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And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them.

K. Rich. Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrell:

Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear.

There is no more but so: say it is done,

And I will love thee, and prefer thee for it.

Tyr. I will dispatch it straight.

Buck. My lord, I have consider'd in my mind

The late request that you did sound me in.

K. Rich. Well, let that rest. Dorset is fled to Richmond.

Buck. I hear the news, my lord.

K. Rich. Stanley, he is your wife's son: well, look to it.

Buck. My lord, I claim the gift, my due by promise,

For which your honour and your faith is pawn'd:

Th' earldom of Hereford and the moveables

Which you have promised I shall possess.

K. Rich. Stanley, look to your wife: if she convey

Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.

Buck. What says your highness to my just request?

K. Rich. I do remember me, Henry the Sixth

Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,

When Richmond was a little peevish boy.

A king! perhaps—

[Buck. My lord!

K. Rich. How chance the prophet could not at that time

Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?

 79 There so: i.e. nothing more than to carry out the whispered instructions

80 prefer: advance

88 pawn'd: pledged

91 wife; cf. n.

92 answer: answer for

94 remember me: recollect

95 prophesy; cf. n.

98–115 Cf. n.

99 How chance: how chances it that

