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Good time of day unto your royal Grace.
ST ANLEY
God make your Majesty joyful, as you have been.
ELIZABET H
The Countess Richmond, good my lord of Derby, [20]
To your good prayer will scarcely say Amen;
Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she’s your wife,
And loves not me, be you, good lord, assur’d
I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
ST ANLEY
I do beseech you, either not believe [25]
The envious slanders of her false accusers,
Or if she be accus’d on true report,
Bear with her weakness, which I think proceeds
From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.
RIVERS
Saw you the King today, my lord of Derby? [30]
ST ANLEY
But now the Duke of Buckingham and I
Are come from visiting his Majesty.
ELIZABET H
What likelihood of his amendment, lords?
BUCKINGHAM
Madam, good hope; his Grace speaks cheerfully.
ELIZABET H
God grant him health. Did you confer with him? [35]
BUCKINGHAM
Ay, madam; he desires to make atonement
Between the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,
And between them and my Lord Chamberlain;
And sent to warn them to his royal presence.
