QUEEN ELIZABETH Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?
KING RICHARD III No, to the dignity and height of honour
The high imperial type of this earth's glory.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Flatter my sorrows with report of it;
Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,
Canst thou demise to any child of mine?
KING RICHARD III Even all I have; yea, and myself and all,
Will I withal endow a child of thine;
So in the Lethe of thy angry soul
Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs
Which thou supposest I have done to thee.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Be brief, lest that be process of thy kindness
Last longer telling than thy kindness' date.
KING RICHARD III Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.
QUEEN ELIZABETH My daughter's mother thinks it with her soul.
KING RICHARD III What do you think?
QUEEN ELIZABETH That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:
So from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers;
And from my heart's love I do thank thee for it.
KING RICHARD III Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:
I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,
And mean to make her queen of England.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Say then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?
KING RICHARD III Even he that makes her queen who should be else?
QUEEN ELIZABETH What, thou?
KING RICHARD III I, even I: what think you of it, madam?
QUEEN ELIZABETH How canst thou woo her?
KING RICHARD III That would I learn of you,
As one that are best acquainted with her humour.
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