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[The trumpets sound. Enter the young PRINCE EDWARD, GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM,
CARDINAL, CATESBY, and others]
BUCKINGHAM
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Welcome | sweet* prince | to Lon|don,
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To | your
cham||ber.
RICHARD
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Wel|come dear | cousin,| my thoughts'| sovereign
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The wea|ry way | hath made | you mel|ancho||ly.
PRINCE EDWARD
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No | uncle,| but our cros|ses on | the way,
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Have made it | tedious,| weari|some, and | heavy.
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I want | more unc|les here | to wel|come me.
RICHARD
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Sweet* prince,| the untaint|ed vir|tue of | your
years
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Hath not | yet dived | into | the world's |
deceit:
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No more | can you | disting|uish of | a man,
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Than of | his out|ward show,| which God | he knows,
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Seldom | or nev|er jump|eth with | the heart.
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Those^unc|les which | you want,| were dang|erous:
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Your grace | attend|ed to | their sug|ared words,
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But looked | not on | the pois|on of | their
hearts:
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God* keep | you from them,| and from | such false
friends.
PRINCE EDWARD
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God keep | me from / false friends,
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But they |
were none.
RICHARD
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My lord, the | mayor of | London | comes to |
greet you.
[Enter the Lord Mayor and his train]
LORD MAYOR
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God^bless | your grace,| with health | and hap|py
days.
PRINCE EDWARD
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I thank | you, good | my lord,| and thank | you
all:
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I thought | my moth|er, and | my broth|er York,
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Would long,| ere this,| have met | us on | the
way.
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Fie, what | a slug | is Hast|ings, that he /
comes not
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To tell | us, wheth|er they | will come,| or no.
[Enter HASTINGS]
BUCKINGHAM
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And in | good^time,| here comes | the sweat|ing
lord.
PRINCE EDWARD
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Welcome,| my lord:| what, will | our moth|er come?
HASTINGS
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On what | occa|sion God | he knows,| not I;
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The queen | your moth|er, and | your broth|er
York,
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Have tak|en sanc|tuary:| the tend|er prince
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Would fain | have come | with me,| to meet | your
grace,
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But by | his moth|er was | perforce | withheld.
BUCKINGHAM
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Fie, what | an in|direct | and peev|ish course
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Is this | of hers?| Lord card/inal, will | your
grace
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Persuade | the queen,| to send | the Duke | of
York
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Unto | his prince|ly broth|er pres|ently?
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If she | deny,| Lord^Hast|ings go | with him,
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And from | her jeal|ous arms | pluck him |
perforce.
CARDINAL
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My Lord | of Buck|ingham, if my / weak or|atory
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Can from | his moth|er win | the Duke | of York,
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Anon | expect | him here:| but if she | be
ob||durate
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To mild | entreat|ies, God | in heaven | forbid
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We should | infringe | the ho|ly priv|ilege
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Of bles|sed sanc|tuary:| not for all | this land,
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Would I | be guil|ty of / so deep | a sin.
BUCKINGHAM
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You are / too sense|less ob|stinate,| my lord,
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Too cer|emon|ious, and | tradi|tional.
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Weigh it | but with | the gross|ness of | this
age,
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You break | not sanc|tuary,| in seiz|ing him:
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The ben|efit | thereof | is al|ways grant||ed
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To those,| whose^deal|ings have | deserved | the
place,
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And those | who have | the wit | to claim | the place:
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This^prince | hath neith|er claimed it,| nor
de|served it,
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And there|fore, in | mine^opin|ion, can|not have
it.
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Then tak|ing him | from thence,| that is / not
there,
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You break | no priv|ilege,| nor chart|er there:
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Oft have | I heard | of sanc|tua|ry men,
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But sanc|tua|ry child|ren, nere | till now.
CARDINAL
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My lord,| you shall | ore^rule | my mind | for
once.
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Come on,| Lord^Hast|ings, will | you go | with
me?
HASTINGS
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I go,| my lord. \\
PRINCE EDWARD
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Good* lords,| make^all | the spee|dy haste | you may.
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Say, uncle Glouce|ster, if | our broth|er come,
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Where shall we | sojourn,| till our |
coro|nation?
RICHARD
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Where it / thinkst best | unto | your roy|al
self.
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If I | may couns|el you,| some day | or two
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Your high|ness shall | repose | you at | the Tower:
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Then where | you please,| and shall | be thought
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For your / best health,| and rec|reat|ion.
