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The Tower-walls.
[Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rotten armor, marvelous ill-favored]
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Come* cousin,
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Canst thou | quake, and | change thy | color,
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Murder | thy breath | in the | middle | of a
word,
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And then | begin | again,| and stop | again,
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As if | thou wert | distraught,| and mad | with
terror?
BUCKINGHAM
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Tut, I can | counter|feit the | deep tragedian,
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Speak, and look back,| and pry | on ev|ery side,
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Tremble | and start | at wag|ging of | a straw:
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Intend|ing deep | suspi|cion, ghast|ly looks
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Are at | my serv|ice, like | enforc|ed smiles;
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And both | are rea|dy in | their of|fices,
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At an|y time | to grace | my strat|agems.
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But what,| is Cates|by gone? \\
RICHARD
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He is,| and see | he brings | the mayor | along.
[Enter the Lord Mayor and CATESBY]
BUCKINGHAM
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Lord mayor.
RICHARD
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Look | to the / drawbridge | there.
BUCKINGHAM
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Hark, a | drum.
RICHARD
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Cates/by, ore|look the
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BUCKINGHAM
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Lord may/or, the | reason | we have | sent.
RICHARD
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Look back, defend | thee, here | are en|emies.
BUCKINGHAM
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God and our | inno|cency | defend,| and guard us.
RICHARD
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Be pa|tient, they | are friends:| Ratcliff,| and
Lovel.
[Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS' head]
LOVEL
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Here is | the head | of that ig|noble | traitor,
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The dang|erous | and un|suspect|ed Hast||ings.
RICHARD
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So dear | I loved | the man,| that I | must weep:
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I took | him for the | plainest | harmless |
creature,
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That breathed | upon | the earth,| a Chris|tian,
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Made him my | book, where|in my | soul
re|corded
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The hist|ory | of all | her sec|ret thoughts.
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So smooth | he daubed | his vice | with show | of
vir||tue,
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That | his appar|ent op|en guilt | omitted,
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I mean,| his con|versa|tion with / Shore's wife,
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He lived | from all | attaind|er of | suspect.
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Well,| well, he | was the co|vertest | sheltered
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That ev|er lived. \\
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Would you | imag|ine, or | almost | believe,
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Wert not,| that by great | preserv|ation,
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We live | to tell it,| that the | subtle |
traitor
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This day | had plot|ted, in | the coun|cil-house,
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To murd|er me,| and my good*| Lord of | Gloucester?
LORD MAYOR
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Had he | done so? \\
RICHARD
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What? Think you | we are Turks,| or in|fidels?
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Or that | we would,| against | the form | of law,
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Proceed | thus rash|ly to | the vil|lain's death,
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But that | the ex/treme per|il of | the case,
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The peace | of Eng|land, and | our pers|ons'
safe||ty,
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En/forced us | to this | exe|cution.
LORD MAYOR
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Now fair | befall | you, he | deserved | his
death,
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And you | my good* gra|ces both | have well |
proceed||ed,
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To / warn false | traitors | from the like | attempts.
BUCKINGHAM
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I nev|er looked | for bet|ter at | his hands,
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After | he once | fell^in | with mist|ress Shore:
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Yet had | not we | deter|mined he | should die,
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Until | your lord|ship came | to see | his end,
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Which now | the lov|ing haste | of these | our friends,
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Somewhat a|gainst our | meanings,| have
pre|vented:
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Because,| my lord,| I would | have had | you
heard
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The trait|or speak,| and tim|orously | confess
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The man|ner and the pur|pose of | his treas|ons:
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That you | might well | have sig|nified | the same
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Unto | the cit|izens,| who hap|ly may
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Miscon|strue us | in him,| and wail | his death.
LORD MAYOR
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But, my | good* lord,| your gra|ce's word | shall
serve,
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As well | as I | had seen,| and heard | him
speak:
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And do | not doubt,| right noble prin|ces both,
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But I'll | acquaint | our dut|eous cit|izens
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With all | your just | proceed|ings in | this
case.
RICHARD
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And to | that end | we wished | your lord|ship
here,
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To avoid | the cens|ures of | the carp|ing world.
BUCKINGHAM
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Which since | you come | too* late | of our | intent,
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Yet wit|ness what | you hear | we did | intend:
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And so,| my good | lord^mayor,| we bid |
farewell.
[Exit LORD MAYOR]
RICHARD
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Go aft|er, aft|er, cous|in Buck|ingham.
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The mayor | towards Guildhall | hies him | in all
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There,/ at your | meetst vant/age of | the time,
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Infer | the bast|ardy | of Ed|ward's child|ren:
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Tell them,| how Ed|ward put | to death | a
cit|izen, (hex with prev)
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Only | for say|ing, he | would make | his son
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Heir to | the crown,| meaning | indeed | his
house,
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Which, by | the sign | thereof,| was term|ed so.
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Moreov|er, urge | his hate|ful lux|ury,
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And best|ial ap|petite | in change | of lust,
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Which stretch|ed to | their serv|ants,
daught|ers, wives,
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Even where | his rag|ing eye,| or sav|age heart,
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Without | control,| lusted | to make | his prey.
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Nay, for a | need, thus | far come | near my |
person:
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Tell them,| when that | my moth|er went | with
child
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Of that | unsat|iate Ed|ward; nob|le York,
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My prince|ly fath|er, then | had wars | in France,
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And by / true comp|uta|tion of | the time,
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Found, that | the is|sue was / not his | begot:
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Which well | appeared | in his | line|aments,
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Being noth|ing like | the nob|le duke,| my
fath||er:
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Yet | touch this | sparingly,| as 'twere far off,
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Because,| my lord,| you know | my moth|er lives.
BUCKINGHAM
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Doubt^not,| my lord,| I'll play | the or|ator,
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As if | the gold|en fee,| for which | I plead,
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Were for | myself:| and so,| my lord,| adieu.
RICHARD
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If you thrive | well, bring / them to | Baynard's
| Castle,
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Where you | shall find | me well | accomp|anied
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With reve|rend fath|ers, and / well-learned |
bishops.
BUCKINGHAM
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I go,| and towards three | or four | o'clock
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Look for | the news | that the / Guildhall |
affords.
[Exit BUCKINGHAM]
RICHARD
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Go Lov|el with / all speed | to Doc|tor Shaw,
[To CATESBY]
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Go thou | to Fri|ar Penk|er, bid | them both
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Meet me with|in this | hour at | Baynard's |
Castle.
[Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]
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Now will I | go to | take some | privy | order,
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To draw | the brats | of Clar|ence out | of
sight,
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And to / give ord|er, that | no man|ner person
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Have an|y time | recourse | unto the | princes.
[Exit]