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Prepare there! The Duke is coming.

Vaux, calling as to Officers offstage
Prepare there!
The Duke is coming. See the barge be ready,
And fit it with such furniture as suits
The greatness of his person.
Buckingham
Nay, Sir Nicholas,
Let it alone. My state now will but mock me.Metonymy & Personification
When I came hither, I was Lord High Constable
And Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun.

This from a dying man receive as certain:
Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
Be sure you be not loose

Yet I am richer than my base accusers,
That never knew what truth meant. I now seal it,
And with that blood will make ’em one day groan for ’t.
My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,
Who first raised head against usurping Richard,
Flying for succor to his servant Banister,
Being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed,
And, without trial, fell.Parentheses & Synecdoche
God’s peace be with him.
Henry the Seventh, succeeding, truly pitying
My father’s loss, like a most royal prince
Restored me to my honors and out of ruins
Made my name once more noble. HyperbatonNow his son,
Henry the Eighth, life, honor, name, and all
That made me happy at one stroke has taken
Forever from the world.Metaphor and Metonymy
I had my trial,
And must needs say a noble one, which makes me
A little happier than Alliterationmy wretched father.
Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both
Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most—
A most unnatural and faithless service.Parenthesis

Heaven has an end in all; yet, you that hear me,
This from a dying man receive as certain:
Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
Be sure you be not loose; Synecdochefor those you make friends
And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
SimileLike water from you, never found again
But where they mean to Metaphorsink you.Alliteration
All good people,
Pray for me. I must now forsake you. The last hour
Of my long weary life is come upon me.Alliteration

Farewell. And when you would say something that is sad,
Speak how I fell. I have done; and God forgive me.
 Duke and train exit.

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Act 2
Scene 1
Line 116

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