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Before the palace.
[Enter QUEEN MARGARET]
QUEEN MARGARET
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So now | prospe|rity | begins | to mellow,
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And drop | into | the rot|ten mouth | of death:
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Here in | these con|fines sly/ly have | I lurked,
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To watch | the wan|ing of | mine en|emies.
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A dire | induc|tion, am | I wit|ness to,
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And will | to France,| hoping | the cons|equence
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Will prove | as bit|ter, black,| and trag|ical.
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Withdraw | thee wretch|ed Marg|aret, who / comes
here?
[Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK]
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Ah, my | poor prin|ces! Ah | my tend|er babes:
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My un|blowed flowers, new-|appear|ing sweets:
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If yet | your gent|le souls | fly in | the air,
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And be | not fixed | in doom | perpet|ual,
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Hover | about | me with | your ai|ry wings,
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And hear | your moth|er's lam|enta|tion.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Hover | about | her, say | that right | for right
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Hath dimmed | your in|fant morn,| to ag|ed night.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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So ma|ny mis|eries | have crazed | my voice,
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That my / woe-wear|ied tongue | is still | and
mute.
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Edward | Plantag|enet,| why art | thou dead?
QUEEN MARGARET
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Plantag|enet | doth quit | Plantag|enet,
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Edward | for Ed|ward, pays | a dy|ing debt.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Wilt thou,| O God,| fly from | such^gent|le
lambs,
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And throw | them in | the en|trails of | the
wolf?
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When didst | thou sleep,| when such | a deed |
was done?
QUEEN MARGARET
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When ho|ly Har|ry died,| and my / sweet son.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Dead life, blind | sight, poor mort|al liv|ing
ghost,
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Woe's scene, world's | shame, grave's due,| by
life | usurped, (hex with prev)
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Brief abstract | and rec|ord of ted|ious days,
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Rest thy | unrest | on Eng|land's law|ful earth,
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Unlaw|fully / made drunk | with in|nocent blood.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Ah that | thou wouldst | as soon | afford | a
grave,
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As thou | canst yield | a mel|ancho|ly seat:
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Then would | I hide | my bones,| not rest | them
here,
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Ah who | hath an|y cause | to mourn | but we?
QUEEN MARGARET
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If an|cient sor|row be | most rev|erent,
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Give^mine | the ben|efit | of sen|iory,
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And let | my grief | frown on | the up|per hand
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If sor|row can | admit | soci|ety.
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I had | an Ed|ward, till | a Rich|ard killed |
him:
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I had | a hus|band, till | a Rich|ard | killed | him:
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Thou hadst | an Ed|ward, till | a Rich|ard killed
| him:
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Thou hadst | a Rich|ard, till | a Rich|ard killed
| him.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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I had | a Rich|ard too,| and thou | didst kill |
him;
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I had | a Rut|land too,| thou holpst | to kill |
him. (all hex pairs)
QUEEN MARGARET
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Thou hadst | a Clar|ence too,
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And Rich|ard killed | him.
(tri with prev)
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From forth | the ken|nel of | thy womb | hath
crept
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A hell-|hound that | doth hunt | us all | to
death:
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That dog,| that had | his teeth | before | his
eyes,
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To wor|ry lambs,| and lap | their gent|le blood:
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That foul | defac|er of / God's hand|iwork:
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That reigns | in gal|led eyes | of weep|ing
souls:
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That ex|cellent / grand tyr|ant of | the earth,
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Thy womb | let^loose | to chase | us to | our
graves.
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O up|right,^just,| and true-|dispos|ing God,
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How do | I thank | thee, that | this carn|al cur
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Preys on the | issue | of his | mother's | body,
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And makes | her pew-|fellow | with oth|ers' moan.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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O Har|ry's wife,| triumph | not in | my woes:
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God* wit|ness with | me, I | have wept | for thine.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Bear with | me: I | am hun|gry for | revenge,
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And now | I cloy | me with | behold|ing it.
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Thy^Ed|ward he | is dead,| that killed | my
Ed|ward:
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The oth|er Ed|ward dead,| to quit | my Ed|ward:
(hex with prev)
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Young York, he | is but boot,| because both they
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Match not the high | perfec|tion of | my loss.
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Thy Clar|ence he is | dead, that | stabbed my |
Edward,
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And the | behold|ers of | this frant|ic play,
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The adult|erate Hast|ings, Riv|ers, Vaugh|an,
Gray,
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Untime|ly smoth|ered in | their dus|ky graves.
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Richard yet | lives, hell's black |
intel|ligen||cer,
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On|ly reserved | their fac|tor, to / buy souls,
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And send | them thith|er: but | at hand,| at hand
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Ensues | his pit|eous and / unpit|ied end.
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Earth gapes, hell | burns, fiends roar,| saints^pray.
