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London. The palace.
[Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV sick, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS,
HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM, GRAY, and others]
KING EDWARD IV
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Why so:| now have | I done | a good day's work.
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You peers,| contin|ue this | unit|ed league:
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I eve|ry day | expect | an em|bassage
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From my | Redeem|er, to | redeem | me hence.
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And now | in peace | my soul | shall part | to
heaven,
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Since I | have set | my friends | at peace | on
earth.
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Dorset | and Riv|ers, take | each oth|er's hand,
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Dissem|ble not | your hat|red, swear | your love.
RIVERS
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By heaven,| my soul | is purged | from grud|ging
hate
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And with | my hand | I seal | my true heart's love.
HASTINGS
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So thrive I,| as I tru|ly swear | the like.
KING EDWARD IV
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Take heed | you dal|ly not | before | your king,
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Lest^he | that is | the su/preme King | of kings
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Confound | your hid|den false|hood, and | award
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Either | of you | to be | the oth|er's end.
HASTINGS
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So pro|sper I,| as I / swear per|fect love.
RIVERS
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And I,| as I / love Hast|ings with | my heart.
KING EDWARD IV
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Madam,| yourself | are not | exempt | from this:
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Nor your / son Dor|set, Buck|ingham | nor you;
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You have been | factious | one a|gainst the | other,
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Wife, love Lord | Hastings,| let him kiss | your
hand,
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And what | you do,| do it | unfeign|edly.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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There Hast/ings, I will | never | more re|member
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Our form|er hat|red, so / thrive I,| and mine.
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Dorset,| embrace him:
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Hastings,| love lord mar||quess.
DORSET
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This | inter|change of | love, I | here pro||test
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U|pon my part,| shall be | unvi||olable.
HASTINGS
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And so | swear | I.
KING EDWARD IV
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Now || princely | Bucking|ham,
seal thou | this league
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With thy | embrace|ments to | my wife's | allies,
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And make | me hap|py in | your un|ity.
BUCKINGHAM
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Whenev|er Buck|ingham | doth turn | his hate
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Upon | your Grace,| but with / all dut|eous love
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Doth cher|ish you | and yours,| God pun/ish me
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With hate | in those | where I ex|pect most love,
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When I | have most | need to | employ | a friend,
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And most | assur|ed that | he is | a friend,
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Deep,| hollow,| treacherous,| and full | of
guile,
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Be he | unto / me: this | do I beg | of heaven,
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When I | am cold | in love, to you, | or yours.
KING EDWARD IV
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A pleas|ing cord|ial, prince|ly Buck|ingham.
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Is this | thy vow,| unto | my sick|ly heart:
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There want|eth now | our broth|er Glouce|ster
here,
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To make | the bles|sed per|iod of | this peace.
BUCKINGHAM
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And | in | good | time,|
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Here comes | Sir Rich|ard Rat|cliff, and | the
duke.
[Enter GLOUCESTER]
RICHARD
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Good mor|row to | my sove|reign king | and queen
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And prince|ly peers,| a hap|py time | of day.
KING EDWARD IV
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Happy | indeed,| as we | have spent | the day:
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Gloucester,| we have | done deeds of
char|ity,
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Made peace | of en|mity,| fair* love | of hate,
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Between | these swel|ling wrong-|incens|ed peers.
RICHARD
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A bles|sed lab|or my / most sove|reign lord:
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Among | this prince|ly heap,| if an|y here
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By false | intel|ligence,| or wrong | surmise
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Hold me a | foe: If I | unwil|lingly,| or in my
rage, ??
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Have aught | commit|ted that | is hard|ly borne,
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To an|y in | this pres|ence, I | desire
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To rec|oncile | me to | his friend|ly peace:
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'Tis death | to me | to be | at en|mity:
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I hate it,| and de/sire all | good men's love,
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First madam,/ I en|treat true peace | of you,
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Which I will | purchase | with my | duteous |
service.
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Of you | my nob|le cous|in Buck|ingham,
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If ev|er an|y grudge | were lodged | between us.
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Of you | and you,| Lord Riv/ers and of | Dorset,
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That all | without | desert | have frowned | on
me:
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Of you | Lord^Woode|ville, and / Lord Scales | of
you,
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Dukes, earls, lords,| gentlemen,| indeed | of
all.
