Richard, Duke of York. George, Duke of Clarence, Brother to Edward IV. Richard, Duke Richard 1 Cloucester, Brother to Edward IV. afterwards King Cardinal, Archbishop of York, Duke of Buckingham. Duke of Norfolk. Earl of Surrey. Marquis of Dorfet, Son to Pueen Elizabeth. Earl Rivers, Brother to the Queen. Lord Gray, Son to Queen Elizabeth. Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII. Lord Haftings. Sir Thomas Vaughan. Sir Richard Ratcliff, Lord Lovel, Catesby, } Friends to the Duke of Gloucester. Sir James Tyrrel, a Villain. Thomas, Lord Stanley, Lord Steward of King Edward IVth's House bold, afterwards Earl of Derby. Earl of Oxford, Blount, Herbert, Sir William Brandon. Friends to the Earl of Richmond. Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower. Sir Chriftopher Urfwick, a Prieft. Elizabeth, Queen of Edward IV. Queen Margaret, Widow of Henry VI. Anne, Widow of Edward Prince of Wales, Son to Henry VI. afterqwards married to the Duke of Glouceter. Dutchess of York, Mother to Edward IV. Clarence, and Richard III. Sheriff, Purfuivant, Citizens, Ghosts of those murdered by The SCENE, in England. THE THE (1) LIFE and DEATH of KING RICHARD III. SCENE, the COURT. Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester, folus. XOW is the Winter of our discontent N Made glorious fummer by this fun of York: And all the clouds, that lowr'd upon our house, In the deep bofom of the ocean bury'd. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our ftern alarms chang'd to merry meetings; Our dreadful marches to delightful meafures. Grim-vifag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, inftead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the fouls of fearful adverfaries, (1) The Life and Death of King Richard III.] This Tragedy, though it is called the Life and Death of this Prince, comprizes, at moft, but the laft eight Years of his Time: For it opens with George Duke of Clarence being clap'd up in the Tower, which hap-. pened in the beginning of the Year 1977; and clofes with the Death of Richard at Bofworth-field, which Battle was fought on the 22d of Auguft in the Year 1485. VOL. V. I He He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, But I, that am not fhap'd for fportive tricks, Of Edward's heirs the murderer fhall be. Dive, thoughts, down to my foul! here Clarence comes. Enter Clarence guarded, and Brakenbury. Brother, good day; what means this armed guard, That waits upon your Grace? Clar. His Majesty, Tend'ring my perfon's fafety, hath appointed This conduct to convey me to the Tower. Glo. Upon what cause ? Clar. Because my name is George. Glo. Alack, my Lord, that fault is none of yours: He He should for that commit your god-fathers. Belike, his Majefty hath fome intent, That you fhould be new chriftened in the Tower. He hearkens after prophefies and dreams, And, for my name of George begins with G, Glo. Why, this it is, when men are rul'd by women. That made him fend Lord Haftings to the Tower P We are not fafe; Clarence, we are not fafe. Clar. By heav'n, I think, there is no man fecure But the Queen's kindred, and night-walking heralds, That trudge between the King and miftrefs Shore. Heard you not, what an humble fuppliant Lord Haftings was to her for his delivery. Glo. Humbly complaining to her Deity, Got my Lord Chamberlain his liberty. Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen, Brak. I beg your Graces both to pardon me : I z |