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To have | him sud|denly | conveyed | from hence:
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Cancel | his bond | of life,| dear God | I pray,
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That I | may live | to say,| The dog | is dead.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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O thou | didst proph|esy,| the time | would come,
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That I | should wish | for thee | to help | me curse
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That bot|tled spider,| that foul | bunch-backed
toad.
QUEEN MARGARET
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I called | thee then,| vain flour/ish of my |
fortune:
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I called | thee then,| poor* shad|ow, paint|ed
queen,
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The pres|enta|tion of | but what | I was;
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The flat|tering in|dex of a | direful | pageant;
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One heaved a-high,| to be / hurled down | below;
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A moth|er on|ly mocked | with two | fair* babes;
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A dream | of what | thou wast,| a gar|ish flag
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To be | the aim | of ev|ery dang|erous shot;
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A sign | of dig|nity,| a breath,| a bubble;
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A queen | in jest,| only | to fill | the scene.
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Where is thy | husband | now? Where*| be thy |
brothers?
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Where be thy | two sons? Where|in dost | thou
joy?
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Who sues,| and kneels,| and says,| God^save | the
queen?
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Where be | the bend|ing peers | that flat|tered thee?
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Where be | the throng|ing troops | that fol|lowed
thee?
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Decline | all this,| and see | what now | thou
art.
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For hap|py wife,| a most | distressed | widow:
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For joy|ful moth|er, one | that wails | the name:
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For one | being sued | to, one | that hum|bly sues:
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For queen,| a ve|ry cait|iff, crowned | with
care:
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For she | that scorned | at me,| now* scorned |
of me:
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For she | being feared | of all,| now fear|ing
one:
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For she | command|ing all,| obeyed | of none.
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Thus hath | the course | of just|ice whirled | about,
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And left | thee but | a ve|ry prey | to time,
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Having | no more | but thought | of what | thou
wast.
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To tor|ture thee | the more,| being what | thou
art,
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Thou didst | usurp | my place,| and dost | thou
not
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Usurp | the just | propor|tion of | my sor|row?
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Now thy | proud neck, bears | half my | burdened
| yoke; (hex with prev)
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From which,| eene here | I slip | my wear|ied
head,
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And leave | the burd|en of | it all,| on thee.
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Farewell | York's wife, and queen | of sad |
mischance,
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These Eng|lish woes,| shall make | me smile | in France.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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O thou | well skilled in curs|es, stay |
awhile,
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And teach | me how | to curse | mine en|emies.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Forbear | to sleep | the nights,| and fast | the
day:
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Compare | dead hap/piness,| with liv|ing woe:
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Think that | thy babes | were fair|er than | they were,
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And he | that slew | them foul|er than | he is:
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Bettering | thy loss,| makes the / bad caus|er
worse,
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Revolv|ing this,| will teach | thee how | to
curse.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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My words | are dull,| O quick|en them | with
thine.
QUEEN MARGARET
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Thy woes | will make | them sharp,| and pierce | like mine.
[Exit]
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Why should | calam|ity | be full | of words?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Windy | attor|neys to | their cli|ent woes,
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Airy | succeed|ers of | intes|tine joys,
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Poor* breath|ing or|ators | of mis|eries,
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Let them | have scope,| though what | they will | impart,
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Help^noth|ing else,| yet do | they ease | the
heart.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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If so | then, be / not tongue-|tied: go^|with me,
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And in the | breath of | bitter | words,
let's^|smother
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My damned | son, that thy | two sweet sons |
smothered.
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The trump|et sounds,| be cop|ious in | exclaims.
[Enter KING RICHARD III, marching, with drums and trumpets]
KING RICHARD III
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Who int|ercepts | me in | my ex|pedi||tion?
DUCHESS OF YORK
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O she,| that might | have int|ercep|ted thee
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By strang|ling thee | in her | accurs|ed womb,
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From all | the slaught|ers (wretch)| that thou |
hast done.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Hidst thou | that fore|head with | a gold|en crown
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Where^it | should be brand|ed, if | that right |
were right?
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The slaught|er of | the prince | that owed | that
crown,
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And the dire | death of | my poor | sons, and |
brothers.
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Tell me thou | villain-|slave, where / are my |
children?
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Thou toad,| thou toad,
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Where is thy | brother | Clarence?
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And lit|tle Ned | Plantag|enet | his son?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Where is | the gent|le riv|ers, Vaugh|an, Gray?
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Where is kind | Hastings? \\
KING RICHARD III
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A flour|ish trump|ets, strike | alar|um drums:
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Let^not | the heavens | hear these | tell-tale wom||en
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Rail | on the Lord's | anoint|ed, strike | I say.
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Either | be pa|tient, and | entreat | me fair,
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Or with | the clam|orous | report | of war,
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Thus will | I drown | your ex|clama|tions.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Art thou | my son? \\
KING RICHARD III
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Aye, I | thank^God,| my fath|er, and | yourself.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Then pat|iently | hear my | impa|tience.
