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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. KING RICHARD II's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING RICHARD II, JOHN OF GAUNT, with other Nobles and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>Here to make good the boisterous late appeal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>Which then our leisure would not let us hear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>I have, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>If he appeal the duke on ancient malice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>Or worthily, as a good subject should,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>On some known ground of treachery in him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>As near as I could sift him on that argument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>On some apparent danger seen in him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>Aim'd at your highness, no inveterate malice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>Then call them to our presence; face to face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>The accuser and the accused freely speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>High-stomach'd are they both, and full of ire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE and THOMAS MOWBRAY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>Many years of happy days befal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>Each day still better other's happiness;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>Until the heavens, envying earth's good hap,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>Add an immortal title to your crown!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>We thank you both: yet one but flatters us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>As well appeareth by the cause you come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>Namely to appeal each other of high treason.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>First, heaven be the record to my speech!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>In the devotion of a subject's love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>Tendering the precious safety of my prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>And free from other misbegotten hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>Come I appellant to this princely presence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>And mark my greeting well; for what I speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>My body shall make good upon this earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>Or my divine soul answer it in heaven.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>Thou art a traitor and a miscreant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Too good to be so and too bad to live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>Once more, the more to aggravate the note,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>And wish, so please my sovereign, ere I move,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>'Tis not the trial of a woman's war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>The bitter clamour of two eager tongues,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>The blood is hot that must be cool'd for this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>Yet can I not of such tame patience boast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>As to be hush'd and nought at all to say:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>From giving reins and spurs to my free speech;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Which else would post until it had return'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>These terms of treason doubled down his throat.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>Setting aside his high blood's royalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>And let him be no kinsman to my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>I do defy him, and I spit at him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>Call him a slanderous coward and a villain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>Which to maintain I would allow him odds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>And meet him, were I tied to run afoot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Or any other ground inhabitable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>Where ever Englishman durst set his foot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>Mean time let this defend my loyalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>By all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>Pale trembling coward, there I throw my gage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>Disclaiming here the kindred of the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>And lay aside my high blood's royalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>If guilty dread have left thee so much strength</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>As to take up mine honour's pawn, then stoop:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>By that and all the rites of knighthood else,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>Will I make good against thee, arm to arm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>What I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>I take it up; and by that sword I swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>I'll answer thee in any fair degree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>Or chivalrous design of knightly trial:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>And when I mount, alive may I not light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>If I be traitor or unjustly fight!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>It must be great that can inherit us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>So much as of a thought of ill in him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>Like a false traitor and injurious villain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>Besides I say and will in battle prove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>That ever was survey'd by English eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>That all the treasons for these eighteen years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>Complotted and contrived in this land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>Further I say and further will maintain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>Upon his bad life to make all this good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>And consequently, like a traitor coward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>To me for justice and rough chastisement;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>And, by the glorious worth of my descent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>How high a pitch his resolution soars!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>Thomas of Norfolk, what say'st thou to this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>O, let my sovereign turn away his face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>And bid his ears a little while be deaf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>Till I have told this slander of his blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>How God and good men hate so foul a liar.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>As he is but my father's brother's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>Now, by my sceptre's awe, I make a vow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>The unstooping firmness of my upright soul:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>Free speech and fearless I to thee allow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Disbursed I duly to his highness' soldiers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>The other part reserved I by consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>For that my sovereign liege was in my debt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>Upon remainder of a dear account,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>Since last I went to France to fetch his queen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>Now swallow down that lie. For Gloucester's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>I slew him not; but to my own disgrace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>Neglected my sworn duty in that case.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>For you, my noble Lord of Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>The honourable father to my foe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>Once did I lay an ambush for your life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>But ere I last received the sacrament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>I did confess it, and exactly begg'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>Your grace's pardon, and I hope I had it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>This is my fault: as for the rest appeall'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>It issues from the rancour of a villain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>A recreant and most degenerate traitor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>Which in myself I boldly will defend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>And interchangeably hurl down my gage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>Upon this overweening traitor's foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>To prove myself a loyal gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>Even in the best blood chamber'd in his bosom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>In haste whereof, most heartily I pray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>Your highness to assign our trial day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Let's purge this choler without letting blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>This we prescribe, though no physician;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>Deep malice makes too deep incision;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>Good uncle, let this end where it begun;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>We'll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>To be a make-peace shall become my age:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>And, Norfolk, throw down his.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>When, Harry, when?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>Obedience bids I should not bid again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>Norfolk, throw down, we bid; there is no boot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>My life thou shalt command, but not my shame:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>The one my duty owes; but my fair name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>Despite of death that lives upon my grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>I am disgraced, impeach'd and baffled here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>Which breathed this poison.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>Rage must be withstood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>Give me his gage: lions make leopards tame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>The purest treasure mortal times afford</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>Is spotless reputation: that away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>Mine honour is my life; both grow in one:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Take honour from me, and my life is done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>In that I live and for that will I die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>Cousin, throw up your gage; do you begin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>O, God defend my soul from such deep sin!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>Shall I seem crest-fall'n in my father's sight?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>Before this out-dared dastard? Ere my tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>The slavish motive of recanting fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit JOHN OF GAUNT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>We were not born to sue, but to command;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>Which since we cannot do to make you friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>Be ready, as your lives shall answer it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>There shall your swords and lances arbitrate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>The swelling difference of your settled hate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>Since we can not atone you, we shall see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>Justice design the victor's chivalry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>Lord marshal, command our officers at arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>Be ready to direct these home alarms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The DUKE OF LANCASTER'S palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter JOHN OF GAUNT with DUCHESS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Alas, the part I had in Woodstock's blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>Doth more solicit me than your exclaims,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>To stir against the butchers of his life!