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[March. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE EDWARD, SOMERSET, OXFORD, and soldiers]
QUEEN MARGARET
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Great lords, wise | men* nere sit | and wail |
their loss,
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But cheer|ly seek | how to | redress | their
harms.
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What though | the mast | be now |
blown^ov|erboard,
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The cab|le broke,| the hold|ing-anch|or lost,
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And half | our sai|lors swal|lowed in | the
flood?
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Yet lives | our pi|lot still.| Is it meet,| that
he
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Should leave | the helm,| and like | a fear|ful
lad,
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With tear|ful eyes | add wat/er to | the sea,
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And give | more* strength | to that | which hath
| too much,
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Whiles^in | his moan,| the ship | splits on | the
rock,
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Which in|dustry | and cour|age might | have
saved?
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Ah* what | a shame,| ah* what | a fault | were
this.
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Say War|wick was | our anch|or: what | of that?
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And Mont|ague | our top|mast: what | of him?
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Our slaught|ered friends,| the tack|les: what |
of these?
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Why is not | Oxford | here, a|nother | anchor?
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And Som|erset,| anoth|er good|ly mast?
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The friends | of France | our shrouds | and
tack|lings?
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And though | unskil|ful, why | not Ned | and I,
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For once | allowed | the skil|ful pil|ot's
charge?
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We will | not from | the helm,| to sit | and
weep,
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But keep | our course |(though the / rough wind |
say* no)
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From shelves | and rocks,| that threat|en us |
with wrack.
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As good | to chide | the waves,| as speak | them
fair.
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And what | is Ed|ward, but | a ruth|less sea?
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What Clar|ence, but | a quick|sand of | deceit?
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And Rich|ard, but | a rag|ged fat|al rock?
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All these, the en|emies | to our poor bark.
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Say you | can swim,| alas |'tis but | a while:
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Tread on | the sand,| why there | you quick|ly
sink,
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Bestride | the rock,| the tide | will wash | you
off,
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Or else | you fam|ish, that's | a threefold
death.
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This^speak | I (lords)| to let | you und|erstand,
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If case | some one | of you | would fly | from
us,
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That there's | no hoped-|for mer|cy with | the
broth||ers,
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More | than with ruth|less waves,| with sands |
and rocks.
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Why cour|age then,| what can|not be a|voided,
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'Twere child|ish weak|ness to | lament,| or fear.
PRINCE EDWARD
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Methinks | a wom|an of / this val|iant spirit,
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Should, if | a cow|ard heard | her speak |
these^words,
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Infuse | his breast | with mag|nanim|ity,
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And make | him, nak|ed, foil | a man | at arms.
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I speak | not this,| as doubt|ing an|y here:
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For did | I but | suspect | a fear|ful man,
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He should | have leave | to go | away | betimes,
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Lest in our | need he | might in|fect a|nother,
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And make | him of / like spir|it to | himself.
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If an|y such | be here,| as God | forbid,
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Let him | depart,| before | we need | his help.
OXFORD
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Women and | children | of so | high a | courage,
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And war|riors faint,| why 'twere | perpe|tual
shame.
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Oh brave young prince:| thy fam|ous grand|father
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Doth live | again | in thee;| long mayst | thou
live,
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To bear | his im|age, and | renew his | glories.
SOMERSET
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And he | that will / not fight | for such | a
hope,
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Go home | to bed,| and like | the owl | by day,
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If he | arise,| be mocked | and wond|ered at.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Thanks gentle Som|erset,| sweet* Ox|ford thanks.
PRINCE EDWARD
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And take | his thanks,| that yet | hath noth|ing
else.
[Enter a Messenger]
MESSENGER
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Prepare | you lords,| for Ed|ward is | at hand,
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Ready | to fight:| therefore | be res|olute.
OXFORD
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I thought | no less:| it is | his pol|icy,
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To haste | thus fast,| to find us | unpro|vided.
SOMERSET
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But he's | deceived,| we are | in read|iness.
QUEEN MARGARET
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This cheers | my heart,| to see | your
for|wardness.
OXFORD
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Here pitch | our bat|tle, hence | we will / not
budge.
[Flourish and march. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and
soldiers]
KING EDWARD IV
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Brave^fol|lowers, yond|er stands | the thor|ny
wood,
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Which by | the heavens'| assist|ance, and / your
strength,
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Must by | the roots | be hewn | up yet | ere night.
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I need | not add | more fu|el to | your fire,
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For well | I wot,| ye blaze,| to burn | them out:
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Give^sig|nal to | the fight,| and to | it lords.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Lords, knights, and gent|lemen,| what I | should
say,
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My tears | *gainsay:| for ev|ery word | I speak,
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Ye see | I drink | the wat|er of | my^eye.
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Therefore | no more | but this:| Henry your |
sovereign
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Is pris|oner to | the foe,| his state | usurped,
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His realm | a slaught|er-house,| his sub|jects
slain,
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His sta|tutes can/celled, and | his treas|ure
spent:
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And yond|er is | the wolf,| that makes |
this^spoil.
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You fight | in just/ice: then in | God's name,
lords,
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Be val|iant, and / give sig|nal to | the fight.
[Alarum. Retreat. Excursions. Exeunt]