The time will come when thou shalt wish for me
To help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad.
HASTINGS False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,
Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.
QUEEN MARGARET Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine.
RIVERS Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.
QUEEN MARGARET To serve me well, you all should do me duty,
Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:
O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!
DORSET Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.
QUEEN MARGARET Peace, master marquess, you are malapert:
Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.
O, that your young nobility could judge
What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable!
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them;
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
GLOUCESTER Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess.
DORSET It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.
GLOUCESTER Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,
Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top,
And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.
QUEEN MARGARET And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas!
Witness my son, now in the shade of death;
Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath
Hath in eternal darkness folded up.
Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.
O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!
As it was won with blood, lost be it so!
BUCKINGHAM Have done! for shame, if not for charity.
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