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First Citizen:
Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.
All:
Speak, speak.
First Citizen:
You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?
All:
Resolved. resolved.
First Citizen:
First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people.
All:
We know't, we know't.
First Citizen:
Let us kill him, and we'll... |
Alack,
You are transported by calamity
Thither where more attends you, and you slander
The helms o' the state, who care for you like fathers,
When you curse them as enemies.
First Citizen:
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
Alack,
You are transported by ... |
With a kind of smile,
Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus--
For, look you, I may make the belly smile
As well as speak--it tauntingly replied
To the discontented members, the mutinous parts
That envied his receipt; even so most fitly
As you malign our senators for that
They are not such as you.
First Citize... |
With a kind of smile,
Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus--
For, look you, I may make the belly smile
As well as speak--it tauntingly replied
To the discontented members, the mutinous parts
That envied his receipt; even so most fitly
As you malign our senators for that
They are not such as you.
First Citize... |
Your virtue is
To make him worthy whose offence subdues him
Your virtue is
And curse that justice did it.
Who deserves greatness
Deserves your hate; and your affections are
A sick man's appetite, who desires most that
Which would increase his evil. He that depends
Upon your favours swims with fins of lead
And hews down... |
Titus Lartius, thou
Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face.
Titus Lartius, thou
What, art thou stiff? stand'st out?
TITUS:
No, Caius Marcius;
I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other,
Ere stay behind this business.
MENENIUS:
O, true-bred!
First Senator:
Your company to the Capitol; where, I know,
Our ... |
By the discovery.
We shall be shorten'd in our aim, which was
To take in many towns ere almost Rome
Should know we were afoot.
Second Senator:
Noble Aufidius,
Take your commission; hie you to your bands:
By the discovery.
We shall be shorten'd in our aim, which was
To take in many towns ere almost Rome
Should know we ... |
Tell Valeria,
We are fit to bid her welcome.
VIRGILIA:
Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius!
VOLUMNIA:
He'll beat Aufidius 'head below his knee
And tread upon his neck.
VALERIA:
My ladies both, good day to you.
VOLUMNIA:
Sweet madam.
Tell Valeria,
We are fit to bid her welcome.
VIRGILIA:
Heavens bless my lord ... |
This is true,
on mine honour; and so, I pray, go with us.
This is true,
VIRGILIA:
Give me excuse, good madam; I will obey you in every
thing hereafter.
VOLUMNIA:
Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but
disease our better mirth.
VALERIA:
In troth, I think she would. Fare you well, then.
Come, good sweet lady... |
Come on, my fellows:
He that retires I'll take him for a Volsce,
And he shall feel mine edge.
MARCIUS:
All the contagion of the south light on you,
You shames of Rome! you herd of--Boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen and one infect another
Against the wind a mile! You souls o... |
Thou wast a soldier
Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible
Only in strokes; but, with thy grim looks and
The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds,
Thou madst thine enemies shake, as if the world
Were feverous and did tremble.
First Soldier:
Look, sir.
LARTIUS:
O,'tis Marcius!
Let's fetch him off, or make remai... |
Ye Roman gods!
Lead their successes as we wish our own,
That both our powers, with smiling
fronts encountering,
May give you thankful sacrifice.
Thy news?
Messenger:
The citizens of Corioli have issued,
And given to Lartius and to Marcius battle:
I saw our party to their trenches driven,
And then I came away.
COMINIU... |
By the blood we have shed together, by the vows
We have made to endure friends, that you directly
Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates;
And that you not delay the present, but,
Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,
We prove this very hour.
COMINIUS:
Though I could wish
You were conducted to a gentle bath... |
I have done
As you have done; that's what I can; induced
As you have been; that's for my country:
He that has but effected his good will
Hath overta'en mine act.
I have done
As you have done; that's what I can; induced
As you have been; that's for my country:
He that has but effected his good will
COMINIUS:
You shall ... |
What is't?
CORIOLANUS:
I sometime lay here in Corioli
At a poor man's house; he used me kindly:
He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;
But then Aufidius was within my view,
What is't?
CORIOLANUS:
I sometime lay here in Corioli
At a poor man's house; he used me kindly:
He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;
And wrath o'erwh... |
You two
are old men: tell me one thing that I shall ask you.
Both:
Well, sir.
MENENIUS:
In what enormity is Marcius poor in, that you two
have not in abundance?
BRUTUS:
He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all.
You two
are old men: tell me one thing that I shall ask you.
