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You do him injury to scorn his corse.
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RIVERS:
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Who knows not he is dead! who knows he is?
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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All seeing heaven, what a world is this!
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?
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DORSET:
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Ay, my good lord; and no one in this presence
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But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.
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KING EDWARD IV:
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Is Clarence dead? the order was reversed.
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GLOUCESTER:
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But he, poor soul, by your first order died,
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And that a winged Mercury did bear:
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Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,
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That came too lag to see him buried.
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God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,
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Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,
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Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,
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And yet go current from suspicion!
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DORSET:
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A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!
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KING EDWARD IV:
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I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.
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DORSET:
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I will not rise, unless your highness grant.
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KING EDWARD IV:
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Then speak at once what is it thou demand'st.
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DORSET:
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The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;
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Who slew to-day a righteous gentleman
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Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.
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KING EDWARD IV:
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Have a tongue to doom my brother's death,
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And shall the same give pardon to a slave?
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My brother slew no man; his fault was thought,
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And yet his punishment was cruel death.
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Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,
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Kneel'd at my feet, and bade me be advised
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Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?
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Who told me how the poor soul did forsake
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The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?
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Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury
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When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,
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And said, 'Dear brother, live, and be a king'?
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Who told me, when we both lay in the field
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Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me
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Even in his own garments, and gave himself,
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All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?
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All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
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Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you
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Had so much grace to put it in my mind.
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But when your carters or your waiting-vassals
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Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced
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The precious image of our dear Redeemer,
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You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon;
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And I unjustly too, must grant it you
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But for my brother not a man would speak,
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Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself
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For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all
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Have been beholding to him in his life;
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Yet none of you would once plead for his life.
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O God, I fear thy justice will take hold
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On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!
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Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.
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Oh, poor Clarence!
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GLOUCESTER:
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This is the fruit of rashness! Mark'd you not
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How that the guilty kindred of the queen
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Look'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death?
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O, they did urge it still unto the king!
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God will revenge it. But come, let us in,
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To comfort Edward with our company.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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We wait upon your grace.
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Boy:
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Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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No, boy.
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Boy:
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Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,
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And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'
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