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A good direction, warlike sovereign.
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This found I on my tent this morning.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Messenger:
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My lord, he doth deny to come.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Off with his son George's head!
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NORFOLK:
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My lord, the enemy is past the marsh
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After the battle let George Stanley die.
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KING RICHARD III:
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A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:
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Advance our standards, set upon our foes
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Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
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Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
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Upon them! victory sits on our helms.
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CATESBY:
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Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!
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The king enacts more wonders than a man,
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Daring an opposite to every danger:
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His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
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Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
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Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!
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KING RICHARD III:
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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
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CATESBY:
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Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
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And I will stand the hazard of the die:
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I think there be six Richmonds in the field;
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Five have I slain to-day instead of him.
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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
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RICHMOND:
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God and your arms be praised, victorious friends,
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The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.
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DERBY:
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Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.
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Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty
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From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
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Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal:
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Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.
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RICHMOND:
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Great God of heaven, say Amen to all!
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But, tell me, is young George Stanley living?
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DERBY:
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He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town;
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Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
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RICHMOND:
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What men of name are slain on either side?
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DERBY:
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John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers,
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Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.
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RICHMOND:
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Inter their bodies as becomes their births:
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Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
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That in submission will return to us:
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And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
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We will unite the white rose and the red:
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Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
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That long have frown'd upon their enmity!
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What traitor hears me, and says not amen?
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England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself;
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The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,
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The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,
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The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:
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All this divided York and Lancaster,
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Divided in their dire division,
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O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth,
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The true succeeders of each royal house,
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By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!
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And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.
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Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
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With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
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Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
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That would reduce these bloody days again,
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And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
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Let them not live to taste this land's increase
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That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
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Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again:
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That she may long live here, God say amen!
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KING RICHARD II:
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Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster,
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