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To help thee curse this poisonous bunch-back’d toad.
HAST INGS
False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,
Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.
MARGARET
Foul shame upon you, you have all mov’d mine.
RIVERS
Were you well serv’d, you would be taught your duty. [250]
MARGARET
To serve me well, you all should do me duty:
Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects.
O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty.
DORSET
Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.
MARGARET
Peace, Master Marquess: you are malapert; [255]
Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.
O, that your young nobility could judge
What ’twere to lose it and be miserable.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. [260]
RICHARD
Good counsel, marry! Learn it, learn it, Marquess.
DORSET
It touches you, my lord, as much as me.
RICHARD
Ay, and much more; but I was born so high:
Our aery buildeth in the cedar’s top,
And dallies with the wind, and scorns the sun. [265]
MARGARET
