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Talkers are no good doers: be assured |
We come to use our hands and not our tongues. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears: |
I like you, lads; about your business straight; |
Go, go, dispatch. |
First Murderer: |
We will, my noble lord. |
BRAKENBURY: |
Why looks your grace so heavily today? |
CLARENCE: |
O, I have pass'd a miserable night, |
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, |
That, as I am a Christian faithful man, |
I would not spend another such a night, |
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days, |
So full of dismal terror was the time! |
BRAKENBURY: |
What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it. |
CLARENCE: |
Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower, |
And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy; |
And, in my company, my brother Gloucester; |
Who from my cabin tempted me to walk |
Upon the hatches: thence we looked toward England, |
And cited up a thousand fearful times, |
During the wars of York and Lancaster |
That had befall'n us. As we paced along |
Upon the giddy footing of the hatches, |
Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling, |
Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard, |
Into the tumbling billows of the main. |
Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! |
What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! |
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! |
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; |
Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon; |
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, |
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, |
All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea: |
Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes |
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, |
As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, |
Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, |
And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by. |
BRAKENBURY: |
Had you such leisure in the time of death |
To gaze upon the secrets of the deep? |
CLARENCE: |
Methought I had; and often did I strive |
To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood |
Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth |
To seek the empty, vast and wandering air; |
But smother'd it within my panting bulk, |
Which almost burst to belch it in the sea. |
BRAKENBURY: |
Awaked you not with this sore agony? |
CLARENCE: |
O, no, my dream was lengthen'd after life; |
O, then began the tempest to my soul, |
Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, |
With that grim ferryman which poets write of, |
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. |
The first that there did greet my stranger soul, |
Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick; |
Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury |
Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?' |
And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by |
A shadow like an angel, with bright hair |
Dabbled in blood; and he squeak'd out aloud, |
'Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, |
That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury; |
Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!' |
With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends |
Environ'd me about, and howled in mine ears |
Such hideous cries, that with the very noise |
I trembling waked, and for a season after |
Could not believe but that I was in hell, |
Such terrible impression made the dream. |
BRAKENBURY: |
No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you; |
I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it. |
CLARENCE: |
O Brakenbury, I have done those things, |
Which now bear evidence against my soul, |
For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me! |
O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee, |
But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds, |
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