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Oh for my husband, for my dear lord Edward!
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Children:
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Oh for our father, for our dear lord Clarence!
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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What stay had I but Edward? and he's gone.
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Children:
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What stay had we but Clarence? and he's gone.
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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What stays had I but they? and they are gone.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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Was never widow had so dear a loss!
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Children:
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Were never orphans had so dear a loss!
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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Was never mother had so dear a loss!
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Alas, I am the mother of these moans!
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Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general.
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She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;
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I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she:
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These babes for Clarence weep and so do I;
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I for an Edward weep, so do not they:
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Alas, you three, on me, threefold distress'd,
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Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow's nurse,
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And I will pamper it with lamentations.
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DORSET:
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Comfort, dear mother: God is much displeased
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That you take with unthankfulness, his doing:
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In common worldly things, 'tis call'd ungrateful,
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With dull unwilligness to repay a debt
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Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;
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Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,
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For it requires the royal debt it lent you.
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RIVERS:
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Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,
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Of the young prince your son: send straight for him
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Let him be crown'd; in him your comfort lives:
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Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave,
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And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause
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To wail the dimming of our shining star;
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But none can cure their harms by wailing them.
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Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;
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I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee
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I crave your blessing.
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind,
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Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
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GLOUCESTER:
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BUCKINGHAM:
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You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers,
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That bear this mutual heavy load of moan,
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Now cheer each other in each other's love
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Though we have spent our harvest of this king,
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We are to reap the harvest of his son.
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The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,
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But lately splinter'd, knit, and join'd together,
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Must gently be preserved, cherish'd, and kept:
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Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,
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Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd
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Hither to London, to be crown'd our king.
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RIVERS:
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Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham?
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Marry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,
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The new-heal'd wound of malice should break out,
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Which would be so much the more dangerous
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By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd:
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Where every horse bears his commanding rein,
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And may direct his course as please himself,
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As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,
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In my opinion, ought to be prevented.
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GLOUCESTER:
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I hope the king made peace with all of us
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And the compact is firm and true in me.
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RIVERS:
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And so in me; and so, I think, in all:
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Yet, since it is but green, it should be put
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To no apparent likelihood of breach,
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Which haply by much company might be urged:
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