But when I swear, it is irrevocable. If, after three days' space, thou here be'st found On any ground that I am ruler of, The world shall not be ransom for thy life. Come, Warwick, come, good Warwick, go with me; I have great matters to impart to thee. [Exeunt all but QUEEN and SUFFOLK. QUEEN. Mischance and sorrow go along with you! Heart's discontent and sour affliction Be playfellows to keep you company! QUEEN. Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch ! Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy? SUF. A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them? Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan, As curst, as harsh and horrible to hear, And even now my burthen'd heart would break, QUEEN. 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. SUF. You bade me ban, 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. QUEEN. O, let me entreat thee cease. thy hand, That I Give me may dew it with my mournful tears; Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place, To wash away my woful monuments. O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand, That thou mightst think upon these by the seal, Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee! So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief; 'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by, And banished I am, if but from thee. O, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemn'd SUF. Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished; So Suffolk had thy heavenly company: For where thou art, there is the world itself, I can no more : live thou to joy thy life; QUEEN. Whither goes Vaux so fast? what news, VAUX. To signify unto his majesty That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death; And whispers to his pillow as to him QUEEN. Go tell this heavy message to the king. 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. SUF. If I depart from thee, I cannot live; To die by thee were but to die in jest: From thee to die were torture more than death: O, let me stay, befall what may befall' QUEEN. Away! though parting be a fretful corrosive, It is applied to a deathful wound. To France, sweet Suffolk: let me hear from thee; SUF. I go. QUEEN. And take my heart with thee. SUF. A jewel, lock'd into the wofull'st cask That ever did contain a thing of worth. Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we : This way fall I to death. QUEEN. This way for me. [Exeunt severally. SCENE III. A bedchamber. Enter the KING, SALISBURY, WARWICK, to the KING. How fares my lord? speak, Beaufort, to thy sovereign. CAR. If thou be'st death, I'll give thee England's treasure, Enough to purchase such another island, F |