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Alarum.

Scene V.

Another part of the field.

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 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
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?
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. Richm. Inter their bodies as becomes their births: 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,

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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,

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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: 40 That she may long live here, God say amen!

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Traitors' Gate.

From Visscher's View of London, C. 1620.

Acquit, acquitted; V. v. 3. Acquittance, acquit; III. vii.

233.

Adulterate, adulterous; IV. iv.

69.

Advance, raise; V. iii. 264.

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Advantage, opportunity (Folios, vantage"); III. v. 74. Advantaging, increasing; IV. iv. 323.

Adventure, risk, hazard; I. iii. 116.

Adverse, opposing; IV. iv. 190. Advertised, informed; IV. iv. 501.

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Advised, well a.," in sound senses, not mad"; I. iii. 318.

Advised, "be a.," reflect, consider; II. i. 107.

Aery, brood of an eagle or hawk, a brood of nestlings; I. iii. 264.

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Affected; doth stand a.," is disposed; III. i. 171.

A-high, on high; IV. iv. 86. Almost; 'cannot almost," i.e.

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can hardly; II. iii. 39. Amaze, affright; V. iii. 341. Ambling, moving in an affected manner; I. i. 17.

Amity, friendship; I. iii. 281. Ancient, old; III. i. 182. Annoy, injury, harm; V. iii. 156.

Anointed, consecrated by unction; one of the ceremonials in the coronation of sovereigns; IV. i. 62.

Answer, answer for, be responsible for; IV. ii. 97.

Apparent, manifest; III. v. 30. Arbitrement, decision; V. iii. 89.

Arch, wicked; IV. iii. 2.

As, that (Folios, "that"); III. iv. 40.

At once, in brief, without more

ado; III. iv. I.

Atonement, reconciliation; I. iii. 36.

Attainder, taint; III. v. 32. Attorney; "by a.," by proxy; V. iii. 83.

Aweless, inspiring no awe (Quartos, "lawlesse"); II. iv. 52.

Baited at, harassed, worried; I.

iii. 109.

Bar, debar, exclude; III. ii. 54. Barbed, armed and harnessed

for war; I. i. 10. Basilisk, the fabulous creature supposed to kill by its look; ข. "cockatrice"; I. ii. 151. Battalion, army (Folios, "Battalia"; perhaps Italian battaglia, battle); V. iii. II. Battle, army; V. iii. 88. Baynard's Castle, the residence

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Bid, bore; IV. iv. 304. Bobb'd, drubbed, thumped; V. iii. 334.

Book, note-book; III. v. 27. Boot, given into the bargain; IV. iv. 65.

Boot, "to b.," i.e. for our help; V. iii. 301.

Bootless, useless; III. iv. 104. Bottled, bloated; I. iii. 242. Bought and sold, deceived, betrayed; a proverbial phrase; V. iii. 305.

Braved, made brave, adorned; V. iii. 279.

Brecknock, Brecknock Castle in South Wales; IV. ii. 126.

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Cacodemon, evil demon, evil spirit; I. iii. 144.

Caitiff, wretch; IV. iv. 100. Capable, quick to apprehend, of good capacity; III. i. 155. Caparison, put on the trappings, cover with a horsecloth; V. iii. 289. Careful, full of care; I. iii. 83. Carnal, flesh-eating, blood

thirsty; IV. iv. 56. Censures, opinions; II. ii. 144. Chair, throne; IV. iv. 470. Chamber, London was called the king's chamber soon after the Conquest; III. i. I. Characters, used quibblingly in double sense (1) written

signs, (2) marked dispositions; III. i. 81.

Charge, command, post; V. iii. 25.

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Charge; given in c." commanded; I. i. 85.

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Charges, expense; I. ii. 256. Charity; my charity," the charity shown to me; I iii. 277.

Cheerly, cheerfully; V. ii. 14. Christian (trisyllabic); III. v. 26. Circumstance, detailed argument; I. ii. 77.

Cited up, recounted; I. iv. 14. Close, strictly confined; IV. ii. 54.

Close, secret; I. i. 158; IV. ii. 35.

Closely, secretly; III. i. 159. Closure, enclosure; III. iii. II. Cloudy, having cloudy looks; II. ii. 112.

Cockatrice, a fabulous creature supposed to

kill

by its

glance; (v. "basilisk "); IV. i. 55. Cock-shut

time, twilight ("cock-shut"=a kind of net used for catching woodcocks, generally set in the dusk of the evening); V. iii. 70.

Cog, deceive, cheat; I. iii. 48. Competitors, confederates; IV. iv. 506.

Complots, plots; III. i. 192. Conceit, conception, idea; III. iv. 51.

Concluded, officially recorded; I. iii. 15.

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