Speeches (Lines) for Richard III
in "Richard III"
Total: 138

1

IV,2,2581

Stand all apart Cousin of Buckingham!

2

IV,2,2583

Give me thy hand.
[Here he ascendeth his throne]...

3

IV,2,2590

O Buckingham, now do I play the touch,
To try if thou be current gold indeed...

4

IV,2,2594

Why, Buckingham, I say, I would be king,

5

IV,2,2596

Ha! am I king? 'tis so: but Edward lives.

6

IV,2,2598

O bitter consequence,
That Edward still should live! 'True, noble prince!'...

7

IV,2,2605

Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freezeth:
Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?

8

IV,2,2613

I will converse with iron-witted fools
And unrespective boys: none are for me...

9

IV,2,2619

Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?

10

IV,2,2625

What is his name?

11

IV,2,2627

I partly know the man: go, call him hither.
[Exit Page]...

12

IV,2,2639

Catesby!

13

IV,2,2641

Rumour it abroad
That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:...

14

IV,2,2661

Art thou, indeed?

15

IV,2,2663

Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?

16

IV,2,2666

Why, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,
Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers...

17

IV,2,2672

Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel
Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:...

18

IV,2,2678

Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep?

19

IV,2,2683

Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond.

20

IV,2,2685

Stanley, he is your wife's son well, look to it.

21

IV,2,2690

Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey
Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.

22

IV,2,2693

As I remember, Henry the Sixth
Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,...

23

IV,2,2698

How chance the prophet could not at that time
Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?

24

IV,2,2701

Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,
The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,...

25

IV,2,2707

Ay, what's o'clock?

26

IV,2,2710

Well, but what's o'clock?

27

IV,2,2712

Well, let it strike.

28

IV,2,2714

Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke
Betwixt thy begging and my meditation....

29

IV,2,2718

Tut, tut,
Thou troublest me; am not in the vein.

30

IV,3,2752

Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?

31

IV,3,2756

But didst thou see them dead?

32

IV,3,2758

And buried, gentle Tyrrel?

33

IV,3,2761

Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,
And thou shalt tell the process of their death....

34

IV,3,2777

Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?

35

IV,3,2781

Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army....

36

IV,4,2933

Who intercepts my expedition?

37

IV,4,2945

A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!
Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women...

38

IV,4,2953

Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself.

39

IV,4,2955

Madam, I have a touch of your condition,
Which cannot brook the accent of reproof.

40

IV,4,2958

Do then: but I'll not hear.

41

IV,4,2960

And brief, good mother; for I am in haste.

42

IV,4,2963

And came I not at last to comfort you?

43

IV,4,2975

Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that call'd
your grace...

44

IV,4,2982

You speak too bitterly.

45

IV,4,2985

So.

46

IV,4,3002

Stay, madam; I must speak a word with you.

47

IV,4,3007

You have a daughter call'd Elizabeth,
Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

48

IV,4,3015

Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.

49

IV,4,3017

Her life is only safest in her birth.

50

IV,4,3019

Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.

51

IV,4,3021

All unavoided is the doom of destiny.

52

IV,4,3025

You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.

53

IV,4,3039

Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise
And dangerous success of bloody wars,...

54

IV,4,3045

The advancement of your children, gentle lady.

55

IV,4,3047

No, to the dignity and height of honour
The high imperial type of this earth's glory.

56

IV,4,3052

Even all I have; yea, and myself and all,
Will I withal endow a child of thine;...

57

IV,4,3059

Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.

58

IV,4,3061

What do you think?

59

IV,4,3065

Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:
I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,...

60

IV,4,3069

Even he that makes her queen who should be else?

61

IV,4,3071

I, even I: what think you of it, madam?

62

IV,4,3073

That would I learn of you,
As one that are best acquainted with her humour.

63

IV,4,3076

Madam, with all my heart.

64

IV,4,3090

Come, come, you mock me; this is not the way
To win our daughter.

65

IV,4,3095

Say that I did all this for love of her.

66

IV,4,3098

Look, what is done cannot be now amended:
Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,...

67

IV,4,3150

Infer fair England's peace by this alliance.

68

IV,4,3152

Say that the king, which may command, entreats.

69

IV,4,3154

Say, she shall be a high and mighty queen.

70

IV,4,3156

Say, I will love her everlastingly.

71

IV,4,3158

Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end.

72

IV,4,3160

So long as heaven and nature lengthens it.

73

IV,4,3162

Say, I, her sovereign, am her subject love.

