Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597)
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The Tragedie
3855But tell me, is yong George Stanley liuing.
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Iohn Duke of Norffolke, Water Lord Ferris, sir
3860 Robert Brookenbury, & sir William Brandon.
¶Rich. Inter their bodies as become their births,
¶Proclaime a pardon to the soldiers fled,
¶And then as we haue tane the sacrament,
3865We will vnite the white rose and the red,
¶Smile heauen vpon this faire coniunction,
¶That long haue frownd vpon their enmitie,
¶What traitor heares me and saies not Amen?
3870The brother blindlie shed the brothers bloud,
¶All this deuided Yorke and Lancaster,
¶Deuided in their dire deuision.
3875O now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
¶By Gods faire ordinance conioine together,
¶And let their heires (God if thy will be so)
¶Abate the edge of traitors gracious Lord,
¶That would reduce these bloudy daies againe,
¶And make poore England weepe in streames of bloud,
3885That would with treason wound this faire lands peace,
¶Now ciuill wounds are stopt, peace liues againe,
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