Cibber, Colley. Richard III
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ACT the Fifth
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.]
The Scene, Bosworth Field:
[Enter Richard in Arms, with Norfolk, Ratclif, Surrey, etc.]
RICHARD
1874" ana="Shakespeare: Here pitch our Tent, ev'n in Bosworth Field:
1875: My good Lord of Norfolk, the cheerful speed
1876: Of your supply, has merited my thanks.
NORFOLK
1877: I am rewarded, Sir, in having power
1878: To serve your Majesty.
RICHARD
1879: You have our thanks, my Lord. Up with my Tent:
1880" ana="Shakespeare: Here will I lie to night -- But where to morrow? Well,
1881" ana="Shakespeare: No matter where -- Has any careful Friend
1882" ana="Shakespeare: Discover'd yet the number of the Rebels?
NORFOLK
1883: 'My Lord, as I from certain Spies am well
1884: 'Inform'd, six or seven thousand is their
1885: 'Utmost Power.
RICHARD
1886" ana="Shakespeare: Why our Battalions treble that account;
1887" ana="Shakespeare: Beside, the Kings name is a Tower of strength,
1888" ana="Shakespeare: Which they upon the adverse Faction want.
NORFOLK
1889: Their wants are greater yet, my Lord: Those ev'n
1890: Of Motion, Life, and Spirit -- Did you but know
1891: How wretchedly their Men disgrace the Field.
1892: O! such a tatter'd Host of mounted Scare-crows,
1893: 'So poor, so famish'd; their Executors,
1894: 'The greedy Crows, fly hovering o'er their heads,
1895: Impatient for their lean Inheritance.
RICHARD
1896: 'Now, by St. Paul, we'll send 'em Dinners and Apparel;
1897: 'Nay, give their fasting Horses Provender,
1898: 'And after fight 'em. How long must we stay,
1899: My Lords, before these desp'rate Fools will give
1900: Us time to lay 'em with their Faces upwards?
NORFOLK
1901: Unless their Famine saves our Swords that labour,
1902: To morrows Sun will light 'em to their ruin,
1903: So soon, I hear, they mean to give us Battle.
RICHARD
1904: The sooner still the better. -- Come, my Lords,
1905" ana="Shakespeare: Now let's survey, the 'vantage of the Ground:
1906" ana="Shakespeare: Call me some men of sound direction. Lead.
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NORFOLK
1907: My Gracious Lord. -- -
RICHARD
1908: What say'st thou, Norfolk?
NORFOLK
1909: Might I advise your Majesty, you yet
1910: Shall save the blood that may be shed to morrow.
RICHARD
1911: How so, my Lord?
NORFOLK
1912: The poor Condition of the Rebels tells me,
1913: That on a Pardon offer'd to the lives
1914: Of those who instantly shall quit their Arms,
1915: Young Richmond, e'er to morrows dawn, were Friendless.
RICHARD
1916: Why, that indeed was our Sixth Harry's way,
1917: Which made his Reign one Scene of rude Commotion.
1918: I'll be in mens despite a Monarch: No,
1919: Let Kings that Fear, Forgive; Blows and Revenge for me. [Exeunt.]
[Enter Richmond, Oxford, Blunt, Sir William Brandon, etc.]
RICHMOND
1920" ana="Shakespeare: The weary Sun has made a Golden Set,
1921" ana="Shakespeare: And by yon ruddy brightness of the Clouds,
1922" ana="Shakespeare: Gives token of a goodly Day to morrow;
1923" ana="Shakespeare: Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my Standard.
1924: 'Here have I drawn the model of our Battle,
1925: 'Which parts in just proportion our small Power.
1926" ana="Shakespeare: Here may each leader know his several Charge:
1927" ana="Shakespeare: My Lord of Oxford, you Sir Walter Herbert,
1928" ana="Shakespeare: And Sir William Brandon, stay with me:
1929" ana="Shakespeare: The Earl of Pembroke keeps his Regiment.
1930: Enter a Soldier.
SOLDIER
1931: Sir, a Gentleman that calls himself Stanley,
1932: Desires admittance to the Earl of Richmond.
RICHMOND
1933: Now by our hopes, my Noble Father-in-Law,
1934: Addmit him -- My good Friends, your leave a while. [They retire.]
