Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Richard III"
Total: 135

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter GLOUCESTER, solus]

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I,1,122

George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence). I must perforce. Farewell.

(stage directions). [Exeunt CLARENCE, BRAKENBURY, and Guard]

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I,1,128

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return.
Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,
That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
If heaven will take the present at our hands.
But who comes here? the new-deliver'd Hastings?

(stage directions). [Enter HASTINGS]

4

I,1,171

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Go you before, and I will follow you.
[Exit HASTINGS]
He cannot live, I hope; and must not die
Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven.
I'll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,
With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments;
And, if I fall not in my deep intent,
Clarence hath not another day to live:
Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,
And leave the world for me to bustle in!
For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter.
What though I kill'd her husband and her father?
The readiest way to make the wench amends
Is to become her husband and her father:
The which will I; not all so much for love
As for another secret close intent,
By marrying her which I must reach unto.
But yet I run before my horse to market:
Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns:
When they are gone, then must I count my gains.

(stage directions). [Exit]

5

I,2,172

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter the corpse of KING HENRY the Sixth, Gentlemen] with halberds to guard it; LADY ANNE being the mourner]

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I,2,206

Lady Anne. Set down, set down your honourable load,
If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,
Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!
Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!
Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!
Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost,
To hear the lamentations of Poor Anne,
Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son,
Stabb'd by the selfsame hand that made these wounds!
Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life,
I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.
Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes!
Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it!
Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence!
More direful hap betide that hated wretch,
That makes us wretched by the death of thee,
Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,
Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives!
If ever he have child, abortive be it,
Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,
Whose ugly and unnatural aspect
May fright the hopeful mother at the view;
And that be heir to his unhappiness!
If ever he have wife, let her he made
A miserable by the death of him
As I am made by my poor lord and thee!
Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,
Taken from Paul's to be interred there;
And still, as you are weary of the weight,
Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.

(stage directions). [Enter GLOUCESTER]

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I,2,415

Lady Anne. 'Tis more than you deserve;
But since you teach me how to flatter you,
Imagine I have said farewell already.

(stage directions). [Exeunt LADY ANNE, TRESSEL, and BERKELEY]

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I,2,458

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). No, to White-Friars; there attend my coining.
[Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]
Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.
What! I, that kill'd her husband and his father,
To take her in her heart's extremest hate,
With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
The bleeding witness of her hatred by;
Having God, her conscience, and these bars
against me,
And I nothing to back my suit at all,
But the plain devil and dissembling looks,
And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!
Ha!
Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
Framed in the prodigality of nature,
Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,
The spacious world cannot again afford
And will she yet debase her eyes on me,
That cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince,
And made her widow to a woful bed?
On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety?
On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?
My dukedom to a beggarly denier,
I do mistake my person all this while:
Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
Myself to be a marvellous proper man.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,
And entertain some score or two of tailors,
To study fashions to adorn my body:
Since I am crept in favour with myself,
Will maintain it with some little cost.
But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave;
And then return lamenting to my love.
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.

(stage directions). [Exit]

9

I,3,459

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, RIVERS, and GREY]

10

I,3,476

Queen Elizabeth. It is determined, not concluded yet:
But so it must be, if the king miscarry.

(stage directions). [Enter BUCKINGHAM and DERBY]

11

I,3,502

Queen Elizabeth. Would all were well! but that will never be
I fear our happiness is at the highest.

(stage directions). [Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and DORSET]

12

I,3,771

Queen Margaret. What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?
And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?
O, but remember this another day,
When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,
And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!
Live each of you the subjects to his hate,
And he to yours, and all of you to God's!

(stage directions). [Exit]

13

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). So do I ever:
[Aside]
being well-advised.
For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.

(stage directions). [Enter CATESBY]

14

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Lord (Earl) Rivers. Madam, we will attend your grace.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]

15

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First Murderer. We will, my noble lord.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

16

I,4,833

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY]

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Sir Robert Brakenbury. I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest!
[CLARENCE sleeps]
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night.
Princes have but their tides for their glories,
An outward honour for an inward toil;
And, for unfelt imagination,
They often feel a world of restless cares:
So that, betwixt their tides and low names,
There's nothing differs but the outward fame.

(stage directions). [Enter the two Murderers]

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Second Murderer. O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. Show
him our commission; talk no more.