KING RICHARD III
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Madam, I / have a | touch of | your con|dition,
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That can|not brook | the ac|cent of | reproof.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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O let | me speak.
KING RICHARD III
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Do then,| but I'll | not hear.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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I will | be mild,| and gent|le in | my words.
KING RICHARD III
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And brief |(good moth|er) for | I am | in haste.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Art thou | so has|ty? I | have stayed | for thee
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(God^knows)| in tor|ment and | in ag|ony.
KING RICHARD III
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And came | I not | at last | to com|fort you?
DUCHESS OF YORK
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No by | the ho|ly rood,| thou knowst | it well,
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Thou camst | on earth,| to make | the earth | my
hell.
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A griev|ous burd|en was | thy birth | to me,
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Tetchy | and way|ward was | thy in|fancy.
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Thy school-|days* fright|ful, des|perate, wild,|
and fur|ious,
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Thy prime | of manhood, dar|ing, bold,| and
vent|urous: (hex with prev)
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Thy age | confirm|ed, proud,| subtle,| sly, and |
bloody,
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More mild,| but yet | more harm|ful; kind | in
hat|red: (hex with prev)
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What com|fortab|le hou|r canst | thou name,
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That ev|er graced | me in | thy comp|any?
KING RICHARD III
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Faith^none,| but Humph|rey Hour,
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That called |
your grace
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To break|fast once,| forth of | my comp|any.
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If I | be so | disgra|cious in | your eye,
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Let me march on,| and not | offend | you madam.
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Strike^up | the drum.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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I prith|ee hear | me speak.
KING RICHARD III
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You speak | too bit|terly.
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Hear me | a word:
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For I | shall nev|er speak | to thee | again.
KING RICHARD III
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So. \\
DUCHESS OF YORK
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Either | thou wilt | die, by | God's
just^|ordinance
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Ere from | this war | thou turn | a con|queror:
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Or I | with grief | and extreme | age shall |
perish,
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And nev|er more | behold | thy face | again.
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Therefore | take with | thee my | most griev|ous curse,
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Which^in | the day | of bat|tle tire | thee more
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Than all | the com/plete arm|or that | thou
wearst.
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My pray|ers on | the ad|verse part|y fight,
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And there | the lit|tle souls | of Ed|ward's
child||ren,
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Whisp|er the / spirits of | thine^en|emies,
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And prom|ise them | success | and vict|ory:
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Bloody | thou art,| bloody | will be | thy end:
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Shame serves thy life,| and doth | thy death |
attend.
[Exit]
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Though far | more cause,| yet much | less spirit
| to curse
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Abides | in me,| I say | amen | to all.
KING RICHARD III
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Stay mad/am, I | must speak | a word | with you.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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I have / no more | sons of | the roy|al blood
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For thee | to slaught|er. For | my daught|ers
(Rich||ard)
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They | shall be pray|ing nuns,| not weep|ing
queens:
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And there|fore lev|el not | to hit | their lives.
KING RICHARD III
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You have | a daught|er called | Eliz|abeth,
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Virtuous | and fair,| royal | and gra|cious?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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And must | she die | for this?| O let | her live,
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And I'll | corrupt | her man|ners, stain | her
beau||ty,
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Sland|er myself,| as false | to Ed|ward's bed:
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Throw^ov|er her | the veil | of in|famy,
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So she | may live | unscarred | of bleed|ing
slaught|er,
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I will | confess | she was | not^Ed|ward's
daught|er. (hex with prev)
KING RICHARD III
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Wrong^not | her birth,| she is | a roy|al
prin||cess.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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To save | her life,| I'll say | she is / not so.
KING RICHARD III
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Her life | is saf|est on|ly in | her birth.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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And on|ly in | that safe|ty, died | her
broth||ers.
KING RICHARD III
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Lo | at their birth,| good* stars | were
op|posite.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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No, to their | lives, ill friends | were
con|trary.
KING RICHARD III
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All^un|avoid|ed is the doom | of dest|iny.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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True: when a|voided | grace makes dest|iny.
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My babes | were des|tined to | a fair|er death,
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If grace | had blessed | thee with | a fair|er
life.
KING RICHARD III
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You speak | as if | that I | had slain | my
cous||ins?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Cous|ins indeed,| and by their | uncle | cozened,
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Of com|fort, king|dom, kind|red, freed|om, life,
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Whose^hand | soev|er lanced | their tend|er
hearts,
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Thy head |(all indi|rectly)| gave di|rection.
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No doubt | the murd|erous knife | was dull | and
blunt,
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Till it was | whetted | on thy | stone-hard heart,
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To rev|el in | the en|trails of | my lambs.
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But that still | use of | grief, makes^|wild
grief tame,
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My tongue | should to | thy ears | not name | my
boys,
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Till that | my nails | were anch|ored in |
thine^eyes:
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And I | in such | a des|perate bay | of death,
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Like a / poor bark,| of sails | and tack|ling
reft,
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Rush^all | to piec|es on | thy rock|y bosom.
