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| Enter BUCKINGHAM with SHERIFF and halberds, led to execution |
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BUCKINGHAM enters with SHERIFF and guards leading him to his execution. |
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Will not King Richard let me speak with him? |
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Won't King Richard let me speak with him? |
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No, my good lord. Therefore be patient. |
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No, my good lord. So be calm. |
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Hastings and Edward's children, Grey and Rivers, |
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Holy King Henry and thy fair son Edward, |
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Vaughan, and all that have miscarrièd |
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By underhand, corrupted, foul injustice, |
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If that your moody, discontented souls |
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Do through the clouds behold this present hour, |
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Even for revenge mock my destruction.— |
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This is All Souls' Day, fellow, is it not? |
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Hastings and Edward's children, Rivers and Grey, holy King Henry and your fine son Edward, Vaughan, and all who have died from underhanded, corrupt, fiendish injustice, if your angry souls are witnessing this moment through the clouds, enjoy the revenge—laugh at my ruin! This is All-Souls'
day, fellows, isn't it? |
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Why, then All Souls' Day is my body's doomsday. |
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This is the day which, in King Edward's time, |
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I wished might fall on me when I was found |
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False to his children and his wife's allies. |
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This is the day wherein I wished to fall |
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By the false faith of him who most I trusted. |
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This, this All Souls' Day to my fearful soul |
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Is the determined respite of my wrongs. |
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That high All-seer which I dallied with |
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Hath turned my feignèd prayer on my head |
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And given in earnest what I begged in jest. |
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Why, then, it's my body's doomsday. Today I'm going to get what I said I wished would happen to me if I was ever false to King Edward's children or his wife's allies. This is the day I'm going to get what I wished for when I wished that the person I most trusted would betray me. This, this All-Souls' day, is my just desserts. I tried to play games with God, and he turned my fake prayer on my head, giving me for real what I'd asked for as a joke. |
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