Revenge of the Reading Comprehension Test

And now, a reading comprehension test! Do you consider yourself literate? LET'S FIND OUT FOR CERTAIN.

Read, if you can, this brief passage:

"Meethinkes their ghoasts come gaping for revenge
Whom I have slain in reaching for a crowne.
Clarence complains and crieth for revenge,
My Nephues bloods, 'Revenge, revenge' doth crie.
The headlesse Peers come pressing for revenge,
And everyone cries, 'let the tyrant die.'
The Sunne by day shines hotely for revenge,
The Stars are turned to Comets for revenge,
The Planets change their courses for revenge,
The birds sing not, but sorrow for revenge,
The silly lambe sits bleating for revenge,
The screeking Raven sits croking for revenge,
Whole heads of beasts come bellowing for revenge,
And all, yea all the world I think
Cries for revenge and nothing but revenge."

-- From THE TRUE TRAGEDIE OF RICHARD III (ca 1591).

Question: What are all of these comets and ghosts and birds and silly lambs bellowing, screeking, shining hotly and pressing for?

A) Renege.

B) Pretence.

C) Replunge.

D) All of the above, but not necessarily in that order.

BONUS QUESTION!

Are you illiterate? (If you can't write the answer, then shake your head, or put an X on paper, or cry out, "No! My parents loved each other!")