KING RICHARD III
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Madam,| so thrive | I^in | my ent|erprise
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And dang|erous | success | of bloo|dy wars,
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As I in|tend more good | to you | and yours,
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Than ev|er you | or yours | by me | were harmed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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What good | is cov|ered with | the face | of
heaven,
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To be | discov|ered, that | can do | me good?
KING RICHARD III
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The advance|ment of | your child|ren, gent|le
la||dy.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Up | to some scaf|fold, there | to lose | their heads.
KING RICHARD III
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Unto the | digni|ty and | height of | fortune,
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The high | imper|ial type | of this earth's |
glory.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Flatter | my sor|rows with | report | of it:
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Tell me,| what state,| what dig|nity, what |
honor,
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Canst thou | demise | to an|y child | of mine.
KING RICHARD III
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Even all | I have;| aye, and | myself | and all,
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Will I | withal | endow | a child | of thine:
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So in | the Leth|e of | thy ang|ry soul,
, ,
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Thou drown | the sad | remem|brance of | those
wrongs,
,
, , ,
,
Which thou | suppos|est I | have done | to thee.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, , 2
, ,
,
Be brief,| lest that be | process | of thy |
kindness
, ,
, ,
,
Last^long|er tel|ling than | thy kind|ness' date.
KING RICHARD III
,
Then know,
, ,
, ,
2->
That from | my soul,| I love | thy
daugh||ter.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, ,
,
My daught|er's moth|er thinks | it with | her
soul.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
What do / you think? \\
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, ,
,
That thou | dost love | my daught|er from | thy
soul
, 2
, , ,
,
So from thy | soul's love / didst thou | love her
| brothers,
, ,
, ,
x
And from / my heart's | love, I | do thank | thee
for it.
KING RICHARD III
, , ,
2 ,
,
Be not | so has/ty to con|found my | meaning:
, ,
, ,
, ->
I mean | that with | my soul | I love | thy daugh||ter,
, 2 ,
, ,
, ->
And | do intend | to make | her queen | of
Eng||land.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
2 , , ,
Well | then, who | dost thou mean | shall be |
her king?
KING RICHARD III
2 , , ,
Even he | that makes | her queen:
, ,
Who else |
should be?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
T T
What, thou?
KING RICHARD III
T , ,
x
ev|en so:| how
think | you of it?
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
How canst | thou woo | her?
KING RICHARD III
, 2
, ,
That | would I learn | of you,
,
Tx T . T
2 , ,
As one | being best acquaint|ed with her
| humor. ??
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, , ,
And wilt | thou learn | of me?
KING RICHARD III
, ,
,
Madam,| with all | my heart. (tri with prev)
QUEEN ELIZABETH
,
, 2 ,
, ,
Send to | her by the | man that | slew her |
brothers,
,
, , ,
,
A pair | of bleed|ing hearts:| thereon | engrave
,
, , ,
,
Edward | and York,| then hap|ly she | will weep:
, ,
, ,
, 2 ->
Therefore | present | to her,| as some|time^Mar||garet
, 2
, , , ,
Did | to thy fath|er, steeped | in Rut|land's blood,
,
, , ,
,
A hand|kerchief,| which say | to her | did drain
,
, 2
, , ,
The pur|ple sap | from her sweet | brother's |
body,
, ,
, , ,
And bid | her wipe | her weep|ing eyes | withal.
, ,
, ,
,
If this | induce|ment force | her not | to love,
,
, , ,
,
Send her | a let|ter of | thy nob|le deeds:
, 2 ,
, ,
,
Tell her thou | madst a|way her | uncle |
Clarence,
, ,
, ,
,
Her unc|le Riv|ers, aye |(and for | her sake)
,
, ,
, ,
Madst^quick | convey|ance with her // good aunt
Anne.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
,
You mock | me mad|am, this | is not | the way
, ,
2
To win | your daught|er.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, , ,
There is | no oth|er way,
, ,
, ,
,
Unless | thou couldst | put on | some oth|er
shape,
, , ,
, ,
And not | be Rich|ard, that | hath done | all
this.
KING RICHARD III
,
, , ,
,
Say that | I did | all^this | for love | of her.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, 2
, , ,
,
Nay then in|deed she | cannot | choose but | hate thee
, ,
, ,
,
Having / bought love,| with such | a bloo|dy
spoil.
KING RICHARD III
, 2
, , , ,
Look what is | done, can/not be | now a|mended:
,
, , ,
,
Men shall | deal un|advis|edly | sometimes,
,
, , , ,
Which aft|er hours | give^leis|ure to | repent.
