E17 - Because God Has Chosen This Bloody Demon.

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    This man was once
    the king's closest friend.
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    After the king's death,
    he sometimes guided me like a brother
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    and sustained this kingdom.
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    Even so...
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    ...those who sell their souls
    to demons are bound for hell.
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    What's going on?!
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    Listen well!
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    The queen dowager's
    family and Lord Hastings
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    attempted to assassinate
    the Duke of Gloucester!
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    Lord Stanley.
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    You backed the wrong horse.
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    Did you all see that?!
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    Lord Hastings not only spread baseless
    slanders against the Duke of Gloucester,
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    but even attempted to murder
    the duke by sorcery!
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    Yet have not fear!
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    He was executed before our eyes
    and his schemes forestalled!
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    The Lord God could see the justice
    in the Duke of Gloucester's heart!
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    Our Lord Protector! Please have mercy!
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    I swear to turn over a new leaf
    and serve you body and soul!
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    Very well.
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    Hear me: it is not yet too late.
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    If we can join hands for England's sake,
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    I shall call you
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    my brothers.
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    I'm so close.
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    Soon, my hands will be able to grasp
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    the light!
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    York of the white rose.
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    Lancaster of the red rose.
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    These royal houses with roses for
    their crests battled for the throne.
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    People call their strife
    the "Wars of the Roses."
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    Queen Dowager Elizabeth.
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    What a shame.
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    All of your schemes have fallen flat.
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    Buckingham!
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    You had cause to want the
    Duke of Gloucester dead at any cost.
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    He is the true heir to the throne,
    more legitimate than your sons.
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    What?! How dare you!
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    Catesby, speak the dreadful truth
    you once heard on the field of battle.
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    What I am about to say is supported
    by a wealth of testimony.
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    I swear to the Lord Our God
    that I speak the truth.
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    Our former king, Edward IV,
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    was already married to another woman
    before he met Elizabeth Woodville.
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    Elizabeth Woodville is
    not the king's lawful wife.
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    Therefore, her son Edward
    is not a legitimate king.
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    This is a grievous mistake!
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    A lowly weed has put down
    roots in the sacred palace!
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    But gentlemen!
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    Fortunately, the prince does not yet
    wear a golden crown upon his brow!
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    We can still correct our error!
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    God is watching over us!
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    Enact justice.
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    Take both brothers away!
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    To the Tower of London
    with this false king!
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    S-Stop it!
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    Take your filthy hands off me!
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    I am king!
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    Damn that demon!
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    Richard! You'll pay for this!
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    The time has come at last.
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    How you and I have waited for this moment.
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    "You and I"...?
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    Once the time comes, we need
    no longer reaffirm our pact.
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    The king's body belongs to the kingdom.
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    Naturally.
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    Are you worried about what Jane said?
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    But do you truly understand yourself?
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    Rest easy. That's not possible.
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    Do you have proof of that,
    or do you merely wish to believe it?
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    The terrible nights will return,
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    even though I've already known warmth.
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    Richard?
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    It's for the crown.
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    Our pact is merely a ritual to that end.
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    Isn't that right, Richard?
    If you have the makings of a king...
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    I...
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    ...can't sleep without you.
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    Forget that.
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    How you toy with my resolve.
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    Coupling isn't the extent of our pact.
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    Tell me your desire.
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    Just be at my side.
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    Until the darkness burns
    away in the morning sunlight.
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    Have you heard?! Edward V and his brother
    were taken to the Tower of London!
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    What on earth is going on?!
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    If that's true,
    the next heir to the throne
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    can only be him!
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    What's wrong? Doesn't this feel real?
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    When I thought I held it,
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    light has always turned
    to curses in my hands.
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    This time, it's real.
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    No one remains between us and the throne.
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    All the briars have been cleared away.
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    You need only wish.
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    Now, all shall be as you desire.
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    Where is the Duke of Gloucester?
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    Praying at the Tower of London, I hear.
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    Pressing on his wounds
    and praying, they say.
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    Fools! They'll all act out
    his script if nothing is done.
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    Let me tell you what he has already done!
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    He killed his friends,
    killed his brothers,
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    and now he's praying in feigned innocence
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    in that place!
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    Henry VI died here.
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    I killed him.
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    He called me a demon.
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    Richard is without compassion, for he
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    was not fashioned in God's image!
