" For the most part, Margaret rejoices in this fact because she is exceptionally glad to see her curses against the York and Woodeville families come true. Margaret is still as bitter as she has been throughout the play. The York's deaths are fair payment for her and she says, "Farewell York's wife, queen of sad mischance! / These English woes shall make me smile in France." Justice has finally caused Margaret's curses to come true, and now Margaret can figuratively lift off her "burdened yoke" of sorrows, slipping it onto Elizabeth's neck even as Margaret herself departs.
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Through a seemingly pragmatic series of events, a second of Margaret's major predictions comes to pass. She curses Gray, Rivers, and Dorset to die early deaths since they were all bystanders when the York family murdered her son. Margaret calls out to the clouds to open briefly to admit her supplications and entreaties. She is, in a sense, asking God to cast judgment on and even punish those who have caused her many misfortunes in life. .
O upright, just, and true-disposing God,.
How do I thank thee that this carnal cur.
Preys on the issue of his mother's body.
And makes her pew-fellow with other's moan!.
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Bear with me! I am hungry for revenge, .
And now I cloy me with beholding it.
Gray, remembering Margaret's curse, says the it has finally descended upon them and that the fate that awaits them is their punishment for their original complicity in the Yorkists" murder of Henry VI and his son. Rivers reminds Gray that Margaret also cursed Richard and his allies. He prays for God to remember these curses but to forgive the one Margaret pronounced against Elizabeth herself and her two young sons, the princes. But little did they realize that Margaret's predictions against all of Elizabeth's family would soon be fulfilled by the final death of her two young sons.