_] Qq. _High_ F1 F2. _Hye_ F3 F4. ¶ _the_] Qq. _this_ Ff.

[fac147] _follow’d_] _follow_ Q7. ¶ _lawful_] Qq. _soveraigne_ Ff.

[fac148] _if you should_] Qq F1 F2. _if you would_ F3 F4.

[fac149] _If I should_] _If should_ Q6.

[fac150] _of it_] Qq. _thereof_ Ff.

[fac151] Q. Eliz.] Qu. Q1 Q2 Ff. Q. M. Q3 Q4. Qu. Nar. Q5. Qu. Mar. Q6 Q7. Q. Mar. Q8.

[fac153] _may you_] Qq. _you may_ Ff.

[fac155] Q. Mar.] om. Q7 Q8. ¶ _A little_] Qq Ff. _As little_ Dyce (Heath conj.). _And little_ Grant White. _Ah, little_ Anon. conj.

[fac157] [Advancing.] Capell. Coming forward. They all start. Collier (Collier MS.).

[fac159] _In sharing_] Q1 Ff. _In sharing out_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _I shaking out_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _you_] _yon_ F2.

[fac160] _of_] _off_ F1. ¶ _trembles_] _tremble_ Q8. ¶ _looks_] _looke_ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac161] _being_] Qq. _am_ Ff.

[fac162] _by you_] _byou_ Q3. _by on_ Q4. ¶ _deposed_] _disposd_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _rebels_] _reabels_ Q7. _Reblls_ F2.

[fac163] _O gentle_] _Ah gentle_ Ff. _O gentile_ Q7. _Ungentle_ Warburton. _Ah, gently,_ Jackson conj.

[fac167]–fac169: Glou. _Wert thou......abode._] Omitted in Qq.

[fac169] my] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[fac170] _owest to_] _owest unto_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac172] _The sorrow_] Qq. _This sorrow_ Ff.

[fac173] _pleasures_] _pleasure_ Q7. ¶ _are_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _is_ the rest.

[fac176] _scorns_] F4. _scornes_ F1 F2 F3. _scorne_ Qq. ¶ _drew’st_] _drew_ Q8. ¶ _from_] _frow_ Q6.

[fac178] _faultless_] Q1 Q2 Ff. The rest omit.

[fac180] _all_] Q1 Q2 F1. The rest omit. _now_ Rowe.

[fac181] _hath_] _have_ F3 F4. _has_ Pope. ¶ _plagued_] _plaugde_ Q4. _plagude_ Q3 Q5 Q6 Q7.

[fac182] Q. Eliz.] Qu. Qq Ff. Q. Mar. Rowe.

[fac184] _e’er_] _ere_ F1 F2. _e’re_ F3 F4. _ever_ Qq.

[fac190] _all...now_] Q1 Ff. _now...all_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _now...now_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _on_] _one_ Q7.

[fac193] _loss_] _lost_ Q7 Q8.

[fac194] _Could_] Qq. _Should_ Ff. ¶ _but_] _not_ Mason conj.

[fac197] _If_] Qq. _Though_ Ff.

[fac198] _ours_] _our_ Q3 Q5 Q6. _out_ Q4.

[fac199] _thy_] _my_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _which_] Qq. _that_ Ff.

[fac200] _my_] Qq. _our_ Ff. ¶ _which_] Qq. _that_ Ff. ¶ _was_] _was a_ Q7. _was the_ Q8.

[fac201] _Die_] _Died_ Q8. ¶ _violence_] _violences_ Q6 Q7.

[fac204] _loss_] Qq. _death_ Ff.

[fac205] _thee_] _thee thee_ F2.

[fac206] _rights_] Q1 Ff. _glorie_ the rest. _rites_ Anon. conj.

[fac208] _lengthen’d_] _length’ned_ Ff. _lengthened_ Qq.

[fac211] _wast_] Q1 Q2 Ff Q8. _was_ the rest. ¶ _son_] _soone_ Q7.

[fac213] _your_] Qq. _his_ Ff.

[fac214] _But...off_] _By some unlook’d for accident all cut off_ Hanmer. ¶ _unlook’d_] _un-look’d-for_ F3 F4.

[fac216] _thee? stay_] _the stay_ Q1 Q2.

[fac217] _heaven_] _heavens_ Rowe.

[fac221] _the troubler_] _thou troubler_ Rowe.

[fac224] _for thy_] _forth,_ Q4.

[fac225] _that deadly eye_] _the deadly eyes_ Q7 Q8.

[fac226] _whilst_] Q6 Q7 Q8. _whilest_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _while_ Ff.

[fac227] _ugly_] _ougly_ F1 F2.

[fac228] _elvish-mark’d_] _elvish-markt_ Pope. _elvish markt_ Qq. _elvish mark’d_ F1 F2. _elvish, mark’d_ F3 F4.

[fac230] _slave_] _shame_ Anon. apud Theobald conj. _stain_ Collier MS. ¶ _son_] F3 F4. _sonne_ the rest. _scorne_ Collier MS.

[fac231] _mother’s heavy_] Qq. _heavie mothers_ Ff. _mother’s_ Johnson.

[fac233] _rag_] _wrack_ Warburton. ¶ _detested--_] F1 F3 F4. _detested, &c._ Qq. _detested._ F2.