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    Now you mention it, there were
    rumors about his true self.
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    I heard them, too. About what he really is.
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    Yeah! Everyone was saying that Richard,
    Duke of Gloucester is a demon!
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    You must not crown a demon king!
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    If a demon takes the throne, England
    will be plunged into the depths of ruin!
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    Your Grace! A mob surrounds the Tower!
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    Demon!
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    Get out, demon!
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    Don't crown the demon!
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    Your Grace...
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    They call for me, and I shall answer.
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    Are you ready, Buckingham?
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    The script is complete. Now, act it.
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    The curses of the dead
    only trouble humans.
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    Demons merely do as they wish.
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    Listen. This is a ruse.
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    No matter how I beg you,
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    simply spurn my demands
    like a pure maiden.
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    It's your cue, Richard.
    Your role is "God."
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    Yes.
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    I'll give a performance of holiness
    that will hoodwink God himself.
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    Demon, you say?! Nonsense!
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    This is the legitimate
    scion of the Plantagenets,
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    the renowned Duke of Gloucester!
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    The new King of England!
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    What insolence! You may play the saint,
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    but you can't hide
    the rot within, usurper!
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    Buckingham, face me.
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    How dare you?! I am not the king!
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    True, I have long desired the crown.
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    But only to offer to Prince Edward,
    my beloved brother's heir!
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    Your Majesty is mistaken!
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    That boy is no prince!
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    You all must know as well!
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    Lustful Edward IV neglected war
    and even despoiled his subjects' wives!
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    At last, he conceived
    those boys in bigamy!
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    Nonsense! Don't let the demon's
    tawdry act deceive you!
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    You may be my friend,
    but I'll forgive no more such slights!
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    If speaking the truth is a crime,
    then I await my punishment.
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    But you have never yet killed
    anyone who spoke the truth.
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    Your love for your brother's
    children is what drives you.
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    You wish to give them the exalted
    station and happiness of kingship!
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    I have only one desire:
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    A light to shine on this dark world.
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    On bloody mornings,
    troubled days, and lonely nights.
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    A light to illuminate our proper path.
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    I want someone to be that light.
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    Not "someone."
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    You. You will become the light
    that shines on this world.
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    The chaos of a child king's reign
    begets suffering for the people.
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    None know the pains of such
    an age better than you.
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    Of course. Strife will break out
    around a powerless king.
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    I don't want to see that chaos again.
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    I lost my son in the wars.
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    Yes, and I my father.
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    My father...
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    My father was everything to me.
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    All lies! Even those tears!
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    It doesn't look that way to me.
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    I felt a special bond between us.
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    Preserve my name.
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    Yes, Father.
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    Duke of Gloucester!
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    If you will not listen
    to all my entreaties,
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    I will be forced to claim the throne
    through another bloodline!
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    --Stop!
    --Duke of Gloucester, stop the wars!
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    Please! Please, Your Grace!
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    All of you join in!
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    Hear our pleas!
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    Grant our wish, Duke of Gloucester!
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    --King!
    --King!
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    King!
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    Save us!
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    Defend us!
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    O Lord, please!
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    Wait!
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    I will not allow England to fall to ruin,
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    even if I must forsake my
    soul's justice to prevent it.
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    Buckingham, people of London,
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    I will become king
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    and shoulder the weight of destiny!
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    O Lord!
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    Praise be to God!
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    Richard, named for his father,
    shall become the light of this world!
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    God save our new king!
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    What's going on? Some kind of festival?
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    Yes.
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    The new king's coronation.
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    Edward V's coronation?!
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    Then Richard's reign is over!
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    Yes, that means we'll soon be free.
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    O little robin, bearer of good news!
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    Let's toast our new king together!
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    To our king!
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    The day I was given life,
    a terrible storm laid trees low.
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    Owls screeched and crows
    croaked in the night
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    to herald the coming
    of an age of misfortune.
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    Tell me, Father, why does
    everyone do what the king says?
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    Because God chose the king.
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    If God chose me...
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    If I became king,
    would I never be sad again?
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    Of course not.
    You would have your every wish.
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    Listen, Richard.
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    Within that crown--
    that golden circlet--lies paradise.
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    Let me prophecy, Richard.
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    One day, a host of the elderly,
    of widows, of orphans
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    will bless you even as they lament
    the loved ones they have lost.
