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 King Richard III

Soliloquy Challenge

How well do you know this soliloquy? Drag the lines into the correct order then click SUBMIT at the bottom to see if you've got it right.

Have no delight to pass away the time,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
And descant on mine own deformity:
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,

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