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Act 4 Flashcards

1
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S1 By your patience,
I may not…

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suffer you to visit them.
The King hath strictly charged the contrary.

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S1 The Lord protect him from that…

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kingly title!
Hath he set bounds between their love and me?
I am their mother. Who shall bar me from them?

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3
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S1 I am their father’s…

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mother. I will see them.

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4
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S1 Their aunt I am in…

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law, in love their mother.

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5
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S1 Come, madam, you must straight to
Westminster…

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There to be crownèd Richard’s royal queen.

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6
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S1 O Dorset, speak not to me…

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Get thee gone.
Death and destruction dogs thee at thy heels.

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S1 Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughterhouse…

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Lest thou increase the number of the dead
And make me die the thrall of Margaret’s curse,
Nor mother, wife, nor England’s counted queen.

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S1 O ill-dispersing wind of misery!
O my…

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accursèd womb, the bed of death!
A cockatrice hast thou hatched to the world,
Whose unavoided eye is murderous

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9
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S1 O, would to God that the inclusive verge…

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Of golden metal that must round my brow
Were red-hot steel to sear me to the brains!

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10
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S1 Anointed let me be with deadly venom…

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And die ere men can say “God save the Queen.”

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11
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S1 When he that is my husband now
Came to me as I followed…

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Henry’s corse,
When scarce the blood was well washed from his
hands

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12
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S1 Within so small a time my woman’s heart…

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Grossly grew captive to his honey words

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13
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S1 For never yet one hour in his bed…

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Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep,
But with his timorous dreams was still awaked

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14
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S1 Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick…

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And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.

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15
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S1 I to my grave, where peace and…

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rest lie with me.
Eighty-odd years of sorrow have I seen,
And each hour’s joy wracked with a week of teen.

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16
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S1 Pity, you ancient stones, those tender…

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babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls—

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S1 Rough cradle for such little pretty ones.

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Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
For tender princes, use my babies well.
So foolish sorrows bids your stones farewell.

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18
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S2 Give me thy hand–Thus high, by thy advice…

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And thy assistance is King Richard seated.

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19
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S2 But shall we wear these…

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glories for a day,
Or shall they last and we rejoice in them?

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20
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S2 Ha! Am I king?..

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’Tis so—but Edward lives.

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21
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S2 O bitter consequence
That Edward…

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still should live “true noble prince”!
Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull.

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22
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S2 Shall I be plain?..

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I wish the bastards dead,
And I would have it suddenly performed.

23
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S2 Tut, tut, thou art all ice…

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thy kindness freezes.
Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?

24
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S2 Give me some little breath, some…

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pause, dear lord,
Before I positively speak in this.
I will resolve you herein presently

25
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S2 Catesby: (aside to the other Attendants)

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The King is angry. See, he gnaws his lip.

26
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S2 I will converse with iron-witted fools
And unrespective boys…

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None are for me
That look into me with considerate eyes.
High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.—
Boy!

27
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S2 Know’st thou not any whom corrupting gold…

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Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?

28
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S2 The deep-revolving witty Buckingham…

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No more shall be the neighbor to my counsels.
Hath he so long held out with me, untired,
And stops he now for breath? Well, be it so.

29
Q

S2 Rumor it abroad
That Anne…

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my wife is very grievous sick.
I will take order for her keeping close.

30
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S2 Inquire me out some mean poor gentleman…

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Whom I will marry straight to Clarence’ daughter. The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.

31
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S2 I must be married to my brother’s daughter…

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Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.

32
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S2 Murder her brothers, and then marry her—

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Uncertain way of gain. But I am in
So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

33
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S2 Dar’st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?

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Please you. But I had rather kill two enemies

34
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S2 Why then, thou hast it. Two deep enemies,
Foes to my rest, and my sweet sleep’s disturbers…

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Are they that I would have thee deal upon.
Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower.

35
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S2 I do remember me, Henry the Sixth…

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Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,
When Richmond was a little peevish boy.

36
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S3 The tyrannous and bloody act is done…

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The most arch deed of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty of

37
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S3 Albeit they were fleshed villains…

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bloody dogs,
Melted with tenderness and mild compassion,
Wept like two children in their deaths’ sad story.

38
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Dighton and Forrest, who I did…

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suborn
To do this piece of ruthless butchery,

39
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girdling one another…

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Within their alabaster innocent arms.

40
Q

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk…

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And in their summer beauty kissed each other.

41
Q

A book of prayers on their…

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pillow lay,
Which once, almost changed my
mind

42
Q

We smotherèd
The most…

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replenishèd sweet work of nature
That from the prime creation e’er she framed.

43
Q

Hence both are gone with conscience and remorse…

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They could not speak; and so I left them both
To bear this tidings to the bloody king.

44
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If to have done the thing you gave in charge…

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Beget your happiness, be happy then,
For it is done.

45
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Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at…

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after-supper,
When thou shalt tell the process of their death.

46
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The son of Clarence have I pent up close,
His daughter meanly…

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have I matched in marriage,
The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham’s bosom,
And Anne my wife hath bid this world goodnight.

47
Q

Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims
At young Elizabeth…

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my brother’s daughter,
And by that knot looks proudly on the crown,
To her go I, a jolly thriving wooer.

48
Q

Bad news, my lord. Morton is fled to Richmond,
And Buckingham…

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backed with the hardy Welshmen,
Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.

49
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Go, muster men. My counsel is my shield.

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We must be brief when traitors brave the field

50
Q

Here in these confines slyly have I…

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lurked
To watch the waning of mine enemies.

51
Q

Ah, my poor princes! Ah, my tender babes…

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My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets

52
Q

If yet your gentle souls fly in the air
And be not fixed in…

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doom perpetual,
Hover about me with your airy wings
And hear your mother’s lamentation.

53
Q

Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs
And throw them…

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in the entrails of the wolf?
When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?

54
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Rest thy unrest on England’s lawful earth…

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Unlawfully made drunk with innocent blood.

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