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KING RICHARD Exit [Page].
[Exit Catesby.]
I partly know the man: go call him hither.

[Aside]
The deep-revolving, witty Buckingham
No more shall be the neighbour to my counsels.
Hath he so long held out with me, untir’d,
And stops he now for breath! Well, be it so. [45]

Enter Stanley Earl of Derby.

How now, Lord Stanley, what’s the news?

ST ANLEY

Know, my loving lord,
The Marquess Dorset, as I hear, is fled
To Richmond in the parts where he abides.

KING RICHARD

Come hither, Catesby. Rumour it abroad [50]
That Anne my wife is very grievous sick;
I will take order for her keeping close.
Enquire me out some mean poor gentleman,
Whom I will marry straight to Clarence’ daughter -
The boy is foolish, and I fear not him. [55]
Look how thou dream’st! I say again, give out
That Anne, my Queen, is sick and like to die.
About it, for it stands me much upon
To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.

I must be married to my brother’s daughter, [60]
Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
Murder her brothers, and then marry her -
Uncertain way of gain! But I am in
So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin;
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. [65]

Enter Tyrrel.

Is thy name Tyrrel?