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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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Richard III
[I, 3]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

702

I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought
That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names.

2

Richard III
[II, 2]

Boy

1273

Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,
And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'

3

Richard III
[II, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1374

Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause
To wail the dimming of our shining star;
But none can cure their harms by wailing them.
Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;
I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee
I crave your blessing.

4

Richard III
[III, 3]

Sir Thomas Vaughan

1925

You live that shall cry woe for this after.

5

Richard III
[III, 7]

Duke of Buckingham

2206

I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,
And his contract by deputy in France;
The insatiate greediness of his desires,
And his enforcement of the city wives;
His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,
As being got, your father then in France,
His resemblance, being not like the duke;
Withal I did infer your lineaments,
Being the right idea of your father,
Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
Your dicipline in war, wisdom in peace,
Your bounty, virtue, fair humility:
Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose
Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse
And when mine oratory grew to an end
I bid them that did love their country's good
Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'

6

Richard III
[IV, 1]

Sir Robert Brakenbury

2486

I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector.

7

Richard III
[IV, 4]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

3345

I cry thee mercy:
There is my purse to cure that blow of thine.
Hath any well-advised friend proclaim'd
Reward to him that brings the traitor in?

8

Richard III
[V, 3]

Richmond (Henry VII)

3730

Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,
That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here.