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| 1 | +import pprint |
| 2 | +info = '''SCENE I. Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest. |
| 3 | +
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| 4 | +Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, LORD HASTINGS, and others |
| 5 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 6 | +What is this forest call'd? |
| 7 | +HASTINGS |
| 8 | +'Tis Gaultree Forest, an't shall please your grace. |
| 9 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 10 | +Here stand, my lords; and send discoverers forth |
| 11 | +To know the numbers of our enemies. |
| 12 | +HASTINGS |
| 13 | +We have sent forth already. |
| 14 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 15 | +'Tis well done. |
| 16 | +My friends and brethren in these great affairs, |
| 17 | +I must acquaint you that I have received |
| 18 | +New-dated letters from Northumberland; |
| 19 | +Their cold intent, tenor and substance, thus: |
| 20 | +Here doth he wish his person, with such powers |
| 21 | +As might hold sortance with his quality, |
| 22 | +The which he could not levy; whereupon |
| 23 | +He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes, |
| 24 | +To Scotland: and concludes in hearty prayers |
| 25 | +That your attempts may overlive the hazard |
| 26 | +And fearful melting of their opposite. |
| 27 | +MOWBRAY |
| 28 | +Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground |
| 29 | +And dash themselves to pieces. |
| 30 | +Enter a Messenger |
| 31 | +
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| 32 | +HASTINGS |
| 33 | +Now, what news? |
| 34 | +Messenger |
| 35 | +West of this forest, scarcely off a mile, |
| 36 | +In goodly form comes on the enemy; |
| 37 | +And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number |
| 38 | +Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand. |
| 39 | +MOWBRAY |
| 40 | +The just proportion that we gave them out |
| 41 | +Let us sway on and face them in the field. |
| 42 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 43 | +What well-appointed leader fronts us here? |
| 44 | +Enter WESTMORELAND |
| 45 | +
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| 46 | +MOWBRAY |
| 47 | +I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland. |
| 48 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 49 | +Health and fair greeting from our general, |
| 50 | +The prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster. |
| 51 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 52 | +Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace: |
| 53 | +What doth concern your coming? |
| 54 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 55 | +Then, my lord, |
| 56 | +Unto your grace do I in chief address |
| 57 | +The substance of my speech. If that rebellion |
| 58 | +Came like itself, in base and abject routs, |
| 59 | +Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags, |
| 60 | +And countenanced by boys and beggary, |
| 61 | +I say, if damn'd commotion so appear'd, |
| 62 | +In his true, native and most proper shape, |
| 63 | +You, reverend father, and these noble lords |
| 64 | +Had not been here, to dress the ugly form |
| 65 | +Of base and bloody insurrection |
| 66 | +With your fair honours. You, lord archbishop, |
| 67 | +Whose see is by a civil peace maintained, |
| 68 | +Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd, |
| 69 | +Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd, |
| 70 | +Whose white investments figure innocence, |
| 71 | +The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, |
| 72 | +Wherefore do you so ill translate ourself |
| 73 | +Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace, |
| 74 | +Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war; |
| 75 | +Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood, |
| 76 | +Your pens to lances and your tongue divine |
| 77 | +To a trumpet and a point of war? |
| 78 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 79 | +Wherefore do I this? so the question stands. |
| 80 | +Briefly to this end: we are all diseased, |
| 81 | +And with our surfeiting and wanton hours |
| 82 | +Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, |
| 83 | +And we must bleed for it; of which disease |
| 84 | +Our late king, Richard, being infected, died. |
| 85 | +But, my most noble Lord of Westmoreland, |
| 86 | +I take not on me here as a physician, |
| 87 | +Nor do I as an enemy to peace |
| 88 | +Troop in the throngs of military men; |
| 89 | +But rather show awhile like fearful war, |
| 90 | +To diet rank minds sick of happiness |
| 91 | +And purge the obstructions which begin to stop |
| 92 | +Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly. |
| 93 | +I have in equal balance justly weigh'd |
| 94 | +What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer, |
| 95 | +And find our griefs heavier than our offences. |
| 96 | +We see which way the stream of time doth run, |
| 97 | +And are enforced from our most quiet there |
