GLOSTER: I, Edward, will vse women honourablie,

Would he were wasted marrow, bones and all,

That from his loines no issue might succeed

To hinder me from the golden time I looke for,

For I am not yet lookt on in the world.

First is there Edward, Clarence, and Henry

And his sonne, and all thy lookt for issue

Of their loines ere I can plant my selfe,

A cold premeditation for my purpose,

What other pleasure is there in the world beside?

I will go clad my bodie in gaie ornaments,

And lull my selfe within a ladies lap,

And witch sweet Ladies with my words and lookes.

Oh monstrous man, to harbour such a thought!

Why loue did scorne me in my mothers wombe,

And for I should not deale in hir affaires,

Shee did corrupt fraile nature in the flesh,

And plaste an enuious mountaine on my backe,

Where sits deformity to mocke my bodie,

To drie mine arme vp like a withered shrimpe.

To make my legges of an vnequall size,

And am I then a man to be belou'd?

Easier for me to compasse twentie crownes.

Tut I can smile, and murder when I smile,

I crie content, to that that greeues me most.

I can adde colours to the Camelion,

And for a need change shapes with Protheus,

And set the aspiring Catalin to schoole.

Can I doe this, and cannot get the crowne?

Tush were it ten times higher, Ile pull it downe.