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DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Art thou my son? |
KING RICHARD III: |
Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Then patiently hear my impatience. |
KING RICHARD III: |
Madam, I have a touch of your condition, |
Which cannot brook the accent of reproof. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
O, let me speak! |
KING RICHARD III: |
Do then: but I'll not hear. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
I will be mild and gentle in my speech. |
KING RICHARD III: |
And brief, good mother; for I am in haste. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Art thou so hasty? I have stay'd for thee, |
God knows, in anguish, pain and agony. |
KING RICHARD III: |
And came I not at last to comfort you? |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
No, by the holy rood, thou know'st it well, |
Thou camest on earth to make the earth my hell. |
A grievous burthen was thy birth to me; |
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy; |
Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious, |
Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous, |
Thy age confirm'd, proud, subdued, bloody, |
treacherous, |
More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred: |
What comfortable hour canst thou name, |
That ever graced me in thy company? |
KING RICHARD III: |
Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that call'd |
your grace |
To breakfast once forth of my company. |
If I be so disgracious in your sight, |
Let me march on, and not offend your grace. |
Strike the drum. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
I prithee, hear me speak. |
KING RICHARD III: |
You speak too bitterly. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Hear me a word; |
For I shall never speak to thee again. |
KING RICHARD III: |
So. |
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. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse |
Abides in me; I say amen to all. |
KING RICHARD III: |
Stay, madam; I must speak a word with you. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
I have no more sons of the royal blood |
For thee to murder: for my daughters, Richard, |
They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens; |
And therefore level not to hit their lives. |
KING RICHARD III: |
You have a daughter call'd Elizabeth, |
Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious. |
QUEEN ELIZABETH: |
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