Both:
Well, sir.
MENENIUS:
In what en... |
You are
a pair of strange ones.
BRUTUS:
Come, come, you are well understood to be a
You are
a pair of strange ones.
BRUTUS:
perfecter giber for the table than a necessary
bencher in the Capitol.
MENENIUS:
Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall
encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When
you spea... |
Yes, yes, yes; the senate
has letters from the general, wherein he gives my
son the whole name of the war: he hath in this
action outdone his former deeds doubly
VALERIA:
In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him.
MENENIUS:
Wondrous! ay, I warrant you, and not without his
true purchasing.
VIRGILIA:
The gods gra... |
Welcome.
A curse begin at very root on's heart,
That is not glad to see thee! You are three
That Rome should dote on: yet, by the faith of men,
We have some old crab-trees here
at home that will not
Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors:
Welcome.
A curse begin at very root on's heart,
That is not glad to see... |
For an end,
We must suggest the people in what hatred
He still hath held them; that to's power he would
Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders and
Dispropertied their freedoms, holding them,
In human action and capacity,
Of no more soul nor fitness for the world
Than camels in the war, who have their provand
Onl... |
Now, to seem to affect the malice and
displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he
dislikes, to flatter them for their love.
Second Officer:
He hath deserved worthily of his country: and his
ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who,
having been supple and courteous to the people,
bonneted, without any f... |
Please you
To hear Cominius speak?
BRUTUS:
Most willingly;
But yet my caution was more pertinent
Than the rebuke you give it.
MENENIUS:
He loves your people
But tie him not to be their bedfellow.
Worthy Cominius, speak.
Nay, keep your place.
First Senator:
Sit, Coriolanus; never shame to hear
What you have nobly don... |
For this last,
Before and in Corioli, let me say,
I cannot speak him home: he stopp'd the fliers;
And by his rare example made the coward
Turn terror into sport: as weeds before
A vessel under sail, so men obey'd
And fell below his stem: his sword, death's stamp,
Where it did mark, it took; from face to foot
He was a t... |
May they perceive's intent! He will require them,
As if he did contemn what he requested
Should be in them to give.
BRUTUS:
Come, we'll inform them
Of our proceedings here: on the marketplace,
I know, they do attend us.
First Citizen:
Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.
Second Citizen:
We ma... |
He's to make his requests by
particulars; wherein every one of us has a single
honour, in giving him our own voices with our own
tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how
you shall go by him.
All:
Content, content.
MENENIUS:
O sir, you are not right: have you not known
The worthiest men have done't?
CORIOLA... |
I have your alms: adieu.
Third Citizen:
But this is something odd.
Second Citizen:
An 'twere to give again,--but 'tis no matter.
I have your alms: adieu.
Third Citizen:
But this is something odd.
Second Citizen:
An 'twere to give again,--but 'tis no matter.
CORIOLANUS:
Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune o... |
God save thee, noble consul!
CORIOLANUS:
Worthy voices!
MENENIUS:
You have stood your limitation; and the tribunes
Endue you with the people's voice: remains
That, in the official marks invested, you
Anon do meet the senate.
CORIOLANUS:
Is this done?
SICINIUS:
The custom of request you have discharged:
The people d... |
Will you along?
BRUTUS:
We stay here for the people.
SICINIUS:
Fare you well.
He has it now, and by his looks methink
'Tis warm at 's heart.
BRUTUS:
With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.
will you dismiss the people?
SICINIUS:
How now, my masters! have you chose this man?
First Citizen:
He has our voices, si... |
Will you along?
BRUTUS:
We stay here for the people.
SICINIUS:
Fare you well.
He has it now, and by his looks methink
'Tis warm at 's heart.
BRUTUS:
With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.
will you dismiss the people?
SICINIUS:
How now, my masters! have you chose this man?
First Citizen:
He has our voices, si... |
Your ignorant election; enforce his pride,
And his old hate unto you; besides, forget not
With what contempt he wore the humble weed,
How in his suit he scorn'd you; but your loves,
Thinking upon his services, took from you
The apprehension of his present portance,
Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion
After t... |
Welcome home.
Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,
The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them;
For they do prank them in authority,
Against all noble sufferance.
SICINIUS:
Welcome home.
Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,
The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them;
For they do prank t... |
My nobler friends,
I crave their pardons:
For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them
Regard me as I do not flatter, and
Therein behold themselves: I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd,
and scatter'd,
By m... |
By Jove himself!
