Scene + 

I + 

Salisbury. An open place. + 

Enter the Sheriff, and Buckingham, with halberds, led to execution. + 

Buckingham + 

Will not King Richard let me speak with him? + 

Sheriff + 

No, my good lord; therefore be patient. + 

Buckingham + 

Hastings, and Edward’s children, Rivers, Grey, + 

Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward, + 

Vaughan, and all that have miscarried + 

By underhand corrupted foul injustice, + 

If that your moody discontented souls + 

Do through the clouds behold this present hour, + 

Even for revenge mock my destruction! + 

This is All-Souls’ day, fellows, is it not? + 

Sheriff + 

It is, my lord. + 

Buckingham + 

Why, then All-Souls’ day is my body’s doomsday. + 

This is the day that, in King Edward’s time, + 

I wish’d might fall on me, when I was found + 

False to his children or his wife’s allies; + 

This is the day wherein I wish’d to fall + 

By the false faith of him I trusted most; + 

This, this All-Souls’ day to my fearful soul + 

Is the determined respite of my wrongs: + 

That high All-Seer that I dallied with + 

Hath turn’d my feigned prayer on my head + 

And given in earnest what I begg’d in jest. + 

Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men + 

To turn their own points on their masters’ bosoms: + 

Now Margaret’s curse is fallen upon my head; + 

“When he,” quoth she, “shall split thy heart with sorrow, + 

Remember Margaret was a prophetess.” + 

Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame; + 

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. Exeunt. + 