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O bloody Richard!--miserable England! [To KING RICHARD.] Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake, But as successively, from blood to blood, Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm And steep'd in blood?--Ah, what an unkind hour Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood, That would reduce these bloody days again, The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar, We give to thee our guiltless blood to drink. And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,