Richard's Hypocrify. (4) But then I figh, and with a piece of scripture, SCENE V. The Tower. Clarence's Dream. Clarence and Brakenbury. Brak. What was your dream, my lord? I pray you tell me. Clar. Methought that I had broken from the Tower; And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy, Who from my cabin tempted me to walk Upon the hatches. Thence we look'd tow'rd England, Lord, lord, methought, what pain it was to drown! (4) See Merchant of Venice, p. 60, 1, 5. and p. 54. preceding. Where 1 1 ▼ Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, Clar. Methought, I had; and often did I strive Brak. Awak'd you not with this sad agony ? The first that there did greet my stranger foul, Brak Brak. No marvel, lord, that it affrighted you; I am afraid, methinks, to hear you tell it. Clar. Ah! Brakenbury, I have done those things That now give evidence against my foul, For Edward's fake: and, fee, how he requites me! O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee, But thou wilt be aveng'd on my misdeeds, Yet execute thy wrath on me alone; O, spare my guiltless wife, and my poor children! SORROW. Sorrow breaks seasons and repofing hours, Makes night morning, and the noon-tide night. Greatness, it's Carés. (5) Princes have but their titles for their glories, They often feel a world of endless cares : : SCENE V. The Murtherers Account of Confcience.. I'll not meddle with; it is a dangerous thing, it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lye with his neighbour's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing shame-fac'd spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold, that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a (5) See pages 50, 51, &c. and the notes foregoing. dangerous dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well, endeavours to trust to himself, and live without it. ACTII. SCENE II. DECEIT. Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shape, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice! Submiffion to Heaven, our Duty. (6) In common worldly things 'tis call'd ungrateful With dull unwillingness to pay a debt, Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent ; Much more to be thus oppofite to heav'n; For it requires the royal debt it lent you. The Vanity of Trust in Men. (7) O momentary grace of mortal men, : (6) In, &c.] This is spoken by the marquis of Dorfet to the queen, when bewailing the loss of her husband Edward IV. (7) 0, &c.] This possibly might have risen from the following lines in the 118th Pfalm. It is better to trust in the lord, than to put any confidence in man. It is better to trust in the lord, than to put any confidence in princes, &c. See too the 20th Pfalm. SCENE SCENE VII. CONTEMPLATION. When holy and devout religious men SCENE III. Description of the Murder of the towo young Princes in the Tower. The tyrannous and bloody act is done; Which once, (quoth Forrest) almost chang'd my mind: : But, oh! the Devil-there the villain stopt: The most replenished sweet work of nature, That from the prime creation e'er she framed They could not speak, and fo I left them both, Hence both are gone with confcience and remorse; To bear those tidings to the bloody king. VOL. II. K EXPE |