Cibber, Colley. Richard III
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Scene, The Field:
[Enter Richmond, Oxford, Blunt, Herbert, and others, marching.]
RICHMOND
1845" ana="Shakespeare: Thus far into the bowels of the Land
1846" ana="Shakespeare: Have we march'd on without Impediment.
1847: 'Richard, the bloody and devouring Boar,
1848: 'Whose Ravenous Appetite has spoil'd your Fields;
1849: 'Laid this rich Country waste, and rudely crop'd
1850: 'Its ripned hopes of fair Posterity,
1851" ana="Shakespeare: Is now ev'n in the center of the Isle,
1852" ana="Shakespeare: As we're inform'd, near to the Town of Leicester:
1853" ana="Shakespeare: From Tamworth thither, is but one days march,
1854" ana="Shakespeare: And, here receive we from our Father Stanley,
1855" ana="Shakespeare: Lines of fair Comfort and Encouragement,
1856: Such as will help and animate our cause,
1857: On which lets Cheerly on, Couragious Friends,
1858: To reap the harvest of a lasting Peace;
1859: Or Fame more lasting from a well fought War.
OXFORD
1860: Your words have fire, my Lord, and warm our men,
1861: Who look'd methought but cold before, hisheartned
1862: With the unequal numbers of the Foe.
RICHMOND
1863: Why, double 'em still, our Cause wou'd Conquer 'em.
1864" ana="Shakespeare: Thrice is he arm'd that has his Quarrel Just,
1865" ana="Shakespeare: And he but naked, tho'lock'd up in Steel,
1866" ana="Shakespeare: Whose Conscience with Inustice is Corrupted:
1867: The very weight of Richard's guilt shall crush him.
BLUNT
1868: His best of Friends,no doubt will soon be ours.
OXFORD
1869: He has no Friends but what are such thro' fear.
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RICHMOND
1870: And we no Foes but what are such to Heaven;
1871: Then doubt not, Heaven's for us. Let's on, my Friends:
1872" ana="Shakespeare: True hope ne'er tires, but mounts with Eagles wings,
1873" ana="Shakespeare: Kings it makes Gods, and meaner Creatures Kings. [(Exit.]