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Richard III - Act 3, scene 3Act 3, scene 3
Scene 3
Synopsis:
The Queen’s brother Rivers, her son Grey, and Sir Thomas Vaughan are led to execution. They recall Margaret’s curse, and pray that it will fall as well on Hastings, Buckingham, and Richard, whom she also cursed.
Enter Sir Richard Ratcliffe, with Halberds, carrying thenobles ⟨Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan⟩ to death at Pomfret.
RIVERS
1887 Sir Richard Ratcliffe, let me tell thee this:
1888 Today shalt thou behold a subject die
1889 For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.
GREY, ⌜to Ratcliffe⌝
1890 God bless the Prince from all the pack of you!
1891 5 A knot you are of damnèd bloodsuckers.
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VAUGHAN, ⌜to Ratcliffe⌝ 1892 You live that shall cry woe for this hereafter.
RATCLIFFE
1893 Dispatch. The limit of your lives is out.
RIVERS
1894 O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
1895 Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
1896 10 Within the guilty closure of thy walls,
1897 Richard the Second here was hacked to death,
1898 And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
1899 We give to thee our guiltless blood to drink.
GREY
1900 Now Margaret’s curse is fall’n upon our heads,
1901 15 When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and I,
1902 For standing by when Richard stabbed her son.
RIVERS
1903 Then cursed she Richard. Then cursed she
1904 Buckingham.
1905 Then cursed she Hastings. O, remember, God,
1906 20 To hear her prayer for them as now for us!
1907 And for my sister and her princely sons,
1908 Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
1909 Which, as thou know’st, unjustly must be spilt.
RATCLIFFE
1910 Make haste. The hour of death is expiate.
RIVERS
1911 25 Come, Grey. Come, Vaughan. Let us here embrace.
⌜They embrace.⌝
1912 Farewell until we meet again in heaven.
They exit.