The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth. Уильям Шекспир
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Название: The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth

Автор: Уильям Шекспир

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СКАЧАТЬ more inhuman, more inexorable-

          O, ten times more- than tigers of Hyrcania.

          See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears.

          This cloth thou dipp'dst in blood of my sweet boy,

          And I with tears do wash the blood away.

          Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this;

          And if thou tell'st the heavy story right,

          Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears;

          Yea, even my foes will shed fast-falling tears

          And say 'Alas, it was a piteous deed!'

          There, take the crown, and with the crown my curse;

          And in thy need such comfort come to thee

          As now I reap at thy too cruel hand!

          Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world;

          My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads!

        NORTHUMBERLAND. Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin,

          I should not for my life but weep with him,

          To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.

        QUEEN MARGARET. What, weeping-ripe, my Lord Northumberland?

          Think but upon the wrong he did us all,

          And that will quickly dry thy melting tears.

        CLIFFORD. Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death.

                                                        [Stabbing him]

        QUEEN MARGARET. And here's to right our gentle-hearted king.

                                                        [Stabbing him]

        YORK. Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God!

          My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee.

                                                                [Dies]

        QUEEN MARGARET. Off with his head, and set it on York gates;

          So York may overlook the town of York.

Flourish. Exeunt

      ACT II. SCENE I. A plain near Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire

      A march. Enter EDWARD, RICHARD, and their power

        EDWARD. I wonder how our princely father scap'd,

          Or whether he be scap'd away or no

          From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit.

          Had he been ta'en, we should have heard the news;

          Had he been slain, we should have heard the news;

          Or had he scap'd, methinks we should have heard

          The happy tidings of his good escape.

          How fares my brother? Why is he so sad?

        RICHARD. I cannot joy until I be resolv'd

          Where our right valiant father is become.

          I saw him in the battle range about,

          And watch'd him how he singled Clifford forth.

          Methought he bore him in the thickest troop

          As doth a lion in a herd of neat;

          Or as a bear, encompass'd round with dogs,

          Who having pinch'd a few and made them cry,

          The rest stand all aloof and bark at him.

          So far'd our father with his enemies;

          So fled his enemies my warlike father.

          Methinks 'tis prize enough to be his son.

          See how the morning opes her golden gates

          And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.

          How well resembles it the prime of youth,

          Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love!

        EDWARD. Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?

        RICHARD. Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun;

          Not separated with the racking clouds,

          But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky.

          See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss,

          As if they vow'd some league inviolable.

          Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.

          In this the heaven figures some event.

        EDWARD. 'Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of.

          I think it cites us, brother, to the field,

          That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet,

          Each one already blazing by our meeds,

          Should notwithstanding join our lights together

          And overshine the earth, as this the world.

          Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I bear

          Upon my target three fair shining suns.

        RICHARD. Nay, bear three daughters- by your leave I speak it,

          You love the breeder better than the male.

      Enter a MESSENGER, blowing

          But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell

          Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue?

        MESSENGER. Ah, one that was a woeful looker-on

          When as the noble Duke of York was slain,

          Your princely father and my loving lord!

        EDWARD. O, speak no more! for I have heard too much.

        RICHARD. Say how he died, for I will hear it all.

        MESSENGER. Environed he was with many foes,

          And stood against them as the hope of Troy

          Against the Greeks that would have ent'red Troy.

          But Hercules himself must yield to odds;

          And many strokes, though with a little axe,

          Hews down and fells the hardest-timber'd oak.

          By many hands your father was subdu'd;

          But only slaught'red by the ireful arm

          Of unrelenting Clifford and the Queen,

          Who crown'd the gracious Duke in high despite,

          Laugh'd in his face; and when with grief he wept,

          The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks

          A napkin steeped in the harmless blood

          Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain;

          And after many scorns, many foul taunts,

          They СКАЧАТЬ