Excerpt from King Richard the Third: A Tragedy Stopplng my greedy ear with their bold deeds But, in the end, (to stop my ear indeed, ) Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise, Ending with, - queen and son, and all are dead.' Tree. Your queen yet lives, and many of your friends But for my lord your son King H. Why, he is dead i - yet speak, I charge thee! Tell thou thy master his suspicion lies, And I will take it as a kind disgrace, And thank thee well, for doing me such wrong. Tres. Would it were wrong to say; but, sir, your fears are true. King H. Yet, for all this, say notmy son is dead. Tree. Sir, I am sorry 1 must forceyou to Believe, what would to h'eav'n I had not seen But in this last battle near Tewksbury, Your son, whose active spirit lent a fire Ev' n to the dullest peasant in our camp, Still made his way where danger stood to oppose him. A braver youth, of more courageous heat, N e'er spurr'd his courser at the trumpet's sound. But who can rule the uncertain chance of war 9 In fine, king Edward won the bloody field, Where both your queen and son were made his pr1soners.' King H. Yet hold: for oh! This prologue lets me 1n To a most fatal tragedy to come. Died he a prisoner say'st thou How by grief? Or by the bloody hands of those that caught him? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.