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First Murderer: |
Ay, millstones; as be lesson'd us to weep. |
CLARENCE: |
O, do not slander him, for he is kind. |
First Murderer: |
Right, |
As snow in harvest. Thou deceivest thyself: |
'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee. |
CLARENCE: |
It cannot be; for when I parted with him, |
He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs, |
That he would labour my delivery. |
Second Murderer: |
Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee |
From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven. |
First Murderer: |
Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord. |
CLARENCE: |
Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul, |
To counsel me to make my peace with God, |
And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind, |
That thou wilt war with God by murdering me? |
Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on |
To do this deed will hate you for the deed. |
Second Murderer: |
What shall we do? |
CLARENCE: |
Relent, and save your souls. |
First Murderer: |
Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish. |
CLARENCE: |
Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish. |
Which of you, if you were a prince's son, |
Being pent from liberty, as I am now, |
if two such murderers as yourselves came to you, |
Would not entreat for life? |
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks: |
O, if thine eye be not a flatterer, |
Come thou on my side, and entreat for me, |
As you would beg, were you in my distress |
A begging prince what beggar pities not? |
Second Murderer: |
Look behind you, my lord. |
First Murderer: |
Take that, and that: if all this will not do, |
I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within. |
Second Murderer: |
A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd! |
How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands |
Of this most grievous guilty murder done! |
First Murderer: |
How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not? |
By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art! |
Second Murderer: |
I would he knew that I had saved his brother! |
Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say; |
For I repent me that the duke is slain. |
First Murderer: |
So do not I: go, coward as thou art. |
Now must I hide his body in some hole, |
Until the duke take order for his burial: |
And when I have my meed, I must away; |
For this will out, and here I must not stay. |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Why, so: now have I done a good day's work: |
You peers, continue this united league: |
I every day expect an embassage |
From my Redeemer to redeem me hence; |
And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven, |
Since I have set my friends at peace on earth. |
Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand; |
Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love. |
RIVERS: |
By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate: |
And with my hand I seal my true heart's love. |
HASTINGS: |
So thrive I, as I truly swear the like! |
KING EDWARD IV: |
Take heed you dally not before your king; |
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