Victorian Spirit Collection expressing Richard III

Arise dissembler:

though I wise thy death

I will not be thy executioner

(Lady Anne Neville, widow of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales)

Have patience, Madame

There's no doubt his majesty

will soon recover his accustomed

health.

The heavens have blessed you

with a goodly son.

(Queen Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV and brother Lord Rivers and sons Lord Grey and Marquess Dorset)

Here come the Lords of

Buckingham and Stanley

Madam, Good Hope, this

Grace speaks

cheerfully.

(Duke of Buckingham and Lord Stanley)

A husband and a son thou

owest to me.

And all the pleasures you

usurp are mine

(Queen Margaret, widow of Henry VI)

I am in this commanded to

deliver the noble Duke of Clarence

to your hands. I will not reason what

is meant hereby, because I will be guiltless of the meaning.

(Keeper in the Tower)

Why do you wring your

hands and cry "O Clarence

my unhappy son?"

(Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, young daughter of Clarence)

Thou art a widow, yet thou

hast the comfort of thy children left thee

But death hath snatched my husband and

plucked two crutches from my feeble limbs,

Clarence and Edward.

(Duchess of York)

My Uncle Clarence's

angry ghost. My grandmother told me he was

murdered there.

I fear no uncles dead

(Edward, Prince of Wales and Richard, Duke of York. The Princes in the Tower.)

Ha! Am I King?

But Edward lives

(Richard III)

You have a daughter called Elizabeth

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious

Fellows in Arms

and my most loving friends,

bruised underneath the yoke

Of tyranny.

(Richmond, Henry, Earl of Richmond and soldiers)

A horse

A horse

My kingdom for a horse!

(Richard III)