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Commend me to my brother, Edmund York. Lo, this is all:—nay, yet depart not so ; Though this be all, do not so quickly go; I shall remember more. Bid him — ah, what ? — With all good speed at Flashy11 visit me. Alack ! and what shall good old York there see, But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls, Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones ?12 And what hear there for welcome, but my groans ? Therefore commend me; let him not come there To seek our sorrow that dwells everywhere. Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die : The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye. [Exeunt. Scene III. — Gosford Green, near Coventry. Lists set out, and a Throne; with Attendants. Enter the Duke (/surrey as Lord Marshal and AuMERLE.1 Mar. My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd ? 11 Flashy was the name of Gloster's residence in Essex. 1:2 In the ancient English castles the naked stone walls were only lined with tapestry or arras, hung upon tenter-hooks, from which it was easily taken down whenever the family removed. The offices were the rooms for keeping the various stores of provisions; always situate within the house, on the ground-floor, and nearly adjoining each other. When dinner had been set on the board, the proper officers attended in these offices respectively. The Duchess, therefore, laments that, owing to the murder of her husband, all the hospitality of plenty is at an end; the walls are unfurnished, the lodging-rooms empty, and the offices unpeopled. 1 The official actors in this scene are spoken of by Holinshed as follows: " The Duke of Aumerle that day being High Constable of England, and the Duke of Surrey Marshal, placed themselves betwixt them, wellarmed and appointed; and when they saw their time, they first entered into the lists,...
