20841879Glo. Come Cosen, canst thou quake and change thy co-(lour?

20861880Murther thy breath in middle of a word,

20871881And then beginne againe, and stop againe,

20881882As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror.

20891883Buc. Tut feare not me.

20901884I can counterfait the deepe Tragedian:

20911885Speake, and looke backe, and prie on euery side:

20921886Intending deepe suspition, gastly lookes

20931887Are at my seruice like inforced smiles,

20941888And both are ready in their offices

20951889To grace my stratagems. Enter Maior.

20971890Glo. Here comes the Maior.

2097.11891Buc. Let me alone to entertaine him. Lo: Maior,

21001892Glo. Looke to the drawbridge there.

21031893Buc. The reason we haue sent for you.

21021894Glo. Catesby ouerlooke the wals.

21011895Buck. Harke, I heare a drumme.

21041896Glo. Looke backe, defend thee, here are enemies.

21051897Buc. God and our innocence defend vs. Enter Catesby with Hast. head.

2105.11898Glo. O, O, be quiet, it is Catesby.

21081899Cat. Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,

21091900The daungerous and vnsuspected Hastings.

21101901Glo. So deare I lou'd the man, that I must weepe:

21111902I tooke him for the plainest harmelesse man,

21121903That breathed vpon this earth a christian,

2112.11904Looke ye my Lo: Maior.

21131905Made him my booke, wherein my soule recorded,

21141906The history of all her secret thoughts:

21151907So smoothe he daubd his vice with shew of vertue,

21161908That his apparant open guilt omitted:

21171909I meane his conuersation with Shores wife,

21181910He laid from all attainder of suspect.

21191911Buck. Well well, he was the couertst sheltred traitor

21201912That euer liu'd, would you haue imagined,

21211913Or almost beleeue, wert not by great preseruation

21231914We liue to tell it you? The subtile traitor

21241915Had this day plotted in the councell house,

21251916To murder me, and my good Lord of Glocester.

21261917Maior. What, had he so?

21271918Glo. What thinke you we are Turkes or Infidels,

21281919Or that we would against the forme of lawe,

21291920Proceede thus rashly to the villaines death,

21301921But that the extreame perill of the case,

21311922The peace of England, and our persons safety

21321923Inforst vs to this execution.

21331924Ma. Now faire befall you, he deserued his death,

21341925And you my good Lords both, haue well proceeded

21351926To warne false traitours from the like attempts:

21361927I neuer lookt for better at his hands,

21371928After he once fell in with Mistresse Shore.

21381929Dut. Yet had not we determined he should die,

21391930Vntill your Lordship came to see his death,

21401931Which now the longing haste of these our friends,

21411932Somewhat against our meaning haue preuented,

G3 Be

21421933Because, my Lord, we would haue had you heard

21431934The traitor speake, and timerously confesse

21441935The maner, and the purpose of his treason,

21451936That you might well haue signified the same

21461937Vnto the Citizens, who happily may

21471938Misconster vs in him, and wayle his death.

21481939Ma. But my good Lord, your graces word shall serue

21491940As well as I had seene or heard him speake,

21501941And doubt you not, right noble Princes both,

21511942But Ile acquaint your dutious citizens,

21521943With all your iust proceedings in this cause.

21531944Glo. And to that end we wisht your Lordship here

21541945To auoyde the carping censures of the world.

21551946Buc. But since you come too late of our intents,

21561947Yet witnesse what we did intend, and so my Lord adue.

21591948Glo. After, after, coosin Buckingham, Exit Maior.

21601949The Maior towards Guildhall hies him in all post,

21611950There at your meetst aduantage of the time,

21621951Inferre the bastardy of Edwards children:

21631952Tell them how Edward put to death a Cittizen,

21641953Onely for saying he would make his sonne

21651954Heire to the Crowne, meaning (indeede) his house,

21661955Which by the signe thereof was termed so.

21671956Moreouer, vrge his hatefull luxurie,

21681957And bestiall appetite in change of lust,

21691958Which stretched to theyr seruants, daughters, wiues,

21701959Euen where his lustfull eye, or sauage heart

21711960Without controll listed to make his prey:

21721961Nay for a neede thus farre, come neere my person.

21731962Tell them, when that my mother went with childe

21741963Of that vnsatiate Edward, noble Yorke

21751964My princely father then had warres in Fraunce,

21761965And by iust computation of the tyme

21771966Found, that the issue was not his begot,

21781967Which well appeared in his lineaments,

21791968Being nothing like the noble Duke my father:

21801969But touch this sparingly as it were farre off,

21811970Because you know, my Lord, my mother liues.

21821971Buck. Feare not, my Lord, Ile play the Orator,

21831972As if the golden fee for which I pleade

21841973Were for my selfe.

21851974Glo. If you thriue well, bring them to Baynards castle,

21861975Where you shall finde me well accompanyed,

21871976Wyth reuerend fathers and well learned Bishops.

21881977Buc. About three or foure a clocke look to heare

21891978What news Guildhall affordeth, and so my Lord farewell.

21941979Glo. Now will I in to take some priuy order, Exit Buc.

21951980To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight,

21961981And to giue notice, that no maner of person

21971982At any tyme haue recourse vnto the Princes. Exit.