Show Buckingham By Weston Western Vernon GEOMETRICALLY speaking Gloucester was wa an obtuse angle whose supplement r was Buckingham Given the part played by one it is easy to construct the work of the other It took a Gloucester to suggest the illegitimacy of a brothers brother's children or orthe orthe the infidelity of ot ota a virtuous mother but it J required a Buckingham to make them r public Wherever we see them Buckingham Buckingham Buckingham Buck Buck- ingham is the supplement of Richard 1 and yet the relationship is closer than t the relationship of two angles They are mutu mutually lly dependent Without a revolving deep witty Buckingham the Richard of Bosworth field could not A have been and without a bloody scheming scheming schem schem- schem- schem scheming ing Gloucester the pio pious s praising Buckingham Buckingham Buckingham Buck Buck- ingham would not have been Were I permitted to draft drafta a constitution constitution constitution tion for that nether world that Dante ry visited I would place King Richard at atthe atthe the head of the legislative department for all eternity with Buckingham as the the P chief executive and abolish the judicial J d department altogether feeling confident that Satan himself would be pleased with the joint rule of two such demons Of all things lacking in Buckingham if we except g goodness I think there was nothing in which he was more deficient than originality Wicked as he was he showed no particular aptitude in devising devising devising devis devis- ing crimes but when the outline of a heinous act had once been drawn he executed it with the swiftness and cunning cunning cunning cun cun- ning of a Mercury and even where we weare weare weare are most likely to give him credit for for originality as where he sent Catesby to sound Lord Hastings I think that by p pi i- i j. j ii i- i reading between the lines we can see that that this had been pre-arranged pre and was no doubt the suggestion of ter Accepting the law of Moses II An An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth we cannot but admit the legality of Buckingham's Buckingham's Buckingham's Buck Buck- ingham's punishment No one seems to have been more aware of this than was he when he said Hastings and Edwards Edward's children Rivers Gray Holy King Henry and thy fair son Edward Vaughan and all that have miscarried By underhand corrupted foul injustice If that your moody discontented ted souls s Do through the clouds behold this present hour t F l Even for revenge mock my destruction t This was perhaps Buckingham's first r prayer certainly the first one that was wasi f i worthy of an answer and if heavenly t beings are not far less unforgiving than mortals are I cannot but believe that the sainted souls to whom his petition h was addressed looked down on the s. s epilogue of his existence with Ii feelings that were at least akin to pleasure r. r t |