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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! |
TYRREL: |
The tyrannous and bloody deed is done. |
The most arch of piteous massacre |
That ever yet this land was guilty of. |
Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn |
To do this ruthless piece of butchery, |
Although they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs, |
Melting with tenderness and kind compassion |
Wept like two children in their deaths' sad stories. |
'Lo, thus' quoth Dighton, 'lay those tender babes:' |
'Thus, thus,' quoth Forrest, 'girdling one another |
Within their innocent alabaster arms: |
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, |
Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other. |
A book of prayers on their pillow lay; |
Which once,' quoth Forrest, 'almost changed my mind; |
But O! the devil'--there the villain stopp'd |
Whilst Dighton thus told on: 'We smothered |
The most replenished sweet work of nature, |
That from the prime creation e'er she framed.' |
Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse; |
They could not speak; and so I left them both, |
To bring this tidings to the bloody king. |
And here he comes. |
All hail, my sovereign liege! |
KING RICHARD III: |
Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news? |
TYRREL: |
If to have done the thing you gave in charge |
Beget your happiness, be happy then, |
For it is done, my lord. |
KING RICHARD III: |
But didst thou see them dead? |
TYRREL: |
I did, my lord. |
KING RICHARD III: |
And buried, gentle Tyrrel? |
TYRREL: |
The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them; |
But how or in what place I do not know. |
KING RICHARD III: |
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. |
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. |
CATESBY: |
My lord! |
KING RICHARD III: |
Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly? |
CATESBY: |
Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond; |
And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen, |
Is in the field, and still his power increaseth. |
KING RICHARD III: |
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. |
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? |
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