RIVERS And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty.
GLOUCESTER I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,
She hath had too much wrong; and I repent
My part thereof that I have done to her.
QUEEN ELIZABETH I never did her any, to my knowledge.
GLOUCESTER But you have all the vantage of her wrong.
I was too hot to do somebody good,
That is too cold in thinking of it now.
Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,
He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains
God pardon them that are the cause of it!
RIVERS A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,
To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
GLOUCESTER So do I ever:
[Aside]
being well-advised.
For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.
[Enter CATESBY]
CATESBY Madam, his majesty doth call for you,
And for your grace; and you, my noble lords.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?
RIVERS Madam, we will attend your grace.
[Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]
GLOUCESTER I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,
I do beweep to many simple gulls
Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;
And say it is the queen and her allies
That stir the king against the duke my brother.
Now, they believe it; and withal whet me
To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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