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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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Ah, my young princes! ah, my tender babes!
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My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!
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If yet your gentle souls fly in the air
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And be not fix'd in doom perpetual,
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Hover about me with your airy wings
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And hear your mother's lamentation!
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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Hover about her; say, that right for right
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Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night.
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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So many miseries have crazed my voice,
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That my woe-wearied tongue is mute and dumb,
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Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet.
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Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,
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And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?
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When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,
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Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd,
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Brief abstract and record of tedious days,
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Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth,
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Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood!
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
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As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!
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Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
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O, who hath any cause to mourn but I?
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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If ancient sorrow be most reverend,
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Give mine the benefit of seniory,
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And let my woes frown on the upper hand.
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If sorrow can admit society,
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Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine:
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I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;
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I had a Harry, till a Richard kill'd him:
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Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;
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Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard killed him;
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him;
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I had a Rutland too, thou holp'st to kill him.
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard kill'd him.
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From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
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A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:
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That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,
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To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,
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That foul defacer of God's handiwork,
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That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,
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That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,
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Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.
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O upright, just, and true-disposing God,
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How do I thank thee, that this carnal cur
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Preys on the issue of his mother's body,
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And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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O Harry's wife, triumph not in my woes!
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God witness with me, I have wept for thine.
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge,
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And now I cloy me with beholding it.
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Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb'd my Edward:
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Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;
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Young York he is but boot, because both they
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Match not the high perfection of my loss:
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Thy Clarence he is dead that kill'd my Edward;
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And the beholders of this tragic play,
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The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,
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Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves.
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Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,
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Only reserved their factor, to buy souls
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And send them thither: but at hand, at hand,
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Ensues his piteous and unpitied end:
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Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray.
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To have him suddenly convey'd away.
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Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I prey,
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That I may live to say, The dog is dead!
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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O, thou didst prophesy the time would come
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That I should wish for thee to help me curse
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That bottled spider, that foul bunch-back'd toad!
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