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First Murderer:
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Ay, millstones; as be lesson'd us to weep.
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CLARENCE:
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O, do not slander him, for he is kind.
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First Murderer:
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Right,
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As snow in harvest. Thou deceivest thyself:
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'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.
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CLARENCE:
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It cannot be; for when I parted with him,
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He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,
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That he would labour my delivery.
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Second Murderer:
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Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee
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From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.
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First Murderer:
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Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.
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CLARENCE:
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Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,
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To counsel me to make my peace with God,
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And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,
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That thou wilt war with God by murdering me?
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Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on
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To do this deed will hate you for the deed.
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Second Murderer:
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What shall we do?
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CLARENCE:
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Relent, and save your souls.
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First Murderer:
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Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish.
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CLARENCE:
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Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.
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Which of you, if you were a prince's son,
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Being pent from liberty, as I am now,
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if two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
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Would not entreat for life?
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My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:
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O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
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Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
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As you would beg, were you in my distress
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A begging prince what beggar pities not?
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Second Murderer:
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Look behind you, my lord.
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First Murderer:
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Take that, and that: if all this will not do,
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I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.
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Second Murderer:
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A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd!
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How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands
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Of this most grievous guilty murder done!
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First Murderer:
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How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not?
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By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art!
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Second Murderer:
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I would he knew that I had saved his brother!
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Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;
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For I repent me that the duke is slain.
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First Murderer:
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So do not I: go, coward as thou art.
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Now must I hide his body in some hole,
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Until the duke take order for his burial:
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And when I have my meed, I must away;
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For this will out, and here I must not stay.
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KING EDWARD IV:
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Why, so: now have I done a good day's work:
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You peers, continue this united league:
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I every day expect an embassage
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From my Redeemer to redeem me hence;
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And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,
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Since I have set my friends at peace on earth.
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Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand;
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Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.
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RIVERS:
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By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate:
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And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.
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HASTINGS:
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So thrive I, as I truly swear the like!
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KING EDWARD IV:
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Take heed you dally not before your king;
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