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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,

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.

[They] embrace.

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.

Buck. And, in good time, here comes Sir Richard Ratcliff and the duke.

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.

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.

Among this princely heap, if any here,

By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,

Hold me a foe;

If I unwillingly, or in my rage,

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

