Enter a Messenger.

What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?
Mess. My lord, he doth deny to come.

K. Rich. Off with his son George's head!

Nor. My lord, the enemy is past the marsh : After the battle let George Stanley die.

345

K. Rich. A thousand hearts are great .within my

bosom :

Advance our standards, set upon our foes;
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

Upon them! Victory sits on our helms.

SCENE IV. Another part of the field.

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[Exeunt.

Alarum: excursions. Enter NORFOLK and forces fighting; to him CATESBY.

Cate. Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!
The king enacts more wonders than a man,
Daring an opposite to every danger
His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!

342 Enter...] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
343 come] come to you Capell.
344 Off] Off instantly Hanmer.

with his] with's S. Walker conj.

351 on] one Q7.

helms] helmes QQQ4Q8 helpes Q3 Q5Q6F1Q7F2 helps F3F4

[Exeunt.] Q1Q2. The rest omit. Drums, and Exeunt. Capell. SCENE IV.] Capell. SCENE VII. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE VIII. Pope (ed. 2).

Scene continued in Ff.
Another...] Capell.

Alarum excursions.] QqFf.

5

Enter Norfolk......] Capell. Enter
Catesby. QqFf.

1 Rescue...rescue!] One line in Qq.
Two in Ff.

3 Daring an opposite] Daring and opposite Qs. A daring opposite Warburton conj.

Alarums. Enter KING RICHARD.

K. Rich. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! Cate. Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse. K. Rich. Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. I think there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain to-day instead of him. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

SCENE V. Another part of the field.

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[Exeunt.

Alarum. Enter RICHARD and RICHMOND; they fight. RICHARD is slain. Retreat and flourish. Re-enter RICHMOND, DERBY bearing the crown, with divers other Lords.

Richm. God and your arms arms be be praised, victorious

friends!

The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead.

Der. Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.

Lo, here, this long usurped royalty

From the dead temples of this bloody wretch

5

Lords. Qq (Lords, &c. Q1). See note (XXVII).

1 God...friends!] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

arms] arme Q7.

2 dog] hog quoted by Rann.

3, &c. Der.] Stan. Pope.

3, 4 Courageous...royalty] As in Qq. As three lines in Ff, ending Richmond...Loe... Royalties.

4 this...royalty] Q this...roialties Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5Q6Q7Q8 these...... Royalties

Ff.

Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal:
Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.

Richm. Great God of heaven, say amen to all!
But, tell me, is young George Stanley living?

10

Der. He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town; Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us. Richm. What men of name are slain on either side? Der. John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers, Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.

20

Richm. Inter their bodies as becomes their births: 15 Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled, That in submission will return to us: And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament, We will unite the white rose and the red. Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction, That long have frown'd upon their enmity! What traitor hears me, and says not amen? England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,

7 enjoy it] QQ2. The rest omit.

make much] make use Rowe.

9 tell me] tell me first Pope. tell me pray Keightley. tell me now Dyce (ed. 2).

young] your son Capell. 11 Whither] Whether Q1Q7Q8F3

if it please you] Qq (ift Qg pleafe
Q1). if you please Ff. if you so
please Pope.

if...us] if you please we will with-
draw us now Keightley conj.
now] Qq. om. Ff.

12 name] QqF,F. note F2F.

13 Der.] Ff. om. Qq.

13, 14 John......Brandon.] As prose in

Qq.

25

25

The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:
All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided in their dire division,

O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so,
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land's increase,
That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again :
That she may long live here, God say amen!

26 son...butcher...the] sonnes...butcher ...the F2. sons...butcher...the F3. Sons... Butchers... the F sons... butchers...their Johnson.

sire] father Q8.

27, 28 All...division,] Put in the mar-
gin by Pope.

27 this] that Rann (Johnson conj.).
27, 28 Lancaster, Divided] Lancaster.
Divided Grant White. Lancaster
Divided Perring conj.

28 Divided in their] Did usher in. Their
Anon. conj.

division,] Rann (Johnson conj.).

division. QqFf.

30

335

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[Exeunt.

NOTES.

NOTE I.

THE first and second Folios give the title of this play as follows: 'The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field.' The third and fourth Folios give the same except that for 'Earle Richmond,' they have 'the Earl of Richmond.' The running title in all is: 'The Life and Death of Richard the Third.' The Acts and Scenes are marked throughout in the Folios, but not in the Quartos.

NOTE II.

1. 1. 98–100. Pope reconstructed the whole passage thus:
'What, fellow? nought to do with mistress Shore?

I tell you Sir, he that doth naught with her,
Excepting one, were best to do it secretly.'

Steevens, rejecting the word 'alone' as an interpolation, would arrange the last and the following lines thus:

Glou. Her husband, knave:-Wouldst thou betray me?'

Capell also had omitted 'alone,' but made an Alexandrine by continuing the line to 'my lord.'

NOTE III.

I. 3. 17. Theobald substitutes 'Stanley' for 'Derby' throughout, observing, 'This is a blunder of inadvertence, which has run thro' the