. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. ouse,By Gods fair ordinance conjoin together!And let their heirs, (God, if thy will be so,)Enrich the time to come with smooth-facdpeace, Theyjifjht; Richard is slain. This is the stage-directionof all the old copies, and it is important to preserve, asshowing the cour^e of the dramatic action. In the moderneditions we have. Enter King Richard and Richmond;and exeunt Jighting. i> So the folio ; the quartos, this long-usurped royalty. <= So the folio; the quartos, fVTiither, if it please you, ivemay now, &c. 311 Act v.] KING RICHARD III.


. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. ouse,By Gods fair ordinance conjoin together!And let their heirs, (God, if thy will be so,)Enrich the time to come with smooth-facdpeace, Theyjifjht; Richard is slain. This is the stage-directionof all the old copies, and it is important to preserve, asshowing the cour^e of the dramatic action. In the moderneditions we have. Enter King Richard and Richmond;and exeunt Jighting. i> So the folio ; the quartos, this long-usurped royalty. <= So the folio; the quartos, fVTiither, if it please you, ivemay now, &c. 311 Act v.] KING RICHARD III. [ IV. With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days !Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,That would reduce® these bloody days make poor England weep in streams ofblood! « Reduce—hring back—tlie Latin form of the word. Let them not live to taste this lands increase,That would with treason wound this fair lands peace!Now civil wounds are stoppd, peace lives again ;That she may long live here, God say—Amen! [ [Scene IV. Boswortli Field.] 312


Size: 2055px × 1216px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookauthorshakespearewilliam15641616, bookcentury1800, bookdecad