| 98 | +By the rough torrent of occasion; |
| 99 | +And have the summary of all our griefs, |
| 100 | +When time shall serve, to show in articles; |
| 101 | +Which long ere this we offer'd to the king, |
| 102 | +And might by no suit gain our audience: |
| 103 | +When we are wrong'd and would unfold our griefs, |
| 104 | +We are denied access unto his person |
| 105 | +Even by those men that most have done us wrong. |
| 106 | +The dangers of the days but newly gone, |
| 107 | +Whose memory is written on the earth |
| 108 | +With yet appearing blood, and the examples |
| 109 | +Of every minute's instance, present now, |
| 110 | +Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms, |
| 111 | +Not to break peace or any branch of it, |
| 112 | +But to establish here a peace indeed, |
| 113 | +Concurring both in name and quality. |
| 114 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 115 | +When ever yet was your appeal denied? |
| 116 | +Wherein have you been galled by the king? |
| 117 | +What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you, |
| 118 | +That you should seal this lawless bloody book |
| 119 | +Of forged rebellion with a seal divine |
| 120 | +And consecrate commotion's bitter edge? |
| 121 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 122 | +My brother general, the commonwealth, |
| 123 | +To brother born an household cruelty, |
| 124 | +I make my quarrel in particular. |
| 125 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 126 | +There is no need of any such redress; |
| 127 | +Or if there were, it not belongs to you. |
| 128 | +MOWBRAY |
| 129 | +Why not to him in part, and to us all |
| 130 | +That feel the bruises of the days before, |
| 131 | +And suffer the condition of these times |
| 132 | +To lay a heavy and unequal hand |
| 133 | +Upon our honours? |
| 134 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 135 | +O, my good Lord Mowbray, |
| 136 | +Construe the times to their necessities, |
| 137 | +And you shall say indeed, it is the time, |
| 138 | +And not the king, that doth you injuries. |
| 139 | +Yet for your part, it not appears to me |
| 140 | +Either from the king or in the present time |
| 141 | +That you should have an inch of any ground |
| 142 | +To build a grief on: were you not restored |
| 143 | +To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories, |
| 144 | +Your noble and right well remember'd father's? |
| 145 | +MOWBRAY |
| 146 | +What thing, in honour, had my father lost, |
| 147 | +That need to be revived and breathed in me? |
| 148 | +The king that loved him, as the state stood then, |
| 149 | +Was force perforce compell'd to banish him: |
| 150 | +And then that Harry Bolingbroke and he, |
| 151 | +Being mounted and both roused in their seats, |
| 152 | +Their neighing coursers daring of the spur, |
| 153 | +Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down, |
| 154 | +Their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel |
| 155 | +And the loud trumpet blowing them together, |
| 156 | +Then, then, when there was nothing could have stay'd |
| 157 | +My father from the breast of Bolingbroke, |
| 158 | +O when the king did throw his warder down, |
| 159 | +His own life hung upon the staff he threw; |
| 160 | +Then threw he down himself and all their lives |
| 161 | +That by indictment and by dint of sword |
| 162 | +Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke. |
| 163 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 164 | +You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know not what. |
| 165 | +The Earl of Hereford was reputed then |
| 166 | +In England the most valiant gentlemen: |
| 167 | +Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled? |
| 168 | +But if your father had been victor there, |
| 169 | +He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry: |
| 170 | +For all the country in a general voice |
| 171 | +Cried hate upon him; and all their prayers and love |
| 172 | +Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on |
| 173 | +And bless'd and graced indeed, more than the king. |
| 174 | +But this is mere digression from my purpose. |
| 175 | +Here come I from our princely general |
| 176 | +To know your griefs; to tell you from his grace |
| 177 | +That he will give you audience; and wherein |
| 178 | +It shall appear that your demands are just, |
| 179 | +You shall enjoy them, every thing set off |
| 180 | +That might so much as think you enemies. |
| 181 | +MOWBRAY |
| 182 | +But he hath forced us to compel this offer; |
| 183 | +And it proceeds from policy, not love. |
| 184 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 185 | +Mowbray, you overween to take it so; |
| 186 | +This offer comes from mercy, not from fear: |
| 187 | +For, lo! within a ken our army lies, |
| 188 | +Upon mine honour, all too confident |
| 189 | +To give admittance to a thought of fear. |
| 190 | +Our battle is more full of names than yours, |
| 191 | +Our men more perfect in the use of arms, |
