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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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Bring forth these men.
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Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls--
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Since presently your souls must part your bodies--
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With too much urging your pernicious lives,
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For 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood
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From off my hands, here in the view of men
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I will unfold some causes of your deaths.
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You have misled a prince, a royal king,
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A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
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By you unhappied and disfigured clean:
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You have in manner with your sinful hours
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Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
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Broke the possession of a royal bed
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And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks
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With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
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Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,
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Near to the king in blood, and near in love
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Till you did make him misinterpret me,
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Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries,
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And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds,
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Eating the bitter bread of banishment;
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Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
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Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,
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From my own windows torn my household coat,
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Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
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Save men's opinions and my living blood,
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To show the world I am a gentleman.
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This and much more, much more than twice all this,
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Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over
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To execution and the hand of death.
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BUSHY:
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More welcome is the stroke of death to me
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Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.
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GREEN:
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My comfort is that heaven will take our souls
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And plague injustice with the pains of hell.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatch'd.
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Uncle, you say the queen is at your house;
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For God's sake, fairly let her be entreated:
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Tell her I send to her my kind commends;
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Take special care my greetings be deliver'd.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd
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With letters of your love to her at large.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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Thank, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away.
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To fight with Glendower and his complices:
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Awhile to work, and after holiday.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Barkloughly castle call they this at hand?
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air,
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After your late tossing on the breaking seas?
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KING RICHARD II:
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Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy
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To stand upon my kingdom once again.
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Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,
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Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs:
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As a long-parted mother with her child
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Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,
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So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,
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And do thee favours with my royal hands.
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Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth,
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Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;
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But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,
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And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way,
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Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet
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Which with usurping steps do trample thee:
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Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies;
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And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower,
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Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder
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Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
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Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies.
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Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords:
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This earth shall have a feeling and these stones
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Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king
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Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
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BISHOP OF CARLISLE:
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Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king
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Hath power to keep you king in spite of all.
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The means that heaven yields must be embraced,
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And not neglected; else, if heaven would,
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And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse,
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The proffer'd means of succor and redress.
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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He means, my lord, that we are too remiss;
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Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,
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