,
, , ,
,
If I | did take | the king|dom from | your sons,
,
, , , 2
,
To make | amends,| I'll give | it to your |
daughter:
, ,
, ,
,
If I | have killed | the is|sue of | your womb,
,
, ,
, ,
To quick|en your | increase,| I will | beget
, x
, ,
,
Mine issue / of your | blood, u|pon your
| daughter:
, ,
, ,
,
A gran|dam's^name | is lit|tle less | in love,
,
, x
, ,
Than is | the dot|ing title | of a | mother;
, , ,
, ,
They are | as child|ren but / one step | below,
x ,
, ,
,
Even of | your met|tle, of | your ve|ry blood:
. T T T ,
, ,
Of all one pain,| save for | a night | of groans
,
, , 2
, ,
Endured | of her,| for whom | you bid^like | sorrow.
, ,
, ,
,
Your child/ren were | vexa|tion to | your youth,
, ,
, ,
,
But mine | shall be | a com|fort to | your age,
, ,
, , 2
,
The loss | you have,| is but | a son | being
king,
, ,
,
, ,
And by | that loss,| your daught|er is / made
queen.
,
, , ,
,
I can|not make | you what | amends | I would,
,
, , ,
,
Therefore | accept | such^kind|ness as | I can.
,
, , ,
,
Dorset | your son,| that with | a fear|ful soul
T T . T , ,
,
Leads discontent|ed steps | in for|eign soil,
,
, ,
, ,
This fair | alli|ance, quick|ly shall / call home
,
, , ,
,
To high | promo|tions, and / great dig|nity.
, , ,
2 ,
,
The king | that calls | your beaut|eous daught|er
wife,
, 2 ,
, x
,
Famil|iarly | shall call | thy Dorset,| brother:
, ,
, , ,
Again | shall you | be moth|er to | a king:
,
, ,
, ,
And all | the ru|ins of | distress|ful times,
, ,
, ,
,
Repaired | with doub|le rich|es of | content.
,
, ,
, ,
What? We | have ma|ny good|ly days | to see:
,
, , ,
,
The li|quid drops | of tears | that you | have
shed,
,
, , , 2
,
Shall come | again,| transformed | to or|ient
pearl,
, ,
, , ,
Advant|aging | their loan,| with int|erest
. T T T
, ,
,
Of ten times doub|le gain | of hap|piness.
,
, ,
, ,
Go* then |(my moth|er) to | thy daught|er go,
, ,
, , 2 ,
2
Make bold | her bash|ful years,| with your
ex|perience,
, ,
, ,
,
Prepare | her ears | to hear | a woo|er's tale.
,
, ,
2 , ,
Put in | her tend|er heart,| the aspir|ing flame
, , , ,
, ->
Of gold|en sove|reignty:| acquaint | the prin||cess
2 , ,
, ,
,
With the / sweet sil|ent hours | of mar|riage
joys:
, ,
, , ,
And when | this arm | of mine | hath chas|tised
<- , ,
T T T
,
The || petty | rebel,| dull-brained
Buck|ingham,
,
, , ,
,
Bound with | triumph|ant garl|ands will | I come,
, ,
, , 2 ,
And lead | thy daught|er to | a con|queror's bed:
,
, ,
, ,
To whom | I will | retail | my con|quest won,
,
2 ,
, ,
,
And she | shall be sole | victress,| Caesar's |
Caesar.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, 2 ,
, ,
,
What were I | best to | say, her | father's |
brother
,
, , 2 ,
,
Would be | her lord?| Or shall I | say her |
uncle?
, ,
, , ,
->
Or he | that slew | her broth|ers, and | her un||cles?
, 2 ,
, ,
,
Und|er what tit|le shall | I woo | for thee,
, ,
, ,
,
That God,| the law,| my hon|or, and | her love,
, ,
, ,
,
Can make | seem^pleas|ing to | her tend|er years?
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
, 2->
Infer | fair^Eng|land's peace | by this |
alli||ance.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, , ,
Which she | shall purch|ase with / still last|ing war.
KING RICHARD III
,
, ,
, ,
Tell her,| the king | that may | command,|
entreats.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, , ,
That at | her hands,| which the / king's King |
forbids.
KING RICHARD III
,
, , ,
,
Say, she | shall be | a high | and migh|ty queen.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, ,
,
To vail | the tit|le, as | her moth|er doth.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, , ,
Say I | will love | her ev|erlast|ingly.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, , ,
But how | long shall | that tit|le ev|er last?
KING RICHARD III
,
, ,
, ,
Sweetly | in force,| unto | her fair |
life's^end.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, , ,
But how | long fair|ly shall her // sweet lie
last?
KING RICHARD III
, x
, ,
,
As long | as heaven | and na|ture length|ens it.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, ,
,
As long | as hell | and Rich|ard likes | of it.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
,
Say^I | her sove|reign, am | her sub|ject low.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, , ,
But she | your sub|ject, loathes | such
sove|reignty.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
,
Be el|oquent | in my | behalf | to her.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, , , ,
,
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly
told. ??
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, , ,
Then plain|ly to | her tell | my lov|ing tale.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
,
, , ,
,
Plain and | not^hon|est, is / too harsh | a
style.
