KING RICHARD THE THIRD

Act AP Scene A

	[[After 1.2.154# the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
	analysis]]
l1l	Richard Gloucester	 These eyes, which never shed remorseful tear—
l2l		No, when my father York and Edward wept
l3l		To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made
l4l		When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him#
l5l		Nor when thy warlike father like a child
l6l		Told the sad story of my father’s death
l7l		And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,
l8l		That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks
l9l		Like trees bedashed with rain. In that sad time
l10l		My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear,
l11l		And what these sorrows could not thence exhale
l12l		Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.