text
stringlengths 0
63
|
|---|
SIR STEPHEN SCROOP:
|
Men judge by the complexion of the sky
|
The state and inclination of the day:
|
So may you by my dull and heavy eye,
|
My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.
|
I play the torturer, by small and small
|
To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:
|
Your uncle York is join'd with Bolingbroke,
|
And all your northern castles yielded up,
|
And all your southern gentlemen in arms
|
Upon his party.
|
KING RICHARD II:
|
Thou hast said enough.
|
Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth
|
Of that sweet way I was in to despair!
|
What say you now? what comfort have we now?
|
By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly
|
That bids me be of comfort any more.
|
Go to Flint castle: there I'll pine away;
|
A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.
|
That power I have, discharge; and let them go
|
To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
|
For I have none: let no man speak again
|
To alter this, for counsel is but vain.
|
DUKE OF AUMERLE:
|
My liege, one word.
|
KING RICHARD II:
|
He does me double wrong
|
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
|
Discharge my followers: let them hence away,
|
From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day.
|
HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
|
So that by this intelligence we learn
|
The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury
|
Is gone to meet the king, who lately landed
|
With some few private friends upon this coast.
|
NORTHUMBERLAND:
|
The news is very fair and good, my lord:
|
Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.
|
DUKE OF YORK:
|
It would beseem the Lord Northumberland
|
To say 'King Richard:' alack the heavy day
|
When such a sacred king should hide his head.
|
NORTHUMBERLAND:
|
Your grace mistakes; only to be brief
|
Left I his title out.
|
DUKE OF YORK:
|
The time hath been,
|
Would you have been so brief with him, he would
|
Have been so brief with you, to shorten you,
|
For taking so the head, your whole head's length.
|
HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
|
Mistake not, uncle, further than you should.
|
DUKE OF YORK:
|
Take not, good cousin, further than you should.
|
Lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads.
|
HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
|
I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself
|
Against their will. But who comes here?
|
Welcome, Harry: what, will not this castle yield?
|
HENRY PERCY:
|
The castle royally is mann'd, my lord,
|
Against thy entrance.
|
HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
|
Royally!
|
Why, it contains no king?
|
HENRY PERCY:
|
Yes, my good lord,
|
It doth contain a king; King Richard lies
|
Within the limits of yon lime and stone:
|
And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,
|
Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman
|
Of holy reverence; who, I cannot learn.
|
NORTHUMBERLAND:
|
O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle.
|
HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
|
Noble lords,
|
Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle;
|
Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley
|
Into his ruin'd ears, and thus deliver:
|
Henry Bolingbroke
|
On both his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand
|
And sends allegiance and true faith of heart
|
To his most royal person, hither come
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.