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KING RICHARD
Car’s! with thy frozen admonition
Make pale our cheek ; chasing the royal blood.
With fury, from his native residence.
Now by my lim’Sb'ight royal majesty,
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Wert thou not brother to great Edwards son.
This tongue, that runs so rounclSy*iiTtiiy head,
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Gaunt. 0, spare me not, my brother Edward’s son, 125
For that I was his father Edward’s son ;
That blood already, like the pelican,
r ' • '1 "Hast thou tapp’d out, and drunkenly carous’d : V . .
My’brother Gloster, plain well-meaning soul
(Whom fair befall in heaven ’mongst happy souls !)
May be a precedent and witness good,
That thou fespect’st hot spilling Edward’s blood:
Join with the present sickness that I have ;
And biy unkindness be like crooked__age, \ ? < * r * !'
To crop at once a too-long wither’d flower. V '
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee'!—
These words hereafter thy tormentors be !—
Convey me to my bed, then to my grave :
Love they to live that love and honour have.
[Exit, borne out by his Attendants.
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For both hast thou, and both become the grave.
York. I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
To wayward sickliness and age in him :
He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear ( -tu
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iJJ/t. 'Right; you say true: as Hereford*s- love, so his :
As theirs, so mine ; and all be as it is. 1
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Enter Northumberland.
North. My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty.
K. Rich. What says he 1
North, Nay, nothing ; all is said ;