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I'll not believe but they ascend the sky,
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And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace.
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O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!
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Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,
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His venom tooth will rankle to the death:
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Have not to do with him, beware of him;
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Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
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And all their ministers attend on him.
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GLOUCESTER:
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What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?
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And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?
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O, but remember this another day,
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When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,
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And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!
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Live each of you the subjects to his hate,
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And he to yours, and all of you to God's!
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HASTINGS:
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My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.
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RIVERS:
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And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty.
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GLOUCESTER:
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I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,
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She hath had too much wrong; and I repent
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My part thereof that I have done to her.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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I never did her any, to my knowledge.
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GLOUCESTER:
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But you have all the vantage of her wrong.
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I was too hot to do somebody good,
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That is too cold in thinking of it now.
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Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,
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He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains
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God pardon them that are the cause of it!
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RIVERS:
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A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,
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To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
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GLOUCESTER:
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So do I ever:
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being well-advised.
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For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.
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CATESBY:
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Madam, his majesty doth call for you,
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And for your grace; and you, my noble lords.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?
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RIVERS:
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Madam, we will attend your grace.
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GLOUCESTER:
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I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
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The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
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I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
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Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,
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I do beweep to many simple gulls
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Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;
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And say it is the queen and her allies
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That stir the king against the duke my brother.
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Now, they believe it; and withal whet me
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To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:
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But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,
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Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
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And thus I clothe my naked villany
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With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
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And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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But, soft! here come my executioners.
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How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates!
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Are you now going to dispatch this deed?
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First Murderer:
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We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant
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That we may be admitted where he is.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Well thought upon; I have it here about me.
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When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.
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But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,
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Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;
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For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps
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May move your hearts to pity if you mark him.
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First Murderer:
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Tush!
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Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
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