Anon. [1823], King Richard III. Travestie, a burlesque, operatic, mock terrific tragedy, in two acts. Marked with the stage business and directions by the author (Published by E. Duncombe [etc.], London) [word count] [S39700].
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SCENE IV.
—The Country near Moulsey Hurst.
Enter Richmond, Oxford, Blunt, and others, L. H. U. E.
Rich.
Thus far we've march'd into the land,
And now I think we'll make a stand.
Glos'ter, that great angry boar and glutton,
Whose appetite has stripp'd your fields of mutton,
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Is now, as I've been told, within a mile.
So have I observed a watery bile,
Rise on my hand, and swell till it did burst,
As he perhaps may cut a swell at first.
Ox.
Your words are hot, my lord, and warm our men.
Rich.
Come, let us go into a boozing ken.
Let every man call for what he likes to day,
And chalk it up to Richmond; he will pay,
'Tis more than Glo'ster to his friends will say.
Ox.
He has no friends, but cowards who do stay,
With him, because they fear to run away.
Rich.
And, we I trust, have got no foes,
But we can mill, or split their nose;
So let us go, and wet our clay,
Before we do begin the fray.
[Exeunt, R. H.
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Anon. [1823], King Richard III. Travestie, a burlesque, operatic, mock terrific tragedy, in two acts. Marked with the stage business and directions by the author (Published by E. Duncombe [etc.], London) [word count] [S39700].
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