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And lay those honours on your high desert.
What may she not? She may - ay, marry may she -
RIVERS
What, marry may she?
RICHARD
What marry may she? Marry with a king; [100]
A bachelor, and a handsome stripling too:
I wis, your grandam had a worser match.
ELIZABET H
My lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne
Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs;
By heaven, I will acquaint his Majesty [105]
Of those gross taunts that oft I have endur’d.
Enter old Queen Margaret.
I had rather be a country servant maid,
Than a great queen, with this condition,
To be so baited, scorn’d, and stormed at:
Small joy have I in being England’s queen. [110]
MARGARET
[Aside]
And lessen’d be that small, God I beseech Him:
Thy honour, state, and seat is due to me.
RICHARD
What, threat you me with telling of the King?
Tell him, and spare not: look what I have said
I will avouch’t in presence of the King: [115]
I dare adventure to be sent to th’Tower;
’Tis time to speak: my pains are quite forgot.
MARGARET
[Aside]
Out, devil! I remember them too well:
Thou kill’dst my husband Henry in the Tower,