[fac234] _Ha!_] F4. _Ha._ the rest. ¶ _thee_] _the_ Q6 Q7.

[fac235] _I cry...then_] Ff. _Then I crie thee mercie_ Qq (_I_ om. Q8). ¶ _had thought_] Qq. _did think_ Ff.

[fac236] _That thou hadst_] Q1 Ff. _Thou hadst_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _Thou hast_ Q7 Q8.

[fac237] _look’d_] _looke_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac239] _in_] _by_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac240] _Thus...yourself._] Continued to Gloucester in Q7 Q8.

[fac242] _bottled spider_] _bloated spider_ Grey conj. _bottle-spider_ Collier MS.

[fac245] _time...that_] Q1. _day...that_ Ff. _time...when_ the rest.

[fac246] _that_] Qq. _this_ Ff. ¶ _poisonous_] Q1 Ff. _poisoned_ the rest.

[fac247] _False-boding_] _False boading_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 F3 F4. _False boding_ F1 F2. _False bosting_ Q7. _False boasting_ Q8.

[fac249] _all] oll_ Q5.

[fac251] _all_] om. Q7 Q8.

[fac252] _you_] _yon_ Q2.

[fac253] _O, serve_] _Observe_ Q7 Q8.

[fac257] _O, that...could_] _Of that...can_ Long MS. ¶ _could_] Qq F1. _can_ F2 F3 F4.

[fac259] _many_] _mighty_ Q8. ¶ _blasts_] _blast_ Q1.

[fac260] _themselves_] _them_ Q7 Q8.

[fac262] _toucheth_] Qq. _touches_ Ff.

[fac263] _Yea,_] Qq. I, Ff. _Ay_, Rowe. ¶ _high,_] Qq. _high_: Ff.

[fac267] _son_] _sunne_ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac270] _aery buildeth......nest_] _airey building in our airey nest_ Becket conj.

[fac272] _was_] Qq. is Ff. ¶ _lost be it so!_] _so be it lost._ Pope.

[fac273] _Have...charity._] S. Walker doubts whether this speech be Buckingham’s. ¶ _Have done_] Qq. _Peace, peace_ Ff.

[fac276] _by you my hopes_] Qq. _my hopes (by you)_ Ff.

[fac278] _that shame_] Ff. _my shame_ Qq. ¶ _still_] _shall_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac279] _Have done, have done._] Ff. _Have done._ Qq.

[fac280] _I’ll_] _Ile_ F1 F2. _I’le_ F3 F4. _I will_ Qq. _I_ Capell.

[fac282] _noble_] Ff. _princely_ Qq.

[fac285] _no one_] _none_ Q7 Q8.

[fac286] _of those_] _of them_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fac287] _I’ll not believe_] Qq. _I will not think_ Ff.

[fac288] _gentle-sleeping_] Theobald. _gentle sleeping_ Qq Ff.

[fac289] _take heed_] Ff. _beware_ Qq.

[fac291] _venom_] Ff. _venome_ Qq. _venom’d_ Capell conj. ¶ _rankle_] _rackle_ Q1. ¶ _to the death_] Ff. _thee to death_ Qq.

[fac292] _Have not_] _Have nought_ Anon. conj.

[fac293] _marks on him_] _marks upon him_ Pope.

[fac297] One line in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _me_, in Ff.

[fac298] _soothe_] _soothd_ Q6. _smooth_ Anon. conj.

[fac301] _say poor Margaret was_] Qq. _say (poore Margaret) was_ Ff.

[fac302] _subjects to_] Ff. _subiects of_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _subiect of_ Q7 Q8. _subject to_ Pope.

[fac303] _yours_] Ff. _your_ Q1 Q2. _you_ the rest. ¶ _God’s_] _God_ Q8.

[fac304] Hast.] Qq. Buc. Ff. ¶ _on end_] Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _an end_ Ff Q7 Q8.

[fac305] _muse why_] Ff. _wonder_ Qq.

[fac308] _to her_] Ff. om. Qq.

[fac309] Q. Eliz.] Qu. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. Hast. Q6 Q7 Q8. Mar. F1 F2. Der. F3 F4. Dors. Rowe.

[fac310] _But_] Qq. _Yet_ Ff. ¶ _her wrong_] Ff. _this wrong_ Qq.

[fac311] _hot_] _hoat_ Q1. _hotte_ Q8.

[fac312] _of it_] _one it_ Q7. _on it_ Q8.

[fac313] _as_] om. Pope.

[fac315] _of it_] Qq. _thereof_ Ff.

[fac316] _and a_] _and_ Q7 Q8.

[fac318], fac319: _So...myself._] Marked as ‘Aside’ by Rowe. ¶ fac318: [Aside] _being_] Edd. (S. Walker conj.). _being_ Qq Ff.

[fac319] _For..._] Qq. Speakes to himselfe. _For..._ Ff. ¶ _cursed now, I_] _curst now, I_ Q4 Ff. _curst, now I_ the rest. Enter Catesby.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[fac321] _And......noble lords._] Capell. _And...noble Lo:_ Q1 Q2. _And for your noble Grace: and you my noble Lord._ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _And for your Grace, and yours my gracious Lord._ Ff. (_yours,_ F4). _And for your noble grace and you my Lord._ Q7 Q8 (_grace,_ Q8). _And for your grace, and you, my noble lord._ Pope.