{"id":3478,"date":"2014-08-21T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3478"},"modified":"2014-08-21T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T01:39:42","slug":"richard-iii-act-iv-scene-iv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3478","title":{"rendered":"Richard III: Act IV, Scene iv"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard III\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Act IV, Scene iv\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 King Richard<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our interview with Drew Cortese<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0to\u00a0open a scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0to\u00a0open up the First Folio Version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to open the Drew Cortese cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

304\u00a0 Look, what is done cannot be now amended:
\n305\u00a0 Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
\n306\u00a0 Which after hours give leisure to repent.
\n307\u00a0 If I did take the kingdom from your sons,
\n308\u00a0 To make amends, I\u2019ll give it to your daughter.
\n309\u00a0 If I have kill’d the issue of your womb,
\n310\u00a0 To quicken your increase, I will beget
\n311\u00a0 Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter
\n312\u00a0 A grandam’s name is little less in love
\n313\u00a0 Than is the doting title of a mother;
\n314\u00a0 They are as children but one step below,
\n315\u00a0 Even of your mettle, of your very blood;
\n316\u00a0 Of an one pain, save for a night of groans
\n317\u00a0 Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.
\n318\u00a0 Your children were vexation to your youth,
\n319\u00a0 But mine shall be a comfort to your age.
\n320\u00a0 The loss you have is but a son being king,
\n321\u00a0 And by that loss your daughter is made queen.
\n322\u00a0 I cannot make you what amends I would,
\n323\u00a0 Therefore accept such kindness as I can.
\n324\u00a0 Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul
\n325\u00a0 Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,
\n326\u00a0 This fair alliance quickly shall call home
\n327\u00a0 To high promotions and great dignity:
\n328\u00a0 The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.
\n329\u00a0 Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother;
\n330\u00a0 Again shall you be mother to a king,
\n331\u00a0 And all the ruins of distressful times
\n332\u00a0 Repair’d with double riches of content.
\n333\u00a0 What! we have many goodly days to see:
\n334\u00a0 The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
\n335\u00a0 Shall come again, transform’d to orient pearl,
\n336\u00a0 Advantaging their loan with interest
\n337\u00a0 Of ten times double gain of happiness.
\n338\u00a0 Go, then my mother, to thy daughter go
\n339\u00a0 Make bold her bashful years with your experience;
\n340\u00a0 Prepare her ears to hear a wooer’s tale
\n341\u00a0 Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame
\n342\u00a0 Of golden sovereignty; acquaint the princess
\n343\u00a0 With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys
\n344\u00a0 And when this arm of mine hath chastised
\n345\u00a0 The petty rebel, dull-brain’d Buckingham,
\n346\u00a0 Bound with triumphant garlands will I come
\n347\u00a0 And lead thy daughter to a conqueror’s bed;
\n348\u00a0 To whom I will retail my conquest won,
\n349\u00a0 And she shall be sole victress, Caesar’s Caesar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard III\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Act IV, Scene iv\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 King Richard (This text is featured in our interview with Drew Cortese) Click here\u00a0to\u00a0open a scanned version. Click here\u00a0to\u00a0open up the First Folio Version. Click here to open the Drew Cortese cut. 304\u00a0 Look, what is done cannot<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3478","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-U6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3478\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}