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 K. Rich. What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power'

Mess. My lord, he doth deny to come.

K. Rich. Off with his son George's head.

Indeed, the considerate humanity, which the Dissertation now attributes to Richard, cannot easily be reconciled to the temper it prepares us to expect in him, when, a little before, it says,—"Richard was so thoroughly designed for a daring, impious, and obdurate character, that even his birth was attended by prodigies, and his person armed to do the earliest mischief of which infancy is capable." Shakspeare, vol. x. p. 298.

If, by the truly brave mentioned above, we could understand the