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of our two cousins coming into London.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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Where did I leave?
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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At that sad stop, my lord,
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Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops
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Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke,
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Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed
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Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know,
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With slow but stately pace kept on his course,
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Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee,
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Bolingbroke!'
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You would have thought the very windows spake,
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So many greedy looks of young and old
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Through casements darted their desiring eyes
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Upon his visage, and that all the walls
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With painted imagery had said at once
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'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!'
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Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,
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Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck,
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Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen:'
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And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst?
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DUKE OF YORK:
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As in a theatre, the eyes of men,
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After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
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Are idly bent on him that enters next,
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Thinking his prattle to be tedious;
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Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes
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Did scowl on gentle Richard; no man cried 'God save him!'
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No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home:
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But dust was thrown upon his sacred head:
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Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,
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His face still combating with tears and smiles,
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The badges of his grief and patience,
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That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd
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The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted
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And barbarism itself have pitied him.
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But heaven hath a hand in these events,
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To whose high will we bound our calm contents.
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To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,
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Whose state and honour I for aye allow.
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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Here comes my son Aumerle.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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Aumerle that was;
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But that is lost for being Richard's friend,
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And, madam, you must call him Rutland now:
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I am in parliament pledge for his truth
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And lasting fealty to the new-made king.
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DUCHESS OF YORK:
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Welcome, my son: who are the violets now
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That strew the green lap of the new come spring?
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not:
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God knows I had as lief be none as one.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,
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Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime.
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What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs?
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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For aught I know, my lord, they do.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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You will be there, I know.
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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If God prevent not, I purpose so.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom?
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Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writing.
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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My lord, 'tis nothing.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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No matter, then, who see it;
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I will be satisfied; let me see the writing.
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DUKE OF AUMERLE:
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I do beseech your grace to pardon me:
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It is a matter of small consequence,
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Which for some reasons I would not have seen.
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DUKE OF YORK:
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