Upon your Grace, but with all duteous love
Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me
With hate in those where I expect most love!
When I have most need to employ a friend, 36
And most assured that he is a friend,
Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,
Be he unto me! This do I beg of heaven,
When I am cold in love to you or yours. 40
K. Edw. A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,
Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.
There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here
To make the blessed period of this peace. 44
Buck. And, in good time, here comes Sir Richard Ratcliff and the duke.
Enter Ratcliff and Gloucester.
Rich. Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen;
And princely peers, a happy time of day!
K. Edw. Happy, indeed, as we have spent the day. 48
Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity;
Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate,
Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
Rich. A blessed labour, my most sovereign lord. 52
Among this princely heap, if any here,
By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,
Hold me a foe;
If I unwillingly, or in my rage, 56
Have aught committed that is hardly borne
To any in this presence, I desire
37 most: am most
43 wanteth: is needed
45 in good time: at a fortunate moment
50 of: instead of
51 swelling: inflated with anger
53 heap: assembly
56 unwillingly: unintentionally
rage: unthinking passion
57 hardly borne: taken amiss
