Richard III by William Shakespeare

Act 5 - Scene 5

Another part of the field.

Richmond (Henry VII) : God and your arms be praised, victorious friends, [p]The day is ours,
the bloody dog is dead.

Richmond (Henry VII) : Great God of heaven, say Amen to all! [p]But, tell me, is young George
Stanley living?

Richmond (Henry VII) : What men of name are slain on either side?

Richmond (Henry VII) : Inter their bodies as becomes their births: [p]Proclaim a pardon to
the soldiers fled [p]That in submission will return to us: [p]And
then, as we have ta'en the sacrament, [p]We will unite the white rose
and the red: [p]Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction, [p]That long
have frown'd upon their enmity! [p]What traitor hears me, and says not
amen? [p]England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; [p]The
brother blindly shed the brother's blood, [p]The father rashly
slaughter'd his own son, [p]The son, compell'd, been butcher to the
sire: [p]All this divided York and Lancaster, [p]Divided in their dire
division, [p]O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth, [p]The true
succeeders of each royal house, [p]By God's fair ordinance conjoin
together! [p]And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so. [p]Enrich
the time to come with smooth-faced peace, [p]With smiling plenty and
fair prosperous days! [p]Abate the edge of traitors, gracious
Lord, [p]That would reduce these bloody days again, [p]And make poor
England weep in streams of blood! [p]Let them not live to taste this
land's increase [p]That would with treason wound this fair land's
peace! [p]Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again: [p]That she
may long live here, God say amen!

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