[♦] Boy. Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?

Duch. No, boy.

[♦] Boy. Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,

And cry ‘O Clarence, my unhappy son’?

[5] Girl. Why do you look on us, and shake your head,

[♦] And call us wretches, orphans, castaways,

[♦] If that our noble father be alive?

[♦] Duch. My pretty cousins, you mistake me much.

I do lament the sickness of the king,

[10] As loath to lose him; not your father’s death;