King Richard III: A Tragedy, in Five Acts (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Shakespeare

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9780332953069: King Richard III: A Tragedy, in Five Acts (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332953068 ISBN 13: 9780332953069

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Eater Loan Summer. My noble lord, you're welcome to the Tower I heard last night you late arrived with news Oi' Edward's victory to his joyful queen. Stanley. Yes, sir; and I am proud 'to be the man. That first: brought home the last of civil broils The houses now of York and Lancaster, Like blood brothers. Fighting for a birthright. No more s ll wound the parent, that would part them Edward now sits more on En land's throne. Lieut. Near Tewksbury, my ord, I think they fought Has the enemy lost any men of note? M. Sir, I was posted imme, Ere an account was taken of the slain: But. As I left the field, a proclamation, From the king, was made in search of Edward. Son to your prisoner, King Henry the Sixth, Which gave row-d to those discovering him, And him his life, if he'd surrender. Liens. 'i'hatihgave young prince, 1 fear. 's unlike his fa t r, Too high of heart, to brook submissive life This will be beav news to Henry's car, For on thisgttl II is! His alli ?ss set. F' a Stanley. Enry and il ortune are em' iar; He ever threwnerith an indnfi'erent' hand. Bnt never at was known to lose his patience. How does pass the time in his confinement Lieu. As one whose wishes never reach'd a The king seems dead in him - hut, as a man, He sighs sometimes in want of liberty. Sometimes he reads, and walks, and wishes. That fate had blessed him with an humbler birth. Not to have felt the falling 20: a throne.

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