James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].
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SCENE II.
Plain near Tamworth.
Enter, with Drum and Colours, Richmond, Oxford9 note, Sir James Blunt1 note, Sir Walter Herbert, and Others, with Forces, marching.
Richm.
Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,
Bruis'd underneath the yoke of tyranny,
Thus far into the bowels2 note of the land
Have we march'd on without impediment;
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 blood3 note
like wash, and makes his trough
-- 207 --
In your embowell'd bosoms4 note
, this foul swine
Lies now5 note even in the center 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,
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
Oxf.
Every man's conscience is a thousand swords6 note
,
To fight against that bloody homicide.
Herb.
I doubt not, but his friends will turn to us.
Blunt.
He hath no friends, but who are friends for fear;
Which, in his dearest need, will fly from him.
-- 208 --
Richm.
All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings6 note
,
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
[Exeunt.
James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].
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