But leave it all to God. whither away?
Second Citizen Marry, we were sent for to the justices.
Third Citizen And so was I: I'll bear you company.
[Exeunt]
KING RICHARD III
ACT II
SCENE IV London. The palace.
[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, young YORK, QUEEN
ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS OF YORK]
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton;
At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night:
To-morrow, or next day, they will be here.
DUCHESS OF YORK I long with all my heart to see the prince:
I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.
QUEEN ELIZABETH But I hear, no; they say my son of York
Hath almost overta'en him in his growth.
YORK Ay, mother; but I would not have it so.
DUCHESS OF YORK Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow.
YORK Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,
My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow
More than my brother: 'Ay,' quoth my uncle
Gloucester,
'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:'
And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
DUCHESS OF YORK Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
In him that did object the same to thee;
He was the wretched'st thing when he was young,
So long a-growing and so leisurely,
That, if this rule were true, he should be gracious.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is.
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