Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Adrian Kiernander

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Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597)
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 The Tragedy
¶And were they to be rulde, and not to rule,
¶This sickly land might solace as before. 
¶2 Come come, we feare the worst, all shalbe well. 
¶3 When cloudes appeare, wise men put on their clokes: 
1470When great leaues fall, the winter is at hand:
¶When the sunne sets, who doth not looke for night:
¶Vntimely stormes, make men expect a darth:
¶All may be well: but if God sort it so,
¶Tis more then we deserue or I expect. 
14751 Truely the soules of men are full of bread:
¶Yee cannot almost reason with a man
¶That lookes not heauily, and full of feare. 
¶3 Before the times of change still is it so:
¶By a diuine instinct mens mindes mistrust
1480Ensuing dangers, as by proofe we see.
¶The waters swell before a boistrous storme:
¶But leaue it all to God: whither away? 
¶2 We are sent for to the Iustice. 
¶3 And so was I, Ile beare you company.   Exeunt.
¶  Enter Cardinall, Dutches of Yorke, Quee. young Yorke.
¶Car. Last night I heare they lay at Northhampton.
¶At Stonistratford will they be to night,
1490To morrow or next day, they will be here. 
¶Dut. I long with all my heart to see the Prince,
¶I hope he is much growen since last I saw him. 
¶Qu But I heare no, they say my sonne of Yorke
¶Hath almost ouertane him in his growth. 
1495Yor. I mother, but I would not haue it so. 
¶Dut. Why my young Cosen it is good to growe. 
¶Yor. Grandam, one night as we did sit at supper,
¶My Vnckle Riuers talkt how I did grow
¶More then my brother. I quoth my Nnckle Glocester,
1500Small herbes haue grace, great weedes grow apace,
¶And since me thinkes I would not grow so fast:
¶Because sweete flowers are slow, and weedes make haste. 
¶Dut. Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
¶In him that did obiect the same to thee:
1505He was the wretchedst thing when he was young,
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