With full as many signs of deadly hate, Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint; Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban: And even now my burden'd heart would break, Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink! Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste! Their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees! Their chiefest prospect, murdering basilisks! Their softest touch, as smart as lizards' stings! Their musick, frightful as the serpent's hiss : And boding screechowls make the concert full! All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell Q. Mar. Enough, sweet Suffolk; thou torment'st thyself; And these dread curses-like the sun 'gainst glass, Or like an overcharged gun,-recoil, And turn the force of them upon thyself. Suff. You bade me bau, and will you bid me leave? Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from, Well could I curse away a winter's night, Though standing naked on a mountain top, Where biting cold would never let grass grow, And think it but a minute spent in sport. Q. Mar. O, let me entreat thee, cease! Give me thy hand, That I may dew it with my mournful tears; So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief; Go, speak not to me; even now be gone. O, go not yet!-Even thus two friends condemn'd Embrace, and kiss, and take ten thousand leaves, Loather a hundred times to part than die. Yet now farewell; and farewell life with thee! So Suffolk had thy heavenly company: I can no more:-Live thou to joy thy life; Enter VAUX. Q. Mar. Whither goes Vaux so fast? what news, I pr'ythee? Vaux. To signify unto his majesty, That cardinal Beaufort is at point of death: For suddenly a grievous sickness took him, That makes him gasp, and stare, and catch the air, Blaspheming God, and cursing men on earth. The secrets of his overcharged soul: Q. Mar. Go, tell this heavy message to the king. [Exit VAUX. Ah me! what is this world? what news are these? But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss, Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure? Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee, And with the southern clouds contend in tears; Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrows? Now, get thee hence: The king, thou know'st, is coming? If thou be found by me, thou art but dead. And in thy sight to die, what were it else, Q. Mar. Away! though parting be a fretful cor'sive It is applied to a deathful wound. To France, sweet Suffolk: Let me hear from thee: For wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe, I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out. Suff. I go. Q. Mar. And take my heart with thee. Suff. A jewel, lock'd into the woful'st cask That ever did contain a thing of worth. Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we; This way fall I to death. Q. Mar. This way for me. [Exeunt, severally. SCENE III. London. Cardinal Beaufort's Bedchamber. Enter KING HENRY, SALISBURY, WARWICK, and Others. The Cardinal in Bed; Attendants with him. K. Hen. How fares my lord? speak, Beaufort, to thy sovereign. Car. If thou be'st death, I'll give thee Eng- Enough to purchase such another island, K. Hen. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible! War. Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee. Car. Bring me unto my trial when you will. Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul!— Sal. Disturb him not, let him pass peaceably. K. Hen. Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be! Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hopeHe dies, and makes no sign; O God, forgive him! War. So bad a death argues a monstrous life. K. Hen. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. and draw the curtain close; Close up his eyes, [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I. Kent. The Seashore near Dover. Firing heard at Sea. Then enter, from a Boat, a Captain, a Master, a Master's Mate, WALTER WHITMORE, and Others; with them SUFFOLK, and other Gentlemen, prisoners. Cap. The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea; And now loud howling wolves arouse the jades That drag the tragick melancholy night; Who with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings Clip dead men's graves, and from their misty jaws Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air. 1 Gent. What is my ransome, master? let me know. Mast. A thousand crowns, or else lay down your head. Mate. And so much shall you give, or off goes yours. Cap. What, think you much to pay two thou sand crowns, And bear the name and port of gentlemen ?Cut both the villains' throats;-for die you shall; The lives of those which we have lost in fight Cannot be counterpois'd with such a petty sùm. 1 Gent. I'll give it, sir; and therefore spare my life. 2 Gent. And so will I, and write home for it straight. Whit. I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard, And therefore to revenge it, shalt thou die; [To SUFFOLK. And so should these, if I might have my will. Cap. Be not so rash; take ransome, let him live. Suff. Look on my George, I am a gentleman; Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid. Whit. And so am I; my name is Walter Whit more. How now? why start'st thou? what, doth death affright? Suff, Thy name affrights me, is death. , in whose sound A cunning man did calculate my birth, not; |