KING RICHARD III
, , , ,
,
Your reas|ons are / too shal|low, and / too
quick.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
,
, , ,
,
O no,| my reas|ons are / too deep | and dead,
, ,
, ,
,
Too deep | and dead |(poor^in|fants) in | their graves,
, 2
, ,
T T T
Harp on it | still shall | I, till | heart-strings break.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
,
Harp not / on that | string mad/am, that | is
past.
,
, ,
, ,
Now* by | my George,| my gart|er, and | my crown.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, ,
,
Profaned,| dishon|ored, and | the third |
usurped.
KING RICHARD III
,
I swear.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, , T . T T
By noth|ing, for | this
is no oath:
, ,
, , ,
o
The George | profaned,| hath lost | his ho|ly hon|or;
,
, , ,
, o
The gart|er blem|ished, pawned | his knight|ly
vir|tue; (hex with prev)
, ,
, , ,
o
The crown | usurped, | disgraced | his king|ly
glo|ry: (hex with prev)
,
, , ,
,
If some|thing thou | wouldst^swear | to be |
believed,
,
, , ,
,
Swear then | by some|thing, that | thou hast |
not wronged.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
Then by | myself.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
,
Thyself,| is self | misused.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
Now by | the world.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
,
, ,
'Tis full | of thy / foul wrongs.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
My fath|er's death.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, , 2 ,
Thy life | hath it dis|honored.
KING RICHARD III
, 2
Tx
Why then, by | Heaven.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Tx
T , ,
Heaven's wrong | is most | of all:
, , ,
, ,
If thou | didst fear | to break | an oath | with
him,
, , ,
, ,
The un|ity | the king | my hus|band made,
,
, , ,
,
Thou hadst | not brok|en, nor | my broth|ers
died.
, ,
, ,
,
If thou | hadst feared | to break | an oath | by him,
2 , 2 , , ,
,
The imper|ial met|al, circ|ling now | thy head,
, ,
, ,
,
Had graced | the tend|er temp|les of | my child,
,
, , ,
,
And both | the prin|ces had | been breath|ing
here,
, ,
, , ,
Which^now | two* tend|er bed|fellows | for dust,
,
, ,
, ,
Thy brok|en faith | hath made | a prey | for worms.
,
, ,
What canst | thou swear | by now.
KING RICHARD III
,
,
The time | to come.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
,
, , ,
,
That thou | hast wrong|ed in | the time
| orepast:
,
, , ,
,
For I | myself | have ma|ny tears | to wash
,
, , , ,
Hereaft|er time,| for time | past, wronged / by thee.
,
, , , ,
o
The child|ren live,| whose fath|ers thou | hast
slaught|ered,
, ,
, , ,
Ungov|erned youth,| to wail | it with | their
age:
, , ,
, , o
The par|ents live,| whose child|ren thou | hast
butch|ered, (hex with prev)
T Tx T
, ,
,
Old barren plants,| to wail | it with | their
age.
,
, ,
, ,
Swear* not | by time | to come,| for that | thou hast
, ,
, ,
,
Misused | ere used,| by time | ill-used |
orepast.
KING RICHARD III
,
, ,
, ,
As I | intend | to pros|per, and | repent:
, ,
, ,
,
So thrive | I in | my dang|erous | affairs
,
, , ,
,
Of host|ile arms:| myself,| myself | confound:
, ,
, ,
,
Heaven,| and for|tune bar | me hap|py hours:
, ,
, , ,
Day^yield | me not | thy light;| nor night,| thy
rest.
, ,
, , ,
Be op|posite | all plan|ets of / good luck
,
, , ,
,
To my | proceed|ing, if | with dear |
heart's^love,
, ,
, ,
,
Immac|ulate | devo|tion, ho|ly thoughts,
,
, , 2 ,
, ->
I tend|er not | thy beaut|eous prince|ly daught||er.
, ,
, , 2
,
In | her, con|sists my | happiness,| and thine:
, ,
, ,
,
Without | her, fol|lows to | myself,| and thee,
, ,
, 2 ,
,
Herself,| the land,| and ma|ny a Chris|tian soul,
___ , ,
x ,
Death,| deso|lation,| ruin, and | decay:
,
, , ,
,
It can|not be | avoid|ed, but | by this:
,
, , ,
,
It will | not be | avoid|ed, but | by this.
, ,
, ,
,
Therefore | dear* moth|er (I | must call | you
so)
, ,
, ,
,
Be the | attor|ney of | my love | to her:
,
, , ,
,
Plead what | I will | be, not | what I | have
been;
, ,
, ,
,
Not my | deserts,| but what | I will | deserve:
,
, ,
, ,
Urge the | neces|sity | and state | of times,
, ,
, ,
,
And be | not peev|ish-fond,| in great | designs.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, ,
,
Shall I | be tempt|ed of | the dev|il thus?