[Enter Lord Stanley in a Cloak.]
1935: My Honour'd Father! On my Soul
1936: The joy of seeing you this night is more,
1937: Than my most knowing hopes presag'd -- What News?
STANLEY
1938" ana="Shakespeare: I, by Commission bless thee from they Mother,
1939" ana="Shakespeare: Who prays continually for Richmond's good:
1940: 'The Queen too, has with tears of joy consented,
1941: 'Thou should'st espouse Elizabeth her Daughter,
1942" ana="Shakespeare: At whom the Tyrant Richard closely aims:
1943: 'In brief (for now the shortest moment of
1944: 'My stay is bought with hazard of my Life)
1945" ana="Shakespeare: Prepare thy Battle early in the morning,
1946" ana="Shakespeare: (For so the season of Affairs requires)
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1947: 'And this be sure of, I, upon the first
1948" ana="Shakespeare: Occasion offer'd, will deceive some Eyes,
1949" ana="Shakespeare: And aid thee in this doubtful shock of Arms;
1950: 'In which I had more forward been e'er this,
1951: 'But that the Life of thy young Brother George
1952: (Whom for my pawn of Faith stern Richard keeps)
1953: 'Wou'd then be forfeit to his wild Revenge.
1954" ana="Shakespeare: Farewel: The rude enforcement of the time
1955: 'Denies me to revive those Vows of Love --
1956" ana="Shakespeare: Which so long sunder'd Friends shou'd dwell upon.
RICHMOND
1957: We may meet again, my Lord --
STANLEY
1958: Till then, once more farewel: Be resolute and Conquer.
RICHMOND
1959" ana="Shakespeare: Give him safe Conduct to is Regiment. [Exit Ld. Stan.]
1960: Well, Sirs, to morrow proves a busie day:
1961: But come, the night's far spent -- Let's in to Counsel.
1962: Captain, an hour before the Sun gets up
1963" ana="Shakespeare: Let me be wak'd; I will in Person walk
1964" ana="Shakespeare: From Tent to Tent, and early chear the Soldiers. [(Exeunt.]
The Scene, before Richard's Tent: Richard, Ratcliff, Norfolk and Catesby.
RICHARD
1965: Catesby!
CATESBY
1966" ana="Shakespeare: Here, my Lord.
RICHARD
1967" ana="Shakespeare: Send out a Pursuivant at Arms
1968" ana="Shakespeare: To Stanley's Regiment: Bid him 'fore Sun-rise,
1969" ana="Shakespeare: Meet me with his Power, or young George's Head
1970" ana="Shakespeare: Shall pay the forfeit of his cold delay.
1971" ana="Shakespeare: What, is my Beaver easier than it was?
1972" ana="Shakespeare: And all my Armour laid into my Tent?
CATESBY
1973: It is, my Liege: All is in readiness.
RICHARD
1974" ana="Shakespeare: Good Norfolk, hye thee to thy Charge;
1975" ana="Shakespeare: Use careful Watch: Chuse trusty Centinals.
NORFOLK
1976" ana="Shakespeare: Doubt not, my Lord.
RICHARD
1977" ana="Shakespeare: Be stirring with the Lark, good Norfolk.
NORFOLK
1978: I shall, my Lord. [Exit Duke of Norfolk.]
RICHARD
1979" ana="Shakespeare: Saddle White Surrey for the Field to morrow.
1980" ana="Shakespeare: Is Ink and Paper ready?
CATESBY
1981" ana="Shakespeare: It is, my Lord.
RICHARD
1982" ana="Shakespeare: An hour after Midnight, come to my Tent,
1983" ana="Shakespeare: And help to Arm me. A good night, my Friends. [(Exit.]
RATCLIFF
1984: Methinks the King has not that pleas'd Alacrity
1985: Nor Cheer of Mind that he was wont to have.
CATESBY
1986: The meer effect of business -- -
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1987: You'll find him, Sir, another Man i'th'Field,
1988: When you shall see him with his Beavour up,
1989: Ready to mount his Neighing Steed, with whom
1990: He smiling, seems to have some wanton talk,
1991: Clapping his pamper'd sides to hold him still;
1992: Then, with a motion swift, and light as Air,
1993: Like fiery Mars he Vaults him to the saddle;
1994: Looks Terror to the Foe, and Courage to his Soldiers.
