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NORFOLK: |
I go, my lord. |
KING RICHARD III: |
Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk. |
NORFOLK: |
I warrant you, my lord. |
KING RICHARD III: |
Catesby! |
CATESBY: |
My lord? |
KING RICHARD III: |
Send out a pursuivant at arms |
To Stanley's regiment; bid him bring his power |
Before sunrising, lest his son George fall |
Into the blind cave of eternal night. |
Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch. |
Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow. |
Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy. |
Ratcliff! |
RATCLIFF: |
My lord? |
KING RICHARD III: |
Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland? |
RATCLIFF: |
Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself, |
Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop |
Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers. |
KING RICHARD III: |
So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine: |
I have not that alacrity of spirit, |
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. |
Set it down. Is ink and paper ready? |
RATCLIFF: |
It is, my lord. |
KING RICHARD III: |
Bid my guard watch; leave me. |
Ratcliff, about the mid of night come to my tent |
And help to arm me. Leave me, I say. |
DERBY: |
Fortune and victory sit on thy helm! |
RICHMOND: |
All comfort that the dark night can afford |
Be to thy person, noble father-in-law! |
Tell me, how fares our loving mother? |
DERBY: |
I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother |
Who prays continually for Richmond's good: |
So much for that. The silent hours steal on, |
And flaky darkness breaks within the east. |
In brief,--for so the season bids us be,-- |
Prepare thy battle early in the morning, |
And put thy fortune to the arbitrement |
Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war. |
I, as I may--that which I would I cannot,-- |
With best advantage will deceive the time, |
And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms: |
But on thy side I may not be too forward |
Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George, |
Be executed in his father's sight. |
Farewell: the leisure and the fearful time |
Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love |
And ample interchange of sweet discourse, |
Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon: |
God give us leisure for these rites of love! |
Once more, adieu: be valiant, and speed well! |
RICHMOND: |
Good lords, conduct him to his regiment: |
I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap, |
Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow, |
When I should mount with wings of victory: |
Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen. |
O Thou, whose captain I account myself, |
Look on my forces with a gracious eye; |
Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath, |
That they may crush down with a heavy fall |
The usurping helmets of our adversaries! |
Make us thy ministers of chastisement, |
That we may praise thee in the victory! |
To thee I do commend my watchful soul, |
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes: |
Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still! |
Ghost of Prince Edward: |
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