Glo. And that I love the tree, from whence thou fprang'ft,

Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit.—

To fay the truth, fo Judas kifs'd his master;
And cry'd, all hail! when as he meant all harm. Afide.

K. Edw. Now am I feated as my foul delights,
Having my Country's Peace and Brothers Loves.
Clar. What will your Grace have done with Margaret?
Reignier her father to the King of France

Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerufalem;

And hither have they fent it for her ransom.

K. Edw. Away with her, and waft her hence to France. And now what refts but that we spend the time With stately Triumphs, mirthful Comick Shows, Such as befit the pleasure of the Court?

Sound, drums and trumpets; farewel, fow'r Annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lafting Joy. [Exeunt omnes.

THE

THE

LIFE and DEATH

OF

RICHARD III.

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Dramatis Perfonæ

KING Edward IV.

Edward Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward V.
Richard, Duke of York.

George, Duke of Clarence, Brother to Edward IV.

Richard, Duke of Glocefter, Brother to Edward IV. afterwards King

Sir James Tyrrel, a Villain.

Thomas, Lord Stanley, Lord Steward of K. Edward IV's Household,

afterwards Earl of Derby.

Earl of Oxford,

Blount,

Herbert

Sir William Brandon,

Friends to the Earl of Richmond.

Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower.

Two Children of the Duke of Clarence.
Lord Mayor.

Sir Chriftopher Urfwick, a Prieft.
Elizabeth, Queen of Edward IV.

Queen Margaret, Widow of Henry VI.

of Richmond.

Anne, Widow of Edward Prince of Wales, Son to Henry VI. afterwards

married to the Duke of Glocefter.

"Dutchess of York, Mother to Edward IV. Clarence, and Richard III.

Sheriff, Purfuivant, Citizens, Ghofts of those murder'd by Richard III. with Soldiers and other Attendants.

The SCENE, in ENGLAND.

The LIFE and DEATH of (1)

RICHARD III.

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ACTI

SCENE, the Court.

Enter Richard Duke of Glocefter, folus.

OW is the Winter of our Difcontent

Made glorious Summer by this Sun of York:
And all the clouds, that lowr'd upon our
..House,

In the deep bofom of the Ocean bury'd.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;

Our

(1) The Life and Death of King Richard III.] This Tragedy, tho it is call'd the Life and Death of this Prince, comprizes, at moft, but the last 8 Years of his Time: For it opens with George Duke of Clarence being clap'd up in the Tower, which happen'd in the beginning of the Year 1477; and clofes with the Death of Richard at Bof-worth-field, which Battle was fought on the 22d of Auguft in the Year 1485. This fhort hiftorical Interval, however, is fo crowded with Incidents, (if plotted

and