Clarence ftill breathes, Edward ftill lives and reigns; When they are gone, then must I count my SCENE II. Changes to a Street. Gains. [Exit. 3 Enter the Coarfe of Henry the Sixth, with Halberds to guard it, Lady Anne being the mourner. Anne. If honour may be shrouded in a herse; ET down, fet down your honourable load, Whilft I awhile obfequiously lament Th' untimely Fall of virtuous Lancaster. May fright the hopeful mother at the view, Than I am made by my young lord and thee! I Taken Taken from Paul's to be interred there. Enter Richard Duke of Gloucefter. Glo. Stay you, that bear the Coarfe, and set it down. Anne. What black magician conjures up this fiend, To stop devoted charitable deeds? Glo. Villains, fet down the Coarfe; or, by St. Paul, I'll make a Coarfe of him that difobeys. 9 Gen. My lord, ftand back, and let the coffin pafs. Glo. Unmanner'd dog! ftand thou when I command; Advance thy halbert higher than my breast, For thou haft made the happy earth thy hell, 9 I'll make a coarse of him that difob ys. So in Hamlet, I'll make a ghost of him that holds me. -pattern of thy butcheries.] Pattern is inftance, or example. -fee, dead Henry's wounds Open their congealed mouths and bleed afresh. It is a tradition very generally received, that the murdered body bleeds. on the touch of the murderer. Blufh, blufh, thou lump of foul deformity; Provoke this deluge moft unnatural, O God! which this blood mad'ft, revenge his death, man; No beast fo fierce, but knows fome touch of pity. Anne. Vouchfafe, diffus'd infection of a man, Glo. Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have Anne. Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make No excufe current, but to hang thyfelf, Glo. By fuch defpair I fhould accufe myself. This was fo much believed by Sir Kenelm Digby that he has endeavoured to explain the reafon. 3 Vouchfafe, diffus'd infection of a man,] I believe dif fufed in this place fignifies irre- That 1 That didft unworthy flaughter upon others. Anne. Then fay, they were not flain : Anne. Why, then he is alive. Glo. Nay, he is dead, and flain by Edward's hands. Anne. In thy foul throat thou ly'ft. Queen Margret faw Thy murd'rous faulchion fmoaking in his blood: Glo. I was provoked by her fland'rous tongue, Glo. I grant ye. Anne. Doft grant me, hedge-hog? then God grant me too, Thou may'st be damned for that wicked deed! Glo. The fitter for the King of heav'n, that hath him. Anne. He is in heav'n, where thou fhalt never come. Glo. Let him thank me, that help'd to fend him thither; For he was fitter for that place than earth. Anne. And thou unfit for any place but hell. Glo. Yes, one place elfe, if you will hear me name it. Anne. Some dungeon. Glo. Your bed-chamber. Anne. Il Reft betide the chamber where thou lyeft! Glo. So will it, Madam, till I lie with you. Anne. I hope fo. Glo. I know fo.-But, gentle lady Anne, Anne. Thou waft the caufe, and most accurft effect. You should not blemish it, if I ftood by ; Anne. Black night o'erfhade thy day, and death Glo. Curfe not thyfelf, fair creature: thou art both, To be reveng'd on him that loveth thee. Anne. It is a quarrel juft and reasonable, To be reveng'd on him that kill'd my husband. Glo. He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband, • Thou waft the cause, and most accurft effect,] Effect, for executioner. He afks, was not the caufer as ill as the executioner? She answers, Thou waft both. But, for caufer, ufing the word caufe, this led her to the word effect, for execution, or executioner. But the Oxford Editor troubling himself with nothing of this, will make a fine oratorical period of it. Thou waft the cause. And moft accurft th' effect! WARBURTON. I cannot but be rather of Sir T. Hanmer's opinion than Dr. Warburton's, because effect is ufed immediately in its common fenfe, in answer to this line. |