As 't were retail'd to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day. GLO. So wise so young, they say, do never live long. PRINCE. What say you, uncle? [Aside. GLO. I say, without characters, fame lives long. Thus, like the formal Vice Iniquity, I moralise two meanings in one word. [Aside. PRINCE. That Julius Cæsar was a famous man: With what his valour did enrich his wit, PRINCE. An if I live until I be a man, GLO. Short summers lightly have a forward spring. [Aside. Enter YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL. BUCK. Now, in good time, here comes the duke of York. GLO. How fares our cousin, noble lord of York? have power in me, as in a kinsmanı. GLO. My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart. YORK. Of my kind uncle, that I know will give; And, being but a toy, which is no grief to give. GLO. A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin. GLO. It is too weighty for your grace to wear. GLO. What, would you have my weapon, little lord? YORK. Little. PRINCE. My lord of York will still be cross in talk; YORK. You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me: He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders. So cunning, and so young, is wonderful. GLO. My lord, will 't please you pass along? To meet you at the Tower, and welcome you. YORK. What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord? YORK. Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost; GLO. Nor none that live, I hope. PRINCE. An if they live, I hope I need not fear. But come, my lord, and, with a heavy heart, Thinking on. them, go I unto the Tower. [Exeunt PRINCE, YORK, HASTINGS, CARDINAL and Attendants. BUCK. Think you, my lord, this little prating York Was not insensed by his subtle mother To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously? GLO. No doubt, no doubt: O, 't is a parlous boy; He's all the mother's, from the top to toe. Come hither, Catesby; thou art sworn In the seat royal of this famous isle? CATE. He, for his father's sake, so loves the prince, That he will not be won to aught against him. BUCK. What think'st thou then of Stanley? will not he? CATE. He will do all in all as Hastings doth. BUCK. Well then, no more but this: Go, gentle Catesby, And, as it were far off, sound thou lord Hastings How he doth stand affected to our purpose; If thou dost find him tractable to us, Be thou so too; and so break off the talk, GLO. Commend me to lord William: tell him, Catesby, His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle; BUCK. Good Catesby, go, effect this business soundly. GLO. At Crosby-house, there shall you find us both. [Exit CATESBY. BUCK. Now, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots? GLO. Chop off his head;-something we will determine:And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me The earldom of Hereford, and all the moveables Whereof the king my brother was possess'd. BUCK. I'll claim that promise at your grace's hand. GLO. And look to have it yielded with all kindness. Come, let us sup betimes; that afterwards We may digest our complots in some forin. SCENE II.-Before Lord Hastings's House. Enter a Messenger. MESS. My lord, my lord! HAST. [Within.] Who knocks? [Exeunt. [Knocking. MESS. One from the lord Stanley. HAST. [Within.] What is 't o'clock ? MESS. Upon the stroke of four. Enter HASTINGS. HAST. Cannot my lord Stanley sleep these tedious nights? MESS. So it appears by that I have to say. First, he commends him to your noble self. HAST. What then? MESS. Then certifies your lordship, that this night Besides, he says, there are two councils kept; Which may make you and him to rue at th' other. And with all speed post with him towards the north, HAST. Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord: Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us Tell him, his fears are shallow, without instance: Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly. MESS. I'll go, my lord, and tell him what you say. [Exit. Enter CATESBY. CATE. Many good morrows to my noble lord! CATE. It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord; And I believe will never stand upright Till Richard wear the garland of the realm. HAST. HOW! wear the garland! dost thou mean the crown? CATE. Ay, my good lord. HAST. I'll have this crown of mine cut from my Before I'll see the crown so foul misplac'd. But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it? shoulders CATE. Ay, on my life; and hopes to find you forward Upon his party, for the gain thereof: And, thereupon, he sends you this good news,— The kindred of the queen, must die at Pomfret. CATE. God keep your lordship in that gracious mind! |