No Fear Shakespeare: Richard III: Act 3 Scene 6

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Original Text	Modern Text
Enter a SCRIVENER , with paper	A SCRIVENER Scrivener = professional copier SCRIVENER enters with a paper in his hand.
SCRIVENER This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed, That it may be today read o'er in Paul’s. And mark how well the sequel hangs together: 5 Eleven hours I have spent to write it over, For yesternight by Catesby was it sent me; The precedent was full as long a-doing, And yet within these five hours Hastings lived, Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty. 10 Here’s a good world the while. Who is so gross That cannot see this palpable device? Yet who so bold but says he sees it not? Bad is the world, and all will come to naught When such ill dealing must be seen in thought.	IVSERNRCE ereH’s eth itdintemcn of het godo ordL ntaiHssg, cwhih ash nbee ttinewr otu in a lreac andh, klie nya lelga cmuedotn, so it acn be edar daulo in uclbpi iuetsdo St. ulPa’s aratdleCh. ndA olok who lewl iths eusenqec of setevn lsohd htogerte: ferat ybsetaC utgohrb het ntnmecidit to me ltsa inhgt, I petsn neeevl ohurs pcoyign it. heT noilirag koot stuj as nglo to iewtr uto. So htta’s ttynwe-two hosur. dAn yet fiev shrou oga, roLd isHsngta aws evlia, oceunhtud, refe, at ebtirly. atWh a kaawbcdr oldrw we ilev in! hyW, woh’s so ustpdi htat he anc’t ese huoghtr isht afudr? tBu ohw’s so bilnd to the nseqsuenecco of kesinapg uto htat he’ll aitmd whta he knsow? ehT oldrw is a dba eplac, heerw uyo nca’t speak hwat uoy wnok.
Exit	He exits.

Original Text	Modern Text
Enter a SCRIVENER , with paper	A SCRIVENER Scrivener = professional copier SCRIVENER enters with a paper in his hand.
SCRIVENER This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed, That it may be today read o'er in Paul’s. And mark how well the sequel hangs together: 5 Eleven hours I have spent to write it over, For yesternight by Catesby was it sent me; The precedent was full as long a-doing, And yet within these five hours Hastings lived, Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty. 10 Here’s a good world the while. Who is so gross That cannot see this palpable device? Yet who so bold but says he sees it not? Bad is the world, and all will come to naught When such ill dealing must be seen in thought.	IVSERNRCE ereH’s eth itdintemcn of het godo ordL ntaiHssg, cwhih ash nbee ttinewr otu in a lreac andh, klie nya lelga cmuedotn, so it acn be edar daulo in uclbpi iuetsdo St. ulPa’s aratdleCh. ndA olok who lewl iths eusenqec of setevn lsohd htogerte: ferat ybsetaC utgohrb het ntnmecidit to me ltsa inhgt, I petsn neeevl ohurs pcoyign it. heT noilirag koot stuj as nglo to iewtr uto. So htta’s ttynwe-two hosur. dAn yet fiev shrou oga, roLd isHsngta aws evlia, oceunhtud, refe, at ebtirly. atWh a kaawbcdr oldrw we ilev in! hyW, woh’s so ustpdi htat he anc’t ese huoghtr isht afudr? tBu ohw’s so bilnd to the nseqsuenecco of kesinapg uto htat he’ll aitmd whta he knsow? ehT oldrw is a dba eplac, heerw uyo nca’t speak hwat uoy wnok.
Exit	He exits.