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The palace.
[Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two children of CLARENCE]
BOY
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Good* gran|dam* tell | us, is | our fath|er dead?
DUCHESS OF YORK
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No boy*.
BOY
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Why* do weep | so oft?|
And beat | your breast? ??
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And cry,| O Clar|ence, my | unhap|py son.
GIRL
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Why do | you look | on us,| and shake | your head,
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And call | us orph|ans, wretch|es, cast|aways,
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If that | our nob|le fath|er were | alive?
DUCHESS OF YORK
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My pret|ty cous|ins, you | mistake | me both,
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I do | lament | the sick|ness of | the king.
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As loath | to lose | him, not | your fath|er's death:
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It were / lost sor|row to / wail one | that's
lost.
BOY
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Then you | conclude,| (my gran|dam*) he | is dead:
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The king | mine^unc|le is | to blame | for it.
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God will | revenge | it, whom | I will im|portune
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With earn|est prayers,| all to that | effect.
GIRL
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And so will I.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Peace children peace, the king doth love you well.
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Incap|able,| and shal|low in|nocents,
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You can|not guess | who caused | your fath|er's
death.
BOY
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Grandam | we can:| for my good | uncle | Gloucester
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Told me,| the king | provoked | to it by | the
queen,
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Devised | impeach|ments to | impris|on him;
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And when | my unc|le told | me so,| he wept,
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And pit|ied me,| and kind|ly kissed | my cheek:
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Bade me re|ly on | him, as | on my | father,
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And he | would love | me dear|ly as | a child.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Ah! That | deceit | should steal | such gent|le
shape,
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And with a | virtuous | viz or | hide deep vice.
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He is | my son,| aye, and | therein | my shame,
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Yet from | my dugs,| he drew | not this | deceit.
BOY
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Think you my | uncle | did dis|semble | grandam?
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Aye boy.
BOY
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I can|not think it.|
Hark, what | noise is this? ??
[Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her ears; RIVERS, and DORSET
after her]
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Ah! Who* | shall hind|er me | to wail | and weep?
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To chide | my for|tune, and | torment | myself.
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I'll join | with black | despair | against | my
soul,
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And to | myself,| become | an en|emy.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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What means | this scene | of rude | impa|tience?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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To make | an act | of trag|ic vi|olence.
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Edward | my lord,| thy son,| our king | is dead.
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Why grow | the branch|es, when | the root | is
gone?
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Why with|er not | the leaves | that want | their
sap?
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If you | will live,| lament:| if die,| be brief,
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That our / swift-wing|ed souls | may catch | the
king's,
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Or like | obed|ient sub|jects fol|low him,
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To his / new king|dom of / nere-chan|ging night.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Ah so | much int|erest have | I in thy | sorrow,
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As I | had title | in thy | noble | husband:
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I have | bewept | a worth|y hus|band's death,
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And lived | with look|ing on | his im|ages:
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But now | two mir/rors of his | princely |
semblance,
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Are cracked | in pie|ces, by | malig|nant death,
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And I | for com|fort, have but // one false
glass,
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That grieves | me, when | I see | my shame | in
him.
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Thou art a | widow:| yet thou | art a | mother,
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And hast | the com|fort of | thy child|ren left,
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But death | hath snatched | my hus|band from |
mine arms,
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And plucked | two crutch/es from | my feeb|le
limbs,
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Clarence,| and Ed|ward. O,| what cause | have I,
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(Thine be|ing but | a moi|ety of | my moan)
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To ov|ergo | thy woes,| and drown | thy cries.
BOY
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Ah aunt!| You wept | not for | our fath|er's
death:
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How can | we aid | you with | our kind|red tears?
GIRL
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Our fath|erless | distress | was left | unmoaned,
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Your wid|ow-dol|or, like|wise be | unwept.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Give me no | help in | lamen|tation,
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I am | not bar|ren to / bring forth | complaints:
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All springs | reduce | their cur|rents to |
mine^eyes,
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That I | being^gov|erned by | the wat|ery moon,
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May send | forth^plent|eous tears | to drown | the
world.
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Ah, for my | husband,| for my / dear lord |
Edward.
CHILDREN
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Ah for our | father,| for our / dear lord |
Clarence.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Alas | for both,| both mine^|Edward and |
Clarence.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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What stay | had I | but Ed|ward, and | he's gone?
CHILDREN
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What stay | had we | but Clar|ence? And / he's gone.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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What stays | had I,| but they?| And they | are
gone.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Was nev|er wid|ow had | so dear | a loss.
