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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words
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Till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords.
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KING RICHARD II:
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O God, O God! that e'er this tongue of mine,
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That laid the sentence of dread banishment
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On yon proud man, should take it off again
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With words of sooth! O that I were as great
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As is my grief, or lesser than my name!
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Or that I could forget what I have been,
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Or not remember what I must be now!
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Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat,
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Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me.
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke.
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KING RICHARD II:
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What must the king do now? must he submit?
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The king shall do it: must he be deposed?
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The king shall be contented: must he lose
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The name of king? o' God's name, let it go:
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I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
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My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
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My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,
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My figured goblets for a dish of wood,
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My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff,
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My subjects for a pair of carved saints
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And my large kingdom for a little grave,
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A little little grave, an obscure grave;
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Or I'll be buried in the king's highway,
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Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet
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May hourly trample on their sovereign's head;
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For on my heart they tread now whilst I live;
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And buried once, why not upon my head?
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Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted cousin!
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We'll make foul weather with despised tears;
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Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,
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And make a dearth in this revolting land.
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Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,
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And make some pretty match with shedding tears?
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As thus, to drop them still upon one place,
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Till they have fretted us a pair of graves
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Within the earth; and, therein laid,--there lies
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Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes.
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Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see
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I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.
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Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,
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What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty
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Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?
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You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay.
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NORTHUMBERLAND:
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My lord, in the base court he doth attend
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To speak with you; may it please you to come down.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon,
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Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
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In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,
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To come at traitors' calls and do them grace.
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In the base court? Come down? Down, court!
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down, king!
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For night-owls shriek where mounting larks
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should sing.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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What says his majesty?
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NORTHUMBERLAND:
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Sorrow and grief of heart
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Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man
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Yet he is come.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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Stand all apart,
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And show fair duty to his majesty.
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My gracious lord,--
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KING RICHARD II:
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Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee
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To make the base earth proud with kissing it:
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Me rather had my heart might feel your love
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Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
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Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know,
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Thus high at least, although your knee be low.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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My gracious lord, I come but for mine own.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all.
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,
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As my true service shall deserve your love.
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KING RICHARD II:
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