No Fear Shakespeare
Richard III
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Act 2, Scene 4, Page 3
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QUEEN ELIZABETH
How doth the prince?
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QUEEN ELIZABETH
How’s the prince?
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MESSENGER
Well, madam, and in health.
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MESSENGER
He’s fine and healthy, madam.
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DUCHESS
What is thy news then?
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DUCHESS
What is your news?
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MESSENGER
Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,
And, with them, Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.
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MESSENGER
Lord Rivers and Lord Grey have been imprisoned in Pomfret. So has Sir Thomas Vaughan.
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DUCHESS
Who hath committed them?
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DUCHESS
Who sent them there?
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MESSENGER
The mighty dukes, Gloucester and Buckingham.
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MESSENGER
The powerful dukes Gloucester and Buckingham.
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ARCHBISHOP
For what offence?
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ARCHBISHOP
What did they do wrong?
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MESSENGER
The sum of all I can, I have disclosed.
Why, or for what, the nobles were committed
Is all unknown to me, my gracious lord.
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MESSENGER
I’ve told you everything I know. Why the nobles were imprisoned, and on what charges, I don’t know, my gracious lord.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ay me! I see the ruin of my house.
The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind.
Insulting tyranny begins to jut
Upon the innocent and aweless throne.
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH
Oh no! I see the downfall of my family. The tiger has seized the gentle deer: a tyrant has begun to attack the weak, innocent king. Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre! I can see how all this will end as clearly as if I was looking at a map.
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