Boy. Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?

Duch. Ay, boy.

[♦] Boy. I cannot think it. Hark! what noise is this?

Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her ears; RIVERS and DORSET after her.

[♦] Q. Eliz. Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,

35 To chide my fortune and torment myself?

[♦] I’ll join with black despair against my soul,

[♦] And to myself become an enemy.

Duch. What means this scene of rude impatience?

Q. Eliz. To make an act of tragic violence: