Suggestions
Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Please wait while we process your payment
If you don't see it, please check your spam folder. Sometimes it can end up there.
If you don't see it, please check your spam folder. Sometimes it can end up there.
Please wait while we process your payment
By signing up you agree to our terms and privacy policy.
Don’t have an account? Subscribe now
Create Your Account
Sign up for your FREE 7-day trial
Already have an account? Log in
Your Email
Choose Your Plan
Individual
Group Discount
Save over 50% with a SparkNotes PLUS Annual Plan!
Purchasing SparkNotes PLUS for a group?
Get Annual Plans at a discount when you buy 2 or more!
Price
$24.99 $18.74 /subscription + tax
Subtotal $37.48 + tax
Save 25% on 2-49 accounts
Save 30% on 50-99 accounts
Want 100 or more? Contact us for a customized plan.
Your Plan
Payment Details
Payment Summary
SparkNotes Plus
You'll be billed after your free trial ends.
7-Day Free Trial
Not Applicable
Renews December 8, 2023 December 1, 2023
Discounts (applied to next billing)
DUE NOW
US $0.00
SNPLUSROCKS20 | 20% Discount
This is not a valid promo code.
Discount Code (one code per order)
SparkNotes PLUS Annual Plan - Group Discount
Qty: 00
SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year as selected above. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription. TO CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND AVOID BEING CHARGED, YOU MUST CANCEL BEFORE THE END OF THE FREE TRIAL PERIOD. You may cancel your subscription on your Subscription and Billing page or contact Customer Support at custserv@bn.com. Your subscription will continue automatically once the free trial period is over. Free trial is available to new customers only.
Choose Your Plan
For the next 7 days, you'll have access to awesome PLUS stuff like AP English test prep, No Fear Shakespeare translations and audio, a note-taking tool, personalized dashboard, & much more!
You’ve successfully purchased a group discount. Your group members can use the joining link below to redeem their group membership. You'll also receive an email with the link.
Members will be prompted to log in or create an account to redeem their group membership.
Thanks for creating a SparkNotes account! Continue to start your free trial.
Please wait while we process your payment
Your PLUS subscription has expired
Please wait while we process your payment
Please wait while we process your payment
Continue reading with a SparkNotes PLUS trial
Already have an account? Log in
Original Text |
Modern Text |
Alarum. Enter RICHARD and RICHMOND . They fight. RICHARD is slain. Retreat and flourish. Enter RICHMOND , STANLEY bearing the crown, with divers other lords and soldiers
|
Alarum. Enter RICHARD and RICHMOND . They fight. RICHARD is slain. Retreat and flourish. Enter RICHMOND , STANLEY bearing the crown, with divers other lords and soldiers
|
RICHMOND God and your arms be praised, victorious friends!
The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead.
|
RICHMOND God and your arms be praised, victorious friends!
The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead.
|
STANLEY (offering him the crown)
Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.
5 Lo, here this long-usurpèd royalty
From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
Have I plucked off, to grace thy brows withal.
Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.
|
STANLEY (offering him the crown)
Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.
Lo, here this long-usurpèd royalty
From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
Have I plucked off, to grace thy brows withal.
Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.
|
RICHMOND Great God of heaven, say amen to all!
10 But tell me, is young George Stanley living?
|
RICHMOND Great God of heaven, say amen to all!
But tell me, is young George Stanley living?
|
STANLEY He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town,
Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
|
STANLEY He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town,
Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
|
RICHMOND What men of name are slain on either side?
|
RICHMOND What men of name are slain on either side?
|
STANLEY John Duke of Norfolk, Walter, Lord Ferrers,
15 Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.
|
STANLEY John Duke of Norfolk, Walter, Lord Ferrers,
Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.
|
RICHMOND Inter their bodies as becomes their births.
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us.
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
20 We will unite the white rose and the red.
|
RICHMOND Inter their bodies as becomes their births.
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us.
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red.
|
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frowned upon their enmity.
What traitor hears me and says not “Amen?”
England hath long been mad and scarred herself.
25 The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood.
The father rashly slaughtered his own son.
The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire.
All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided, in their dire division.
30 O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God’s fair ordinance conjoin together,
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
35 With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land’s increase,
40 That would with treason wound this fair land’s peace.
Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again.
That she may long live here, God say amen.
|
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frowned upon their enmity.
What traitor hears me and says not “Amen?”
England hath long been mad and scarred herself.
The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood.
The father rashly slaughtered his own son.
The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire.
All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided, in their dire division.
O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God’s fair ordinance conjoin together,
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land’s increase,
That would with treason wound this fair land’s peace.
Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again.
That she may long live here, God say amen.
|
Exeunt
|
Exeunt
|
Original Text |
Modern Text |
Alarum. Enter RICHARD and RICHMOND . They fight. RICHARD is slain. Retreat and flourish. Enter RICHMOND , STANLEY bearing the crown, with divers other lords and soldiers
|
Alarum. Enter RICHARD and RICHMOND . They fight. RICHARD is slain. Retreat and flourish. Enter RICHMOND , STANLEY bearing the crown, with divers other lords and soldiers
|
RICHMOND God and your arms be praised, victorious friends!
The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead.
|
RICHMOND God and your arms be praised, victorious friends!
The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead.
|
STANLEY (offering him the crown)
Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.
5 Lo, here this long-usurpèd royalty
From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
Have I plucked off, to grace thy brows withal.
Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.
|
STANLEY (offering him the crown)
Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.
Lo, here this long-usurpèd royalty
From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
Have I plucked off, to grace thy brows withal.
Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.
|
RICHMOND Great God of heaven, say amen to all!
10 But tell me, is young George Stanley living?
|
RICHMOND Great God of heaven, say amen to all!
But tell me, is young George Stanley living?
|
STANLEY He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town,
Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
|
STANLEY He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town,
Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
|
RICHMOND What men of name are slain on either side?
|
RICHMOND What men of name are slain on either side?
|
STANLEY John Duke of Norfolk, Walter, Lord Ferrers,
15 Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.
|
STANLEY John Duke of Norfolk, Walter, Lord Ferrers,
Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.
|
RICHMOND Inter their bodies as becomes their births.
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us.
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
20 We will unite the white rose and the red.
|
RICHMOND Inter their bodies as becomes their births.
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us.
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red.
|
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frowned upon their enmity.
What traitor hears me and says not “Amen?”
England hath long been mad and scarred herself.
25 The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood.
The father rashly slaughtered his own son.
The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire.
All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided, in their dire division.
30 O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God’s fair ordinance conjoin together,
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
35 With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land’s increase,
40 That would with treason wound this fair land’s peace.
Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again.
That she may long live here, God say amen.
|
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frowned upon their enmity.
What traitor hears me and says not “Amen?”
England hath long been mad and scarred herself.
The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood.
The father rashly slaughtered his own son.
The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire.
All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided, in their dire division.
O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God’s fair ordinance conjoin together,
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land’s increase,
That would with treason wound this fair land’s peace.
Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again.
That she may long live here, God say amen.
|
Exeunt
|
Exeunt
|
Please wait while we process your payment