RATCLIFF
1995: Good night to Richmond then; for, as I hear,
1996: His numbers are so few, and those so sick
1997: And famish'd in their march, if he dares fight us --
1998: He jumps into the Sea to cool his Feaver.
1999: But come, 'tis late: Now let's to our Tents,
2000: We've few hours good before the Trumpet wakes us. [(Ex.]
Note: (Ed. note: In the 1718 edition the assignment of these final lines between Catesby and Ratcliff is reversed.) [Enter Richard from his Tent. Solus.]
RICHARD
2001: 'Tis now the dead of Night, and half the World
2002: Is with a lonely solemn darkness hung;
2003: Yet I (so coy a dame is sleep to me)
2004: With all the weary Courtship of
2005: My Care-tir'd thoughts can't win her to my Bed;
2006: Tho' ev'n the Stars do wink as 'twere, with over watching --
2007: I'll forth, and walk a while -- The Air's refreshing.
2008: And the ripe Harvest of the new mown Hay
2009: Gives it a sweet and wholesome Odour:
2010: 'How awful is this gloom -- and hark from Camp to Camp
2011: 'The humm of either Army stilly sounds:
2012" ana="Shakespeare: That the fixt Centinels almost receive
2013" ana="Shakespeare: The secret whispers of each other watch.
2014: 'Steed threatens Steed in high and boastful neighings,
2015: 'Piercing the nights dull Ear. Hark from the Tents,
2016" ana="Shakespeare: The Armourers accomplishing the Knights,
2017: 'With clink of hammers closing rivets up
2018" ana="Shakespeare: Give Dreadful note of Preparation; while some
2019: 'Like sacrifices by their fires of watch,
2020: 'With patience sit, and inly ruminate
2021: 'The mornings danger. By yon Heav'n my stern
2022: 'Impatience chides this tardy-gated night,
2023: 'Who, like a foul and ugly Witch, does limp
2024: So tediously away: I'll to my Couch,
2025: And once more try to sleep her into morning. [(lies down.]
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[A Groan is heard.]
2026: Ha! What means that dismal voice? Sure 'tis
2027: The Eccho of some yawning Grave,
2028: That teems with an untimely Ghost. -- 'Tis gone!
2029: 'Twas but my Fancy, or perhaps the Wind
2030: Forcing his entrance thro' some hollow Cavern;
2031: No matter what -- I feel my eyes grow heavy. [(Sleeps.]
[The Ghost of Henry VI. rises]
KING HENRY'S GHOST
2032: O thou, whose unrelenting thoughts, not all
2033: The hideous Terrours of thy Guilt can shake,
2034: Whose Conscience with thy Body ever sleeps:
2035: Sleep on, while I by Heavens high Ordinance
2036: In dreams of horror wake thy frighted Soul:
2037: Now give thy thoughts to me, let 'em behold
2038: These gaping Wounds, which thy Death-dealing hand
2039: Within the Tower gave my Anointed Body,
2040: Now shall thy own devouring Conscience gnaw
2041: Thy heart, and terribly revenge my Murder. [The Ghosts of the young Princes rise.]
PRINCES' GHOSTS
2042: Richard, dream on; and see the wandring spirits
2043: Of thy young Nephews, murder'd in the Tower:
2044: Cou'd not our Youth, our Innocence perswade
2045: Thy cruel heart to spare our harmless lives?
2046: Who, but for thee, alas, might have enjoy'd
2047: Our many promis'd years of Happiness.
2048: No Soul, save thine, but pitties our misusage:
2049: O! 'twas a cruel deed! therefore alone,
2050: Unpittying, unpittied shalt thou fall. [(Vanish.]
[The Ghost of Ann his Wife rises.]
ANN'S GHOST
2051: Think on the wrongs of wretched Ann thy Wife,
2052" ana="Shakespeare: Ev'n in the Battles heat remember me,
2053" ana="Shakespeare: And edgeless fall they Sword -- Despair, and Die.
KING HENRY'S GHOST
2054: The mornings dawn has summon'd me away:
2055: Now Richard wake in all the Hells of Guilt,
2056: And let that wild despair which now does prey
2057: Upon thy mangled thoughts, allarm the World.
2058: Awake Richard, awake! To guilty minds
2059: A terrible Example. -- [(sinks (Rich. starts out of his sleep.]