It makes the consuls base: and my soul aches
To know, when two authorities are up,
Neither supreme, how soon confusion
May enter 'twixt the gap of both and take
The one by the other.
COMINIUS:
Well, on to the market-place.
CORIOLANUS:
Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth
The corn o' the storehous... |
Therefore, beseech you,--
You that will be less fearful than discreet,
That love the fundamental part of state
More than you doubt the change on't, that prefer
A noble life before a long, and wish
To jump a body with a dangerous physic
That's sure of death without it, at once pluck out
The multitudinous tongue; let the... |
You, tribunes
To the people! Coriolanus, patience!
Speak, good Sicinius.
SICINIUS:
Hear me, people; peace!
Citizens:
Let's hear our tribune: peace Speak, speak, speak.
SICINIUS:
You are at point to lose your liberties:
Marcius would have all from you; Marcius,
Whom late you have named for consul.
MENENIUS:
Fie, fie... |
Lay hands upon him,
And bear him to the rock.
CORIOLANUS:
No, I'll die here.
There's some among you have beheld me fighting:
Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
MENENIUS:
Down with that sword! Tribunes, withdraw awhile.
BRUTUS:
Lay hands upon him.
COMINIUS:
Help Marcius, help,
You that be noble; help h... |
His heart's his mouth:
What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent;
And, being angry, does forget that ever
His heart's his mouth:
What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent;
He heard the name of death.
Here's goodly work!
Second Patrician:
I would they were abed!
MENENIUS:
I would they were in Tiber! Wh... |
Proceed by process;
Lest parties, as he is beloved, break out,
And sack great Rome with Romans.
BRUTUS:
If it were so,--
SICINIUS:
What do ye talk?
Have we not had a taste of his obedience?
Our aediles smote? ourselves resisted? Come.
Proceed by process;
Lest parties, as he is beloved, break out,
And sack great Rome ... |
We'll attend you there:
Where, if you bring not Marcius, we'll proceed
In our first way.
MENENIUS:
I'll bring him to you.
Let me desire your company: he must come,
Or what is worst will follow.
First Senator:
Pray you, let's to him.
CORIOLANUS:
Let them puff all about mine ears, present me
Death on the wheel or at w... |
We'll attend you there:
Where, if you bring not Marcius, we'll proceed
In our first way.
MENENIUS:
I'll bring him to you.
Let me desire your company: he must come,
Or what is worst will follow.
First Senator:
Pray you, let's to him.
CORIOLANUS:
Let them puff all about mine ears, present me
Death on the wheel or at w... |
I have heard you say,
Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends,
I' the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me,
In peace what each of them by the other lose,
That they combine not there.
CORIOLANUS:
Tush, tush!
MENENIUS:
A good demand.
VOLUMNIA:
If it be honour in your wars to seem
The same you are not, which... |
Than flatter him in a bower. Here is Cominius.
COMINIUS:
I have been i' the market-place; and, sir,'tis fit
You make strong party, or defend yourself
By calmness or by absence: all's in anger.
MENENIUS:
Only fair speech.
COMINIUS:
I think 'twill serve, if he
Can thereto frame his spirit.
VOLUMNIA:
He must, and will... |
Mildly!
BRUTUS:
In this point charge him home, that he affects
Tyrannical power: if he evade us there,
Enforce him with his envy to the people,
And that the spoil got on the Antiates
Was ne'er distributed.
What, will he come?
AEdile:
He's coming.
BRUTUS:
How accompanied?
AEdile:
With old Menenius, and those senator... |
Peace, ho!
CORIOLANUS:
Shall I be charged no further than this present?
Must all determine here?
SICINIUS:
I do demand,
If you submit you to the people's voices,
Allow their officers and are content
To suffer lawful censure for such faults
As shall be proved upon you?
CORIOLANUS:
I am content.
MENENIUS:
Lo, citizen... |
For that he has,
As much as in him lies, from time to time
Envied against the people, seeking means
To pluck away their power, as now at last
Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence
Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers
That do distribute it; in the name o' the people
And in the power of us the tribunes,... |
Farewell, my wife, my mother:
I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
Farewell, my wife, my mother:
Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,
And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,
I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld
Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women
'Tis fond to wail inevita... |
I'll tell thee what; yet go:
Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son
Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,
His good sword in his hand.
SICINIUS:
I'll tell thee what; yet go:
Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son
Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,
His good sword in his hand.
What then?
