The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ACT V
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. Salisbury. An open place. SCENE II. The camp near Tamworth. SCENE III. Bosworth Field. SCENE IV. Another part of the field. SCENE V. Another part of the field. About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE II. The camp near Tamworth. Enter RICHMOND, OXFORD, BLUNT, HERBERT, and others, with drum and colours RICHMOND       Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,       Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,       Thus far into the bowels of the land       Have we march'd on without impediment; 5     And here receive we from our father Stanley       Lines of fair comfort and encouragement.       The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,       That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines,       Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough 10    In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine       Lies now even in the centre of this isle,       Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn       From Tamworth thither is but one day's march.       In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends, 15    To reap the harvest of perpetual peace       By this one bloody trial of sharp war. OXFORD       Every man's conscience is a thousand swords,       To fight against that bloody homicide. HERBERT       I doubt not but his friends will fly to us. BLUNT 20    He hath no friends but who are friends for fear.       Which in his greatest need will shrink from him. RICHMOND       All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:       True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:       Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene