Richard III: Act 3, Scene 3

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    Pomfret Castle.

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    Rivers, Grey and Vaughan are executed at Pomfret, fulfilling Margaret's curses from Act 1.

    Enter RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN to death
    RATCLIFF
    Come, bring forth the prisoners.
    RIVERS
    Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:
    To-day shalt thou behold a subject die
    For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.
    GREY
    God keep the prince from all the pack of you!
    A knot you are of damned blood-suckers!
    VAUGHAN
    You live that shall cry woe for this after.
    RATCLIFF
    Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out.
    RIVERS
    O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
    Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
    Within the guilty closure of thy walls
    Richard the second here was hack'd to death;
    And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
    We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.
    GREY
    Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,
    For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son.
    RIVERS
    Then cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,
    Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God
    To hear her prayers for them, as now for us
    And for my sister and her princely sons,
    Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
    Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.
    RATCLIFF
    Make haste; the hour of death is expiate.
    RIVERS
    Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:
    And take our leave, until we meet in heaven.
    Exeunt