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STANLEY:
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No, mighty liege; therefore mistrust me not.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Where is thy power, then, to beat him back?
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Where are thy tenants and thy followers?
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Are they not now upon the western shore.
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Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships!
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STANLEY:
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No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Cold friends to Richard: what do they in the north,
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When they should serve their sovereign in the west?
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STANLEY:
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They have not been commanded, mighty sovereign:
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Please it your majesty to give me leave,
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I'll muster up my friends, and meet your grace
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Where and what time your majesty shall please.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Ay, ay. thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond:
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I will not trust you, sir.
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STANLEY:
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Most mighty sovereign,
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You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful:
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I never was nor never will be false.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Well,
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Go muster men; but, hear you, leave behind
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Your son, George Stanley: look your faith be firm.
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Or else his head's assurance is but frail.
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STANLEY:
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So deal with him as I prove true to you.
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Messenger:
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My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,
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As I by friends am well advertised,
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Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate
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Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,
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With many more confederates, are in arms.
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Second Messenger:
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My liege, in Kent the Guildfords are in arms;
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And every hour more competitors
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Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.
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Third Messenger:
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My lord, the army of the Duke of Buckingham--
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KING RICHARD III:
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Out on you, owls! nothing but songs of death?
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Take that, until thou bring me better news.
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Third Messenger:
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The news I have to tell your majesty
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Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,
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Buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd;
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And he himself wander'd away alone,
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No man knows whither.
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KING RICHARD III:
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I cry thee mercy:
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There is my purse to cure that blow of thine.
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Hath any well-advised friend proclaim'd
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Reward to him that brings the traitor in?
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Third Messenger:
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Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.
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Fourth Messenger:
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Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset,
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'Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms.
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Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace,
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The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest:
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Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat
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Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks
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If they were his assistants, yea or no;
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Who answer'd him, they came from Buckingham.
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Upon his party: he, mistrusting them,
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Hoisted sail and made away for Brittany.
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KING RICHARD III:
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March on, march on, since we are up in arms;
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If not to fight with foreign enemies,
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Yet to beat down these rebels here at home.
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CATESBY:
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My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken;
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That is the best news: that the Earl of Richmond
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Is with a mighty power landed at Milford,
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Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,
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