(stage directions). [BRAKENBURY reads it]

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First Murderer. Do so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you well.

(stage directions). [Exit BRAKENBURY]

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First Murderer. Take that, and that: if all this will not do,
[Stabs him]
I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.

(stage directions). [Exit, with the body]

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Second Murderer. A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd!
How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands
Of this most grievous guilty murder done!

(stage directions). [Re-enter First Murderer]

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I,4,1112

Second Murderer. I would he knew that I had saved his brother!
Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;
For I repent me that the duke is slain.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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II,1,1118

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV sick, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM, GREY, and others]

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Lord Hastings. And so swear I, my lord

(stage directions). [They embrace]

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Duke of Buckingham. And, in good time, here comes the noble duke.

(stage directions). [Enter GLOUCESTER]

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II,1,1220

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). But he, poor soul, by your first order died,
And that a winged Mercury did bear:
Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,
That came too lag to see him buried.
God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,
Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,
Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,
And yet go current from suspicion!

(stage directions). [Enter DERBY]

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II,1,1261

King Edward IV (Plantagenet). Have a tongue to doom my brother's death,
And shall the same give pardon to a slave?
My brother slew no man; his fault was thought,
And yet his punishment was cruel death.
Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,
Kneel'd at my feet, and bade me be advised
Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?
Who told me how the poor soul did forsake
The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?
Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury
When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,
And said, 'Dear brother, live, and be a king'?
Who told me, when we both lay in the field
Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me
Even in his own garments, and gave himself,
All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?
All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you
Had so much grace to put it in my mind.
But when your carters or your waiting-vassals
Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced
The precious image of our dear Redeemer,
You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon;
And I unjustly too, must grant it you
But for my brother not a man would speak,
Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself
For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all
Have been beholding to him in his life;
Yet none of you would once plead for his life.
O God, I fear thy justice will take hold
On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!
Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.
Oh, poor Clarence!

(stage directions). [Exeunt some with KING EDWARD IV and QUEEN MARGARET]

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Duke of Buckingham. We wait upon your grace.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

29

II,2,1270

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two children of CLARENCE]

30

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Lord (Earl) Rivers. Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,
Of the young prince your son: send straight for him
Let him be crown'd; in him your comfort lives:
Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave,
And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.

(stage directions). [Enter GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, and RATCLIFF]

31

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Queen Elizabeth. [with the Duchess of York] With all our harts.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM and GLOUCESTER]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). My other self, my counsel's consistory,
My oracle, my prophet! My dear cousin,
I, like a child, will go by thy direction.
Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

33

II,3,1430

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter two Citizens meeting]

34

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Second Citizen. Bad news, by'r lady; seldom comes the better:
I fear, I fear 'twill prove a troublous world.

(stage directions). [Enter another Citizen]

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Third Citizen. And so was I: I'll bear you company.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

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II,4,1482

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, young YORK, QUEEN ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS OF YORK]

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Queen Elizabeth. Pitchers have ears.

(stage directions). [Enter a Messenger]

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Thomas Rotherham. My gracious lady, go;
And thither bear your treasure and your goods.
For my part, I'll resign unto your grace
The seal I keep: and so betide to me
As well I tender you and all of yours!
Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

39

III,1,1565

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [The trumpets sound. Enter the young PRINCE EDWARD, GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, CARDINAL, CATESBY, and others]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.

(stage directions). [Enter the Lord Mayor and his train]

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Prince Edward. I thank you, good my lord; and thank you all.
I thought my mother, and my brother York,
Would long ere this have met us on the way
Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not
To tell us whether they will come or no!

(stage directions). [Enter HASTINGS]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). [Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

(stage directions). [Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both.

(stage directions). [Exit CATESBY]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). And look to have it yielded with all willingness.
Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards
We may digest our complots in some form.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

45

III,2,1778

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter a Messenger]

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Messenger. A messenger from the Lord Stanley.

(stage directions). [Enter HASTINGS]

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Messenger. My gracious lord, I'll tell him what you say.

(stage directions). [Exit]

48

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter CATESBY]

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III,2,1880

Sir William Stanley. They, for their truth, might better wear their heads
Than some that have accused them wear their hats.
But come, my lord, let us away.

