{"id":2246,"date":"2013-04-16T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2246"},"modified":"2013-04-16T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:10:18","slug":"richard-iii-act-i-scene-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2246","title":{"rendered":"Richard III; Act I, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard III.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 1, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Richard
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our interview with Jim Wallert and Ron Russell<\/a>)<\/p>\n

1: <\/i> Now is the Winter of our Discontent,
\n2: <\/i> Made glorious Summer by this Son of Yorke:
\n3: <\/i> And all the clouds that lowr’d vpon our house
\n4: <\/i> In the deepe bosome of the Ocean buried.
\n5: <\/i> Now are our browes bound with Victorious Wreathes,
\n6: <\/i> Our bruised armes hung vp for Monuments;
\n7: <\/i> Our sterne Alarums chang’d to merry Meetings;
\n8: <\/i> Our dreadfull Marches, to delightfull Measures.
\n9: <\/i> Grim-visag’d Warre, hath smooth’d his wrinkled Front:
\n10: <\/i> And now, in stead of mounting Barbed Steeds,
\n11: <\/i> To fright the Soules of fearfull Aduersaries,
\n12: <\/i> He capers nimbly in a Ladies Chamber,
\n13: <\/i> To the lasciuious pleasing of a Lute.
\n14: <\/i> But I, that am not shap’d for sportiue trickes,
\n15: <\/i> Nor made to court an amorous Looking-glasse:
\n16: <\/i> I, that am Rudely stampt, and want loues Maiesty,
\n17: <\/i> To strut before a wonton ambling Nymph:
\n18: <\/i> I, that am curtail’d of this faire Proportion,
\n19: <\/i> Cheated of Feature by dissembling Nature,
\n20: <\/i> Deform’d, vn-finish’d, sent before my time
\n21: <\/i> Into this breathing World, scarse halfe made vp,
\n22: <\/i> And that so lamely and vnfashionable,
\n23: <\/i> That dogges barke at me, as I halt by them.
\n24: <\/i> Why I (in this weake piping time of Peace)
\n25: <\/i> Haue no delight to passe away the time,
\n26: <\/i> Vnlesse to see my Shadow in the Sunne,
\n27: <\/i> And descant on mine owne Deformity.
\n28: <\/i> And therefore, since I cannot proue a Louer,
\n29: <\/i> To entertaine these faire well spoken dayes,
\n30: <\/i> I am determined to proue a Villaine,
\n31: <\/i> And hate the idle pleasures of these dayes.
\n32: <\/i> Plots haue I laide, Inductions dangerous,
\n33: <\/i> By drunken Prophesies, Libels, and Dreames,
\n34: <\/i> To set my Brother Clarence<\/i> and the King
\n35: <\/i> In deadly hate, the one against the other:
\n36: <\/i> And if King Edward<\/i> be as true and iust,
\n37: <\/i> As I am Subtle, False, and Treacherous,
\n38: <\/i> This day should Clarence<\/i> closely be mew’d vp:
\n39: <\/i> About a Prophesie, which sayes that G,
\n40: <\/i> Of Edwards<\/i> heyres the murtherer shall be.
\n41: <\/i> Diue thoughts downe to my soule, here Clarence<\/i> comes.<\/p>\n

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