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But 'twas thy heavenly face that fet me on.

[She lets fall the fword.

Take up the fword again, or take up me.

Anne. Arife, diffembler; though I wish thy death, I will not be thy executioner.

Glo. Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.
Anne. I have already.

Glo. That was in thy rage:

Speak it again, and, even with the word,
This hand, which for thy love, did kill thy love,
Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love;
To both their deaths fhalt thou be acceffary.
Anne. I would, I knew thy heart.
Glo. 'Tis figur'd in my tongue.
Anne. I fear me, both are falfe.

Glo. Then never man was true.
Anne. Well, well, put up your fword.
Glo. Say then, my peace is made.
Anne. That fhall you know hereafter.
Glo. But fhall I live in hope?
Anne. All men, I hope, live fo.
Glo. Vouchfafe to wear this ring.

Anne. To take is not to give.

[She puts on the ring

Glo. Look, how this ring encompaffeth thy finger, Even fo thy breaft encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

And if thy poor devoted fervant may

But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,
Thou doft confirm his happiness for ever.
Anne. What is it?

Glo. That it may please you leave thefe fad defigus
To him that hath more caufe to be a mourner,
And presently repair to Crofby-płace 7:

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Where

-Crosby-place:] A houfe near Bishopfgate-fireet, belong

ing to the duke of Glofter. JOHNSON.

Crofty-Place is now Crefby-fquare in Bishopfgate-ftreet; part

of

the

Where-after I have folemnly interr'd,
At Chertfey monaft'ry this noble king,
And wet his grave with my repentant tears,-
I will with all expedient duty fee you:
For divers unknown reafons, I beseech you,
Grant me this boon.

Anne. With all my heart; and much it joys me too, To fee you are become fo penitent.

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Treffel, and Berkley, go along with me.
Glo. Bid me farewel.

Anne. 'Tis more than you deferve:

But, fince you teach me how to flatter you
Imagine I have said farewel already.

[Exeunt two, with lady Anne.

Glo. Take up the corfe, firs.

Gen. Towards Chertfey, noble lord?

Glo. No, to White-Fryars; there attend my coming. [Exeunt the reft, with the corfe.

Was ever woman in this humour woo'd

Was ever woman in this humour won?

I'll have her, but I will not keep her long.

What! I, that kill'd her husband, and his father,

To take her in her heart's extremeft hate;

With curfes in her mouth, tears in her eyes,

The bleeding witnefs of her hatred by;

With God, her confcience, and these bars against me,
And I no friends to back my fuit withal,

But the plain devil, and diffembling looks,
And yet to win her, -all the world to nothing!
Ha!

Hath fhe forgot already that brave prince,

the house is yet remaining, and is a meeting place for a prefbyterian congregation. Sir J. HAWKINS.

8 Imagine, I have faid farewel already.] Cibber, who altered Rich. III. for the ftage, was fo thoroughly convinced of the ri diculouinefs and improbability of this fcene, that he thought himfelf obliged to make Treffel fay:

When future chronicles shall speak of this,
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They will be thought romance, not biflory. STEEVENS,

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Edward, her lord, whom I, fome three months fince,
Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,-

9 Fram'd in the prodigality of nature,

Young, valiant, wife, and, no doubt, right royal',

The fpacious world cannot again afford :
And will the yet abase her eyes on me,

That cropp'd the golden prime of this fweet prince,
And made her widow to a woeful bed?

On me, whofe all not equals Edward's moiety?
On me, that halt, and am mishapen thus ?
My dukedom to a beggarly denier,

I do mistake my perfon all this while :
Upon my life, fhe finds, although I cannot,
Myself to be a marvellous proper man.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass;
And entertain a score or two of taylors,
To study fashions to adorn my body:
Since I am crept in favour with myself,
I will maintain it with fome little coft.
But, firft, I'll turn yon' fellow in his grave;
And then return lamenting to my love.-

9 Fram'd in the prodigality of nature,] i. e. when nature was in a prodigal or lavish mood. WARBURTON.

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and, no doubt, right royal,-] Of the degree of royalty belonging to Henry the fixth there could be no doubt, nor could Richard have mentioned it with any fuch hefitation; he could not indeed very properly allow him royalty. I believe we should read:

and, no doubt, right loyal.