VIRGILIA:
... |
I have heard it
said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is
when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble
I have heard it
said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is
Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his
great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request
of his country.
Volsce:
He cannot... |
Cotus!
CORIOLANUS:
A goodly house: the feast smells well; but I
Appear not like a guest.
First Servingman:
What would you have, friend? whence are you?
Here's no place for you: pray, go to the door.
CORIOLANUS:
I have deserved no better entertainment,
In being Coriolanus.
Second Servingman:
Whence are you, sir? Has... |
Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy
trencher, hence!
AUFIDIUS:
Where is this fellow?
Second Servingman:
Here, sir: I'ld have beaten him like a dog, but for
disturbing the lords within.
AUFIDIUS:
Whence comest thou? what wouldst thou? thy name?
Why speak'st not? speak, man: what's thy name?
CORIOLANUS:
Thou pra... |
Let me twine
Mine arms about that body, where against
My grained ash an hundred times hath broke
And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip
The anvil of my sword, and do contest
As hotly and as nobly with thy love
Let me twine
Mine arms about that body, where against
My grained ash an hundred times hath broke
And... |
Your hand: most welcome!
First Servingman:
Here's a strange alteration!
Second Servingman:
By my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with
a cudgel; and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a
false report of him.
First Servingman:
What an arm he has! he turned me about with his
finger and his thumb, as one would... |
He was too hard for him directly, to say the troth
on't: before Corioli he scotched him and notched
him like a carbon ado.
Second Servingman:
An he had been cannibally given, he might have
broiled and eaten him too.
First Servingman:
But, more of thy news?
Third Servingman:
Why, he is so made on here within, as if h... |
Here do we make his friends
Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,
Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold
Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see
Our tradesmen with in their shops and going
About their functions friendly.
BRUTUS:
We stood to't in good time.
Is this Menenius?
SICINIUS:
'Tis he,... |
It cannot be
The Volsces dare break with us.
MENENIUS:
Cannot be!
We have record that very well it can,
And three examples of the like have been
Within my age. But reason with the fellow,
It cannot be
The Volsces dare break with us.
MENENIUS:
Cannot be!
We have record that very well it can,
And three examples of the ... |
Who is't can blame him?
Your enemies and his find something in him.
MENENIUS:
We are all undone, unless
The noble man have mercy.
COMINIUS:
Who shall ask it?
The tribunes cannot do't for shame; the people
Who is't can blame him?
Your enemies and his find something in him.
MENENIUS:
We are all undone, unless
The nobl... |
Would half my wealth
Would buy this for a lie!
SICINIUS:
Pray, let us go.
AUFIDIUS:
Do they still fly to the Roman?
Lieutenant:
I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but
Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,
Their talk at table, and their thanks at end;
And you are darken'd in this action, sir,
Even by yo... |
He call'd me father:
But what o' that? Go, you that banish'd him;
A mile before his tent fall down, and knee
The way into his mercy: nay, if he coy'd
He call'd me father:
But what o' that? Go, you that banish'd him;
A mile before his tent fall down, and knee
To hear Cominius speak, I'll keep at home.
COMINIUS:
He woul... |
I shall ere long have knowledge
Of my success.
COMINIUS:
He'll never hear him.
SICINIUS:
Not?
COMINIUS:
I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye
Red as 'twould burn Rome; and his injury
The gaoler to his pity. I kneel'd before him;
I shall ere long have knowledge
Of my success.
COMINIUS:
He'll never hear him.
SICI... |
Can you,
when you have pushed out your gates the very
defender of them, and, in a violent popular
ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to
front his revenges with the easy groans of old
women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with
the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as
you seem to be? Can... |
This man, Aufidius,
Was my beloved in Rome: yet thou behold'st!
AUFIDIUS:
You keep a constant temper.
First Senator:
Now, sir, is your name Menenius?
Second Senator:
'Tis a spell, you see, of much power: you know the
way home again.
First Senator:
Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your
greatness back?
Secon... |
Best of my flesh,
Forgive my tyranny; but do not say
For that 'Forgive our Romans.' O, a kiss
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
Best of my flesh,
Forgive my tyranny; but do not say
For that 'Forgive our Romans.' O, a kiss
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
I carri... |
And to poor we
Thine enmity's most capital: thou barr'st us
Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort
That all but we enjoy; for how can we,
Alas, how can we for our country pray.
Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,
Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose
The country, our dear nurse, or else thy per... |
He turns away:
Down, ladies; let us shame him with our knees.
