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Wat Tyler - Act Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ACT III	A
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SCENE SMITHFIELD	B
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PIERS meeting JOHN BALL	C
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You look disturb'd my father	D
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JOHN BALL	C
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Piers I am so	E
Jack Straw has forced the Tower seized the Archbishop	F
And beheaded him	G
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PIERS	H
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The curse of insurrection	I
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JOHN BALL	C
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Aye Piers our nobles level down their vassals	J
Keep them at endless labour like their brutes	J
Degrading every faculty by servitude	K
Repressing all the energy of the mind	L
We must not wonder then that like wild beasts	J
When they have burst their chains with brutal rage	M
They revenge them on their tyrants	J
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PIERS	J
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This Archbishop	F
He was oppressive to his humble vassals	J
Proud haughty avaricious	J
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JOHN BALL	C
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A true high priest	N
Preaching humility with his mitre on	O
Praising up alms and Christian charity	P
Even whilst his unforgiving hand distress'd	Q
His honest tenants	J
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PIERS	J
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He deserv'd his fate then	R
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JOHN BALL	C
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Justice can never link with cruelty	P
Is there among the catalogue of crimes	J
A sin so black that only Death can expiate	S
Will Reason never rouse her from her slumbers	J
And darting thro' the veil her eagle eye	T
See in the sable garment of the law	U
Revenge conceal'd This high priest has been haughty	P
He has oppress'd his vassals tell me Piers	J
Does his Death remedy the ills he caused	V
Were it not better to repress his power	D
Of doing wrong that so his future life	W
Might expiate the evils of the past	X
And benefit mankind	L
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PIERS	J
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But must not vice	J
Be punished	Y
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JOHN BALL	C
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Is not punishment revenge	Z
The momentary violence of anger	D
May be excus'd the indignant heart will throb	A2
Against oppression and the outstretch'd arm	B2
Resent its injured feelings the Collector	D
Insulted Alice and roused the keen emotions	J
Of a fond father Tyler murder'd him	G
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PIERS	J
Murder'd a most harsh word	C2
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JOHN BALL	C
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Yes murder'd him	G
His mangled feelings prompted the bad act	D2
And Nature will almost commend the deed	E2
That Justice blames but will the awaken'd feelings	J
Plead with their heart emoving eloquence	J
For the cool deliberate murder of Revenge	Z
Would you Piers in your calmer hour of reason	I
Condemn an erring brother to be slain	F2
Cut him at once from all the joys of life	W
All hopes of reformation to revenge	Z
The deed his punishment cannot recall	C
My blood boil'd in me at the fate of Tyler	D
Yet I revenged not	G2
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PIERS	J
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Oh my Christian father	D
They would not argue thus humanely on us	J
Were we within their power	D
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JOHN BALL	C
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I know they would not	G2
But we must pity them that they are vicious	J
Not imitate their vice	J
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PIERS	J
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Alas poor Tyler	D
I do repent me much that I stood back	H2
When he advanced fearless in rectitude	K
To meet these royal assassins	J
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JOHN BALL	C
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Not for myself	I2
Tho' I have lost an honest virtuous friend	J2
Mourn I the death of Tyler he was one	I
Gifted with the strong energy of mind	L
Quick to perceive the right and prompt to act	D2
When Justice needed he would listen to me	P
With due attention yet not yielding lightly	P
What had to him seem'd good severe in virtue	K2
He awed the ruder people whom he led	L2
By his stern rectitude	K
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PIERS	J
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Witness that day	M2
When they destroy'd the palace of the Gaunt	N2
And hurl'd the wealth his avarice had amass'd	X
Amid the fire the people fierce in zeal	O2
Threw in the flames the wretch whose selfish hand	P2
Purloin'd amid the tumult	Q2
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JOHN BALL	C
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I lament	R2
The death of Tyler for my country's sake	S2
I shudder lest posterity enslav'd	T2
Should rue his murder who shall now control	U2
The giddy multitude blind to their own good	V2
And listening with avidity to the tale	W2
Of courtly falsehood	V2
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PIERS	J
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The King must perform	X2
His plighted promise	J
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Cry without The Charter the Charter	D
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Enter Mob and Herald	Y2
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TOM MILLER	D
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Read it out read it out	Z2
