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And bestial appetite in change of lust;
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Which stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,
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Even where his lustful eye or savage heart,
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Without control, listed to make his prey.
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Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:
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Tell them, when that my mother went with child
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Of that unsatiate Edward, noble York
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My princely father then had wars in France
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And, by just computation of the time,
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Found that the issue was not his begot;
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Which well appeared in his lineaments,
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Being nothing like the noble duke my father:
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But touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off,
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Because you know, my lord, my mother lives.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator
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As if the golden fee for which I plead
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Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.
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GLOUCESTER:
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If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's Castle;
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Where you shall find me well accompanied
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With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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I go: and towards three or four o'clock
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Look for the news that the Guildhall affords.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw;
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Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both
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Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle.
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Now will I in, to take some privy order,
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To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight;
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And to give notice, that no manner of person
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At any time have recourse unto the princes.
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Scrivener:
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This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;
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Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,
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That it may be this day read over in Paul's.
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And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
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Eleven hours I spent to write it over,
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For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;
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The precedent was full as long a-doing:
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And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
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Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty
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Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,
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That seeth not this palpable device?
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Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?
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Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,
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When such bad dealings must be seen in thought.
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GLOUCESTER:
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How now, my lord, what say the citizens?
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,
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The citizens are mum and speak not a word.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children?
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BUCKINGHAM:
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I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,
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And his contract by deputy in France;
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The insatiate greediness of his desires,
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And his enforcement of the city wives;
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His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,
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As being got, your father then in France,
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His resemblance, being not like the duke;
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Withal I did infer your lineaments,
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Being the right idea of your father,
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Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
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Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
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Your dicipline in war, wisdom in peace,
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Your bounty, virtue, fair humility:
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Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose
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Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse
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And when mine oratory grew to an end
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I bid them that did love their country's good
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Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'
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GLOUCESTER:
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Ah! and did they so?
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BUCKINGHAM:
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No, so God help me, they spake not a word;
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But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,
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Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale.
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Which when I saw, I reprehended them;
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And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence:
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His answer was, the people were not wont
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To be spoke to but by the recorder.
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Then he was urged to tell my tale again,
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'Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr'd;'
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But nothing spake in warrant from himself.
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When he had done, some followers of mine own,
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At the lower end of the hall, hurl'd up their caps,
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