That is, true to her bed. He enumerates the reasons for which she should love him. He was young, wife, and valiant; these were apparent and indisputable excellencies. He then mentions another not lefs likely to endear him to his wife, but which he had lefs opportunity of knowing with certainty, and, no doubt right loyal. JOHNSON.

Richard is not speaking of king Henry, but of Edward his fon, whom he means to reprefent as full of all the noble properties of a king. No doubt, right royal, may, however, be ironically spoken, alluding to the incontinence of Margaret, his mother. STEEVENS.

Shine out, fair fun, 'till I have bought a glass,
That I may fee my fhadow as I pafs.

SCENE III.

The palace.

[Exit.

Enter the Queen, Lord Rivers her brother, and Lord Grey her fon.

Riv. Have patience, madam; there's no doubt, his majesty

Will foon recover his accuftom'd health.

Grey. In that you brook it ill, it makes him worfe: Therefore, for God's fake, entertain good comfort, And chear his grace with quick and merry words.

Queen. If he were dead, what would betide of me? Grey. No other harm, but lofs of fuch a lord. Queen. The lofs of fuch a lord includes all harms. Grey. The heavens have blefs'd you with a goodly fon,

To be your comforter, when he is gone.

Queen. Ah, he is young; and his minority
Is put into the truft of Richard Glofter,
A man that loves not me, nor none of you.
Riv. Is it concluded, he fhall be protector?
Queen. It is determin'd, not concluded yet :
But fo it must be, if the king miscarry.

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Enter Buckingham, and Stanley.

Grey. Here come the lords of Buckingham and Stanley.

Buck.

2 It is determin'd, not concluded yet:] Determin'd fignifies the final conclufion of the will: concluded, what cannot be altered by reason of fome act, consequent on the final judgment.

WARBURTON.

3 Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby.] This is a blun

Buck. Good time of day unto your royal grace! Stanley. God make your majefty joyful as you have

been!

Queen. The countefs Richmond, good my lord of
Stanley,

To your good prayer will scarcely say—amen.
Yet, Stanley, notwithstanding she's your wife,
And loves not me, be you, good lord, affur'd,
I hate not you for her proud arrogance.

Stanley. I do befeech you, either not believe
The envious flanders of her falfe accufers;
Or, if the be accus'd on true report,

Bear with her weakness, which, I think, proceeds
From wayward fickness, and no grounded malice.
Queen. Saw you the king to-day, my lord of
Stanley ?

Stanley. But now the duke of Buckingham, and I, Are come from vifiting his majesty.

Queen. What likelihood of his amendment, lords? Buck. Madam, good hope; his grace speaks chearfully.

Queen. God grant him health! Did you confer with him?

Buck. Ay, madam : he defires to make atonement Between the duke of Glofter and your brothers,

der of inadvertence, which has run through the whole chain of impreffions. It could not well be original in Shakespeare, who was moft minutely intimate with his hiftory, and the intermarriages of the nobility. The perfon here called Derby, was Thomas lord Stanley, lord steward of king Edward the fourth's houfhold. But this Thomas lord Stanley was not created earl of Derby till after the acceffion of Henry the feventh; and accordingly, afterwards, in the fourth and fifth acts of this play, before the battle of Bofworth-field, he is every where called lord Stanley. This fufficiently justifies the change I have made in his title.

THEOBALD.

* Ay, madam: he defires to make atonement] Thus all the old editions that I have feen; but Mr. Pope altered it thus : "Madam, we did; he feeks to make atonement; and has been followed by fucceeding editors, STEEVENS.

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