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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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Richard III
[I, 3]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

562

What, marry, may she! marry with a king,
A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:
I wis your grandam had a worser match.

2

Richard III
[II, 2]

Boy

1271

Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?

3

Richard III
[II, 2]

Boy

1282

Then, grandam, you conclude that he is dead.
The king my uncle is to blame for this:
God will revenge it; whom I will importune
With daily prayers all to that effect.

4

Richard III
[II, 2]

Boy

1290

Grandam, we can; for my good uncle Gloucester
Told me, the king, provoked by the queen,
Devised impeachments to imprison him :
And when my uncle told me so, he wept,
And hugg'd me in his arm, and kindly kiss'd my cheek;
Bade me rely on him as on my father,
And he would love me dearly as his child.

5

Richard III
[II, 2]

Boy

1301

Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?

6

Richard III
[II, 4]

Duke of York

1493

Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,
My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow
More than my brother: 'Ay,' quoth my uncle
Gloucester,
'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:'
And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

7

Richard III
[II, 4]

Duke of York

1511

Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast
That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old
'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.
Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.

8

Richard III
[II, 4]

Duke of York

1516

Grandam, his nurse.

9

Richard III
[III, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

1717

Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:
My grandam told me he was murdered there.