PRINCE EDWARD
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I do | not like | the Tower,| of an|y place;
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Did Jul|ius Cae|sar build | that place,| my lord?
BUCKINGHAM
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He did,| my gra|cious lord,| begin | that place,
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Which^since,| succeed|ing ag|es have
re^ed|ified.
PRINCE EDWARD
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Is it u|pon rec/ord? Or | else re|ported
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Succes|sively | from age | to age,| he built it?
BUCKINGHAM
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Upon | record,| my gra|cious lord.|
PRINCE EDWARD
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But say, | my lord,| it were / not reg|istered,
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Methinks | the truth | should live | from age |
to age,
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As 'twere | retailed | to all | poster|ity,
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Even | to the | gene|ral end|ing day.
GLOUCESTER
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So wise,| so young,| they say | do never
| live^long.
PRINCE EDWARD
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What say | you, unc|le? \\
RICHARD
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I say,| without | characters,| fame lives long.
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Thus, like the form|al vice,| Ini|quity,
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I mor|alize two mean|ings in / one word.
PRINCE EDWARD
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That Jul|ius Cae|sar was | a fam|ous man,
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With what | his val|or did | enrich | his wit,
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His wit | set^down,| to make | his val|or live;
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Death makes no | conquest of this | conqueror,
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For now | he lives | in fame,| though not | in
life.
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I'll tell | you what,| my cous|in Buck|ingham,
BUCKINGHAM
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What,| my gra|cious lord? \\
PRINCE EDWARD
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And if | I live | until | I be | a man,
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I'll win | our an|cient right | in France |
again,
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Or die | a sol|dier, as | I lived | a king.
GLOUCESTER
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Short summers light|ly have a for|ward
spring.
[Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL]
BUCKINGHAM
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Now in | good* time,| here comes | the Duke | of York.
PRINCE EDWARD
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Richard of | York, how | fares our | noble |
brother?
YORK
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Well, my | dear* lord,| so must | I call | you
now.
PRINCE EDWARD
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Aye, broth/er, to | our grief,| as it | is yours:
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Too late | he died,| that might | have kept |
that title,
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Which by | his death | hath lost | much^maj|esty.
RICHARD
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How fares | our cous|in, nob|le Lord | of York?
YORK
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I thank | you, gent|le unc|le. O | my lord,
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You said,| that id|le weeds | are fast | in
growth:
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The prince,| my broth|er, hath | outgrown | me
far.
RICHARD
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He hath,| my lord.
YORK
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And there|fore is | he idle?
RICHARD
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Oh my | fair cous/in, I | must not | say so.
YORK
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Then he | is more | behold|ing to you,| than I.
RICHARD
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He may | command | me as | my sov|ereign,
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But you | have power | in me,| as in | a kins||man.
YORK
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I pray | you, unc|le, give | me this | dagger.
RICHARD
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My dag|ger, little | cousin?| With all | my
heart.
PRINCE EDWARD
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A beg|gar, broth|er? \\
YORK
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Of my / kind unc|le, that | I know | will give,
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And being | but a toy,| which is | no grief | to give.
RICHARD
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A great|er gift | than that,| I'll give | my
cousin.
YORK
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A great|er gift?| O, that's | the sword | to it.
RICHARD
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Aye,| gentle | cousin,| were it light | enough.
YORK
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O then | I see,| you will part | but with / light
gifts,
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In weight|ier things | you'll say | a beg|gar nay.
RICHARD
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It is / too weigh|ty for | your grace | to wear.
YORK
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I weigh | it light|ly, were | it heav|ier.
RICHARD
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What, would | you have | my weap|on, lit|tle
lord?
YORK
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I would | that I | might thank | you, as,| as,
you || call me.
RICHARD
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How?
YORK
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Little. \\
PRINCE EDWARD
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My Lord | of York | will still | be cross | in
talk:
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Uncle,| your grace | knows^how | to bear | with
him.
YORK
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You mean | to bear | me, not | to bear | with me:
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Uncle,| my broth|er mocks | both^you | and me,
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Because | that I | am lit|tle, like | an ape,
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He thinks | that you | should bear | me on | your
shoul||ders.
BUCKINGHAM
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With what | a sharp-|provid|ed wit | he reas|ons:
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To mit|igate | the scorn | he gives | his unc|le,
(hex with prev)
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He pret|tily | and apt|ly taunts | himself:
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So cun|ning, and | so young,| is wond|erful.
