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| The Life and Death of Richard the Third |
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| Richard III
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Enter RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN to deathRATCLIFF
Come, bring forth the prisoners.RIVERS
Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:GREY
To-day shalt thou behold a subject die
For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.
God keep the prince from all the pack of you!VAUGHAN
A knot you are of damned blood-suckers!
You live that shall cry woe for this after.RATCLIFF
Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out.RIVERS
O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,GREY
Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
Within the guilty closure of thy walls
Richard the second here was hack'd to death;
And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.
Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,RIVERS
For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son.
Then cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,RATCLIFF
Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God
To hear her prayers for them, as now for us
And for my sister and her princely sons,
Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.
Make haste; the hour of death is expiate.RIVERS
Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:
And take our leave, until we meet in heaven.
Exeunt
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