No Fear Shakespeare: Richard III: Act 1 Scene 4 Page 5

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Exit BRAKENBURY and KEEPER	BRAKENBURY and the KEEPER exit.
SECOND MURDERER What, shall I stab him as he sleeps?	SECOND MURDERER What, should I stab him while he sleeps?
FIRST MURDERER 100No. He’ll say ’twas done cowardly, when he wakes.	FIRST MURDERER No. When he wakes up, he’ll say we killed him like cowards.
SECOND MURDERER Why, he shall never wake until the great Judgment Day.	SECOND MURDERER When he wakes up! Why, he won’t wake up till Judgment Day.
FIRST MURDERER Why, then he’ll say we stabbed him sleeping.	FIRST MURDERER Okay, so that’s when he’ll say we stabbed him in his sleep.
SECOND MURDERER The urging of that word “judgment” hath bred a kind of remorse in me.	SECOND MURDERER That word “judgment” makes me feel a bit guilty.
FIRST MURDERER 105What, art thou afraid?	FIRST MURDERER What, are you afraid?
SECOND MURDERER Not to kill him, having a warrant, but to be damned for killing him, from the which no warrant can defend me.	SECOND MURDERER Not of killing him, because I have a warrant for it, but of being damned for killing him, which no warrant can protect me from.
FIRST MURDERER I thought thou hadst been resolute.	FIRST MURDERER I thought you were resolved to do this.
SECOND MURDERER So I am—to let him live.	SECOND MURDERER I am resolved—to let him live.
FIRST MURDERER 110I’ll back to the duke of Gloucester and tell him so.	FIRST MURDERER I’ll go back to the duke of Gloucester and tell him so.
SECOND MURDERER Nay, I prithee stay a little. I hope this passionate humor of mine will change. It was wont to hold me but while one tells twenty.	SECOND MURDERER Please, just wait a minute. I’m hoping my holy mood will pass. It usually only lasts about twenty seconds.
FIRST MURDERER How dost thou feel thyself now?	FIRST MURDERER How are you feeling now?
SECOND MURDERER 115Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me.	SECOND MURDERER Actually, I’m still feeling some pangs of conscience.