Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! Ready, with every nod, to tumble down Lov. Come, come, despatch; 'tis bootless to exclaim. Hast. O, bloody Richard!-miserable England! I prophecy the fearful'st time to thee, That ever wretched age hath look'd upon.Come, lead me to the block, bear him my head; They smile at me, who shortly shall be dead. SCENE V. The same. The Tower Walls. [Exeunt. Enter GLOSTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rusty armour, marvellous ill-favoured. Glo. Come, cousin, canst thou quake, and change thy colour? Murder thy breath in middle of a word,- Glo. He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along. 4 Intending deep suspicion:] i. e. pretending. Enter the Lord Mayor and CATESBY. i Buck. Let me alone to entertain him.-Lord mayor, Glo. Look to the draw-bridge there. Buck. Hark, hark! a drum. Glo. Catesby, o'erlook the walls. Buck. Lord mayor, the reason we have sent for you, Glo. Look back, defend thee, here are enemies. Buck. God and our innocence defend and guard us! Enter LovEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS's Head. Glo. Be patient, they are friends; Ratcliff, and Lovel. Lov. Here is the head of that ignoble traitor, The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings. Glo. So dear I lov'd the man, that I must weep. I took him for the plainest harmless't creature, That breath'd upon the earth a Christian; Made him my book, wherein my soul recorded The history of all her secret thoughts: So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue, That, his apparent open guilt omitted, I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife, He liv'd from all attainder of suspect. Buck. Well, well, he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor That ever liv'd.-Look you, my lord mayor, his conversation] i. e. familiar intercourse. The phrase -criminal conversation, is yet in daily use. To murder me, and my good lord of Gloster? Glo. What! think you we are Turks, or infidels? The peace of England, and our persons' safety, May. Now, fair befal you! he deserv'd his death; I never look'd for better at his hands, Buck. Yet had we not determin'd he should die, May. But, my good lord, your grace's word shall serve, As well as I had seen, and heard him speak: Glo. And to that end we wish'd your lordship here, Glo. Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham. The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post: There, at your meetest vantage of the time, And bestial appetite in change of lust; Which stretch'd unto their servants, daughters, wives, Glo. If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's castle; Where you shall find me well accompanied, 6 [Exit BUCKINGHAM. Glo. Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw." to Baynard's castle;] It was originally built by Baynard, a nobleman who (according to Stowe's account) came in with the conqueror. This edifice which stood in Thames-street, has long been pulled down, though parts of its strong foundation are still visible at low water. The site of it is now a timber-yard. Go thou [To CAT.] to friar Penker;-bid them both Meet me, within this hour, at Baynard's castle. [Exeunt LovEL and CATESBY.. Now will I in, to take some privy order To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight; And to give notice, that no manner of person Have, any time, recourse unto the princes. [Exit. SCENE VI. A Street. Enter a Scrivener. Scriv. Here is the indictment of the good lord Hastings; Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd, That it may be to-day read o'er in Paul's. 7 to doctor Shaw,-] Shaw and Penker were two popular preachers. Instead of a pamphlet being published by the Secretary of the Treasury, to furnish the advocates for the administration of the day, with plausible topicks of argument on great political measures, (the established mode of the present time) formerly it was customary to publish the court creed from the pulpit at Saint Paul's Cross. As Richard now employed Dr. Shaw to support his claim to the crown, so, about fifteen years before, the great Earl of Warwick employed his chaplain Dr. Goddard to convince the people that Henry VI. ought to be restored, and that Edward IV. was an usurper. MALONE. २ The precedent - The original draft from which the engrossment was made. |