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Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,
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Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face.
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I am the last of noble Edward's sons,
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Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first:
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In war was never lion raged more fierce,
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In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,
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Than was that young and princely gentleman.
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His face thou hast, for even so look'd he,
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Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours;
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But when he frown'd, it was against the French
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And not against his friends; his noble hand
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Did will what he did spend and spent not that
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Which his triumphant father's hand had won;
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His hands were guilty of no kindred blood,
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But bloody with the enemies of his kin.
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O Richard! York is too far gone with grief,
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Or else he never would compare between.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Why, uncle, what's the matter?
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DUKE OF YORK:
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O my liege,
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Pardon me, if you please; if not, I, pleased
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Not to be pardon'd, am content withal.
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Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
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The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford?
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Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not Hereford live?
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Was not Gaunt just, and is not Harry true?
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Did not the one deserve to have an heir?
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Is not his heir a well-deserving son?
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Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time
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His charters and his customary rights;
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Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day;
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Be not thyself; for how art thou a king
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But by fair sequence and succession?
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Now, afore God--God forbid I say true!--
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If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,
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Call in the letters patent that he hath
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By his attorneys-general to sue
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His livery, and deny his offer'd homage,
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You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,
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You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts
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And prick my tender patience, to those thoughts
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Which honour and allegiance cannot think.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Think what you will, we seize into our hands
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His plate, his goods, his money and his lands.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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I'll not be by the while: my liege, farewell:
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What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell;
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But by bad courses may be understood
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That their events can never fall out good.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight:
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Bid him repair to us to Ely House
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To see this business. To-morrow next
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We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow:
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And we create, in absence of ourself,
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Our uncle York lord governor of England;
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For he is just and always loved us well.
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Come on, our queen: to-morrow must we part;
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Be merry, for our time of stay is short
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NORTHUMBERLAND:
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Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead.
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LORD ROSS:
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And living too; for now his son is duke.
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LORD WILLOUGHBY:
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Barely in title, not in revenue.
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NORTHUMBERLAND:
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Richly in both, if justice had her right.
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LORD ROSS:
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My heart is great; but it must break with silence,
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Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue.
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NORTHUMBERLAND:
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Nay, speak thy mind; and let him ne'er speak more
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That speaks thy words again to do thee harm!
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LORD WILLOUGHBY:
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Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford?
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If it be so, out with it boldly, man;
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Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.
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LORD ROSS:
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No good at all that I can do for him;
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Unless you call it good to pity him,
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Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.
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NORTHUMBERLAND:
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Now, afore God, 'tis shame such wrongs are borne
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In him, a royal prince, and many moe
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