Look, how thou dream'st!-I say again, give out, : To stop all hopes, whose growth may damage me.- Re-enter Page, with TYRREL. Is thy name-Tyrrel? Tyr. James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject. K. Rich. Art thou, indeed? Tyr. Prove me, my gracious lord. K. Rich. Dar'st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine? Tyr. Please you; but I had rather kill two enemies. K. Rich. Why, then thou hast it; two deep enemies, Foes to my rest, and my sweet sleep's disturbers, Are they that I would have thee deal upon :' Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower. Tyr. Let me have open means to come to them, And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them. K. Rich. Thou sing'st sweet musick. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel; Go, by this token :-Rise, and lend thine ear: There is no more but so:-Say, it is done, Re-enter BUCKINGHAM. [Whispers. [Exit. Buck. My lord, I have consider'd in my mind The late demand that you did sound me in. For the modern phraseology-deal with. Dorset is fled to K. Rich. Well, let that rest. Buck. My lord, I claim the gift, my due by promise, K. Rich. Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it. Buck. What says your highness to my just request? K. Rich. I do remember me,-Henry the sixth Did prophecy, that Richmond should be king, When Richmond was a little peevish boy. A king!-perhaps Buck. My lord, K. Rich. How chance, the prophet could not at that time Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him? I should not live long after I saw Richmond. Buck. My lord, K. Rich. Buck. To put your grace in mind of what you promis'd me. K. Rich. Well, but what is't o'clock? Buck. Of ten. Upon the stroke IK. Rich. Well, let it strike. 1 A Jack of the clock-house. Richard likens Buckingham to one of those automatons, and bids him not suspend the stroke on the clock bell, but strike, that the hour may be past, and himself be at liberty to pursue his meditations.-SIR J. HAWKINS. Betwixt thy begging and my meditation. I am not in the giving vein to-day. Buck. Why, then resolve me whe'r you will, or no. K. Rich. Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. [Exeunt King RICHARD and train. Buck. And is it thus? repays he my deep service With such contempt? made I him king for this? O, let me think on Hastings; and be gone To Brecknock,' while my fearful head is on. [Exit. SCENE III.-The same. Enter TYRREL. Tyr. The tyrannous and bloody act is done; Albeit they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs, Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which once, quoth Forrest, almost chang'd my mind; In Wales, where his estate lay. Enter King RICHARD. And here he comes :-All health, my sovereign lord? K. Rich. Kind Tyrrel! am I happy in thy news? Tyr. If to have done the thing you gave in charge Beget your happiness, be happy then, For it is done. K. Rich. But didst thou see them dead? Tyr. I did, my lord. K. Rich. And buried, gentle Tyrrel? Tyr. The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them; But where, to say the truth, I do not know. K. Rich. Come to me Tyrrel, soon, at after supper, When thou shalt tell the process of their death. Mean time, but think how I may do thee good, And be inheritor of thy desire. Farewell, till then. Tyr. I humbly take my leave. [Exit. K. Rich. The son of Clarence have I pen'd up close; His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage; Cate. My lord, Enter CATESBY. K. Rich. Good news or bad, that thou com'st in so bluntly? [mond; Cate. Bad news, my lord: Morton is fled to RichAnd Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen, Is in the field, and still his power encreaseth. 1 Richmond was at this time in exile at the court of the duke of Bretagne. K. Rich. Ely with Richmond troubles me more near Than Buckingham and his rash-levied strength. Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary: [Exeunt. SCENE IV.-The same. Before the palace. Enter Queen MARGARET. Q. Mar. So, now prosperity begins to mellow, And will to France; hoping, the consequence3 Q. Mar. Hover about her; say, that right for right Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night. 'Timorous thought and cautious disquisition are the dull attendants on delay. induction, introduction, first part. 2 3 consequence, for sequel. |