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Richard III

Act 3, Scene 6

The same.
 
[Enter a Scrivener, with a paper in his hand]
 
SCRIVENER
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      Here is the | indict|ment of the / good Lord | Hastings;
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      Which in a | set hand fair|ly is | engrossed,
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      That it | may be | this day | read ore | in Paul's.
            ,          ,         ,        ,        ,       o
      And mark | how well | the se|quel hangs | togeth|er:
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      Elev|en hours | I spent | to write | it ov|er,     (hex with prev)
           ,       ,          ,       ,         ,        o
      For yest|ernight | by Cates|by was | it sent | me,
           ,      ,          ,         ,       ,      o
      The pre|cedent | was full | as long | a-do|ing:   (hex with prev)
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      And yet | within | these five hours | Hastings | lived,
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      Untain|ted, un|exa|mined, free,| at lib|erty.  (hex with prev)
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      Here's a | good world | the while.
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        Who is | so gross,|| that can|not see | this palp|able | device?
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      Yet who | so bold,| but says | he sees | it not?
       ,             ,          ,           ,          ,
      Bad is | the world,| and all | will come | to nought,
             ,           ,        ,         ,          ,
      When such | ill* deal|ing must | be seen | in thought.
 
[Exit]

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