To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride
Than pity to our prayers. Down: an end;
He turns away:
Down, ladies; let us shame him with our knees.
To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride
This is the last: so we will home to Rome,
And die among our neighbo... |
Mark what mercy his
mother shall bring from him: there is no more mercy
in him than there is milk in a male tiger; that
shall our poor city find: and all this is long of
Mark what mercy his
mother shall bring from him: there is no more mercy
in him than there is milk in a male tiger; that
you.
SICINIUS:
The gods be go... |
Him I accuse
The city ports by this hath enter'd and
Intends to appear before the people, hoping
To purge herself with words: dispatch.
Most welcome!
First Conspirator:
How is it with our general?
AUFIDIUS:
Even so
As with a man by his own alms empoison'd,
And with his charity slain.
Second Conspirator:
Most noble s... |
When he lies along,
After your way his tale pronounced shall bury
When he lies along,
His reasons with his body.
AUFIDIUS:
Say no more:
Here come the lords.
All The Lords:
You are most welcome home.
AUFIDIUS:
I have not deserved it.
But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused
What I have written to you?
Lords:
We... |
Boy!
AUFIDIUS:
Why, noble lords,
Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune,
Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart,
'Fore your own eyes and ears?
All Conspirators:
Let him die for't.
All The People:
'Tear him to pieces.' 'Do it presently.' 'He kill'd
Boy!
AUFIDIUS:
Why, noble lords,
Will you be put in min... |
Assist.
GLOUCESTER:
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Ou... |
Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest
As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,
He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
And from the cross-row plucks the letter G.
And says a wizard told him that by G
His issue disinherited should be;
And, for my name of George begins with G,
It follows in his thought that I am he.
The... |
Farewell.
GLOUCESTER:
Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return.
Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,
That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
If heaven will take the present at our hands.
But who comes here? the new-deliver'd Hastings?
Farewell.
GLOUCESTER:
Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er re... |
May fright the hopeful mother at the view;
And that be heir to his unhappiness!
If ever he have wife, let her he made
A miserable by the death of him
As I am made by my poor lord and thee!
Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,
Taken from Paul's to be interred there;
And still, as you are weary of the weight,
... |
Say that I slew them not?
LADY ANNE:
Why, then they are not dead:
But dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee.
GLOUCESTER:
I did not kill your husband.
LADY ANNE:
Why, then he is alive.
GLOUCESTER:
Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward's hand.
LADY ANNE:
In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw
Thy murd... |
But, gentle Lady Anne,
To leave this keen encounter of our wits,
And fall somewhat into a slower method,
Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
As blameful as the executioner?
LADY ANNE:
Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.
GLOUCESTER:
Your beauty was the cause of t... |
Here.
Why dost thou spit at me?
LADY ANNE:
Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!
GLOUCESTER:
Never came poison from so sweet a place.
LADY ANNE:
Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.
GLOUCESTER:
Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.
LADY ANNE:
Would they were bas... |
And presently repair to Crosby Place;
Where, after I have solemnly interr'd
At Chertsey monastery this noble king,
And wet his grave with my repentant tears,
I will with all expedient duty see you:
For divers unknown reasons. |
I beseech you,
Grant me this boon.
LADY ANNE:
With all my heart; and much it joys me too,
To see you are become so penitent.
Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.
GLOUCESTER:
Bid me farewell.
LADY ANNE:
'Tis more than you deserve;
But since you teach me how to flatter you,
Imagine I have said farewell already.
GL... |
I beseech you,
Grant me this boon.
LADY ANNE:
With all my heart; and much it joys me too,
To see you are become so penitent.
Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.
GLOUCESTER:
Bid me farewell.
LADY ANNE:
'Tis more than you deserve;
But since you teach me how to flatter you,
Imagine I have said farewell already.
GL... |
I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
DERBY:
I do beseech you, either not believe
The envious slanders of her false accusers;
Or, if she be accused in true report,
Bear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds
From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.
RIVERS:
Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby?
DERBY... |
She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?
She may do more, sir, than denying that:
She may help you to many fair preferments,
And then deny her aiding hand therein,
And lay those honours on your high deserts.
What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she--
RIVERS:
What, marry, may she?
GLOUCESTER:
What, marry, ma... |
Was not your husband
In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain?
Let me put in your minds, if you forget,
What you have been ere now, and what you are;
Withal, what I have been, and what I am.
QUEEN MARGARET:
A murderous villain, and so still thou art.
