of Richard the third.
15881440Pri. God keepe me from fal
se friends, but they wer none.
15891441Glo. My Lo, the Maior of London comes to greete you.
15931443Lo:M. God ble
sse your grace with health and happy daies.
15951444Prin. I thanke you good my Lo: and thanke you all:
15961445I thought my mother, and my brother Yorke,
15971446Would long ere this haue met vs on the way:
15981447Fie, what a
slug is Ha
stings that he comes not
15991448To tell vs whether they will come, or no.
( Enter L. Hast. 16011449Buck. And in good time, here comes the
sweating Lo:
16031450Pri. Welcome my Lo: what will our mother come?
16051451Hast. On what occa
sion, God he knowes, not I:
16061452The Queene your mother and your brother Yorke
16071453Haue taken
san
ctuary: The tender Prince
16081454Would faine haue come with me, to meete your Grace,
16091455But by his mother was perforce withheld.
16101456Buc. Fie, what an indire
ct and peeui
sh cour
se
16111457Is this of hers? Lo: Cardinall will your grace
16121458Per
swade the Queene to
send the Duke of Yorke
16131459Vnto his Princely brother pre
sently?
16141460If
she deny, Lo: Ha
stings go with him,
16151461And from her iealous armes plucke him perforce.
16161462Car. My Lo: of Buckingham, if my weake oratory
16171463Can from his mother winne the Duke of Yorke,
16181464Anone expe
ct him here: but if
she be obdurate
16191465To milde entreaties, God in heauen forbid
16201466We
should infringe the holy priuiledge
16211467Of ble
ssed
san
ctuary, not for all this land,
16221468Would I be guilty of
so deepe a
sinne.
16231469Buck. You are too
sencele
sse ob
stinate my Lo:
16241470Too ceremonious and traditionall:
16251471Weigh it but with the gro
ssenes of this age,
16261472You breake not
san
ctuary in
seazing him:
16271473The bene
fit thereof is alwaies granted
16281474To tho
se who
se dealings haue de
serude the place,
16291475And tho
se who haue the wit to claime the place.
16301476This Prince hath neither claimed it, nor de
serued it,
16311477And therefore in mine opinion, cannot haue it.
F Then