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Richard III
[I, 1] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
Clarence comes.
[Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY]
Brother, good day; what means this armed guard
That waits upon your grace?
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Richard III
[I, 1] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
93 |
Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
You may partake of any thing we say:
We speak no treason, man: we say the king
Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
And that the queen's kindred are made gentle-folks:
How say you sir? Can you deny all this?
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Richard III
[I, 1] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
123 |
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?
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Richard III
[I, 1] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
136 |
No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too;
For they that were your enemies are his,
And have prevail'd as much on him as you.
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Richard III
[I, 1] |
Lord Hastings |
142 |
No news so bad abroad as this at home;
The King is sickly, weak and melancholy,
And his physicians fear him mightily.
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Richard III
[I, 1] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
151 |
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.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
223 |
Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Lady Anne |
245 |
Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
249 |
More wonderful, when angels are so angry.
Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
Of these supposed-evils, to give me leave,
By circumstance, but to acquit myself.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
292 |
So will it, madam till I lie with you.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Lady Anne |
293 |
I hope so.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
294 |
I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,
To leave this keen encounter of our wits,
And fall somewhat into a slower method,
Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
As blameful as the executioner?
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
301 |
Your beauty was the cause of that effect;
Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep
To undertake the death of all the world,
So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
307 |
These eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck;
You should not blemish it, if I stood by:
As all the world is cheered by the sun,
So I by that; it is my day, my life.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
331 |
Never came poison from so sweet a place.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Lady Anne |
389 |
All men, I hope, live so.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
392 |
Look, how this ring encompasseth finger.
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;
Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
And if thy poor devoted suppliant may
But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,
Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.
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Richard III
[I, 2] |
Lady Anne |
408 |
With all my heart; and much it joys me too,
To see you are become so penitent.
Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.
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Richard III
[I, 3] |
Queen Elizabeth |
474 |
It is determined, not concluded yet:
But so it must be, if the king miscarry.
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Richard III
[I, 3] |
Queen Elizabeth |
523 |
Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
The king, of his own royal disposition,
And not provoked by any suitor else;
Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,
Which in your outward actions shows itself
Against my kindred, brothers, and myself,
Makes him to send; that thereby he may gather
The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it.
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