3231I am determined to prooue a villaine,
3332And hate the idle plea
sures of the
se daies:
3433Plots haue I laid indu
ctious dangerous,
3534By drunken Prophe
sies, libels and dreames,
3635To
set my brother Clarence and the King
3736In deadly hate the one again
st the other.
3837And if King Edward be as true and iu
st,
3938As I am
subtile, fal
se, and trecherous:
4039This day
should Clarence clo
sely be mewed vp,
4140About a Prophecy which
saies that G.
4241Of Edwards heires the murtherers
shall be.
4342Diue thoughts downe to my
soule,
Enter Clarence with a gard of men. 4544Brother, good dayes, what meanes this armed gard
4645That waites vpon your grace?
4746Clar. His Maie
sty tendering my per
sons
safety hath ap
- 48This condu
ct to conuay me to the tower.
4949Glo. Vpon what cau
se?
5050Cla. Becau
se my name is George.
5151Glo. Alacke my Lord that fault is none of yours,
5252He
should for that commit your Godfathers:
5353O belike his Maie
sty hath
some intent
5454That you
shalbe new chri
stened in the Tower.
5555But
whats the matter Clarence may I know?
5656Cla. Yea Richard when I know; for I prote
st 5757As yet I doe not, but as I can learne,
5858He harkens after Prophecies and dreames,
5959And from the cro
sse-rowe pluckes the letter G:
6060And
saies a wi
sard told him that by G,
6161His i
ssue di
sinherited
should be.
6262And for my name of George begins with G,
6363It followes in his thought that I am he.
6464The
se as I learne and
such like toies as the
se,
6565Haue moued his highnes to commit me now.
6666Glo. Why this it is when men are rulde by women,
6767Tis not the King that
sends you to the tower,
6868My Lady Gray his wife, Clarence tis
she,
That