Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597)
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of Richard the third.
¶Will I withal endow a child of thine,
3030So in the Lethe of thy angrie soule,
¶Last longer telling then thy kindnes doe.
¶King. What do you thinke?
¶And from my harts loue I do thanke thee for it.
¶I meane that with my soule I loue thy daughter,
¶And meane to make her Queene of England.
¶Qu. What thou?
¶King I euen I, what thinke you of it Maddame?
¶King That would I learne of you.
¶As one that are best acquainted with her humor.
¶Qu. And wilt thou learn of me?
¶A paire of bleeding harts thereon ingraue,
¶Edward and Yorke, then happelie she wil weepe,
¶Did to thy father, a handkercher steept in Rutlands bloud,
¶And bid her drie her weeping eies therewith,
¶If this inducement force her not to loue,
¶Send her a storie of thy noble acts,
3065Tel her thou madst awaie her Vncle Clarence,
¶Her Vncle Riuers, yea, and for her sake
¶King Come, come, you mocke me, this is not the waie
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