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The Life and Death of

Enter 1. Murtherer.

1. Mur. How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not? 284
By heaven, the duke shall know how slack you have been.

2. Mur. I would he knew that I had sav'd his brother!
Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;
For I repent me that the duke is slain. Exit. 288

1. Mur. So do not I: go, coward as thou art.
Well, I'll go hide the body in some hole,
Till that the duke give order for his burial:
And when I have my meed, I will away; 292
For this will out, and then I must not stay. Exit.

ACT SECOND

Scene One

[London. A room in the Palace]

Flourish. Enter the King [Edward IV] sick, the Queen [Elizabeth], Lord Marquess Dorset, Rivers, Hastings, Catesby, Buckingham, [Grey,] Woodville [and Others].

K. Edw. Why, so: now have I done a good day's work.
You peers, continue this united league:
I every day expect an embassage
From my Redeemer to redeem me hence; 4
And more at peace my soul shall part to heaven,
Since I have made my friends at peace on earth.

2 united league; cf. n.