Whenever you run into troublesome language from Shakespeare, here's an excellent website to use:
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/
For this particular quotation, click on the link for Richard III. Then click on Act I Scene 2, and read in the left column until you find these particular three lines. Look at the corresponding section in the right column for a "translation."
what is being said in the following line:
“Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not;
For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
Fill’s it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.”
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