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Richard III

Act 4, Scene 3

The same.
 
[Enter TYRREL]
 
TYRREL
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      The tyr|annous | and bloo|dy act | is done,
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      The most arch deed | of pit|eous mas|sacre
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      That ev|er yet | this land | was guil|ty of:
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      Dighton | and For|rest, whom | I did | suborn
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      To do | this piece | of ruth|ful butch|ery,
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      Albeit | they were / fleshed vil|lains, bloo|dy dogs,
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      Melted with | tender|ness, and | mild comp|assion,
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      Wept^like | to child|ren, in their / deaths' sad | story.
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      O thus |(quoth^Dight|on) lay | those gent|le babes:
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      Thus, thus, (quoth | Forrest)| girdling | one anoth||er
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      Within | their al|abast|er in|nocent arms:
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      Their lips | were four | red ros/es on | a stalk,
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      And in their | summer | beauty | kissed each | other.
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      A book | of pray|ers on | their pil|low lay,
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      Which^once |(quoth^For|rest) al|most changed | my mind:
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      But oh | the dev|il, there | the vil|lain stopped:
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      When Dight|on thus | told^on,| we smoth|ered
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      The most | replen|ished sweet | work of | nature,
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      That from | the prime | creat|ion ere | she framed.
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      Hence^both | are gone | with con|science and | remorse,
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      They could | not^speak,| and so | I left | them both,
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      To bear | this tid|ings to | the bloo|dy king.
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      And here | he comes.| All health | my sove|reign lord.
 
KING RICHARD III
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      Kind Tyr/rel, am | I hap|py in | thy news.
 
TYRREL
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      If to | have done | the thing | you gave | in charge,
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      Beget | your hap|piness,| be hap|py then,
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      For it | is done.
 
KING RICHARD III
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                        But didst | thou see | them dead.
 
TYRREL
         ,         ,
      I did | my lord.
 
KING RICHARD III
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                       And bur|ied gent|le Tyr||rel.
 
TYRREL
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      The chap|lain of | the Tower | hath bur|ied them,
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      But where |(to say | the truth)| I do | not know.
 
KING RICHARD III
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      Come to me | Tyrrel | soon, and | after | supper,
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      When thou | shalt tell | the pro|cess of | their death.
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      Meantime,| but think | how I | may do | the good,
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      And be | inher|itor | of thy | desire.
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      Farewell | till then.
 
TYRREL
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                            I hum|bly take | my leave.
 
RICHARD
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      The son | of Clar|ence have | I pent | up close,
            ,         ,       ,         ,          ,      ,
      His daught|er mean|ly have | I matched | in mar|riage,
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      The sons | of Ed|ward sleep | in Ab|raham's | bosom,  (hex with prev)
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      And Anne | my wife | hath bid | the world | good^night.
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      Now for | I know | the Bret|on Rich|mond aims
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      At young | Eliz|abeth | my broth|er's daught||er,
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      And | by that knot | looks proud/ly on | the crown,
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      To her | go I,| a jol|ly thriv|ing wooer.
 
[Enter RATCLIFF]
 
RATCLIFF
           ,
      My lord.
 
KING RICHARD III
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               Good or bad news,| that thou comst | in so blunt||ly?
 
RATCLIFF
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      Bad^news | my lord,| Morton is | fled to | Richmond,
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      And Buck|ingham | backed with the | hardy | Welshmen
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      Is in | the field,| and still | his power | increas||eth.
 
KING RICHARD III
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      El|y with Rich|mond troub|les me / more near,
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      Than Buck|ingham | and his / rash-lev|ied strength.
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      Come, I | have learned,| that fear|ful com|menting
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      Is lead|en serv|itor | to dull | delay.
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      Delay leads imp|otent and / snail-paced | beggary:
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      Then fi|ery ex|pedi|tion be | my wing,
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      Jove's Mer/cury,| and her|ald for | a king:
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      Go must|er men:| my couns|el is | my shield,
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      We must | be brief,| when trait|ors brave | the field.
 
[Exeunt]

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