(stage directions). [Enter a Pursuivant]

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Lord Hastings. Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me.

(stage directions). [Throws him his purse]

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Pursuivant. God save your lordship!

(stage directions). [Exit]

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter a Priest]

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Lord Hastings. I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.
I am in your debt for your last exercise;
Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.

(stage directions). [He whispers in his ear]

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III,2,1903

(stage directions). [He whispers in his ear]

(stage directions). [Enter BUCKINGHAM]

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Lord Hastings. I'll wait upon your lordship.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

56

III,3,1917

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN to death]

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III,3,1944

Lord (Earl) Rivers. Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:
And take our leave, until we meet in heaven.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

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III,4,1945

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, the BISHOP OF ELY, RATCLIFF, LOVEL, with others, and take their seats at a table]

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Lord Hastings. I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;
But, for his purpose in the coronation.
I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'd
His gracious pleasure any way therein:
But you, my noble lords, may name the time;
And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,
Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part.

(stage directions). [Enter GLOUCESTER]

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John Morton. Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Duke of Buckingham. Withdraw you hence, my lord, I'll follow you.

(stage directions). [Exit GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM following]

62

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Sir William Stanley. We have not yet set down this day of triumph.
To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden;
For I myself am not so well provided
As else I would be, were the day prolong'd.

(stage directions). [Re-enter BISHOP OF ELY]

63

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Sir William Stanley. I pray God he be not, I say.

(stage directions). [Re-enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). If I thou protector of this damned strumpet—
Tellest thou me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor:
Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear,
I will not dine until I see the same.
Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done:
The rest, that love me, rise and follow me.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but HASTINGS, RATCLIFF, and LOVEL]

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Lord Hastings. O bloody Richard! miserable England!
I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee
That ever wretched age hath look'd upon.
Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head.
They smile at me that shortly shall be dead.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

66

III,5,2067

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along.

(stage directions). [Enter the Lord Mayor and CATESBY]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel.

(stage directions). [Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS' head]

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Duke of Buckingham. But since you come too late of our intents,
Yet witness what you hear we did intend:
And so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell.

(stage directions). [Exit Lord Mayor]

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Duke of Buckingham. I go: and towards three or four o'clock
Look for the news that the Guildhall affords.

(stage directions). [Exit BUCKINGHAM]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw;
[To CATESBY]
Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both
Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle.
[Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]
Now will I in, to take some privy order,
To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight;
And to give notice, that no manner of person
At any time have recourse unto the princes.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter a Scrivener, with a paper in his hand]

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Scrivener. This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;
Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,
That it may be this day read over in Paul's.
And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
Eleven hours I spent to write it over,
For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;
The precedent was full as long a-doing:
And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty
Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,
That seeth not this palpable device?
Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?
Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,
When such bad dealings must be seen in thought.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, at several doors]

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Sir William Catesby. I'll tell him what you say, my lord.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). O, do not swear, my lord of Buckingham.

(stage directions). [Exit BUCKINGHAM with the Citizens]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Come, let us to our holy task again.
Farewell, good cousin; farewell, gentle friends.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter, on one side, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF YORK, and DORSET; on the other, ANNE, Duchess of Gloucester, leading Lady Margaret Plantagenet, CLARENCE's young Daughter]

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Sir Robert Brakenbury. No, madam, no; I may not leave it so:
I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter LORD STANLEY]

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Queen Elizabeth. Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.
Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls!
Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!
Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
For tender princes, use my babies well!
So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Sennet. Enter KING RICHARD III, in pomp, crowned; BUCKINGHAM, CATESBY, a page, and others]

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Duke of Buckingham. Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord
Before I positively herein:
I will resolve your grace immediately.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Sir William Stanley. My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset's fled
To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea
Where he abides.

(stage directions). [Stands apart]

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Sir James Tyrrel. Ye shall, my Lord.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Re-enter BUCKINGHAM]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Tut, tut,
Thou troublest me; am not in the vein.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM]

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Duke of Buckingham. Is it even so? rewards he my true service
With such deep contempt made I him king for this?
O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone
To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on!

(stage directions). [Exit]

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter TYRREL]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,
And thou shalt tell the process of their death.
Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,
And be inheritor of thy desire.
Farewell till soon.
[Exit TYRREL]
The son of Clarence have I pent up close;
His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage;
The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,
And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.
Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims
At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,
And, by that knot, looks proudly o'er the crown,
To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer.

