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A good direction, warlike sovereign. |
This found I on my tent this morning. |
KING RICHARD III: |
Messenger: |
My lord, he doth deny to come. |
KING RICHARD III: |
Off with his son George's head! |
NORFOLK: |
My lord, the enemy is past the marsh |
After the battle let George Stanley die. |
KING RICHARD III: |
A thousand hearts are great within my bosom: |
Advance our standards, set upon our foes |
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, |
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! |
Upon them! victory sits on our helms. |
CATESBY: |
Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue! |
The king enacts more wonders than a man, |
Daring an opposite to every danger: |
His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights, |
Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death. |
Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost! |
KING RICHARD III: |
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! |
CATESBY: |
Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse. |
KING RICHARD III: |
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, |
And I will stand the hazard of the die: |
I think there be six Richmonds in the field; |
Five have I slain to-day instead of him. |
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! |
RICHMOND: |
God and your arms be praised, victorious friends, |
The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead. |
DERBY: |
Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee. |
Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty |
From the dead temples of this bloody wretch |
Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal: |
Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it. |
RICHMOND: |
Great God of heaven, say Amen to all! |
But, tell me, is young George Stanley living? |
DERBY: |
He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town; |
Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us. |
RICHMOND: |
What men of name are slain on either side? |
DERBY: |
John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers, |
Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon. |
RICHMOND: |
Inter their bodies as becomes their births: |
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled |
That in submission will return to us: |
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament, |
We will unite the white rose and the red: |
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction, |
That long have frown'd upon their enmity! |
What traitor hears me, and says not amen? |
England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; |
The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, |
The father rashly slaughter'd his own son, |
The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire: |
All this divided York and Lancaster, |
Divided in their dire division, |
O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth, |
The true succeeders of each royal house, |
By God's fair ordinance conjoin together! |
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so. |
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace, |
With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days! |
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, |
That would reduce these bloody days again, |
And make poor England weep in streams of blood! |
Let them not live to taste this land's increase |
That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! |
Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again: |
That she may long live here, God say amen! |
KING RICHARD II: |
Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster, |
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