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Act III, Scene 3
1Pomfret Castle.
2Enter Sir Richard Ratcliff, with halberds, carrying Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan to death.
3RatcliffCome, bring forth the prisoners.
4RiversSir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:
To-day shalt thou behold a subject die
For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.
5GreyGod keep the prince from all the pack of you!
A knot you are of damned blood-suckers.
6VaughanYou live that shall cry woe for this hereafter.
7RatcliffDispatch; the limit of your lives is out.
8RiversO Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
Within the guilty closure of thy walls
Richard the second here was hack’d to death;
And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.
9GreyNow Margaret’s curse is fall’n upon our heads,
For standing by when Richard stabb’d her son.
10RiversThen cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,
Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God,
To hear her prayers for them, as now for us!
And for my sister and her princely sons,
Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
Which, as thou know’st, unjustly must be spilt.
11RatcliffMake haste; the hour of death is expiate.
12RiversCome, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:
And take our leave, until we meet in heaven. Exeunt.