Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

1 MURDERER

in Richard the Third — Shakespeare, William

Metadata

PlayRichard the Third
AuthorShakespeare, William
Year (catalogued)1592
Decade1590s
Speech prefix(es)1. Mur. | 1
Words396
Characters2041
Typicality0.35 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA11954.23
ClusterCluster 15 — Devils, vices & grotesques

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Full speech

Ho, who's here? So do not I: go Coward as thou art. Well, I'll go hide the body in some hold, Till that the Duke give order for his burial: And when I have my meed, I will away, For this will out, and then I must not stay. You may sir, it's a point of wisdom: Far you well. No: he'll say 'twas done cowardly, when he wakes Why then he'll say, we stabbed him sleeping. What? art thou afraid? I thought thou hadst been resolute. I'll back to the Duke of Glouster, and tell him so. How dost thou feel thy self now? Remember our Reward, when the deed's done. Where's thy conscience now. When he opens his purse to give us our Reward, thy Conscience flies out. What if it come to thee again? It's even now at my elbow, persuading me not to kill the Dkue. I am strong framed, he cannot prevail with me. Take him on the Costard, with the hilts of thy Sword, and then throw him into the Malmesey-Butte in the next room. Soft, he wakes. No, we'll reason with him. A man, as you are. Nor you as we are, Loyal. My voice is now the Kings, my looks mine own. Offended us you have not, but the King. What we will do, we do upon command. And Like a Traitor to the name of God, Didst break that Vow, and with thy treacherous blade, Vnrip'st the Bowels of thy Sovereigns Son. How canst thou urge Gods dreadful Law to us, When thou hast broke it in such deer degree? Who made thee then a bloody minister, When gallant springing brave Plantagenet, That Princely Novice was struck dead by thee? Thy Brother's Love, our Duty, and thy Faults, Provoke us hither now, to slaughter thee. I so we will. I Millstones, as he lessoned us to weep. Right, as Snow in Harvest: Come, you deceive your self, It's he that sends us to destroy you here. Why so he does, when he delivers you From this earth's thraldom, to the joys of heaven. Relent? no: It's cowardly and womanish. Take that, and that, if all this will not do, I'll drown you in the Malmesey-But within. How now? what meanest thou that thou helpest me not? By Heaven the Duke shall know how slack you have been.