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RICHARD
2060" ana="Shakespeare: Give me another Horse: Bind up my wounds!
2061: 'Have mercy, Heaven. Ha!-soft!-'Twas but a dream:
2062: But then so terrible, it shakes my Soul.
2063: Cold drops of sweat hang on my trembling Flesh,
2064: My blood grows chilly, and I freze with horror.
2065: O Tyrant Consciene! how dost thou aflict me!
2066: When I look back, 'tis terrible Retreating:
2067: I cannot bear the thought, nor dare repent:
2068: I am but Man, and Fate, do thou dispose me.
2069: Who's there? [Enter Catesby.]
CATESBY
2070" ana="Shakespeare: 'Tis I, my Lord; the Village Cock
2071" ana="Shakespeare: Has thrice done salutation to the morn:
2072" ana="Shakespeare: Your Friends are up, and buckle on their Armour.
RICHARD
2073: 'O Catesby! I have had such horrid dreams. --
CATESBY
2074: 'Shadows, my Lord, below the Soldier's heeding.
RICHARD
2075: Now, by my this days hopes, shadows to night
2076" ana="Shakespeare: Have struck more terror in the Soul of Richard,
2077" ana="Shakespeare: Than can the substance of ten Thousand Soldiers
2078" ana="Shakespeare: Arm'd all in Proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
CATESBY
2079: 'Be more your self, my Lord: Consider, Sir:
2080: 'Were it but known a dream had frighted you,
2081: 'How wou'd your animated Foes presume on't.
RICHARD
2082: Perish that thought: No, never be it said,
2083: That Fate it self could awe the Soul of Richard.
2084: Hence, Babling dreams, you threaten here in vain:
2085: Conscience avant; Richard's himself again.
2086: Hark! the shrill Trumpet sounds, to Horse: Away!
2087: My Soul's in Arms, and eager for the Fray. [Exeunt.]
[Enter Richmond, Oxford, Soldiers, etc. Marching.]
RICHMOND
2088: Halt. -- (Soldiers halt, halt, etc.)
2089" ana="Shakespeare: How far is it into the morning, Friends?
OXFORD
2090" ana="Shakespeare: Near four, my Lord.
RICHMOND
2091: 'Tis well: I'm glad to find we are such early stirers.
OXFORD
2092: Methinks the Foe's less forward than we thought 'em.
2093: Worn as we are, we brave the Field before 'em.
RICHMOND
2094: Come, there looks life in such a cheerful haste:
2095: 'If dreams should animate a Soul resolv'd,
2096: 'I'm more than pleas'd with those I've had to night.
2097: 'Methought that all the Ghosts of them, whose Bodies
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2098: 'Richard murther'd, came mourning to my Tent,
2099: 'And rous'd me to revenge 'em.
OXFORD
2100: A good Omen, Sir: Hark! the Trumpet of
2101: The Enemy. It speaks them on the march.
RICHMOND
2102: 'Why, then let's on, my Friends, to face 'em:
2103: 'In Peace there's nothing so becomes a Man
2104: 'As mild behaviour and humility:
2105: 'But when the blast of War blows in our ears,
2106: 'Let us be Tygers in our fierce deportment.
2107" ana="Shakespeare: For me, the ransome of my bold attempt
2108: 'Shall be this Body, on the Earth's cold Face:
2109" ana="Shakespeare: But, if we thrive, the Glory of the Action
2110" ana="Shakespeare: The meanest here shall share his part of.
2111: 'Advance your Standards, draw your willing Swords:
2112: 'Sound, Drums and Trumpets, boldly and cheerfully.
2113: The Word's Saint George, Richmond, and Victory. [(Exeunt.]
[Enter Richard, Catesby, marching.]
RICHARD
2114" ana="Shakespeare: Who saw the Sun to day?
CATESBY
2115: He has not yet broke forth, my Lord.
RICHARD
2116" ana="Shakespeare: Then he disdains to shine; For, by the Clock,
2117" ana="Shakespeare: He should have brav'd the East an hour ago.
2118" ana="Shakespeare: Not shine to day? -- Why, what is that to me,
2119: 'More than to Richmond? For the self-same Heaven
2120: 'That frowns on me, looks lowring upon him. [Enter Norfolk with a Paper.]
