3231I am determined to prooue a villaine,

3332And hate the idle pleasures of these daies:

3433Plots haue I laid inductious dangerous,

3534By drunken Prophesies, libels and dreames,

3635To set my brother Clarence and the King

3736In deadly hate the one against the other.

3837And if King Edward be as true and iust,

3938As I am subtile, false, and trecherous:

4039This day should Clarence closely 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.

43Heere Clarence comes,

4544Brother, good dayes, what meanes this armed gard

4645That waites vpon your grace?

4746Clar. His Maiesty tendering my persons safety hath ap-

4847 po nted

48This conduct to conuay me to the tower.

4949Glo. Vpon what cause?

5050Cla. Because my name is George.

5151Glo. Alacke my Lord that fault is none of yours,

5252He should for that commit your Godfathers:

5353O belike his Maiesty hath some intent

5454That you shalbe new christened in the Tower.

5555But whats the matter Clarence may I know?

5656Cla. Yea Richard when I know; for I protest

5757As yet I doe not, but as I can learne,

5858He harkens after Prophecies and dreames,

5959And from the crosse-rowe pluckes the letter G:

6060And saies a wisard told him that by G,

6161His issue disinherited should be.

6262And for my name of George begins with G,

6363It followes in his thought that I am he.

6464These as I learne and such like toies as these,

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,