Lord Rivers and Lord Grey have been imprisoned in Pomfret.
So has Sir Thomas Vaughan.
DUCHESS
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Who hath committed them?
DUCHESS
Who sent them there?
MESSENGER
The mighty dukes, Gloucester and Buckingham.
MESSENGER
The powerful dukes Gloucester and Buckingham.
ARCHBISHOP
For what offence?
ARCHBISHOP
What did they do wrong?
MESSENGER
The sum of all I can, I have disclosed.
Why, or for what, the nobles were committed
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Is all unknown to me, my gracious lord.
MESSENGER
I've told you everything I know. Why the nobles were imprisoned, and on what charges, I don't know, my gracious lord.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ay me! I see the ruin of my house.
The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind.
Insulting tyranny begins to jut
Upon the innocent and aweless throne.
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Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Oh no! I see the downfall of my family. The tiger has seized the gentle deer: a tyrant has begun to attack the weak, innocent king. Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre! I can see how all this will end as clearly as if I was looking at a map.