| 192 | +Our armour all as strong, our cause the best; |
| 193 | +Then reason will our heart should be as good |
| 194 | +Say you not then our offer is compell'd. |
| 195 | +MOWBRAY |
| 196 | +Well, by my will we shall admit no parley. |
| 197 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 198 | +That argues but the shame of your offence: |
| 199 | +A rotten case abides no handling. |
| 200 | +HASTINGS |
| 201 | +Hath the Prince John a full commission, |
| 202 | +In very ample virtue of his father, |
| 203 | +To hear and absolutely to determine |
| 204 | +Of what conditions we shall stand upon? |
| 205 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 206 | +That is intended in the general's name: |
| 207 | +I muse you make so slight a question. |
| 208 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 209 | +Then take, my Lord of Westmoreland, this schedule, |
| 210 | +For this contains our general grievances: |
| 211 | +Each several article herein redress'd, |
| 212 | +All members of our cause, both here and hence, |
| 213 | +That are insinew'd to this action, |
| 214 | +Acquitted by a true substantial form |
| 215 | +And present execution of our wills |
| 216 | +To us and to our purposes confined, |
| 217 | +We come within our awful banks again |
| 218 | +And knit our powers to the arm of peace. |
| 219 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 220 | +This will I show the general. Please you, lords, |
| 221 | +In sight of both our battles we may meet; |
| 222 | +And either end in peace, which God so frame! |
| 223 | +Or to the place of difference call the swords |
| 224 | +Which must decide it. |
| 225 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 226 | +My lord, we will do so. |
| 227 | +Exit WESTMORELAND |
| 228 | +
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| 229 | +MOWBRAY |
| 230 | +There is a thing within my bosom tells me |
| 231 | +That no conditions of our peace can stand. |
| 232 | +HASTINGS |
| 233 | +Fear you not that: if we can make our peace |
| 234 | +Upon such large terms and so absolute |
| 235 | +As our conditions shall consist upon, |
| 236 | +Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. |
| 237 | +MOWBRAY |
| 238 | +Yea, but our valuation shall be such |
| 239 | +That every slight and false-derived cause, |
| 240 | +Yea, every idle, nice and wanton reason |
| 241 | +Shall to the king taste of this action; |
| 242 | +That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love, |
| 243 | +We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind |
| 244 | +That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff |
| 245 | +And good from bad find no partition. |
| 246 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 247 | +No, no, my lord. Note this; the king is weary |
| 248 | +Of dainty and such picking grievances: |
| 249 | +For he hath found to end one doubt by death |
| 250 | +Revives two greater in the heirs of life, |
| 251 | +And therefore will he wipe his tables clean |
| 252 | +And keep no tell-tale to his memory |
| 253 | +That may repeat and history his loss |
| 254 | +To new remembrance; for full well he knows |
| 255 | +He cannot so precisely weed this land |
| 256 | +As his misdoubts present occasion: |
| 257 | +His foes are so enrooted with his friends |
| 258 | +That, plucking to unfix an enemy, |
| 259 | +He doth unfasten so and shake a friend: |
| 260 | +So that this land, like an offensive wife |
| 261 | +That hath enraged him on to offer strokes, |
| 262 | +As he is striking, holds his infant up |
| 263 | +And hangs resolved correction in the arm |
| 264 | +That was uprear'd to execution. |
| 265 | +HASTINGS |
| 266 | +Besides, the king hath wasted all his rods |
| 267 | +On late offenders, that he now doth lack |
| 268 | +The very instruments of chastisement: |
| 269 | +So that his power, like to a fangless lion, |
| 270 | +May offer, but not hold. |
| 271 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 272 | +'Tis very true: |
| 273 | +And therefore be assured, my good lord marshal, |
| 274 | +If we do now make our atonement well, |
| 275 | +Our peace will, like a broken limb united, |
| 276 | +Grow stronger for the breaking. |
| 277 | +MOWBRAY |
| 278 | +Be it so. |
| 279 | +Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland. |
| 280 | +Re-enter WESTMORELAND |
| 281 | +
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| 282 | +WESTMORELAND |
| 283 | +The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship |
| 284 | +To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies. |
| 285 | +MOWBRAY |
| 286 | +Your grace of York, in God's name then, set forward. |
| 287 | +ARCHBISHOP OF YORK |
| 288 | +Before, and greet his grace: my lord, we come. |
| 289 | +Exeunt''' |
| 290 | +count = { } |
| 291 | +for character in info.upper(): |
| 292 | + count.setdefault(character, 0) |
| 293 | + count[character] = count[character]+1 |
| 294 | + |
| 295 | +value = pprint.pformat(count) |
| 296 | +print(value) |
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