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Do Barons rife and fide againft their King, And call in foraign aid to help the thing? Mufl Edivard be depos'd ? or is't the hour That fecond Richard mufh be clapt i'th tower / Or is't the fatal jarre, again begun That from the red white pricking rofes fprung? Mult Richmonds aid, the Nobles now implore? [194] To come and break the Tufhes of the Boar,^ If none of thefe dear Mother, what's your woe? Pray do you ^ fear Spains bragging Arniado} Doth your Allye, fair Rrance, confpire your wrack, Or do the Scots pla}' falfe, behind your back? Doth Holla nd quit you ill for all your love? Whence is the ftorm from Earth or Heaven above? Is't drought, is't famine, or is't peftilence? Doft feel the fmart, or fear the Confequence ? Your humble Child intreats you, Ihew your grief, Though Arms, nor Purfe fhe hath for your relief. Such is her poverty: yet Ihall be found A Suppliant for your help, as fhe is bound.

tragedy of Richard III. "Richard's armorial supporters were white boars. A white boar was also his favourite badge. In his letter from York he orders " four standards of sarcenet and thirteen gonfanons of fustian, with boars." Richard's favourite badge of cognizance was worn by the higher order of his partisans appendant to a collar of roses and suns." — Knight's Shakspere : Histories, vol. ii. p. 239.
 * Richard III. He is called the "boar" several times in Shakespeare's

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