That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.
Q. Mar. [Aside.] A little joy enjoys the queen thereof;
For I am she, and altogether joyless. 156
I can no longer hold me patient. [Advancing.]
Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!
Which of you trembles not that looks on me? 160
If not that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,
Yet that, by you depos'd, you quake like rebels?
Ah! gentle villain, do not turn away.
Rich. Foul wrinkled witch, what mak'st thou in my sight? 164
Q. Mar. But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;
That will I make before I let thee go.
Rich. Wert thou not banished on pain of death?
Q. Mar. I was; but I do find more pain in banishment 168
Than death can yield me here by my abode.
A husband and a son thou ow'st to me;
And thou, a kingdom; all of you, allegiance:
This sorrow that I have by right is yours, 172
And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.
Rich. The curse my noble father laid on thee,
When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper,
And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes; 176
And then, to dry them, gav'st the duke a clout
Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland.
His curses, then from bitterness of soul
Denounc'd against thee, are all fall'n upon thee; 180
And God, not we, hath plagu'd thy bloody deed.
Q. Eliz. So just is God, to right the innocent.
159 sharing: dividing
pill'd: plundered
160–162 Cf. n.
163 gentle: precious (ironic)
164 mak'st: dost
167 banished; cf. n.
174 The curse; cf. n.
177 clout: cloth
