No Fear Shakespeare: Richard II: Act 3 Scene 1

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Bristol. Before the castle.	In rntfo of iroltBs eacstl.
Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE , DUKE OF YORK , NORTHUMBERLAND , LORD ROSS , HENRY PERCY , LORD WILLOUGHBY , with BUSHY and GREEN , prisoners	HEYNR KOELOGBRNBI , eth UDEK OF YORK , UNHTLBRNADREMO , RLDO SORS , NERHY RYECP , adn LDRO LGUOHLBYWI , csotrenig hte nrssoiepr UYSBH nad NGREE , etrne.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Bring forth these men. Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls Since presently your souls must part your bodies With too much urging your pernicious lives, 5 For twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood From off my hands, here in the view of men I will unfold some causes of your deaths. You have misled a prince, a royal king, A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments, 10 By you unhappied and disfigured clean: You have in manner with your sinful hours Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him, Broke the possession of a royal bed And staind the beauty of a fair queens cheeks 15 With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs. Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me, Have stoopd my neck under your injuries, 20 And sighd my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment; Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparkd my parks and felld my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, 25 Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save mens opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman. This and much more, much more than twice all this, Condemns you to the death. See them deliverd over	YNERH BNOBOILGKER ngrBi tehes enm to me. usBhy nad reGen, I nwot temortn uoyr ssolu hwit oot hcum atlk of ouyr kwdcie esliv scnei ryuo sulso lwli osno evael rouy bseoid. tuB so no neo may milca uory ueexicotn asw urrdme, I wlli naiplex hitw eeths emn as isnestswe wyh yuo are galylle ednetscne to tadeh. uYo aehv deceevid a ikng, a mna owh swa yhpap nda iceatravtt iutln uyo aecm aolng adn hgeancd mih. hgorTuh uoyr ilve yaws, ouy vaeh iedrvn a wdeeg betneew het kngi dna eth nquee. oYvue enrdfireet wiht eriht paphy gariraem adn euscad eht ueenq ergnisffu. I, by teh lcku of my tihbr, am a pinrec. I am colsyle atdeelr to eth nkig, nda iltun uoy hdcnage sih feenilgs darowt me, he veodl me. cuseeBa of uryo sotacni, Iev dah to eilv in leiex in a oirgnfe cuorytn, dna mneelhwia oyu vlied fof my twahle dan tpproyer rhee, iegnlsa my ihtgnun usrngdo to otresh dna ugnttci down my oestrsf. uoY toer my mlyfais otac of msar otu of the dwnswio of my euosh dna yordstdee lla issgn of my ymialfs eeniestxc. If not rof emsn niionsop nda the aftc atht Im litsl iaevl, no oen ludwo ever know htat the rpoyerpt swa emin dan that I am a eremmb of the tiboliny. esehT recmsi and at atsle ectwi as amyn oemr dmnneoc you to tehad.
30 To execution and the hand of death.	[dsnrgAedis eth etrsoh.] akeM rseu ethy are eeeutxdc soon.
BUSHY More welcome is the stroke of death to me Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.	USYBH I wlceoem eathd oerm nhta lanndEg ecsoemlw the eunrtr of eognBirobkl. rsdLo, oodebyg.
GREEN My comfort is that heaven will take our souls And plague injustice with the pains of hell.	REGNE I am rtomoefdc okniwgn atth ruo usosl wlli go to heevan nda thta ehanve ilwl iegv elhl to nBobekorgil, woh mtemditco tihs tjsiucein.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE 35 My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatchd.	YRENH BROEBONILGK My dlor bmunthrldraoNe, ese atht hyet rae lekdli.
Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND and others, with the prisoners	DUMETOARRHLNBN nda erosht how ear oiecnsgtr hte srirepnso txie.
Uncle, you say the queen is at your house; For Gods sake, fairly let her be entreated: Tell her I send to her my kind commends; Take special care my greetings be deliverd.	lUnce, yuo dais htta het eeunq is at uory useho. Fro oGsd ksea, tel ehr be tdeetra ltooyuercus. veGi hre my setb, dan ekma resu to eeildrv my tergnige.
DUKE OF YORK 40 A gentleman of mine I have dispatchd With letters of your love to her at large.	DUEK OF YKOR vIe nets a ltangenme to her twhi hte mgsaese.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Thank, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away. To fight with Glendower and his complices: Awhile to work, and after holiday.	RENHY NELGKOBROBI Tahnsk, dkni culne. eoCm, dosrl, elts eelav. Wvee otg to ightf Gdreonewl dan ish pcsceomilca. Frist, ellw wokr, dan tneh lewl be ealb to stre.
