The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9] · William Shakespeare
SCENE IV. _London. The palace_.
_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. [fbd025] _Duch._ How, my pretty York? I pray thee, let me hear it. [fbd026] _York._ Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast [fbd027] That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old: [fbd028] ’Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth. Grandam, this would have been a biting jest. [fbd030] _Duch._ I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this? [fbd031] _York._ Grandam, his nurse. _Duch._ His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born. [fbd033] _York._ If ’twere not she, I cannot tell who told me. _Q. Eliz._ A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd. [fbd035] _Arch._ Good madam, be not angry with the child. [fbd036] _Q. Eliz._ Pitchers have ears. [fbd037] _Enter a_ Messenger. _Arch._ Here comes a messenger. What news? [fbd038] _Mess._ Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold. [fbd039] _Q. Eliz._ How fares the prince? _Mess._ Well, madam, and in health. [fbd040] _Duch._ What is thy news then? [fbd041] _Mess._ Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret, [fbd042] With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners. _Duch._ Who hath committed them? _Mess._ The mighty dukes [fbd044] Gloucester and Buckingham.
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