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Samuel Johnson [1778], The plays of William Shakspeare. In ten volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The second edition, Revised and Augmented (Printed for C. Bathurst [and] W. Strahan [etc.], London) [word count] [S10901].

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SCENE II. Tamworth, on the borders of Leicestershire. A camp. Enter Henry Earl of Richmond, Earl of Oxford, Sir James Blunt, Sir Walter Herbert, and others, with drum and colours.

Richm.
Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,

-- 142 --

Bruis'd underneath the yoke of tyranny,
Thus far into the bowels 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 blood like wash, and makes his trough
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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, chearly 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 swords, 9Q0884
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.

Richm.
All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:

-- 143 --

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. [Exeunt.
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