(stage directions). [Enter CATESBY]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army.
Come, I have heard that fearful commenting
Is leaden servitor to dull delay;
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary
Then fiery expedition be my wing,
Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!
Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield;
We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter QUEEN MARGARET]

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Queen Margaret. So, now prosperity begins to mellow
And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd,
To watch the waning of mine adversaries.
A dire induction am I witness to,
And will to France, hoping the consequence
Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.
Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret: who comes here?

(stage directions). [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK]

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Queen Elizabeth. O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!
Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
O, who hath any cause to mourn but I?

(stage directions). [Sitting down by her]

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Queen Margaret. Thy woes will make them sharp, and pierce like mine.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Duchess of York. If so, then be not tongue-tied: go with me.
And in the breath of bitter words let's smother
My damned son, which thy two sweet sons smother'd.
I hear his drum: be copious in exclaims.

(stage directions). [Enter KING RICHARD III, marching, with drums and trumpets]

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Duchess of York. Either thou wilt die, by God's just ordinance,
Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,
Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish
And never look upon thy face again.
Therefore take with thee my most heavy curse;
Which, in the day of battle, tire thee more
Than all the complete armour that thou wear'st!
My prayers on the adverse party fight;
And there the little souls of Edward's children
Whisper the spirits of thine enemies
And promise them success and victory.
Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Sir William Catesby. I go.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Sir William Stanley. So deal with him as I prove true to you.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter a Messenger]

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Messenger. My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,
As I by friends am well advertised,
Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate
Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,
With many more confederates, are in arms.

(stage directions). [Enter another Messenger]

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Second Messenger. My liege, in Kent the Guildfords are in arms;
And every hour more competitors
Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.

(stage directions). [Enter another Messenger]

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Third Messenger. Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.

(stage directions). [Enter another Messenger]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). March on, march on, since we are up in arms;
If not to fight with foreign enemies,
Yet to beat down these rebels here at home.

(stage directions). [Re-enter CATESBY]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,
A royal battle might be won and lost
Some one take order Buckingham be brought
To Salisbury; the rest march on with me.

(stage directions). [Flourish. Exeunt]

106

IV,5,3374

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DERBY and SIR CHRISTOPHER URSWICK]

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Sir William Stanley. Return unto thy lord; commend me to him:
Tell him the queen hath heartily consented
He shall espouse Elizabeth her daughter.
These letters will resolve him of my mind. Farewell.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

108

V,1,3395

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter the Sheriff, and BUCKINGHAM, with halberds, led to execution]

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Duke of Buckingham. Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday.
This is the day that, in King Edward's time,
I wish't might fall on me, when I was found
False to his children or his wife's allies
This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall
By the false faith of him I trusted most;
This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul
Is the determined respite of my wrongs:
That high All-Seer that I dallied with
Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms:
Now Margaret's curse is fallen upon my head;
'When he,' quoth she, 'shall split thy heart with sorrow,
Remember Margaret was a prophetess.'
Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame;
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

110

V,2,3427

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter RICHMOND, OXFORD, BLUNT, HERBERT, and others, with drum and colours]

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Richmond (Henry VII). All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

112

V,3,3454

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter KING RICHARD III in arms, with NORFOLK, SURREY, and others]

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Duke of Norfolk. I warrant you, my lord.

(stage directions). [Exit]

114

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Richmond (Henry VII). Good lords, conduct him to his regiment:
I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap,
Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow,
When I should mount with wings of victory:
Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen.
[Exeunt all but RICHMOND]
O Thou, whose captain I account myself,
Look on my forces with a gracious eye;
Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,
That they may crush down with a heavy fall
The usurping helmets of our adversaries!
Make us thy ministers of chastisement,
That we may praise thee in the victory!
To thee I do commend my watchful soul,
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:
Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still!

(stage directions). [Sleeps]

115

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(stage directions). [Sleeps]

(stage directions). [Enter the Ghost of Prince Edward, son to King Henry VI]

116

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Prince Edward. [To KING RICHARD III]
Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
Think, how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth
At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Be cheerful, Richmond; for the wronged souls
Of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf
King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee.

