And between them and my lord chamberlain ;
And fent to warn them to his royal prefence.
Queen. 'Would all were well!-But that will never
be;-

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I fear, our happiness is at the height.

Enter Glofter, Haftings, and Dorfet.

Glo. They do me wrong, and I will not endure it :

Who are they, that complain unto the king,
That I, forfooth, am ftern, and love them not?
By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly,
That fill his ears with fuch diffentious rumours.
Because I cannot flatter, and speak fair,
Smile in men's faces, fmooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.
Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm,
But thus his fimple truth must be abus'd
By filken, fly, infinuating Jacks?

Grey. To whom in all this prefence speaks your grace?

Glo. To thee, that haft nor honefty, nor grace.
When have I injur'd thee? when done thee wrong?-
Or thee or thee ?-or any of your faction?
A plague upon you all! His royal grace,-
Whom God preserve better than you would with!--
Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing while,

But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.
Queen. Brother of Glofter, you mistake the matter:
The king-of his own royal difpofition,
And not provok'd by any fuitor elfe;
Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,
That in your outward action shews itself,
Against my children, brothers, and myself;

to warn them] i. e. to fummon. So, in Julius Cæfar:
"They mean to warn us at Philippi here." STEEVENS.
Makes

Makes him to fend; that thereby he may gather The ground of your ill-will, and fo remove it.

Glo. I cannot tell ;-The world is grown fo bad, That wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch: Since every Jack became a gentleman,

There's many a gentle perfon made a Jack.

Queen. Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Glofter;

You envy my advancement, and my friends:
God grant, we never may have need of you!
Glo. Meantime, God grants that we have need of

you :

Our brother is imprison'd by your means,
Myfelf difgrac'd, and the nobility

Held in contempt; while great promotions

Are daily given, to enoble those

That fcarce, fome two days fince, were worth a noble. Queen, By Him, that rais'd me to this careful height From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,

I never did incenfe his majesty

Against the duke of Clarence, but have been
An earnest advocate to plead for him.

My lord, you do me fhameful injury,

Falfely to draw me in these vile fufpects.

Glo. You may deny that you were not the cause

Of my lord Haftings' late imprisonment.
Riv. She may, my lord; for

Glo. She may, lord Rivers ?-why, who knows not fo?

She may do more, fir, than denying that :

She may help you to many fair preferments;
And then deny her aiding hand therein,
And lay thofe honours on your high desert.
What may she not? She may,-ay, marry, may fhe,-
Riv. What, marry, may the?

Of your ill-will, &c.] This line is restored from the first edition. POPE.

Glo

Glo. What, marry, may the ? marry with a king, A batchelor, a handsome stripling too: I wis, your grandam had a worfer match.

Queen. My lord of Glofter, I have too long borne Your blunt upbraidings, and your bitter scoffs: By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty, Of those grofs taunts I often have endur❜d. I had rather be a country fervant-maid, Than a great queen, with this condition To be fo baited, fcorn'd, and stormed at : Small joy have I in being England's queen.

Enter Queen Margaret, behind.

2. Mar. And leffen'd be that small, God, I beseech thee!

Thy honour, ftate, and feat, is due to me.

Glo. What! threat you me with telling of the king? 7 Tell him, and fpare not; look, what I have faid I will avouch in prefence of the king:

I dare adventure to be fent to the Tower.

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"Tis time to speak, my pains are quite forgot.

2. Mar. Out, devil! I remember them too well: Thou kill'dft my husband Henry in the Tower, And Edward, my poor fon, at Tewksbury.

Glo. Ere you were queen, ay, or your husband king,

7 Tell him, and Spare not; look, what I have faid] This verfe I have restored from the old quarto's. THEOBALD.

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my pains] My labours; my toils. JOHNSON.

9 Out, devil!] Read, No. WARBURTON.

There is no need of change; but if there were, the commentator does not change enough. He should read:

I remember them too well;

that is, his pains. JOHNSON.

Mr. Lambe obferves in his notes on the ancient metrical hiftory of the Battle of Floddon Field, that out is an interjection of abhorrence or contempt, most frequent in the mouths of the Common people of the north. It occurs again in act IV:

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out on ye, owls!" STEEVENS.

I was a pack-horfe in his great affairs;
A weeder-out of his proud adverfaries,
A liberal rewarder of his friends;

To royalize his blood, I fpilt mine own.

9 Mar. Ay, and much better blood than his, or thine.

Glo. In all which time, you, and your husband

Grey,

Were factious for the houfe of Lancafter;

And, Rivers, fo were you :- Was not your husband
In Margaret's battle at faint Alban's flain?
Let me put in your minds, if you forget,

What you have been ere now, and what you are;
Withal, what I have been, and what I am.

2. Mar. A murd'rous villain, and fo ftill thou art. Glo. Poor Clarence did forfake his father Warwick, Ay, and forfwore himfelf,-Which Jefu pardon!2. Mar. Which God revenge!

Glo. To fight on Edward's party, for the crown; And, for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up: I would to God, my heart were flint, like Edward's, Or Edward's foft and pitiful, like mine;

I am too childish-foolish for this world.

2. Mar. Hie thee to hell for fhame, and leave this world,

Thou cacodæmon! there thy kingdom is.

Riv. My lord of Glofter, in those bufy days,
Which here you urge, to prove us enemies,
We follow'd then our lord, our fovereign king;
So fhould we you, if you should be our king.

I

-royalize,] i. e. to make royal. So, in Claudius Tiberius Nero, 1507:

"Who means to-morrow for to royalize

"The triumphs &c." STEEVENS.

-Was not your husband,

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In Margaret's battle,

It is faid in Henry VI. that he died in quarrel of the house of York.

JOHNSON.

Glo.

Gle. If I fhould be ?-I had rather be a pedlar : Far be it from my heart, the thought thereof!

Queen. As little joy, my lord, as you suppose You should enjoy, were you this country's king; As little joy you may fuppofe in me,

That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.

2. Mar. A little joy enjoys the queen thereof; For I am fhe, and altogether joyless.

I can no longer hold me patient.- [She advances.
3 Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
In fharing that which you have pill'd from me+ :
Which of you trembles not, that looks on me?
If not, that, I being queen, you bow like fubjects;
Yet that, by you depos'd, you quake like rebels?-
Ah, gentle villain, do not turn away!

Glo. Foul wrinkled witch, what mak'st thou in my fight?

2. Mar. But repetition of what thou haft marr'd; That will I make, before I let thee go.

Glo. Wert thou not banished, on pain of death? 2. Mar. I was; but I do find more pain in banishment,

Than death can yield me here by my abode.
A husband, and a fon, thou ow'st to me,-

3 Hear me, you wrangling pirates, &c.] This fcene of Marga ret's imprecations is fine and artful. She prepares the audience, like another Caffandra, for the following tragic revolutions.

WARBURTON.

which you have pill'd from me :] To pill is to pillage. So, in the Martyr'd Soldier, by Shirley, 1638: "He has not pill'd the rich, nor flay'd the poor.'

STEEVENS.

] We fhould read:

WARBURTON.

The meaning of gentle is not, as the commentator imagines, tender or courteous, but high-born. An oppofition is meant be tween that and villain, which means at once a wicked and a lowborn wretch. So before:

Since ev'ry Jack is made a gentleman,

There's many a gentle perfon made a Jack. JOHNSON.

And