NORFOLK
2121" ana="Shakespeare: Prepare, my Lord, the Foe's in the Field.
RICHARD
2122" ana="Shakespeare: Come, bustle, bustle; Caparison my Horse:
2123" ana="Shakespeare: Call forth Lord Stanley; bid him bring his Power.
2124" ana="Shakespeare: My self will lead the Soldiers to the Plain. [(Exit Catesby.]
2125: Well, Norfolk, what thinkst thou now?
NORFOLK
2126: That we shall Conquer, Sir; but on my Tent
2127" ana="Shakespeare: This morning early was this Paper found.
RICHARD
[reads.]
2128" ana="Shakespeare: Jockey of Norfolk be not too bold,
2129" ana="Shakespeare: For Dickon thy Master is bought and sold.
2130: 'A weak invention of the Enemy.
2131: 'Come, Gentlemen, now each man to his Charge.
2132" ana="Shakespeare: What shall I say more than I have infer'd:
2133" ana="Shakespeare: Remember whom you are to Cope withal,
2134" ana="Shakespeare: A scum of Britains, Rascals, Run-aways;
2135" ana="Shakespeare: Whom their o'er cloy'd Country vomits forth
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2136" ana="Shakespeare: To desperate adventures and assur'd destruction.
2137" ana="Shakespeare: If we be Conquer'd, let Men Conquer us,
2138" ana="Shakespeare: And not these Bastard Britains, whom our Fathers
2139: 'Have in their own Land, beaten, spurn'd, and trod on.
2140" ana="Shakespeare: And left 'em on Record, the Heirs of shame;
2141" ana="Shakespeare: Are these Men fit to be the Heirs of England? [Enter Catesby.]
2142" ana="Shakespeare: What says Lord Stanley: Will he bring his Power?
CATESBY
2143" ana="Shakespeare: He does refuse, my Lord: He will not, Sir.
RICHARD
2144" ana="Shakespeare: Off with his Son Georges head. [(Trumpet sounds.]
NORFOLK
2145: My Lord, the Foe's already past the Marsh:
2146: After the Battle let young Stanley die.
RICHARD
2147: Why, after be it then --
2148: A thousand hearts are swelling in my bosom.
2149: 'Draw Archers, draw your Arrows to the head,
2150: 'Spur your proud Horses hard, and ride in blood:
2151: And thou, our Warlike Champion, thrice Renown'd
2152: St. George inspire me with the Rage of Lyons --
2153: Upon 'em! Charge! -- Follow me -- [(Exeunt.]
[An Allarm is heard: Richard re-enters alone.]
RICHARD
2154: What, ho! young Richmond, ho! 'tis Richard calls.
2155: I hate thee, Harry, for thy blood of Lancaster;
2156: 'Now if thou dost not hide thee from my Sword,
2157: 'Now while the angry Trumpet sounds Allarms,
2158: 'And dead mens groans transpierce the wounded Air.
2159: 'Richmond, I say, come forth, and single face me:
2160: 'Richard is Hoarse with Daring thee to Arms.
2161: The Allarm continues: Enter Catesby,
2162: and the D. of Nor. in disorder.
CATESBY
2163: Rescue! rescue! my Lord of Norfolk, haste.
2164" ana="Shakespeare: The King Enacts more wonders than a Man,
2165" ana="Shakespeare: Daring an opposite to every danger:
2166" ana="Shakespeare: His Horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
2167" ana="Shakespeare: Seeking for Richmond in the throat of Death.
2168: 'Nay, haste, my Lord: the day's against us. [(Exeunt.]
[Enter Richard and Ratcliff in disorder.]
RICHARD
2169" ana="Shakespeare: A Horse! a Horse! my Kingdom for a Horse!
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RATCLIFF
2170: 'This way, this way, my Lord; below yon thicket
2171: 'Stands a swift Horse, Away, ruin pursues us.
2172: 'Withdraw, my Lord, for only flight can save you.
RICHARD
2173" ana="Shakespeare: Slave, I have set my Life upon a Cast
2174" ana="Shakespeare: And I will stand the hazard of the Dye.
2175" ana="Shakespeare: I think there be six Richmonds in the Field;
2176" ana="Shakespeare: Five have I slain to day, instead of him.