GLOUCESTER:
Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick;
Yea, ... |
But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;
That will I make before I let thee go.
GLOUCESTER:
Wert thou not banished on pain of death?
QUEEN MARGARET:
I was; but I do find more pain in banishment
Than death can yield me here by my abode.
A husband and a son thou owest to me;
And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:
T... |
Thou rag of honour! thou detested--
GLOUCESTER:
Margaret.
QUEEN MARGARET:
Richard!
GLOUCESTER:
Ha!
QUEEN MARGARET:
I call thee not.
GLOUCESTER:
I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought
That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names.
QUEEN MARGARET:
Why, so I did; but look'd for no reply.
O, let me make the peri... |
Have not to do with him, beware of him;
Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
And all their ministers attend on him.
GLOUCESTER:
What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?
BUCKINGHAM:
Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.
QUEEN MARGARET:
What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?
And soothe the d... |
Lords, will you go with us?
RIVERS:
Madam, we will attend your grace.
GLOUCESTER:
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,
I do beweep to many simple gulls
Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Bu... |
Lords, will you go with us?
RIVERS:
Madam, we will attend your grace.
GLOUCESTER:
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,
I do beweep to many simple gulls
Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Bu... |
As we paced along
Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,
Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling,
Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,
Into the tumbling billows of the main.
Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
What ugly sights of death wit... |
No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you;
I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it.
CLARENCE:
O Brakenbury, I have done those things,
Which now bear evidence against my soul,
For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!
O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,
But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,
Yet... |
Show
him our commission; talk no more.
BRAKENBURY:
I am, in this, commanded to deliver
The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:
I will not reason what is meant hereby,
Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.
Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:
I'll to the king; and signify to him
That thus I have resig... |
Show
him our commission; talk no more.
BRAKENBURY:
I am, in this, commanded to deliver
The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:
I will not reason what is meant hereby,
Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.
Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:
I'll to the king; and signify to him
That thus I have resig... |
Come, shall we to this gear?
First Murderer:
Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy
sword, and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt
in the next room.
Second Murderer:
O excellent devise! make a sop of him.
First Murderer:
Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?
Second Murderer:
No, first let's reason with him... |
When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?
CLARENCE:
Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?
For Edward, for my brother, for his sake: Why, sirs,
He sends ye not to murder me for this
For in this sin he is as deep as I.
If God will be revenged for this deed.
O, know you yet, he doth it publicly,
Take not the quarrel... |
Thou deceivest thyself:
'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.
CLARENCE:
It cannot be; for when I parted with him,
He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,
That he would labour my delivery.
Second Murderer:
Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee
From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.
Fir... |
Thou deceivest thyself:
'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.
CLARENCE:
It cannot be; for when I parted with him,
He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,
That he would labour my delivery.
Second Murderer:
Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee
From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.
Fir... |
KING EDWARD IV:
Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love lord marquess.
DORSET:
This interchange of love, I here protest,
Upon my part shall be unviolable.
HASTINGS:
And so swear I, my lord
KING EDWARD IV:
Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league
With thy embracements to my wife's allies,
And make me happy in your... |
A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!
KING EDWARD IV:
I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.
DORSET:
I will not rise, unless your highness grant.
KING EDWARD IV:
Then speak at once what is it thou demand'st.
DORSET:
The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;
Who slew to-day a righteous gentleman
Lat... |
But come, let us in,
To comfort Edward with our company.
BUCKINGHAM:
We wait upon your grace.
Boy:
Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?
DUCHESS OF YORK:
No, boy.
Boy:
Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,
And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'
Girl:
Why do you look on us, and shake your head,
And... |
Hark! what noise is this?
QUEEN ELIZABETH:
Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,
To chide my fortune, and torment myself?
I'll join with black despair against my soul,
And to myself become an enemy.
DUCHESS OF YORK:
What means this scene of rude impatience?
QUEEN ELIZABETH:
Hark! what noise is this?
QUEEN ELIZAB... |
O, what cause have I,
Thine being but a moiety of my grief,
To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!
Boy:
Good aunt, you wept not for our father's death;
How can we aid you with our kindred tears?
Girl:
Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd;
Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!
QUEEN ELIZABETH:
Give me no hel... |
O, what cause have I,
Thine being but a moiety of my grief,
To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!
Boy:
Good aunt, you wept not for our father's death;
How can we aid you with our kindred tears?
Girl:
Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd;
Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!
QUEEN ELIZABETH:
Give me no hel... |
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