Richard III Extract 2 for Monday May 18th

Read this scene and explain:
-what the tower of London is
-why Clarence is sent there
-why Richard is a hypocrite
-the reference to Clarence being "new christened"
-the reason why Richard mentions other characters (like Lady Grey...) 
-the meaning of the last line.

Enter Clarence, guarded, and Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower.

Brother, good day. What means this armed guard

That waits upon your Grace?

George, Duke of Clarence

His Majesty,

Tend’ring my person’s safety, hath appointed

This conduct to convey me to the Tower.

Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Upon what cause?

George, Duke of Clarence

Because my name is George.

Richard, Duke of Gloucester

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 christ’ned in the Tower.

But what’s the matter, Clarence, may I know?

George, Duke of Clarence

Yea, Richard, when I know; but I protest

As yet I do not. But, as I can learn,

He hearkens after prophecies and dreams,

And from the cross-row 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 mov’d his Highness to commit me now.

Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Why, this it is, when men are rul’d by women:

’Tis not the King that sends you to the Tower;

My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, ’tis she

That tempers him to this extremity.

Was it not she, and that good man of worship,

Anthony Woodvile, her brother there,

That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,

From whence this present day he is delivered?

We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe.

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