Sal. Nay, it is in a manner done already; With whom yourself, myself, and other lords, Phil. Let it be so :-And you, my noble prince, With other princes that may best be spar'd, Shall wait upon your father's funeral. P. Hen. At Worcester must his body be interr'd, For so he will'd it. Phil. Thither shall it then. And happily may your sweet self put on And true subjection everlastingly. Sal. And the like tender of our love we make, To rest without a spot for evermore. P. Hen. I have a kind soul, that would give you thanks, And knows not how to do it, but with tears. Phil. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, And we shall shock them; Nought shall make us rue, [Exeunt. END OF KING JOHN. King EDWARD the Fourth. EDWARD, prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward V. RICHARD, duke of York, GEORGE, duke of Clarence, sons to the king. RICHARD, duke of Gloster, afterwards>brothers to the king. King RICHARD III. A young Son of Clarence. HENRY, earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII. Cardinal BOURCHIER, archbishop of Canterbury. THOMAS ROTHERAM, archbishop of York; JOHN MORTON, bishop of Ely. Duke of BUCKINGHAM. Duke of NORFOLK: Earl of SURREY, his son. Earl RIVERS, brother to King Edward's queen: Marquis of DORSET, and Lord GREY, her sons. Earl of OXFORD. Lord HASTINGS. Lord STANLEY. Lord LoveL. Sir WILDIAM CATESBY. Sir JAMES TYRREL. Duchess of YORK, mother to King Edward IV., Clarence, and Lady ANNE, widow of Edward, prince of Wales, son to King Henry VI.; afterwards married to the duke of Gloster. A young Daughter of Clarence. Lords, and other Attendants; two Gentlemen, a Pursuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Ghosts, Soldiers, &c. SCENE-England. Glo. Now is the winter of our discontent Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; This tragedy, though it is called the life and death of this prince, comprises at most but the last eight years of his time, for it opens with George, duke of Clarence, being shut up in the Tower, which happened in the beginning of the year 1477, and closes with the death of Richard at Bosworth-field, which battle was fought in the year 1485.-MALONE. 1 Alluding to the cognizance of Edward IV., which was a sun, in memory of the three suns which are said to have appeared at the battle which he gained over the Lancastrians at Mortimer's Cross.-STEEVENS. And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds, But I,-that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be. Dive, thoughts, down to my soul! here Clarence comes. feature, for beauty. That puts together things of a dissimilar kind, as a brave soul and a deformed body. ? Perhaps we might read, And bate the idle pleasures.-JOHNSON. ↑ i. e. preparations for mischief. |