Richard III<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Act IV, Scene iv<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This speech is used in our interview with Toby Malone and Aili Huber<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Struck through lines reflect lines cut for reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n Original scene: 89 lines<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cut scene: 51 lines<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Richard III Act IV, Scene iv This speech is used in our interview with Toby Malone and Aili Huber. Struck through lines reflect lines cut for reading Original scene: 89 lines Cut scene: 51 lines RICHARD III Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise And dangerous success of bloody wars, As I intend more good<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-7827","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-22f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7827","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=7827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7827\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}RICHARD III\t\tMadam, so thrive I in my enterprise\nAnd dangerous success of bloody wars,\nAs I intend more good to you and yours,\nThan ever you or yours were by me wrong'd!<\/s>\n\nELIZABETH\t\tBe brief, lest that be process of thy kindness\nLast longer telling than thy kindness' date.<\/s>\n\nRICHARD III\t\tThen know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.<\/s>\n\nELIZABETH\t\tMy daughter's mother thinks it with her soul.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tWhat do you think?<\/s>\n\nELIZABETH\t\tThat thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:\nSo from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers;\nAnd from my heart's love I do thank thee for it.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tBe not so hasty to confound my meaning:\nI mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,\nAnd mean to make her queen of England.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tSay then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?\n\nRICHARD III\t\tEven he that makes her queen who should be else?\n\nELIZABETH\t\tWhat, thou?<\/s>\n\nRICHARD III\t\tI, even I: what think you of it, madam?\n\nELIZABETH\t\tHow canst thou woo her?\n\nRICHARD III\t\tThat would I learn of you,\nAs one that are best acquainted with her humor.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tSend to her, by the man that slew her brothers,\nA pair of bleeding-hearts; thereon engrave\nEdward and York; then haply she will weep:\n\nRICHARD III\t\tSay that I did all this for love of her.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tNay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,\nHaving bought love with such a bloody spoil.<\/s>\n\nRICHARD III\t\tIf I did take the kingdom from your sons,\nTo make amends, I'll give it to your daughter.\nThe loss you have is but a son being king,\nAnd by that loss your daughter is made queen.\nGo, then my mother, to thy daughter go\nPrepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale\u2026\n\nELIZABETH\t\tWhat were I best to say? her father's brother\nWould be her lord? or shall I say, her uncle?\nOr, he that slew her brothers and her uncles?\n\nRICHARD III\t\tSay that the king, which may command, entreats.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tThat at her hands which the king's King forbids.<\/s>\n\nRICHARD III\t\tSay, she shall be a high and mighty queen.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tTo wail the title, as her mother doth.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tSay, I will love her everlastingly.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tBut how long shall that title 'ever' last?\n\nRICHARD III\t\tSweetly in force unto her fair life's end.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tBut how long fairly shall her sweet life last?\n\nRICHARD III\t\tSo long as heaven and nature lengthens it.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tSo long as hell and Richard likes of it.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tYour reasons are too shallow and too quick.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tO no, my reasons are too deep and dead;\nToo deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tHarp not on that string, madam; that is past.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tHarp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tNow, by my George, my garter, and my crown,--\n\nELIZABETH\t\tProfaned, dishonour'd, and the third usurp'd.\nIf something thou wilt swear to be believed,\nSwear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tNow, by the world--\n\nELIZABETH\t\t'Tis full of thy foul wrongs.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tMy father's death--\n\nELIZABETH\t\tThy life hath that dishonour'd.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tThen, by myself--\n\nELIZABETH\t\tThyself thyself misusest.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tWhy then, by God--\n\nELIZABETH\t\tGod's wrong is most of all.\nWhat canst thou swear by now?\n\nRICHARD III\t\tThe time to come.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tSwear not by time to come; for that thou hast\nMisused ere used, by time misused o'erpast.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tIn her consists my happiness and thine;\nWithout her, follows to this land and me,\nTo thee, herself, and many a Christian soul,\nDeath, desolation, ruin and decay:\nIt cannot be avoided but by this;\nIt will not be avoided but by this.\nTherefore, good mother,--I must can you so--\nBe the attorney of my love to her:<\/s>\n\nELIZABETH\t\tShall I forget myself to be myself?\n\nRICHARD III\t\tAy, if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tBut thou didst kill my children.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tBut in your daughter's womb I bury them:\nWhere in that nest of spicery they shall breed\nSelves of themselves, to your recomforture.<\/s>\n\nELIZABETH\t\tShall I go win my daughter to thy will?\n\nRICHARD III\t\tAnd be a happy mother by the deed.\n\nELIZABETH\t\tI go. Write to me very shortly.\nAnd you shall understand from me her mind.\n\nRICHARD III\t\tBear her my true love's kiss; and so, farewell.<\/s>\n\nExit QUEEN ELIZABETH\n\nRelenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!<\/s><\/pre>\n\n\n\n