I.i.42-121
Enter Clarence, guarded, and Brakenbury.
RICHARD
Brother, good day. What means this armed guard
That waits upon your Grace?
CLARENCE His Majesty,
Tend’ring my person’s safety, hath appointed
This conduct to convey me to the Tower.
RICHARD
Upon what cause?
CLARENCE Because my name is
George.
RICHARD
Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours.
He should, for that, commit your godfathers.
O, belike his Majesty hath some intent
That you should be new christened in the Tower.
But what’s the matter, Clarence? May I know?CLARENCE
Yea, Richard, when I know, ⟨for⟩ I protest
As yet I do not. But, as I can learn,
He hearkens after prophecies and dreams,
And from the crossrow plucks the letter G,
And says a wizard told him that by “G”
His issue disinherited should be.
And for my name of George begins with G,
It follows in his thought that I am he.
These, as I learn, and such like toys as these
Hath moved his Highness to commit me now.