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generals, for the encouragement of their own troops, are by poets and historians customarily made to dwell, even to ostentation: But it is impossible to believe, that Richard seriously despises an enemy, against whom he thinks it necessary to make the most active preparations, and in whose ranks he counts such men, as—
Sir William Herbert, a renowned soldier;
Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley;
Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,
And Rice ap Thomas, with a valiant crew;
And many others of great fame and worth.[1]
Macbeth and Richard are now to
- ↑ K. Richard, Act v. Sc. 5.
