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CLARENCE

Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?

MARGARET

Ay, but thou usest to forswear thyself: [75]
’Twas sin before but now ’tis charity.
What, wilt thou not? Where is that devil’s butcher, Richard?
Hard-favoured Richard? Richard, where art thou
Thou art not here? Murder is thy alms-deed;
Petitioners for blood thou ne’er put’st back. [80]

KING EDWARD

Away, I say; I charge ye bear her hence.

MARGARET

So come to you and yours as to this prince!
[Attendants, bearing the body of Prince Edward, lead out Queen
Margaret forcibly.]

KING EDWARD

Where’s Richard gone?

CLARENCE

To London all in post - [aside] and, as I guess,
To make a bloody supper in the Tower. [85]

KING EDWARD

He’s sudden if a thing comes in his head.
Now march we hence; discharge the common sort
With pay and thanks and let’s away to London
And see our gentle queen how well she fares:
By this, I hope, she hath a son for me. [90]

Exeunt.

Scene VI IT

Enter Henry the Sixth, and Gloucester, with the Lieutenant in the Tower.

GLOUCEST ER