Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say; For I repent me that the duke is slain. [Exit. FIRST MURD. So do not I: go, coward as thou art. [Exit. 280 Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD sick, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM, GREY, and others KING EDWARD peace on earth. Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand; Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love. RIV. By heaven, my soul is purged from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love. 5 part] depart; like the French "partir." 10 HAST. So thrive I, as I truly swear the like! K. EDW. Take heed you dally not before your king; Lest he that is the supreme King of kings HAST. So prosper I, as I swear perfect love! your hand; Q. ELIZ. Here, Hastings; I will never more remember Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine! K. EDW. Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love lord marquess. DOR. This interchange of love, I here protest, Upon my part shall be unviolable. HAST. And so swear I, my lord. [They embrace. K. EDW. Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league With thy embracements to my wife's allies, BUCK. [To the Queen] Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate 8 Dissemble not . . . love] Do not merely conceal your hatred, do not merely pretend to abandon your hatred; swear love to one another in sincerity. 20 30 On you or yours, but with all duteous love When I am cold in zeal to you or yours. [They embrace. 40 K. EDW. A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham, Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart. There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here, To make the perfect period of this peace. BUCK. And, in good time, here comes the noble duke. Enter GLOUCESTER GLOU. Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen; And, princely peers, a happy time of day! K. EDW. Happy indeed, as we have spent the day. Brother, we have done deeds of charity; 33-34 but... Doth] and doth not. 45 the noble duke] Thus the Quartos. The Folios read Sir Richard Ratcliffe, and the Duke, and in the succeeding stage direction the Folios substitute Enter Ratcliffe and Gloster for the Quarto reading Enter Gloucester. The insertion in the Folio of Ratcliffe's name seems to have been deliberate, though no speech is assigned to him in this scene. Ratcliffe, who is one of Richard's supporters, plays a small but useful part in Act III, Sc. iii, Act IV, Sc. iv, and Act V, Sc. iii, infra. Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers. GLOU. A blessed labour, my most sovereign liege: Amongst this princely heap, if any here, By false intelligence, or wrong surmise, If I unwittingly, or in my rage, Have aught committed that is hardly borne To reconcile me to his friendly peace: I hate it, and desire all good men's love. If ever any grudge were lodged between us; Q. ELIZ. A holy day shall this be kept hereafter: GLOU. Why, madam, have I offer'd love for this To be so flouted in this royal presence? 50 60 70 53 heap] throng, company. |