(stage directions). [Enter the Ghost of King Henry VI]

117

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Henry VI. [To KING RICHARD III]
When I was mortal, my anointed body
By thee was punched full of deadly holes
Think on the Tower and me: despair, and die!
Harry the Sixth bids thee despair, and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror!
Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be king,
Doth comfort thee in thy sleep: live, and flourish!

(stage directions). [Enter the Ghost of CLARENCE]

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George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence). [To KING RICHARD III]
Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
I, that was wash'd to death with fulsome wine,
Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death!
To-morrow in the battle think on me,
And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!—
[To RICHMOND]
Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster
The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee
Good angels guard thy battle! live, and flourish!

(stage directions). [Enter the Ghosts of RIVERS, GRAY, and VAUGHAN]

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All. [To RICHMOND]
Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard's bosom
Will conquer him! awake, and win the day!

(stage directions). [Enter the Ghost of HASTINGS]

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Lord Hastings. [To KING RICHARD III]
Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,
And in a bloody battle end thy days!
Think on Lord Hastings: despair, and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake!
Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England's sake!

(stage directions). [Enter the Ghosts of the two young Princes]

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Princes. [To KING RICHARD III]
Dream on thy cousins smother'd in the Tower:
Let us be led within thy bosom, Richard,
And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death!
Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy;
Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy!
Live, and beget a happy race of kings!
Edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish.

(stage directions). [Enter the Ghost of LADY ANNE]

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Lady Anne. [To KING RICHARD III]
Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife,
That never slept a quiet hour with thee,
Now fills thy sleep with perturbations
To-morrow in the battle think on me,
And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep
Dream of success and happy victory!
Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee.

(stage directions). [Enter the Ghost of BUCKINGHAM]

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Duke of Buckingham. [To KING RICHARD III]
The last was I that helped thee to the crown;
The last was I that felt thy tyranny:
O, in the battle think on Buckingham,
And die in terror of thy guiltiness!
Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:
Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath!
[To RICHMOND]
I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid:
But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay'd:
God and good angel fight on Richmond's side;
And Richard falls in height of all his pride.

(stage directions). [The Ghosts vanish]

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(stage directions). [The Ghosts vanish]

(stage directions). [KING RICHARD III starts out of his dream]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.
Have mercy, Jesu!—Soft! I did but dream.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
What do I fear? myself? there's none else by:
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am:
Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why:
Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?
Alack. I love myself. Wherefore? for any good
That I myself have done unto myself?
O, no! alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself!
I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.
Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree
Murder, stem murder, in the direst degree;
All several sins, all used in each degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty!
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd
Came to my tent; and every one did threat
To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard.

(stage directions). [Enter RATCLIFF]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
It is not yet near day. Come, go with me;
Under our tents I'll play the eaves-dropper,
To see if any mean to shrink from me.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

127

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(stage directions). [Exeunt]

(stage directions). [Enter the Lords to RICHMOND, sitting in his tent]

128

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). The sun will not be seen to-day;
The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.
I would these dewy tears were from the ground.
Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me
More than to Richmond? for the selfsame heaven
That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.

(stage directions). [Enter NORFOLK]

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Duke of Norfolk. A good direction, warlike sovereign.
This found I on my tent this morning.

(stage directions). [He sheweth him a paper]

130

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:
Advance our standards, set upon our foes
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
Upon them! victory sits on our helms.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

131

V,4,3872

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Alarum: excursions. Enter NORFOLK and forces fighting; to him CATESBY]

132

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Sir William Catesby. Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!
The king enacts more wonders than a man,
Daring an opposite to every danger:
His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!

(stage directions). [Alarums. Enter KING RICHARD III]

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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester). Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die:
I think there be six Richmonds in the field;
Five have I slain to-day instead of him.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

134

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Alarum. Enter KING RICHARD III and RICHMOND; they] fight. KING RICHARD III is slain. Retreat and flourish. Re-enter RICHMOND, DERBY bearing the crown, with divers other Lords]

135

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Richmond (Henry VII). Inter their bodies as becomes their births:
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us:
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red:
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frown'd upon their enmity!
What traitor hears me, and says not amen?
England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself;
The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,
The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,
The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:
All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided in their dire division,
O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land's increase
That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again:
That she may long live here, God say amen!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]