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    Because God...
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    Because God has chosen this bloody demon.
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    Now I bless you with your royal title!
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    Your Majesty, Richard III,
    King of England!
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    May God's blessing be upon you!
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    May the Lord God redeem us as well.
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    Make way for His Majesty!
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    Allow me to congratulate Your Majesty!
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    Bless His Majesty, King Richard III!
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    Does it truly blind people this much?
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    They heap praises upon
    the crown's radiance,
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    never noticing the demon's horns
    hidden by its halo of light.
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    The wounds of civil strife have healed,
    and peace breathes once more!
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    I humbly pray to God that
    this peace may be eternal.
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    This is impressive for
    an impromptu celebration.
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    Of course it is. It was originally
    meant for Edward V.
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    Now, please turn your attention
    to our next entertainment!
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    Almighty God! I beg your permission
    to create a heaven here!
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    I am God, the King of Kings!
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    O Lord! Eternal loyalty to you alone!
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    I thought this play was
    chosen to please Edward.
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    Why this subject?
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    Listen well, angels!
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    Touch not my throne while I am gone!
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    I know what God said,
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    but if I sat on that throne,
    might I gain power equal to His?
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    My radiance has earned me
    a rank second only to Him.
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    My name is Lucifer!
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    Your light is many times brighter
    and more beautiful than God's!
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    You should sit upon His throne at once!
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    All Heaven belongs to you and me!
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    Behold! The power of God is now mine!
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    Kneel before your true sovereign!
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    This is clearly...
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    Lèse-majesté! Make them cease at once!
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    Northumberland, leave them.
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    But...
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    Show us the rest.
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    What folly!
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    Fall into Hell and be bound there forever!
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    God loves me no more!
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    I envy humans, who have God's love!
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    Yes, this certainly is Richard.
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    Or at least it was.
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    I shall reward you
    for that fine diversion.
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    Catesby, show them the finest hospitality.
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    Actor, you are invited
    to tomorrow's banquet.
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    I'll show you the sequel to your play.
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    But in Richard's world this time.
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    Change everything about
    tomorrow's banquet.
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    Make sure no one could
    mistake it for Edward's.
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    My banquet will show them
    that Richard's new age has come!
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    Edward.
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    Mother. Father.
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    I wanted to bid you goodnight.
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    Your Royal Highness.
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    Pardon me; I've never had the chance
    to properly introduce myself before.
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    I am delighted to see that you
    have grown into a splendid youth.
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    Th-Thank you very much,
    Duke of Buckingham.
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    Buckingham, may I have a moment?
    I wish to speak with you.
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    I'll sleep with Anne tonight.
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    I'm king, and spending nights
    with the queen is a king's duty.
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    Naturally.
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    Do you mind?
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    Our pact has been fulfilled.
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    Become a perfect king.
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    That is my wish.
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    The royal apartments.
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    Will you drink?
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    Yes.
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    What?
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    Well, it's strange, but I'm nervous.
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    I've never been in your room before.
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    Although we've been married so long.
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    Get used to it.
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    As should you.
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    If only we had always been so close,
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    like I dreamed of back then.
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    Maybe for us, this is...
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    It's all too late.
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    The queen is the king's other half.
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    We must support each other to survive.
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    Richard, are you hurt?
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    Richard?
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    Sorry. I'm tired tonight,
    and there's another feast tomorrow.
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    It's fine.
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    Am I drunk on my newfound light?
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    Without the crown's radiance to hide in,
    I'm only a demon--only Richard.
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    Am I more frightened
    now that I've obtained it?
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    Now that I know what it's like
    to be "permitted" warmth?
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    In this hazy world,
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    the path my soul showed me
    was always clear and bright.
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    I created a king--
    an ideal king--and yet...
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    Are my feelings for Richard...?
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    I was scared stiff tonight.
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    I always said it was a bad idea.
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    Thank goodness King Richard
    was the forgiving sort.
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    Yeah,
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    but you never know when
    a king will change his mind.
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    Let's make ourselves scarce
    before we end up hanged for--
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    I can smile and murder while I smile,
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    and cry, "Content!" to that
    which grieves my heart,
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    and wet my face with artificial tears.
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    I'll deceive more slyly than Ulysses could
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    and slay more gazers than the basilisk.
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    Can I do this...
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    ...and cannot get...
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    ...a crown?