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HASTINGS: |
Marry, that with no man here he is offended; |
For, were he, he had shown it in his looks. |
DERBY: |
I pray God he be not, I say. |
GLOUCESTER: |
I pray you all, tell me what they deserve |
That do conspire my death with devilish plots |
Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevail'd |
Upon my body with their hellish charms? |
HASTINGS: |
The tender love I bear your grace, my lord, |
Makes me most forward in this noble presence |
To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be |
I say, my lord, they have deserved death. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Then be your eyes the witness of this ill: |
See how I am bewitch'd; behold mine arm |
Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up: |
And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch, |
Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore, |
That by their witchcraft thus have marked me. |
HASTINGS: |
If they have done this thing, my gracious lord-- |
GLOUCESTER: |
If I thou protector of this damned strumpet-- |
Tellest thou me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor: |
Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear, |
I will not dine until I see the same. |
Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done: |
The rest, that love me, rise and follow me. |
HASTINGS: |
Woe, woe for England! not a whit for me; |
For I, too fond, might have prevented this. |
Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm; |
But I disdain'd it, and did scorn to fly: |
Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble, |
And startled, when he look'd upon the Tower, |
As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house. |
O, now I want the priest that spake to me: |
I now repent I told the pursuivant |
As 'twere triumphing at mine enemies, |
How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd, |
And I myself secure in grace and favour. |
O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse |
Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head! |
RATCLIFF: |
Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner: |
Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head. |
HASTINGS: |
O momentary grace of mortal men, |
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! |
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, |
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, |
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down |
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. |
LOVEL: |
Come, come, dispatch; 'tis bootless to exclaim. |
HASTINGS: |
O bloody Richard! miserable England! |
I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee |
That ever wretched age hath look'd upon. |
Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head. |
They smile at me that shortly shall be dead. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Come, cousin, canst thou quake, and change thy colour, |
Murder thy breath in the middle of a word, |
And then begin again, and stop again, |
As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror? |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; |
Speak and look back, and pry on every side, |
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, |
Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks |
Are at my service, like enforced smiles; |
And both are ready in their offices, |
At any time, to grace my stratagems. |
But what, is Catesby gone? |
GLOUCESTER: |
He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along. |
BUCKINGHAM: |
Lord mayor,-- |
GLOUCESTER: |
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