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el, and your most obedient subject. u indeed?

Prove me, my gracious sovereign. thou resolve to kill a friend of mine? 1;

1 two enemies.

hen thou hast it: two deep enemies,

1 my

sweet sleep's disturbers,

ld have thee deal upon:

e bastards in the Tower.

we open means to come to them,

ou from the fear of them.

sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither,

e, and prefer thee for it.

atch it straight.

I have consider'd in my mind

That you did sound me in.

let that rest. Dorset is fled to Richmond.

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Buck. Why, then K. Rich. Thou tr

Buck. Is it even s With such contempt

O, let me think on H To Brecknock, whil

SCENE III.

Tyr. The tyranno
The most arch deed
That ever yet this la
Dighton and Forrest

To do this ruthless
Albeit they were fles
Melting with tender
Wept like two child
O, thus, quoth Digl
Thus, thus, quoth F
Within their innoce

Their lips were four
Which in their sum
A book of prayers o

9 Brecknock was the 1 The verb to flesh is dulge, to glut or satiate rough and hard of he Marga

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[Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM.

so? rewards he my true service ? made I him king for this? Hastings, and be gone

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- Another Room in the Palace.

us and bloody act is done,

of piteous massacre

nd was guilty of.

, whom I did suborn
iece of butchery,

h'd villains, bloody dogs,
ness and mild compassion,
en in their death's sad story.
ton, lay the gentle babes,-
orrest, girdling one another
it alabaster arms:
red roses on a stalk,

ner beauty kiss'd each other.

their pillow lay;

ame of Buckingham's castle in Wales.

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His daughter meanly

The sons of Edward

And Anne my wife h Now, for I know the At young Elizabeth, And, by that knot, lc To her go I, a jolly t

Cate. My lord,-
K. Rich. Good r
bluntly?
Cate. Bad news,
And Buckingham, ba

Is in the field, and s
K. Rich. Ely wit
Than Buckingham a
Come, I have learn'
Is leaden servitor to
Delay leads impoter
Then fiery expeditio

4 The daughter of Cla
hence became the mothe
to the Countess of Rich
5 He thus denominate
he had taken refuge in
by the procurement of E
custody.

6 Fearful commenting
leaden of course is heav
used whenever a trisylla
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have I match'd in marriage; 46910

sleep in Abraham's bosom,

ath bid the world good night.

Bretagne 5 Richmond aims ny brother's daughter,

oks proudly on the crown,

hriving wooer.

ny lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;
ck'd with the hardy Welshmen,
ill his power increaseth.

Richmond troubles me more near

nd his rash-levied strength.

that fearful commenting

dull delay;6

t and snail-paced beggary:

n be my wing,

rence was in fact married to Sir Richard Pole, and of Cardinal Pole. Sir Richard was half-brother

Richmond, because after the battle of Tewksbury e Court of Francis II., Duke of Bretagne, where dward IV. he was kept a long time in honourable

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