2177" ana="Shakespeare: An Horse! an Horse! my Kingdom for an Horse. [(Ex.]
[Re-enter Richard, and Richmond meeting.]
RICHARD
2178: 'Of one, or both of us the time is come.
RICHMOND
2179: Kind Heaven I thank thee, for my Cause is thine;
2180: If Richard's fit to live let Richmond fall.
RICHARD
2181: Thy Gallant bearing, Harry, I cou'd plaud,
2182: But that the spotted Rebel stains the Soldier.
RICHMOND
2183: Nor shou'd thy Prowess, Richard, want my praise,
2184: But that thy cruel deeds have stampt thee Tyrant.
2185: So thrive my Sword as Heaven's high Vengeance draws it.
RICHARD
2186: 'My Soul and Body on the Action both.
RICHMOND
2187: A dreadful lay: Here's to decide it. [(Allarm, fight.]
RICHARD
2188: Perdition catch thy Arm. The chance is thine: [(Richard is wounded.]
2189: But oh! the vast Renown thou hast acquired
2190: In Conquering Richard, does afflict him more
2191: Than even his Bodies parting with its Soul:
2192: 'Now let the World no longer be a Stage
2193: 'To feed contention in a lingring Act:
2194: 'But let one spirit of the First-born Cain
2195: 'Reign in all bosoms, that each heart being set
2196: 'On bloody Actions, the rude Scene may end,
2197: 'And darkness be the Burier of the Dead. [(Dies.]
RICHMOND
2198: Farewel, Richard, and from thy dreadful end
2199: May future Kings from Tyranny be warn'd;
2200: Had thy aspring Soul but stir'd in Vertue
2201: With half the Spirit it has dar'd in Evil,
2202: How might thy Fame have grac'd our English Annals:
2203: But as thou art, how fair a Page thou'st blotted.
2204: Hark! the glad Trumpets speak the Field our own. [Enter Oxford and Lord Stanley: Soldiers follow with Richard's Crown.]
2205: O welcome, Friends: My Noble Father welcome.
2206" ana="Shakespeare: Heaven and our Arms be prais'd the day is ours.
2207: See there, by Lords, stern Richard is no more.
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STANLEY
2208: Victorious Richmond well hast thou acquitted thee:
2209: -- And see, the just reward that Heaven has sent thee.
2210: 'Among the Glorious spoils of Bosworth Field,
2211: 'We've found the Crown, which now in right is thine:
2212: 'Tis doubly thine by Conquest, and by Choice.
2213: 'Long Live Henry the Seventh, King of England. [(Shouts here.]
RICHMOND
2214: Next to Just Heaven, my Noble Countrymen,
2215: I owe my thanks to you, whose love I'm proud of,
2216: And Ruling well shall speak my Gratitude.
2217" ana="Shakespeare: But now, my Lords, what Friends of us are missing?
2218" ana="Shakespeare: Pray tell me; Is young George Stanley living?
STANLEY
2219" ana="Shakespeare: He is, my Liege, and safe in Leicester Town,
2220" ana="Shakespeare: Whither, if you please, we may withdraw us. [Enter Blunt.]
BLUNT
2221: My Lord, the Queen and fair Elizabeth,
2222: Her beautious Daughter, some few miles of, are
2223: On their way to Gratulate your Victory.
RICHMOND
2224: Ay, there indeed my toil's rewarded.
2225: Let us prepare to meet 'em, Lords, and then,
2226" ana="Shakespeare: As we're already bound by solemn Vows;
2227: 'We'll twine the Roses red and white together,
2228: 'And both from one kind stalk shall flourish:
2229" ana="Shakespeare: England has long been mad, and scarr'd her self.
2230: 'The Brother blindly shed the Brother's blood:
2231: 'The Father rashly slaughter'd his own Son:
2232: 'The bloody Son compell'd, has kill'd his Sire.
2233: 'O! Now let Henry and Elizabeth,
2234" ana="Shakespeare: The true Successors of each Royal House
2235: 'Conjoyn'd together, heal those deadly wounds:
2236: 'And be that wretch of all mankind abhor'd,
2237: 'That wou'd reduce those bloody days again:
2238: 'Ne'er let him live to taste our Joys encrease,
2239: 'That wou'd with Treason wound fair England's Peace.
F I N I S