9791 'Tis euen now at my elbow, perswading me not to

980kill the Dkue.

9812 Take the diuell in thy minde, and beleeue him not:

982He would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.

9831 I am strong fram'd, he cannot preuaile with me.

9842 Spoke like a tall man, that respects thy reputation.

985Come, shall we fall to worke?

9861 Take him on the Costard, with the hiltes of thy

987Sword, and then throw him into the Malmesey-Butte in

988the next roome.

9892 O excellent deuice; and make a sop of him.

9901 Soft, he wakes.

9912 Strike.

9921 No, wee'l reason with him.

993Cla. Where art thou Keeper? Giue me a cup of wine.

9942 You shall haue Wine enough my Lord anon.

995Cla. In Gods name, what art thou?

9961 A man, as you are.

997Cla. But not as I am Royall.

9981 Nor you as we are, Loyall.

999Cla. Thy voice is Thunder, but thy looks are humble.

10001 My voice is now the Kings, my lookes mine owne.

1001Cla. How darkly, and how deadly dost thou speake?

1002Your eyes do menace me: why looke you pale?

1003Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?

10042 To, to, to---

1005Cla. To murther me?

1006Both. I, I.

1007Cla. You scarsely haue the hearts to tell me so,

1008And therefore cannot haue the hearts to do it.

1009Wherein my Friends haue I offended you?

10101 Offended vs you haue not, but the King.

1011Cla. I shall be reconcil'd to him againe.

10122 Neuer my Lord, therefore prepare to dye.

1013Cla. Are you drawne forth among a world of men

1014To slay the innocent? What is my offence?

1015Where is the Euidence that doth accuse me?

1016What lawfull Quest haue giuen their Verdict vp

1017Vnto the frowning Iudge? Or who pronounc'd

1018The bitter sentence of poore Clarence death,

1019Before I be conuict by course of Law?

1020To threaten me with death, is most vnlawfull.

1021I charge you, as you hope for any goodnesse,

1022That you depart, and lay no hands on me:

1023The deed you vndertake is damnable.

10241 What we will do, we do vpon command.

10252 And he that hath commanded, is our King.

1026Cla. Erroneous Vassals, the great King of Kings

1027Hath in the Table of his Law commanded

1028That thou shalt do no murther. Will you then

1029Spurne at his Edict, and fulfill a Mans?

1030Take heed: for he holds Vengeance in his hand,

1031To hurle vpon their heads that breake his Law.

10322 And that same Vengeance doth he hurle on thee,

1033For false Forswearing, and for murther too:

1034Thou did'st receiue the Sacrament, to fight

1035In quarrell of the House of Lancaster.

10361 And like a Traitor to the name of God,

1037Did'st breake that Vow, and with thy treacherous blade,

1038Vnrip'st the Bowels of thy Sou'raignes Sonne.

10392 Whom thou was't sworne to cherish and defend.

10401 How canst thou vrge Gods dreadfull Law to vs,

1041When thou hast broke it in such deere degree?

1042Cla. Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deede?

1043For Edward, for my Brother, for his sake.

1044He sends you not to murther me for this:

1045For in that sinne, he is as deepe as I.

1046If God will be auenged for the deed,

1047O know you yet, he doth it publiquely,

1048Take not the quarrell from his powrefull arme:

1049He needs no indirect, or lawlesse course,

1050To cut off those that haue offended him.

10511 Who made thee then a bloudy minister,

1052When gallant springing braue Plantagenet,

1053That Princely Nouice was strucke dead by thee?

1054Cla. My Brothers loue, the Diuell, and my Rage.

10551 Thy Brothers Loue, our Duty, and thy Faults,

1056Prouoke vs hither now, to slaughter thee.

1057Cla. If you do loue my Brother, hate not me:

1058I am his Brother, and I loue him well.

1059If you are hyr'd for meed, go backe againe,

1060And I will send you to my Brother Glouster:

1061Who shall reward you better for my life,

1062Then Edward will for tydings of my death.

10632 You are deceiu'd,

1064Your Brother Glouster hates you.

1065Cla. Oh no, he loues me, and he holds me deere:

1066Go you to him from me.

10671 I so we will.

1068Cla. Tell him, when that our Princely Father Yorke,

1069Blest his three Sonnes with his victorious Arme,

1070He little thought of this diuided Friendship:

1071Bid Glouster thinke on this, and he will weepe.

10721 I Milstones, as he lessoned vs to weepe.

1073Cla. O do not slander him, for he is kinde.

10741 Right, as Snow in Haruest:

1075Come, you deceiue your selfe,

1076'Tis he that sends vs to destroy you heere.

1077Cla. It cannot be, for he bewept my Fortune,

1078And hugg'd me in his armes, and swore with sobs,

1079That he would labour my deliuery.

10801 Why so he doth, when he deliuers you

1081From this earths thraldome, to the ioyes of heauen.

10822 Make peace with God, for you must die my Lord.

1083Cla. Haue you that holy feeling in your soules,

1084To counsaile me to make my peace with God,

1085And are you yet to your owne soules so blinde,

1086That you will warre with God, by murd'ring me.

1087O sirs consider, they that set you on

1088To do this deede, will hate you for the deede.

10892 What shall we do?

1090Clar. Relent, and saue your soules:

1091Which of you, if you were a Princes Sonne,

1092Being pent from Liberty, as I am now,

1093If two such murtherers as your selues came to you,

1094Would not intreat for life, as you would begge

1095Were you in my distresse.

10961 Relent? no: 'Tis cowardly and womanish.

1097Cla. Not to relent, is beastly, sauage, diuellish:

1098My Friend, I spy some pitty in thy lookes:

1099O, if thine eye be not a Flatterer,

1100Come thou on my side, and intreate for mee,

1101A begging Prince, what begger pitties not.

11022 Looke behinde you, my Lord.

11031 Take that, and that, if all this will not do, Stabs him.

1104Ile drowne you in the Malmesey-But within. Exit.

11052 A bloody deed, and desperately dispatcht:

1106How faine (like Pilate) would I wash my hands

1107Of this most greeuous murther. Enter 1. Murtherer

11081 How now? what mean'st thou that thou help'st me

1109not? By Heauen the Duke shall know how slacke you

1110haue beene.