Page 1193 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

Scene VI IT Exit.
Exit.
Enter a Scrivener with a paper in his hand.

SCRIVENER

Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings,
Which in a set hand fairly is engross’d.
That it may be today read o’er in Paul’s.
And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
Eleven hours I have spent to write it over, [5]
For yesternight by Catesby was it sent me;
The precedent was full as long-a-doing
And yet within these five hours Hastings liv’d,
Untainted, unexamin’d, free, at liberty.
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross [10]
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who’s so bold but says he sees it not?
Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
When such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.

Scene VII IT

Enter Richard and Buckingham at several doors.

RICHARD

How now, how now? What say the citizens?

BUCKINGHAM

Now by the holy Mother of our Lord,
The citizens are mum, say not a word.

RICHARD

Touch’d you the bastardy of Edward’s children?

BUCKINGHAM

I did, with his contract with Lady Lucy, [5]