[♦] As I intend more good to you and yours

[♦] Than ever you or yours were by me wrong’d!

Q. Eliz. What good is cover’d with the face of heaven,

[240] To be discover’d, that can do me good?

[♦] K. Rich. The advancement of your children, gentle lady.

Q. Eliz. Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?

[♦] K. Rich. No, to the dignity and height of honour,

[♦] The high imperial type of this earth’s glory.

[245] Q. Eliz. Flatter my sorrows with report of it;

Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,