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Came to my tent, and cried on victory:
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I promise you, my soul is very jocund
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In the remembrance of so fair a dream.
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How far into the morning is it, lords?
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LORDS:
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Upon the stroke of four.
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RICHMOND:
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Why, then 'tis time to arm and give direction.
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More than I have said, loving countrymen,
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The leisure and enforcement of the time
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Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,
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God and our good cause fight upon our side;
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The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,
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Like high-rear'd bulwarks, stand before our faces;
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Richard except, those whom we fight against
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Had rather have us win than him they follow:
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For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen,
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A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
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One raised in blood, and one in blood establish'd;
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One that made means to come by what he hath,
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And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him;
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Abase foul stone, made precious by the foil
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Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;
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One that hath ever been God's enemy:
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Then, if you fight against God's enemy,
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God will in justice ward you as his soldiers;
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If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,
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You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain;
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If you do fight against your country's foes,
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Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire;
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If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,
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Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors;
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If you do free your children from the sword,
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Your children's children quit it in your age.
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Then, in the name of God and all these rights,
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Advance your standards, draw your willing swords.
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For me, the ransom of my bold attempt
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Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face;
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But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt
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The least of you shall share his part thereof.
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Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully;
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God and Saint George! Richmond and victory!
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KING RICHARD III:
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What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?
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RATCLIFF:
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That he was never trained up in arms.
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KING RICHARD III:
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He said the truth: and what said Surrey then?
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RATCLIFF:
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He smiled and said 'The better for our purpose.'
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KING RICHARD III:
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He was in the right; and so indeed it is.
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Ten the clock there. Give me a calendar.
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Who saw the sun to-day?
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RATCLIFF:
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Not I, my lord.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Then he disdains to shine; for by the book
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He should have braved the east an hour ago
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A black day will it be to somebody. Ratcliff!
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RATCLIFF:
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My lord?
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KING RICHARD III:
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The sun will not be seen to-day;
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The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.
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I would these dewy tears were from the ground.
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Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me
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More than to Richmond? for the selfsame heaven
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That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.
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NORFOLK:
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Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse.
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Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:
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I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
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And thus my battle shall be ordered:
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My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,
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Consisting equally of horse and foot;
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Our archers shall be placed in the midst
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John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,
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Shall have the leading of this foot and horse.
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They thus directed, we will follow
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In the main battle, whose puissance on either side
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Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
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This, and Saint George to boot! What think'st thou, Norfolk?
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NORFOLK:
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