CHILDREN
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Were nev|er orph|ans had | so dear | a loss.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Was nev|er moth|er had | so dear | a loss.
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Alas!| I am | the moth|er of | these griefs,
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Their woes are par|celled, mine | are gen|eral.
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She for | an Ed|ward weeps,| and so | do I:
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I for a | Clarence | weep, so | doth not she:
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These babes | for Clar|ence weep,| so do | not
they.
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Alas!| You three,| on me | three fold distressed:
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Pour^all | your tears,| I am | your sor|row's
nurse,
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And I will | pamper | it with | lamen|tations.
DORSET
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Comfort | dear* moth|er, God | is much |
displeased,
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That you take | with un|thankful|ness his |
doing.
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In com|mon world|ly things,| 'tis called |
ungrate||ful,
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With dull | unwil|lingness | to repay | a debt,
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Which with | a bount|eous hand | was kind|ly
lent:
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Much^more | to be | thus op|posite | with heaven,
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For it re|quires the | royal | debt it | lent
you.
RIVERS
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Madam, be|think you*| like a | careful | mother
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Of the / young prince | your son:| send^straight
| for him,
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Let him | be crowned,| in him | your com|fort
lives.
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Drown des/perate sor|row in / dead Ed|ward's grave,
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And plant | your joys | in liv|ing Ed|ward's
throne.
[Enter GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, and RATCLIFF]
RICHARD
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Sister | have com|fort, all | of us | have cause
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To wail | the dim|ming of | our shin|ing star:
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But none | can help | our harms | by wail|ing
them.
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Madam, my | mother,| I do | cry you | mercy,
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I did | not see | your grace.| Humbly | on my knee,
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I crave | your bles|sing. \\
DUCHESS OF YORK
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God^bless | thee, and | put meek|ness in | thy
breast,
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Love char/ity,| obed|ience, and / true du||ty.
GLOUCESTER
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Amen,| and make | me die | a good old man,
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That is | the butt-|end of a | mother's |
blessing;
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I marv|el that | her grace | did leave | it out.
BUCKINGHAM
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You clou|dy prin|ces, and / heart-sor|rowing
peers,
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That bear | this mu|tual hea|vy load | of moan,
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Now cheer | each oth|er, in | each^oth|er's love:
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Though we | have spent | our harv|est of | this
king,
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We are | to reap | the harv|est of | his son.
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The brok|en ran|cor of your // high-swollen
hates,
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But late|ly splint|ered, knit,| and joined |
togeth||er,
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Must | gently | be preserved,| cherished,| and
kept:
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Me seem|eth good,| that with | some lit|tle
train,
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Forthwith | from Lud|low, the / young prince | be set
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Hither | to Lon|don, to | be crowned | our king.
RIVERS
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Why with | some lit|tle train,
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My Lord | of Buck|ingham? (tri with prev)
BUCKINGHAM
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Marry | my lord,| lest^by | a mul|titude,
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The new-healed wound | of mal|ice should / break out,
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Which would | be so | much the | more dan/gerous,
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By how much | the estate | is green,| and yet |
ungov||erned.
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Where | every / horse bears | his command|ing
rein,
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And may | direct | his course | as please |
himself,
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As well | the fear | of harm,| as harm | appar||ent,
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In | my opin|ion, ought | to be | prevent||ed.
RICHARD
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I hope | the king | made^peace | with all | of
us,
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And the / compact | is firm,| and true | in me.
RIVERS
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And so | in me,| and so |(I think)| in all.
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Yet since | it is | but green,| it should | be put
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To no | appar|ent like|lihood | of breach,
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Which^hap|ly by / much comp|any might | be urged:
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Therefore | I say | with nob|le Buck|ingham,
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That it | is meet | so few | should fetch | the
prince.
HASTINGS
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And | so | say | I.|
RICHARD
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Then be | it so,| and go | we to de|termine
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Who they shall | be that | straight shall | post
to | London.
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Madam,| and you | my sis|ter, will | you go
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To give | your cens|ures in | this bus|iness.
[Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM and GLOUCESTER]
BUCKINGHAM
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My lord,| whoev|er journ|eys to | the Prince,
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For God|sake let | not us | two stay | at home:
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For by | the way,| I'll sort | occa|sion,
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As in|dex to the | story | we late | talked
of,
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To part | the queen's | proud kind/red from | the
prince.
RICHARD
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My oth|er self,| my couns|el's consis|tory,
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My or|acle,| my proph|et, my / dear cousin,
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I, as a | child, will | go by | thy di|rection,
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Toward^Lon|don then,| for we'll | not stay |
behind.
[Exeunt]