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Queen Elizabeth. My lords, before it pleased his majesty4.1.67
        To raise my state to title of a queen,4.1.68
        Do me but right, and you must all confess4.1.69
        That I was not ignoble of descent;4.1.70
        And meaner than myself have had like fortune.4.1.71
        But as this title honours me and mine,4.1.72
        So your dislike, to whom I would be pleasing,4.1.73
        Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow. 4.1.74
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Queen Elizabeth. Why brother Rivers, are you yet to learn4.4.2
        What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward? 4.4.3
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Queen Elizabeth. No, but the loss of his own royal person. 4.4.5
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Queen Elizabeth. Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,4.4.7
        Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard4.4.8
        Or by his foe surprised at unawares:4.4.9
        And, as I further have to understand,4.4.10
        Is new committed to the Bishop of York,4.4.11
        Fell Warwick's brother and by that our foe. 4.4.12
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Queen Elizabeth. Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay.4.4.16
        And I the rather wean me from despair4.4.17
        For love of Edward's offspring in my womb:4.4.18
        This is it that makes me bridle passion4.4.19
        And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross;4.4.20
        Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear4.4.21
        And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,4.4.22
        Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown4.4.23
        King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown. 4.4.24
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Queen Elizabeth. I am inform'd that he comes towards London,4.4.26
        To set the crown once more on Henry's head:4.4.27
        Guess thou the rest; King Edward's friends must down,4.4.28
        But, to prevent the tyrant's violence,--4.4.29
        For trust not him that hath once broken faith,--4.4.30
        I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,4.4.31
        To save at least the heir of Edward's right:4.4.32
        There shall I rest secure from force and fraud.4.4.33
        Come, therefore, let us fly while we may fly:4.4.34
        If Warwick take us we are sure to die.4.4.35

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Queen Elizabeth. Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks. 5.7.30
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