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KING RICHARD III:
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Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:
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I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,
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And mean to make her queen of England.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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Say then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?
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KING RICHARD III:
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Even he that makes her queen who should be else?
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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What, thou?
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KING RICHARD III:
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I, even I: what think you of it, madam?
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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How canst thou woo her?
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KING RICHARD III:
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That would I learn of you,
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As one that are best acquainted with her humour.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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And wilt thou learn of me?
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KING RICHARD III:
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Madam, with all my heart.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,
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A pair of bleeding-hearts; thereon engrave
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Edward and York; then haply she will weep:
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Therefore present to her--as sometime Margaret
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Did to thy father, steep'd in Rutland's blood,--
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A handkerchief; which, say to her, did drain
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The purple sap from her sweet brother's body
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And bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith.
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If this inducement force her not to love,
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Send her a story of thy noble acts;
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Tell her thou madest away her uncle Clarence,
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Her uncle Rivers; yea, and, for her sake,
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Madest quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Come, come, you mock me; this is not the way
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To win our daughter.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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There is no other way
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Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,
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And not be Richard that hath done all this.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Say that I did all this for love of her.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,
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Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Look, what is done cannot be now amended:
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Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
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Which after hours give leisure to repent.
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If I did take the kingdom from your sons,
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To make amends, Ill give it to your daughter.
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If I have kill'd the issue of your womb,
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To quicken your increase, I will beget
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Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter
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A grandam's name is little less in love
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Than is the doting title of a mother;
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They are as children but one step below,
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Even of your mettle, of your very blood;
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Of an one pain, save for a night of groans
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Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.
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Your children were vexation to your youth,
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But mine shall be a comfort to your age.
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The loss you have is but a son being king,
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And by that loss your daughter is made queen.
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I cannot make you what amends I would,
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Therefore accept such kindness as I can.
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Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul
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Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,
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This fair alliance quickly shall call home
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To high promotions and great dignity:
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The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.
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Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother;
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Again shall you be mother to a king,
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And all the ruins of distressful times
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Repair'd with double riches of content.
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What! we have many goodly days to see:
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The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
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Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
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Advantaging their loan with interest
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Of ten times double gain of happiness.
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Go, then my mother, to thy daughter go
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Make bold her bashful years with your experience;
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Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale
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