PLATE LXIX.

Secozia'

Part

of

He;iry

                          Act III. Scene II.

          BURY St. EDMOND'S.       A ROOM OF STATE.


                  QUEEN MARGARET and SUFFOLK


      Q~teen Margare/.-O, let me entreat thee cease. Give me thy hand,
    That I may dew it with my mournful tears;
    Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place,
    To wash away my woful monuments.
    0, could this kiss be printed in thy hand,
    That thou mightst think upon these by the seal,
    Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee!
    So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief;
    'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by,
    As one that surfeits thinking on a want.
    I will repeal thee, or, be well assured;
    Adventure to be banished myself:
    And banished I am, if but from thee.
    Go; speak not to me; even now be gone.
    0, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemn'd
    Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves,
    Loather a hundred times to part than die.
    Yet now farewell; and farewell life with thee!
      Siq~o/k.-Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished;
    Once by the king, and three times thrice by thee!
    'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence:
    A wilderness is populous enough,
    So Suffolk had thy heavenly company:
     For where thou art, there is the world itself,
    With every several pleasure in the world,
     And where thou art not, desolation.
     I can no more: live thou to joy thy life;
     Myself no joy in nought but that thou livest.


                  Pain/ed by WILLIAM HAMILTON, R. A.

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