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Enter BUCKINGHAM with SHERIFF and halberds, led to execution
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Enter BUCKINGHAM with SHERIFF and halberds, led to execution
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BUCKINGHAM Will not King Richard let me speak with him?
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BUCKINGHAM Will not King Richard let me speak with him?
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SHERIFF No, my good lord. Therefore be patient.
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SHERIFF No, my good lord. Therefore be patient.
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BUCKINGHAM Hastings and Edward’s children, Grey and Rivers,
Holy King Henry and thy fair son Edward,
5 Vaughan, and all that have miscarrièd
By underhand, corrupted, foul injustice,
If that your moody, discontented souls
Do through the clouds behold this present hour,
Even for revenge mock my destruction.—
10 This is All Souls' Day, fellow, is it not?
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BUCKINGHAM Hastings and Edward’s children, Grey and Rivers,
Holy King Henry and thy fair son Edward,
Vaughan, and all that have miscarrièd
By underhand, corrupted, foul injustice,
If that your moody, discontented souls
Do through the clouds behold this present hour,
Even for revenge mock my destruction.—
This is All Souls' Day, fellow, is it not?
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SHERIFF It is.
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SHERIFF It is.
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BUCKINGHAM Why, then All Souls' Day is my body’s doomsday.
This is the day which, in King Edward’s time,
I wished might fall on me when I was found
15 False to his children and his wife’s allies.
This is the day wherein I wished to fall
By the false faith of him who most I trusted.
This, this All Souls' Day to my fearful soul
Is the determined respite of my wrongs.
20 That high All-seer which I dallied with
Hath turned my feignèd prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
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BUCKINGHAM Why, then All Souls' Day is my body’s doomsday.
This is the day which, in King Edward’s time,
I wished might fall on me when I was found
False to his children and his wife’s allies.
This is the day wherein I wished to fall
By the false faith of him who most I trusted.
This, this All Souls' Day to my fearful soul
Is the determined respite of my wrongs.
That high All-seer which I dallied with
Hath turned my feignèd prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
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Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
To turn their own points in their masters' bosoms.
25 Thus Margaret’s curse falls heavy upon my neck:
“When he,” quoth she, “shall split thy heart with sorrow,
Remember Margaret was a prophetess.”—
Come, lead me, officers, to the block of shame.
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
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Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
To turn their own points in their masters' bosoms.
Thus Margaret’s curse falls heavy upon my neck:
“When he,” quoth she, “shall split thy heart with sorrow,
Remember Margaret was a prophetess.”—
Come, lead me, officers, to the block of shame.
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter BUCKINGHAM with SHERIFF and halberds, led to execution
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Enter BUCKINGHAM with SHERIFF and halberds, led to execution
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BUCKINGHAM Will not King Richard let me speak with him?
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BUCKINGHAM Will not King Richard let me speak with him?
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SHERIFF No, my good lord. Therefore be patient.
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SHERIFF No, my good lord. Therefore be patient.
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BUCKINGHAM Hastings and Edward’s children, Grey and Rivers,
Holy King Henry and thy fair son Edward,
5 Vaughan, and all that have miscarrièd
By underhand, corrupted, foul injustice,
If that your moody, discontented souls
Do through the clouds behold this present hour,
Even for revenge mock my destruction.—
10 This is All Souls' Day, fellow, is it not?
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BUCKINGHAM Hastings and Edward’s children, Grey and Rivers,
Holy King Henry and thy fair son Edward,
Vaughan, and all that have miscarrièd
By underhand, corrupted, foul injustice,
If that your moody, discontented souls
Do through the clouds behold this present hour,
Even for revenge mock my destruction.—
This is All Souls' Day, fellow, is it not?
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SHERIFF It is.
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SHERIFF It is.
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BUCKINGHAM Why, then All Souls' Day is my body’s doomsday.
This is the day which, in King Edward’s time,
I wished might fall on me when I was found
15 False to his children and his wife’s allies.
This is the day wherein I wished to fall
By the false faith of him who most I trusted.
This, this All Souls' Day to my fearful soul
Is the determined respite of my wrongs.
20 That high All-seer which I dallied with
Hath turned my feignèd prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
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BUCKINGHAM Why, then All Souls' Day is my body’s doomsday.
This is the day which, in King Edward’s time,
I wished might fall on me when I was found
False to his children and his wife’s allies.
This is the day wherein I wished to fall
By the false faith of him who most I trusted.
This, this All Souls' Day to my fearful soul
Is the determined respite of my wrongs.
That high All-seer which I dallied with
Hath turned my feignèd prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
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Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
To turn their own points in their masters' bosoms.
25 Thus Margaret’s curse falls heavy upon my neck:
“When he,” quoth she, “shall split thy heart with sorrow,
Remember Margaret was a prophetess.”—
Come, lead me, officers, to the block of shame.
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
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Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
To turn their own points in their masters' bosoms.
Thus Margaret’s curse falls heavy upon my neck:
“When he,” quoth she, “shall split thy heart with sorrow,
Remember Margaret was a prophetess.”—
Come, lead me, officers, to the block of shame.
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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