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Nor never look upon each other's face;
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Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile
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This louring tempest of your home-bred hate;
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Nor never by advised purpose meet
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To plot, contrive, or complot any ill
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'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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I swear.
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THOMAS MOWBRAY:
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And I, to keep all this.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:--
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By this time, had the king permitted us,
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One of our souls had wander'd in the air.
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Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh,
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As now our flesh is banish'd from this land:
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Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm;
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Since thou hast far to go, bear not along
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The clogging burthen of a guilty soul.
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THOMAS MOWBRAY:
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No, Bolingbroke: if ever I were traitor,
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My name be blotted from the book of life,
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And I from heaven banish'd as from hence!
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But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know;
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And all too soon, I fear, the king shall rue.
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Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray;
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Save back to England, all the world's my way.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes
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I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect
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Hath from the number of his banish'd years
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Pluck'd four away.
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Six frozen winter spent,
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Return with welcome home from banishment.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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How long a time lies in one little word!
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Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
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End in a word: such is the breath of kings.
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JOHN OF GAUNT:
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I thank my liege, that in regard of me
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He shortens four years of my son's exile:
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But little vantage shall I reap thereby;
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For, ere the six years that he hath to spend
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Can change their moons and bring their times about
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My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light
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Shall be extinct with age and endless night;
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My inch of taper will be burnt and done,
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And blindfold death not let me see my son.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Why uncle, thou hast many years to live.
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JOHN OF GAUNT:
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But not a minute, king, that thou canst give:
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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
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And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
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Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
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But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;
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Thy word is current with him for my death,
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But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Thy son is banish'd upon good advice,
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Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave:
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Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour?
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JOHN OF GAUNT:
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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
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You urged me as a judge; but I had rather
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You would have bid me argue like a father.
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O, had it been a stranger, not my child,
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To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:
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A partial slander sought I to avoid,
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And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.
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Alas, I look'd when some of you should say,
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I was too strict to make mine own away;
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But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
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Against my will to do myself this wrong.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Cousin, farewell; and, uncle, bid him so:
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Six years we banish him, and he shall go.
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know,
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From where you do remain let paper show.
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Lord Marshal:
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My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride,
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As far as land will let me, by your side.
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JOHN OF GAUNT:
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O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,
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