God and your arms 3846be praised, victorious friends,

5.5.438473447The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.

Courageous Richmond, 3849well hast thou acquit thee;

5.5.638503449Lo, here this long-usurpèd royalty

5.5.738513450From the dead temples of this bloody wretch

5.5.838523451Have I plucked off to grace thy brows withal;

5.5.938533452Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.

Great God of heaven, say "Amen" to all.

5.5.1238553454But tell me, is young George Stanley living?

He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town,

5.5.1438573456Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.

What men of name are slain on either side?

5.5.1638593458[Stanley] [Reads.]

Inter their bodies as become their births,

5.5.1938623461Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled

5.5.2038633462That in submission will return to us

5.5.2138643463And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,

5.5.2238653464We will unite the white rose and the red;

5.5.2338663465Smile, heaven, upon this fair conjunction

5.5.2438673466That long have frowned upon their enmity.

5.5.2538683467What traitor hears me and says not "Amen?"

5.5.2638693468England hath long been mad and scarred herself,

5.5.2738703469The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,

5.5.2838713470The father rashly slaughtered his own son,

5.5.2938723471The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire;

5.5.3038733472All this divided York and Lancaster,

5.5.3138743473Divided in a dire division.

5.5.3238753474Oh, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,

5.5.3338763475The true succeeders of each royal House,

5.5.3438773476By God's fair ordinance conjoin together,

5.5.3538783477And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so,

5.5.3638793478Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,

5.5.3738803479With smiling plenty and fair, prosperous days;

5.5.3838813480Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,

5.5.3938823481That would reduce these bloody days again

5.5.4038833482And make poor England weep in streams of blood:

5.5.4138843483Let them not live to taste this land's increase

5.5.4238853484That would with treason wound this fair land's peace.

5.5.4338863485Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again;

5.5.4438873486That she may long live here, God say "Amen."