This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...exclaiming to all three: "Out on ye, owls! nothing but songs of death? There, take thou that, till thou bring better news," The struck messenger then explains to his great advantage that Buckingham's army has been dispersed by recent floods, and the duke himself has: "Wander'd away alone, No man knows whither." Richard ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...exclaiming to all three: "Out on ye, owls! nothing but songs of death? There, take thou that, till thou bring better news," The struck messenger then explains to his great advantage that Buckingham's army has been dispersed by recent floods, and the duke himself has: "Wander'd away alone, No man knows whither." Richard, relieved and grimly joking, replies: "I cry thee mercy: There is iny purse to cure that blow of thine." A fourth messenger then comes announcing that Dorset and Sir Thomas Lovel are in arms, but that Richmond has returned from England to France again. This latter intelligence is untrue, but Richard, partly believing it, exclaims fiercely: "March on, march on, since we are up in arms; If not to fight with foreign enemies, Yet to beat down these rebels here at home." The zealous Catesby, now Richard's chief confidant, enters, exclaiming with delight: "My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken; That is the best news: That the Earl of Richmond Is with a mighty power landed at Milford Is colder news, but yet they must be told." Richard, alike impatient and vindictive, promptly exclaims at this news: "Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here A royal battle might be won and lost." Then recollecting the doomed fallen favourite, he adds with suppressed ferocity: "Some one take order Buckingham be brought To Salisbury; the rest march on with me." This brief yet fatal order is the only allusion this implacable tyrant makes to his former chief adherent, now his prisoner, and soon to be his victim.1 The next scene, 1 In some dramatic versions of this famous play, Richard is represented exclaiming: "Off with his head, so much for Buckingham." But these words, though much i...
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