The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays

ACT V.

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SC. 5. "Take that, the likeness of this railer here."

For 'the' I incline to read '_thou_.'

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SC. 6. "Men for their sons, wives for their husbands, _And_ orphans for their parents' timeless death."

In the first line the 2nd folio adds _fate_, as it does _And_ in the second line. For _fate_ we might perhaps better read, as I have done, _mourning_.

KING RICHARD III.