KING RICHARD III
,
, ,
, ,
Aye, if | the dev|il tempt | you to / do good.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
,
, ,
, ,
Shall^I | forget | myself,| to be | myself.
KING RICHARD III
,
, , ,
,
Aye, if | yourself's | remem|brance wrong |
yourself.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
T T T
, ,
oo
Yet thou didst | kill my | children.|
KING RICHARD III
, , ,
, ,
But in | your daught|er's womb | I bu|ry them:
,
, ,
, ,
Where in | that nest | of spice|ry they | will
breed
,
, , ,
,
Selves of | themselves,| to your | recom|forture.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, ,
,
Shall I | go win | my daught|er to | thy will?
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
,
And be | a hap|py moth|er by | the deed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
, ,
, , o
I go,| write to | me ve|ry shor|tly.
, ,
, ,
,
And you | shall und|erstand | from me | her mind.
KING RICHARD III
, 2
T T T
, ,
Bear her my | true love's kiss,| and so | farewell.
[Exit QUEEN ELIZABETH]
,
, , ,
x
Relent|ing fool,| and shal|low-chang|ing woman.
[Enter RATCLIFF; CATESBY following]
, T
T T
How | now, what news? \\
RATCLIFF
T T . T
, , ,
Most mighty sove|reign, on | the west|ern coast
,
, , , ,
Rideth | a puis|sant na|vy: to | our shores
,
, ,
, ,
Throng ma|ny doubt|ful hol|low-heart|ed friends,
, ,
, , ,
Unarmed,| and un|resolved | to beat | them back.
,
, , ,
,
'Tis thought,| that Rich|mond is | their
ad|miral:
,
, ,
, ,
And there | they hull,| expect|ing but | the aid
, ,
, ,
,
Of Buck|ingham,| to wel|come them | ashore.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, 2 ,
,
Some light-|foot* friend | post to the | Duke of | Norfolk:
,
, ,
, ,
Ratcliff | thyself,| or Cates|by, where | is he?
CATESBY
,
,
Here, my | good* lord.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
,
Catesby,| fly to | the duke.
CATESBY
, ,
, , 2
,
I will,| my lord,| with all | conven|ient haste.
KING RICHARD III
,
, ,
, x
Ratcliff | come* hith|er, post | to Sal|isbury:
, 2
, , ,
,
When thou comst | thither:| Dull un|mindful |
villain,
,
, , ,
,
Why stayst | thou here,| and goest | not to | the
duke?
CATESBY
T T
. T , 2
, ,
First, mighty liege,| tell me your | Highness'|
pleasure,
, 2
, , ,
,
What from your | grace I | shall de|liver | to
him.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, , ,
O true,| good Cates|by, bid | him le|vy straight
, ,
, , ,
The great|est strength | and pow|er he | can
make,
,
, , x
2
And meet | me sud|denly | at Salis|bury.
CATESBY
,
I go.
[Exit]
RATCLIFF
, 2
, , ,
, 3 3
What, may it | please you,| shall I | do at |
Salisbury?
KING RICHARD III
,
, T T
. T ,
Why, what | wouldst thou | do there, before | I
go?
RATCLIFF
,
, , ,
,
Your high|ness told | me I | should post | before.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
,
My mind | is changed:| Stanley,| what news | with
you?
STANLEY
,
, , ,
2 ,
None, good*| my liege,| to please | you with the
| hearing,
, ,
, ,
, 2->
Nor none | so bad,| but well | may be |
report||ed.
KING RICHARD III
T T . T , ,
,
Hoyday, a rid|dle, neith|er good | nor bad:
, ,
, ,
,
What needst | thou run | so ma|ny miles | about,
, ,
, ,
,
When thou | mayst tell | thy tale | the near|est
way?
, ,
Once^more,| what news?
STANLEY
, ,
,
Richmond | is on | the
seas.
KING RICHARD III
,
, ,
, ,
There let | him sink,| and be | the seas | on
him,
T Tx T , ,
,
White-livered run|agate,| what doth | he there?
STANLEY
, , ,
,
,
I know | not*, migh|ty sove|reign, but | by
guess.
KING RICHARD III
__ __ ___
___ oo
Well,| as | you | guess.|
STANLEY
, 2
, ,
, ,
Stirred up by | Dorset,| Bucking|ham, and |
Morton,
, , ,
, ,
He makes | for Eng|land, here | to claim | the
crown.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
,
Is the / chair emp|ty? Is | the sword | unswayed?
, ,
, ,
,
Is the / king dead?| The em|pire^un|possessed?
,
, ,
, ,
What heir | of York | is there | alive,| but we?
, ,
, ,
,
And who | is Eng|land's king,| but great |
York's^heir?
, ,
, ,
,
Then tell / me, what | makes he | upon | the
seas?
STANLEY
, ,
, ,
,
Unless | for that,| my liege,| I can|not guess.
