No Fear Shakespeare
Richard III
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 2, Scene 3
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Enter one CITIZEN at one door, and another at the other |
Two CITIZENS enter through different doors. |
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FIRST CITIZEN
Good morrow, neighbor, whither away so fast?
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FIRST CITIZEN
Good morrow, neighbor, whither away so fast?
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SECOND CITIZEN
I promise you I scarcely know myself.
Hear you the news abroad?
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SECOND CITIZEN
I’m telling you, I hardly know myself. Did you hear the news that’s going around?
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FIRST CITIZEN
Yes, that the king is dead.
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FIRST CITIZEN
Yes, that the king is dead.
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SECOND CITIZEN
Ill news, by 'r Lady. Seldom comes the better.
I fear, I fear, ’twill prove a giddy world.
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SECOND CITIZEN
Bad news, by God. The news is always bad. But this news is bound to make the world go mad.
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Enter THIRD CITIZEN
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A THIRD CITIZEN enters. |
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THIRD CITIZEN
Neighbors, God speed.
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THIRD CITIZEN
Neighbors, hello.
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FIRST CITIZEN
Give you good morrow, sir.
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FIRST CITIZEN
Good day to you, sir.
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THIRD CITIZEN
Doth this news hold of good King Edward’s death?
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THIRD CITIZEN
Is it true that good King Edward has died?
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SECOND CITIZEN
Ay, sir, it is too true, God help the while.
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SECOND CITIZEN
Yes, sir, it’s all too true, God help us.
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THIRD CITIZEN
Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.
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THIRD CITIZEN
Then, gentlemen, we can count on trouble.
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FIRST CITIZEN
No, no, by God’s good grace, his son shall reign.
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FIRST CITIZEN
No, no, with God’s help, his son will be king.
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THIRD CITIZEN
Woe to the land that’s governed by a child.
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THIRD CITIZEN
It’s bad news when a country is ruled by a child.
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SECOND CITIZEN
In him there is a hope of government,
Which, in his nonage, council under him,
And, in his full and ripened years, himself,
No doubt shall then, and till then, govern well.
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SECOND CITIZEN
His counselors will govern as long as he’s a minor, and then he’ll take over. It shouldn’t go so badly.
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