RICHARD
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My lord,| wilt please | you pass | along?|
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Myself,| and my / good cous|in Buck|ingham,
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Will to | your moth|er, to | entreat | of her
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To meet | you at | the Tower,| and wel|come you.
YORK
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What, will | you go | unto | the Tower,| my lord?
PRINCE EDWARD
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My lord | protect|or will have | it so.|
YORK
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I shall | not sleep | in qui|et at | the Tower.
RICHARD
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Why, what should | you fear? \\
YORK
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Marry,| my unc|le Clar|ence' ang|ry ghost:
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My gran|dam told | me he | was murd|ered there.
PRINCE EDWARD
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I fear | no unc|les dead.
RICHARD
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Nor none | that live,| I hope. (tri with prev)
PRINCE EDWARD
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And if | they live,| I hope | I need | not fear.
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But come | my lord:| and with | a hea|vy heart,
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Thinking | on them,| go I | unto | the Tower.
[A Sennet. Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM and CATESBY]
BUCKINGHAM
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Think you,| my lord,| this lit|tle prat|ing York
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Was not | incensed | by his | subtle | mother,
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To taunt | and scorn | you thus | oppro|briously?
RICHARD
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No doubt,| no doubt:| O* 'tis | a per|ilous
boy,
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Bold, quick, ingen|ious, for|ward, cap|able:
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He is all | the moth|er's, from | the top | to
toe.
BUCKINGHAM
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Well,^let | them rest:| Come hith|er Cates|by,
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Thou || art sworn | as deep|ly to effect | what
we | intend,
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As close|ly to | conceal | what we | impart:
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Thou knowst | our reas|ons urged | upon | the
way,
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What thinkst | thou? Is it | not an | easy |
matter,
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To make | William | Lord^Hast|ings of | our mind,
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For the | install|ment of | this nob|le duke
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In the / seat roy|al of | this fam|ous isle?
CATESBY
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He for | his fath|er's sake | so loves | the
prince,
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That he | will not | be won | to aught | against him.
BUCKINGHAM
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What thinkst | thou then | of Stan|ley? Will |
not he?
CATESBY
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He will | do all | in all | as Hast|ings^doth.
BUCKINGHAM
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Well then,| no* more | but^this: \\
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Go gentle Cates|by, and | as it were | far^off,
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Sound thou | Lord Hastings, \\
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How he doth | stand af|fected | to our | purpose,
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And sum|mon him | tomor|row to | the Tower,
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To sit | about | the cor|ona|tion.
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If thou | dost find | him tract|able | to us,
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Encour|age him,| and show | him all | our
reasons:
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If he | be leaden,| icy,| cold, un|willing,
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Be thou | so too,| and so | break^off | the talk,
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And give | us not/ice of his | incli|nation:
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For we | tomor|row hold | divid|ed coun||cils,
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Where|in thyself | shalt high|ly be | employed.
RICHARD
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Commend | me to Lord | William:| tell him |
Catesby,
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His an|cient knot | of dang|erous ad|versar||ies
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Tomor|row are let | blood at | Pomfret|-castle,
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And bid | my lord,| for joy | of this / good
news,
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Give mist|ress Shore | one gent|le kiss | the
more.
BUCKINGHAM
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Good* Cates|by, go | effect | this bus|iness
sound||ly.
CATESBY
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My good | lords^both,| with all | the heed | I
may.
RICHARD
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Shall we | hear from | you, Cates|by, ere | we sleep?
CATESBY
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You shall,| my lord. \\
RICHARD
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At Cros|by House,| there shall | you find | us
both.
[Exit CATESBY]
BUCKINGHAM
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Now, my lord,
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What shall we do, if we perceive ????
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Lord^Hast|ings will / not yield | to our / complots?
RICHARD
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Chop off his head:
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Something | we will
de|termine:
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And look | when I | am king,| claim thou | of me
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The earl|dom of Her|eford,| and the move|ables
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Whereof | the king,| my broth|er, was |
possessed.
BUCKINGHAM
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I'll claim | that prom|ise at | your gra|ce's hand.
RICHARD
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And look | to have | it yield|ed with all |
kindness.
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Come, let | us sup | betimes,| that aft|erwards
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We may | digest | our com|plots^in / some form.
[Exeunt]