ACT THE FIRST.
SCENE I. THE TOWER.
Enter the Duke of Gloster, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, and Catesby.
Glos. Thus far success attends upon our councils,
And each event has answer'd to my wish;
The queen and all her upstart race are quell'd;
Dorset is banish'd, and her brother Rivers,
Ere this, lies shorter by the head at Pomfret.
The nobles have, with joint concurrence, nam'd me
Protector of the realm: my brother's...
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