111109Cla. We know thy charge Brokenbury and will obey,

112110Glo. We are the Queenes abiects and must obey.

113111Brother farewell, I will vnto the King,

114112And whatsoeuer you will imploy me in,

115113Were it to call King Edwards widdow sister,

116114I will performe it to enfranchise you,

117115Meane time this deepe disgrace in brotherhood,

118116Touches me deeper then you can imagine.

119117Cla. I know it pleaseth neither of vs well:

120118Glo. Well, your imprisonment shall not be long,

121119I will deliuer you or lie for you,

122120Meane time haue patience.

123121Cla. I must perforce; farewell. Exit Clar.

124122Glo. Go treade the path that thou shalt nere returne,

125123Simple plaine Clarence I doe loue thee so,

126124That I will shortly send thy soule to heauen,

127125If heauen will take the present at our hands:

128126But who comes here the new deliuered hastings?

130128Hast. Good time of day vnto my gratious Lord:

131129Glo. As much vnto my good Lord Chamberlaine:

132130Well are you welcome to the open aire,

133131How hath your Lordship brookt imprisonment?

134132Hast. With patience (noble Lord) as prisoners must:

135133But I shall liue my Lord to giue them thankes

136134That were the cause of my imprisonment.

137135Glo. No doubt, no doubt, and so shal Clarence too,

138136For they that were your enemies are his,

139137And haue preuaild as much on him as you.

140138Hast. More pitty that the Eagle should be mewed,

141139While keihts and bussards prey at liberty.

142140Glo. What newes abroad?

143141Hast. No newes so bad abroad as this at home:

144142The King is sickly, weake and melancholy,

145143And his Phisitions feare him mightily.

146144Glo. Now by Saint Paul this newes is bad indeede,

147145Oh he hath kept an euill diet long,

148146And ouermuch consumed his royall person,