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- {\pard\f0\fs28{\fs48 Richard III
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- {\b\fs36 5.8}
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- {\i Alarum. Enter King Richard [at one door] and\
- Henry Earl of Richmond [at another]. They fight.\
- Richard is slain. [Exit Richmond.] Retreat and\
- flourish. Enter Henry Earl of Richmond and Lord\
- Stanley Earl of Derby, with divers other lords and\
- soldiers\
- }{\b \fs24 HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND\
- } God and your arms be praised, victorious friends!\
- The day is ours. The bloody dog is dead.\
- {\b \fs24 STANLEY}{\i (bearing the crown)\
- } Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.\
- Lo, here this long usurpe\'c1d royalty\
- From the dead temples of this bloody wretch {\fs20 5}\
- Have I plucked off, to grace thy brows withal.\
- Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.\
- {\i [He sets the crown on Henry's head]\
- }{\b \fs24 KING HENRY THE SEVENTH\
- } Great God of heaven, say `Amen' to all.\
- But tell me\'b1\'b1young George Stanley, is he living?\
- {\b \fs24 STANLEY\
- } He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town, {\fs20 10}\
- Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY THE SEVENTH\
- } What men of name are slain on either side?\
- {\b \fs24 [STANLEY]}{\i (reads)\
- } John Duke of Norfolk, Robert Brackenbury,\
- Walter Lord Ferrers, and Sir William Brandon.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY THE SEVENTH\
- } Inter their bodies as becomes their births. {\fs20 15}\
- Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled\
- That in submission will return to us,\
- And then\'b1\'b1as we have ta'en the sacrament\'b1\'b1\
- We will unite the white rose and the red.\
- Smile, heaven, upon this fair conjunction, {\fs20 20}\
- That long have frowned upon their enmity.\
- What traitor hears me and says not `Amen'?\
- England hath long been mad, and scarred herself;\
- The brother blindly shed the brother's blood;\
- The father rashly slaughtered his own son; {\fs20 25}\
- The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire;\
- All that divided York and Lancaster,\
- United in their dire division.\
- O now let Richmond and Elizabeth,\
- The true succeeders of each royal house, {\fs20 30}\
- By God's fair ordinance conjoin together,\
- And let their heirs\'b1\'b1God, if his will be so\'b1\'b1\
- Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,\
- With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days.\
- Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, {\fs20 35}\
- That would reduce these bloody days again\
- And make poor England weep forth streams of blood.\
- Let them not live to taste this land's increase,\
- That would with treason wound this fair land's peace.\
- Now civil wounds are stopped; peace lives again. {\fs20 40}\
- That she may long live here, God say `Amen'.\
- {\i [Flourish.] Exeunt\
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