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HOB	A2
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Aye aye let's hear the Charter	D
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HERALD	Y2
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Richard Plantagenet by the grace of God	A3
King of England Ireland France Scotland	B3
and the town of Berwick upon Tweed to all	C
whom it may concern These presents	J
Whereas our loving subjects have complained	C3
to us of the heavy burdens they endure	D3
particularly from our late enacted	E3
poll tax and whereas they have risen in	F3
arms against our officers and demanded the	G3
abolition of personal slavery vassalage and	B3
manorial rights we ever ready in our sovereign	I
mercy to listen to the petitions of our	D
loving subjects do annul all these grievances	J
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MOB	A2
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Huzza long live the king	H3
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HERALD	Y2
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And do of our royal mercy grant a free	P
pardon to all who may have been anyways	J
concerned in the late insurrections All this	J
shall be faithfully performed on our royal	I3
word So help us God	A3
God save the King	H3
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Loud and repeated shouts	J
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HERALD	Y2
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Now then depart in quiet to your homes	J
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JOHN BALL	C
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Nay my good friend the people will remain	F2
Embodied peaceably till Parliament	J3
Confirm the royal charter tell your king so	J
We will await the Charter's confirmation	I
Meanwhile comporting ourselves orderly	P
As peaceful citizens not risen in tumult	Q2
But to redress their evils	J
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Exit Herald c HOB PIERS and	B3
JOHN BALL remain	F2
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HOB	A2
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'Twas well order'd	C2
I place but little trust in courtly faith	K3
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JOHN BALL	C
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We must remain embodied else the king	H3
Will plunge again in royal luxury	P
And when the storm of danger is past over	D
Forget his promises	J
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HOB	A2
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Aye like an aguish sinner	D
He'll promise to repent when the fit's on him	G
When well recover'd laugh at his own terrors	J
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PIERS	J
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Oh I am grieved that we must gain so little	I3
Why are not all these empty ranks abolish'd	Y
King slave and lord 'ennobl'd into MAN '	-
Are we not equal all have you not told me	P
Equality is the sacred right of man	L3
Inalienable tho' by force withheld	M3
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JOHN BALL	C
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Even so but Piers my frail and fallible judgment	J3
Knows hardly to decide if it be right	N3
Peaceably to return content with little	I3
With this half restitution of our rights	J
Or boldly to proceed through blood and slaughter	D
Till we should all be equal and all happy	P
I chose the milder way perhaps I erred	O3
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PIERS	J
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I fear me by the mass the unsteady people	I3
Are flocking homewards how the multitude	K
Diminishes	J
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JOHN BALL	C
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Go thou my son and stay them	P3
Carter do you exert your influence	J
All depends on their stay my mind is troubl'd	Y2
And I would fain compose my thoughts for action	I
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Exeunt HOB and PIERS	J
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Father of mercies I do fear me much	Q3
That I have err'd thou gav'st my ardent mind	L
To pierce the mists of superstitious falsehood	V2
Gav'st me to know the truth I should have urg'd it	R3
Thro' every op perhaps	J
The seemly voice of pity has deceiv'd me	P
And all this mighty movement ends in ruin	I
I fear me I have been like the weak leech	S3
Who sparing to cut deep with cruel mercy	P
Mangles his patient without curing him	G
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Great tumult	Q2
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What means this tumult hark the clang of arms	J
God of eternal justice the false monarch	T3
Has broke his plighted vow	U3
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Enter PIERS wounded	E3
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PIERS	J
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Fly fly my father the perjur'd king fly fly	T
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JOHN BALL	C
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Nay nay my child I dare abide my fate	S
Let me bind up thy wounds	J
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PIERS	J
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'Tis useless succour	D
They seek thy life fly fly my honour'd father	D
Fain would I die in peace to hope thee safe	V3
I shall soon join thee Tyler they are murdering	H3
Our unsuspecting brethren half unarm'd	W3
Trusting too fondly to the tyrant's vows	J
They were dispersing the streets swim with blood	E3
O save thyself	V3
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Enter Soldiers	J
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SOLDIER	D
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This is that old seditious heretic	X3
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Seizes JOHN BALL	C
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SECOND SOL	Y3