Shakspeare's RICHARD III. inquires--

"Is the _Chair_ empty? Is the Sword unswayed?

Is the King dead? The empire unpossessed?

What heir of York is there alive but We?"

And the Earl of Richmond describes him, in admirable allusion to the

foregoing facts, as

"A base foul _stone_, made precious by the foil

Of England's chair, where he is falsely set[9]."

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