Slander myself as false to Edward’s bed;

[♦] Throw over her the veil of infamy:

[♦] So she may live unscarr’d of bleeding slaughter,

210 I will confess she was not Edward’s daughter.

[♦] K. Rich. Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.

Q. Eliz. To save her life, I’ll say she is not so.

[♦] K. Rich. Her life is only safest in her birth.

Q. Eliz. And only in that safety died her brothers.

[215] K. Rich. Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.

[♦] Q. Eliz. No, to their lives bad friends were contrary.