KING RICHARD III
, ,
, ,
,
Unless | for that | he comes | to be | your
liege,
,
, , ,
,
You can|not guess | wherefore | the Welsh|man
comes.
,
, ,
, ,
Thou wilt | revolt,| and fly | to him,| I fear.
STANLEY
, ,
, ,
,
No, my | good* lord,| therefore | mistrust | me
not.
KING RICHARD III
,
, ,
, ,
Where is | thy pow|er then,| to beat | him back?
,
, , ,
,
Where be | thy ten|ants, and | thy fol|lowers?
,
, ,
, ,
Are they | not^now | upon | the west|ern shore,
,
, ,
, ,
Safe-con|ducting | the reb|els from | their
ships?
STANLEY
,
, , ,
,
No, my | good* lord,| my friends | are in | the
north.
KING RICHARD III
T T
. T ,
, ,
Cold friends to me:| what do | they in | the north,
, ,
, ,
,
When they | should serve | their sove|reign in |
the west?
STANLEY
, ,
, ,
,
They have / not been | command|ed, migh|ty king:
,
, ,
, ,
Pleaseth | your maj|esty | to give | me leave,
,
, ,
, ,
I'll must|er up | my friends,| and meet | your
grace,
,
, , ,
,
Where, and | what time | your maj|esty | shall please.
KING RICHARD III
,
, ,
, ,
Aye, thou | wouldst be | gone, to | join with |
Richmond:
, ,
But I'll | not trust | thee.
STANLEY
, ,
,
Most | mighty | sovereign,
, 2
, , ,
,
You have no | cause to | hold my | friendship |
doubtful,
,
, ,
, ,
I nev|er was,| nor nev|er will | be false.
KING RICHARD III
,
, , ,
,
Go then,| and must|er men:| but leave | behind
. T T T
, ,
,
Your son George Stan|ley: look | your heart | be
firm,
, ,
, ,
,
Or else | his head's | assur|ance is | but frail.
STANLEY
, ,
, , ,
So deal | with him,| as I | prove true | to you.
[Exit. Enter a MESSENGER]
MESSENGER
, ,
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My gra|cious sove|reign, now | in Dev|onshire,
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As I | by friends | am well-|adver|tised,
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Sir || Edward | Courtney,| and the | haughty |
prelate,
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Bishop of | Exe|ter, his | elder | brother,
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With ma|ny more | confed|erates,| are in arms.
[Enter another MESSENGER]
SECOND MESSENGER
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In Kent,| my liege,| the Guild|fords are | in arms,
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And ev|ery ho|ur more | compet|itors
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Flock to the | rebels,| and their | power grows
strong.
[Enter another MESSENGER]
THIRD MESSENGER
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My lord,| the ar|my of / great Buck|ingham.
KING RICHARD III
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Out on | ye, owls,| nothing | but songs | of
death,
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There, take thou | that, till | bring better news.
THIRD MESSENGER
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The news | I have | to tell | your maj|esty,
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Is, that by | sudden | floods, and | fall of |
waters,
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Bucking|ham's ar/my is dis|persed and |
scattered,
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And he | himself | wandered | away | alone,
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No man knows | whither.
KING RICHARD III
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I | cry thee | mercy:
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There is | my purse,| to cure | that blow | of
thine.
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Hath^an|y well-|advis|ed friend | proclaimed
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Reward | to him | that brings | the trait|or in?
THIRD MESSENGER
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Such pro|clama|tion hath | been made,| my lord.
[Enter another MESSENGER]
FOURTH MESSENGER
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Sir Thom|as Lovel,| and Lord | Marquis | Dorset,
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'Tis said,| my liege,| in York|shire are | in
arms:
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But this / good com|fort bring | I to your |
highness,
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The Bre|ton na|vy is dis|persed by | tempest.
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Richmond | in Dor|setshire | sent out | a boat
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Unto | the shore,| to ask | those^on | the banks,
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If they | were his | assist|ants, yea,| or no?
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Who ans|wered him,| they came | from Buck|ingham.
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Upon | his part|y: he | mistrust|ing them,
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Hoist^sail,| and made | his course | again | for Brit|tany.
KING RICHARD III
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March on, march | on, since / we are | up in |
arms, (hex with prev)
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If not | to fight | with for|eign en|emies,
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Yet to | beat^down | these reb|els here | at
home.
[Enter CATESBY]
CATESBY
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My liege,| the Duke | of Buck|ingham | is taken,
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That is | the best | news: that the | Earl of | Richmond
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Is with a | mighty | power land/ed at | Milford,
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Is cold|er news,| but yet | they must | be told.
KING RICHARD III
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Away | towards^Sal|isbury, while | we reas|on
here,
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A roy|al bat|tle might | be won | and lost:
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Someone | take^ord|er Buck|ingham | be brought
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To Sal|isbury,| the rest | march on | with me.
[Flourish. Exeunt]