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And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them.
KING RICHARD III:
Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel
Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:
There is no more but so: say it is done,
And I will love thee, and prefer thee too.
TYRREL:
'Tis done, my gracious lord.
KING RICHARD III:
Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep?
TYRREL:
Ye shall, my Lord.
BUCKINGHAM:
My Lord, I have consider'd in my mind
The late demand that you did sound me in.
KING RICHARD III:
Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond.
BUCKINGHAM:
I hear that news, my lord.
KING RICHARD III:
Stanley, he is your wife's son well, look to it.
BUCKINGHAM:
My lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,
For which your honour and your faith is pawn'd;
The earldom of Hereford and the moveables
The which you promised I should possess.
KING RICHARD III:
Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey
Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.
BUCKINGHAM:
What says your highness to my just demand?
KING RICHARD III:
As I remember, Henry the Sixth
Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,
When Richmond was a little peevish boy.
A king, perhaps, perhaps,--
BUCKINGHAM:
My lord!
KING RICHARD III:
How chance the prophet could not at that time
Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?
BUCKINGHAM:
My lord, your promise for the earldom,--
KING RICHARD III:
Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,
The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,
And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,
Because a bard of Ireland told me once
I should not live long after I saw Richmond.
BUCKINGHAM:
My Lord!
KING RICHARD III:
Ay, what's o'clock?
BUCKINGHAM:
I am thus bold to put your grace in mind
Of what you promised me.
KING RICHARD III:
Well, but what's o'clock?
BUCKINGHAM:
Upon the stroke of ten.
KING RICHARD III:
Well, let it strike.
BUCKINGHAM:
Why let it strike?
KING RICHARD III:
Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke
Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
I am not in the giving vein to-day.
BUCKINGHAM:
Why, then resolve me whether you will or no.
KING RICHARD III:
Tut, tut,
Thou troublest me; am not in the vein.