DUCHESS OF YORK I hope he is; but yet let mothers doubt.
YORK Now, by my troth, if I had been remember'd,
I could have given my uncle's grace a flout,
To touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine.
DUCHESS OF YORK How, my pretty York? I pray thee, let me hear it.
YORK Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast
That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old
'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.
Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.
DUCHESS OF YORK I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?
YORK Grandam, his nurse.
DUCHESS OF YORK His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born.
YORK If 'twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.
QUEEN ELIZABETH A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Good madam, be not angry with the child.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Pitchers have ears.
[Enter a Messenger]
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Here comes a messenger. What news?
Messenger Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.
QUEEN ELIZABETH How fares the prince?
Messenger Well, madam, and in health.
DUCHESS OF YORK What is thy news then?
Messenger Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,
With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.
DUCHESS OF YORK Who hath committed them?
Messenger The mighty dukes
Gloucester and Buckingham.
QUEEN ELIZABETH For what offence?
Messenger The sum of all I can, I have disclosed;
Why or for what these nobles were committed
Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.
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