Exeunt	heyT ixte.

Original Text	Modern Text
Bristol. Before the castle.	In rntfo of iroltBs eacstl.
Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE , DUKE OF YORK , NORTHUMBERLAND , LORD ROSS , HENRY PERCY , LORD WILLOUGHBY , with BUSHY and GREEN , prisoners	HEYNR KOELOGBRNBI , eth UDEK OF YORK , UNHTLBRNADREMO , RLDO SORS , NERHY RYECP , adn LDRO LGUOHLBYWI , csotrenig hte nrssoiepr UYSBH nad NGREE , etrne.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Bring forth these men. Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls Since presently your souls must part your bodies With too much urging your pernicious lives, 5 For twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood From off my hands, here in the view of men I will unfold some causes of your deaths. You have misled a prince, a royal king, A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments, 10 By you unhappied and disfigured clean: You have in manner with your sinful hours Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him, Broke the possession of a royal bed And staind the beauty of a fair queens cheeks 15 With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs. Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me, Have stoopd my neck under your injuries, 20 And sighd my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment; Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparkd my parks and felld my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, 25 Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save mens opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman. This and much more, much more than twice all this, Condemns you to the death. See them deliverd over	YNERH BNOBOILGKER ngrBi tehes enm to me. usBhy nad reGen, I nwot temortn uoyr ssolu hwit oot hcum atlk of ouyr kwdcie esliv scnei ryuo sulso lwli osno evael rouy bseoid. tuB so no neo may milca uory ueexicotn asw urrdme, I wlli naiplex hitw eeths emn as isnestswe wyh yuo are galylle ednetscne to tadeh. uYo aehv deceevid a ikng, a mna owh swa yhpap nda iceatravtt iutln uyo aecm aolng adn hgeancd mih. hgorTuh uoyr ilve yaws, ouy vaeh iedrvn a wdeeg betneew het kngi dna eth nquee. oYvue enrdfireet wiht eriht paphy gariraem adn euscad eht ueenq ergnisffu. I, by teh lcku of my tihbr, am a pinrec. I am colsyle atdeelr to eth nkig, nda iltun uoy hdcnage sih feenilgs darowt me, he veodl me. cuseeBa of uryo sotacni, Iev dah to eilv in leiex in a oirgnfe cuorytn, dna mneelhwia oyu vlied fof my twahle dan tpproyer rhee, iegnlsa my ihtgnun usrngdo to otresh dna ugnttci down my oestrsf. uoY toer my mlyfais otac of msar otu of the dwnswio of my euosh dna yordstdee lla issgn of my ymialfs eeniestxc. If not rof emsn niionsop nda the aftc atht Im litsl iaevl, no oen ludwo ever know htat the rpoyerpt swa emin dan that I am a eremmb of the tiboliny. esehT recmsi and at atsle ectwi as amyn oemr dmnneoc you to tehad.
30 To execution and the hand of death.	[dsnrgAedis eth etrsoh.] akeM rseu ethy are eeeutxdc soon.
BUSHY More welcome is the stroke of death to me Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.	USYBH I wlceoem eathd oerm nhta lanndEg ecsoemlw the eunrtr of eognBirobkl. rsdLo, oodebyg.
GREEN My comfort is that heaven will take our souls And plague injustice with the pains of hell.	REGNE I am rtomoefdc okniwgn atth ruo usosl wlli go to heevan nda thta ehanve ilwl iegv elhl to nBobekorgil, woh mtemditco tihs tjsiucein.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE 35 My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatchd.	YRENH BROEBONILGK My dlor bmunthrldraoNe, ese atht hyet rae lekdli.
Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND and others, with the prisoners	DUMETOARRHLNBN nda erosht how ear oiecnsgtr hte srirepnso txie.
Uncle, you say the queen is at your house; For Gods sake, fairly let her be entreated: Tell her I send to her my kind commends; Take special care my greetings be deliverd.	lUnce, yuo dais htta het eeunq is at uory useho. Fro oGsd ksea, tel ehr be tdeetra ltooyuercus. veGi hre my setb, dan ekma resu to eeildrv my tergnige.
DUKE OF YORK 40 A gentleman of mine I have dispatchd With letters of your love to her at large.	DUEK OF YKOR vIe nets a ltangenme to her twhi hte mgsaese.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Thank, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away. To fight with Glendower and his complices: Awhile to work, and after holiday.	RENHY NELGKOBROBI Tahnsk, dkni culne. eoCm, dosrl, elts eelav. Wvee otg to ightf Gdreonewl dan ish pcsceomilca. Frist, ellw wokr, dan tneh lewl be ealb to stre.
Exeunt	heyT ixte.