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I do | not know | that Eng|lishman | alive,
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With whom | my soul | is an|y jot | at odds,
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More than | the in|fant that | is born | tonight:
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I thank | my God | for my | humil|ity.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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A ho|ly day | shall this be | kept here|after:
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I would to | God all | strifes were | well
com|pounded.
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My sove|reign liege,| I do be|seech your |
highness
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To take | our broth|er Clar|ence to | your grace.
RICHARD
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Why* mad|am, have | I of|fered love | for this,
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To be so | flouted | in this | royal | presence?
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Who knows not | that the gent|le duke | is dead?
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You do | him in|jury | to scorn | his corse.
RIVERS
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Who knows not | he is dead?
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Who knows | he is?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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All see|ing heav|en, what | a world | is this?
BUCKINGHAM
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Look^I | so pale | Lord^Dor|set, as | the rest?
DORSET
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Aye my | good* lord,| and no | man in the |
presence,
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But his / red col|or hath | forsook | his cheeks.
KING EDWARD IV
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Is Clar|ence dead?| The ord|er was | reversed.
RICHARD
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But he |(poor* man)| by your / first ord|er died,
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And that | a wing|ed Mer|cury | did bear:
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Some tar|dy crip|ple bore | the count|ermand,
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That came | too lag | to see | him bur|ied.
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God* grant,| that some | less^noble,| and less | loyal,
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Nearer | in blood|y thoughts,| and not | in blood,
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Deserve | not* worse | than wretch|ed Clar|ence
did,
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And yet go cur|rent from | suspi|cion.
[Enter DERBY]
DERBY
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A boon | my sove|reign for | my serv|ice done.
KING EDWARD IV
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I prith|ee peace,| my soul | is full | of
sorrow.
DERBY
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I will | not rise,| unless | your high|ness hear
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KING EDWARD IV
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Then say | at once,| what is | it thou |
requests.
DERBY
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The for|feit (sove|reign) of | my serv|ant's
life,
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Who slew | today | a right|eous gent|leman,
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Lately | attend|ant on | the Duke | of Nor||folk.
KING EDWARD IV
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Have | I a tongue | to doom | my broth|er's death?
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And shall | that tongue | give pard/on to | a
slave?
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My broth|er killed | no man,| his fault | was
thought,
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And yet | his pun|ishment | was bit|ter death.
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Who sued | to me | for him?| Who (in | my rage)
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Kneeled at | my feet,| and bid | me be | advised?
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Who spoke | of broth|erhood?| Who spoke | of
love?
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Who told / me how the | poor soul did | forsake
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The migh|ty War|wick, and | did fight | for
me?
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Who told | me in | the field | by Tewks|bury,
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When Ox|ford had | me down,| he res|cued me:
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And said | dear* broth|er live,| and be | a king:
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Who told | me, when | we both | lay in | the
field,
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Frozen |(almost) to | death, how*| he did | lap me
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Even in | his gar|ments, and | did give | himself
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(All thin | and nak|ed) to the // numb cold
night?
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All this | from my | remem|brance, brut|ish wrath
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Sinful|ly plucked,| and not | a man | of you
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Had so | much grace | to put | it in | my mind.
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But when | your cart|ers, or | your
wait|ing-vassals
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Have done | a drunk|en slaught|er, and | defaced
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The pre|cious im|age of our | dear Re|deemer,
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You straight | are on | your knees | for pard|on,
pard||on,
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And I |(unjust|ly too)| must grant | it you.
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But for | my broth|er, not | a man | would speak,
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Nor I |(ungra|cious) speak | unto | myself
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For him poor soul.| The proud|est of | you all,
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Have been | behold|ing to | him in | his life:
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Yet none | of you,| would once | beg for | his life.
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O God!| I fear | thy just|ice will / take hold
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On me,| and you;| and mine,| and yours | for
this.
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Come | Hastings | help me | to my | closet.
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Ah | poor | Clarence. \\
[Exeunt some with KING EDWARD IV and QUEEN MARGARET]
RICHARD
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This is | the fruits | of rash|ness: Marked | you not,
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How that | the guil|ty kind|red of | the queen
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Looked pale, when | they did hear | of Clar|ence'
death.
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O! They | did urge | it still | unto | the king,
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God will | revenge | it. Come | lords will | you
go,
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To com|fort Ed|ward with | our comp|any.
BUCKINGHAM
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We wait | upon | your grace. \\
[Exeunt]