Richard the Third (Folio 1, 1623)
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Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.
¶
Enter Buckingham with Halberds, led
¶to Execution.
¶Sher. No my good Lord, therefore be patient.
¶Holy King Henry, and thy faire Sonne Edward,
¶Vaughan, and all that haue miscarried
¶By vnder-hand corrupted foule iniustice,
3380Do through the clowds behold this present houre,
¶Euen for reuenge mocke my destruction.
¶This is All-soules day (Fellow) is it not?
¶Sher. It is.
3385This is the day, which in King Edwards time
¶I wish'd might fall on me, when I was found
¶False to his Children, and his Wiues Allies.
¶This is the day, wherein I wisht to fall
3390This, this All-soules day to my fearfull Soule,
¶Is the determin'd respit of my wrongs:
¶That high All-seer, which I dallied with,
¶Hath turn'd my fained Prayer on my head,
3395Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
¶Thus Margarets curse falles heauy on my necke:
3400Come leade me Officers to the blocke of shame,
¶Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
¶
Exeunt Buckingham with Officers.
