Missing Persons case is solved-Richard III has been found!

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Missing Persons case is solved-Richard III has been found!

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This one has made my day! Thanks to PD for bringing it to my attention. I have been immersed in the Henry plays of late and this just makes them come alive all the more as Henry VII slew him on Bosworth Field ending the War of the Roses.

"Now is the winter of our discontent/ Made glorious summer by this son of York"- the words and this historical personage just leap of the page still.

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/ ... story.html

"Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.
Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft! I did but dream.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
What do I fear? myself? there's none else by:
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am:
Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why:
Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?
Alack. I love myself. Wherefore? for any good
That I myself have done unto myself?
O, no! alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself!
I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.
Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree
Murder, stem murder, in the direst degree;
All several sins, all used in each degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty!
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd
Came to my tent; and every one did threat
To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard."

Now we know where he wound up having been unceremoniously removed from Bosworth Field.
"....there's a merry song that starts in 'I' and ends in 'You', as many famous pop songs do....'
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