74

IV,4,3164

Be eloquent in my behalf to her.

75

IV,4,3166

Then in plain terms tell her my loving tale.

76

IV,4,3168

Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.

77

IV,4,3171

Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.

78

IV,4,3173

Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,—

79

IV,4,3175

I swear—

80

IV,4,3182

Now, by the world—

81

IV,4,3184

My father's death—

82

IV,4,3186

Then, by myself—

83

IV,4,3188

Why then, by God—

84

IV,4,3200

The time to come.

85

IV,4,3211

As I intend to prosper and repent,
So thrive I in my dangerous attempt...

86

IV,4,3233

Ay, if the devil tempt thee to do good.

87

IV,4,3235

Ay, if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself.

88

IV,4,3237

But in your daughter's womb I bury them:
Where in that nest of spicery they shall breed...

89

IV,4,3241

And be a happy mother by the deed.

90

IV,4,3244

Bear her my true love's kiss; and so, farewell.
[Exit QUEEN ELIZABETH]...

91

IV,4,3256

Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:
Ratcliff, thyself, or Catesby; where is he?

92

IV,4,3259

Fly to the duke:
[To RATCLIFF]...

93

IV,4,3268

O, true, good Catesby: bid him levy straight
The greatest strength and power he can make,...

94

IV,4,3275

Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?

95

IV,4,3277

My mind is changed, sir, my mind is changed.
[Enter STANLEY]...

96

IV,4,3282

Hoyday, a riddle! neither good nor bad!
Why dost thou run so many mile about,...

97

IV,4,3287

There let him sink, and be the seas on him!
White-liver'd runagate, what doth he there?

98

IV,4,3290

Well, sir, as you guess, as you guess?

99

IV,4,3293

Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?
Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?...

100

IV,4,3299

Unless for that he comes to be your liege,
You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes....

101

IV,4,3303

Where is thy power, then, to beat him back?
Where are thy tenants and thy followers?...

102

IV,4,3308

Cold friends to Richard: what do they in the north,
When they should serve their sovereign in the west?

103

IV,4,3314

Ay, ay. thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond:
I will not trust you, sir.

104

IV,4,3319

Well,
Go muster men; but, hear you, leave behind...

105

IV,4,3337

Out on you, owls! nothing but songs of death?
[He striketh him]...

106

IV,4,3345

I cry thee mercy:
There is my purse to cure that blow of thine....

107

IV,4,3361

March on, march on, since we are up in arms;
If not to fight with foreign enemies,...

108

IV,4,3369

Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,
A royal battle might be won and lost...

109

V,3,3456

Here pitch our tents, even here in Bosworth field.
My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?

110

V,3,3459

My Lord of Norfolk,—

111

V,3,3461

Norfolk, we must have knocks; ha! must we not?

112

V,3,3463

Up with my tent there! here will I lie tonight;
But where to-morrow? Well, all's one for that....

113

V,3,3467

Why, our battalion trebles that account:
Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,...

114

V,3,3510

What is't o'clock?

115

V,3,3513

I will not sup to-night.
Give me some ink and paper....

116

V,3,3518

Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge;
Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels.

117

V,3,3521

Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk.

118

V,3,3524

Catesby!

119

V,3,3526

Send out a pursuivant at arms
To Stanley's regiment; bid him bring his power...

120

V,3,3536

Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?

121

V,3,3540

So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine:
I have not that alacrity of spirit,...

122

V,3,3545

Bid my guard watch; leave me.
Ratcliff, about the mid of night come to my tent...

123

V,3,3679

Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.
Have mercy, Jesu!—Soft! I did but dream....

124

V,3,3711

'Zounds! who is there?

125

V,3,3715

O Ratcliff, I have dream'd a fearful dream!
What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true?

126

V,3,3718

O Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,—

127

V,3,3720

By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard...

128

V,3,3781

What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?

129

V,3,3783

He said the truth: and what said Surrey then?

130

V,3,3785

He was in the right; and so indeed it is.
[Clock striketh]...

131

V,3,3790

Then he disdains to shine; for by the book
He should have braved the east an hour ago...

132

V,3,3794

The sun will not be seen to-day;
The sky doth frown and lour upon our army....

133

V,3,3802

Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse.
Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:...

134

V,3,3818

[Reads]
'Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,...

135

V,3,3863

Off with his son George's head!

136

V,3,3866

A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:
Advance our standards, set upon our foes...

137

V,4,3881

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

138

V,4,3883

Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die:...