KING RICHARD THE THIRD

Act AP Scene H

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l1l	Richard Gloucester	 If not to answer, you might haply think
l2l		Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
l3l		To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
l4l		Which fondly you would here impose on me.
l5l		If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
l6l		So seasoned with your faithful love to me,
l7l		Then on the other side I checked my friends.
l8l		Therefore to speak, and to avoid the first,
l9l		And then in speaking not to incur the last,
l10l		Definitively thus I answer you.