Act V, Scene 5: Richmond's Peace Settlement — Richard III

Richmond praises God and victorious friends and says the day is ours, the bloody dog is dead. Derby crowns him with royalties plucked from the dead temples of the bloody wretch and tells him wear it and make much of it. Richmond says great God of heaven amen to all, then asks first whether young George Stanley is living. Derby says he is safe in Leicester town.

Richmond asks what men of name are slain and hears Norfolk, Ferrers, Brokenbury, and Brandon. He orders their bodies interred as become their births, proclaims pardon to soldiers fled who will return in submission, and vows that as they have taken the sacrament they will unite the white rose and the red.

Richmond names England long mad, brother shedding brother, father and son butchered across York and Lancaster, and calls on heaven to smile on Richmond and Elizabeth conjoined as true successors. He asks God to abate traitors who would wound the land's peace, then closes now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again, that she may long live here, God say amen. Exeunt. Finis.