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A royal battle might be won and lost |
Some one take order Buckingham be brought |
To Salisbury; the rest march on with me. |
DERBY: |
Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me: |
That in the sty of this most bloody boar |
My son George Stanley is frank'd up in hold: |
If I revolt, off goes young George's head; |
The fear of that withholds my present aid. |
But, tell me, where is princely Richmond now? |
CHRISTOPHER: |
At Pembroke, or at Harford-west, in Wales. |
DERBY: |
What men of name resort to him? |
CHRISTOPHER: |
Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier; |
Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley; |
Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt, |
And Rice ap Thomas with a valiant crew; |
And many more of noble fame and worth: |
And towards London they do bend their course, |
If by the way they be not fought withal. |
DERBY: |
Return unto thy lord; commend me to him: |
Tell him the queen hath heartily consented |
He shall espouse Elizabeth her daughter. |
These letters will resolve him of my mind. Farewell. |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Will not King Richard let me speak with him? |
Sheriff: |
No, my good lord; therefore be patient. |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Hastings, and Edward's children, Rivers, Grey, |
Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward, |
Vaughan, and all that have miscarried |
By underhand corrupted foul injustice, |
If that your moody discontented souls |
Do through the clouds behold this present hour, |
Even for revenge mock my destruction! |
This is All-Souls' day, fellows, is it not? |
Sheriff: |
It is, my lord. |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday. |
This is the day that, in King Edward's time, |
I wish't might fall on me, when I was found |
False to his children or his wife's allies |
This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall |
By the false faith of him I trusted most; |
This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul |
Is the determined respite of my wrongs: |
That high All-Seer that I dallied with |
Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head |
And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest. |
Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men |
To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms: |
Now Margaret's curse is fallen upon my head; |
'When he,' quoth she, 'shall split thy heart with sorrow, |
Remember Margaret was a prophetess.' |
Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame; |
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. |
RICHMOND: |
Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends, |
Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny, |
Thus far into the bowels of the land |
Have we march'd on without impediment; |
And here receive we from our father Stanley |
Lines of fair comfort and encouragement. |
The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar, |
That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines, |
Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough |
In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine |
Lies now even in the centre of this isle, |
Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn |
From Tamworth thither is but one day's march. |
In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends, |
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace |
By this one bloody trial of sharp war. |
OXFORD: |
Every man's conscience is a thousand swords, |
To fight against that bloody homicide. |
HERBERT: |
I doubt not but his friends will fly to us. |
BLUNT: |
He hath no friends but who are friends for fear. |
Which in his greatest need will shrink from him. |
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