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>But since correction lieth in those hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>Which made the fault that we cannot correct,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>Were as seven vials of his sacred blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>Or seven fair branches springing from one root:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>Some of those seven are dried by nature's course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>Some of those branches by the Destinies cut;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>One vial full of Edward's sacred blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>One flourishing branch of his most royal root,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>Is hack'd down, and his summer leaves all faded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>By envy's hand and murder's bloody axe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine! that bed, that womb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>Made him a man; and though thou livest and breathest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>Yet art thou slain in him: thou dost consent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>In some large measure to thy father's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>Who was the model of thy father's life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>That which in mean men we intitle patience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>What shall I say? to safeguard thine own life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>God's is the quarrel; for God's substitute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>His deputy anointed in His sight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>Hath caused his death: the which if wrongfully,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>Let heaven revenge; for I may never lift</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>An angry arm against His minister.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>Where then, alas, may I complain myself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>To God, the widow's champion and defence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>Why, then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>O, sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>Or, if misfortune miss the first career,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>They may break his foaming courser's back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>And throw the rider headlong in the lists,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>Farewell, old Gaunt: thy sometimes brother's wife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>With her companion grief must end her life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>Sister, farewell; I must to Coventry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>As much good stay with thee as go with me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>Yet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>Not with the empty hollowness, but weight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>I take my leave before I have begun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>Commend me to thy brother, Edmund York.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>Lo, this is all:--nay, yet depart not so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>Though this be all, do not so quickly go;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>I shall remember more. Bid him--ah, what?--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>With all good speed at Plashy visit me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>Alack, and what shall good old York there see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>And what hear there for welcome but my groans?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>Therefore commend me; let him not come there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>To seek out sorrow that dwells every where.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The lists at Coventry.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the Lord Marshal and the DUKE OF AUMERLE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>Yea, at all points; and longs to enter in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>Why, then, the champions are prepared, and stay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>For nothing but his majesty's approach.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The trumpets sound, and KING RICHARD enters with his nobles, JOHN OF GAUNT, BUSHY, BAGOT, GREEN, and others. When they are set, enter THOMAS MOWBRAY in arms, defendant, with a Herald</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>Marshal, demand of yonder champion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>The cause of his arrival here in arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>Ask him his name and orderly proceed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>To swear him in the justice of his cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>In God's name and the king's, say who thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>Against what man thou comest, and what thy quarrel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>Speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>As so defend thee heaven and thy valour!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>Who hither come engaged by my oath--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>Which God defend a knight should violate!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>Both to defend my loyalty and truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>To God, my king and my succeeding issue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>And, by the grace of God and this mine arm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>To prove him, in defending of myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>A traitor to my God, my king, and me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The trumpets sound. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, appellant, in armour, with a Herald</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>Marshal, ask yonder knight in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>Both who he is and why he cometh hither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>Thus plated in habiliments of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>And formally, according to our law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>Depose him in the justice of his cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>What is thy name? and wherefore comest thou hither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>Before King Richard in his royal lists?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>Against whom comest thou? and what's thy quarrel?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>Am I; who ready here do stand in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>To prove, by God's grace and my body's valour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>In lists, on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>That he is a traitor, foul and dangerous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>To God of heaven, King Richard and to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>On pain of death, no person be so bold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>Except the marshal and such officers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>Appointed to direct these fair designs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>Lord marshal, let me kiss my sovereign's hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>And bow my knee before his majesty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>For Mowbray and myself are like two men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>That vow a long and weary pilgrimage;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>Then let us take a ceremonious leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>And loving farewell of our several friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>The appellant in all duty greets your highness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>We will descend and fold him in our arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>So be thy fortune in this royal fight!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>Farewell, my blood; which if to-day thou shed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>O let no noble eye profane a tear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>For me, if I be gored with Mowbray's spear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>As confident as is the falcon's flight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>My loving lord, I take my leave of you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>Of you, my noble cousin, Lord Aumerle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>Not sick, although I have to do with death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>O thou, the earthly author of my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>To reach at victory above my head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>And with thy blessings steel my lance's point,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>Even in the lusty havior of his son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>God in thy good cause make thee prosperous!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>Be swift like lightning in the execution;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>And let thy blows, doubly redoubled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>Fall like amazing thunder on the casque</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>Of thy adverse pernicious enemy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant and live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>Mine innocency and Saint George to thrive!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>However God or fortune cast my lot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>There lives or dies, true to King Richard's throne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>A loyal, just and upright gentleman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>Never did captive with a freer heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>His golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>More than my dancing soul doth celebrate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>This feast of battle with mine adversary.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>Most mighty liege, and my companion peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>Take from my mouth the wish of happy years:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>As gentle and as jocund as to jest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>Go I to fight: truth hath a quiet breast.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>Farewell, my lord: securely I espy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>Virtue with valour couched in thine eye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>Order the trial, marshal, and begin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>Receive thy lance; and God defend the right!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>Strong as a tower in hope, I cry amen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>First Herald</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>Stands here for God, his sovereign and himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>On pain to be found false and recreant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>To prove the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>A traitor to his God, his king and him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>And dares him to set forward to the fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Second Herald</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>On pain to be found false and recreant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.112>Both to defend himself and to approve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.113>Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.114>To God, his sovereign and to him disloyal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.115>Courageously and with a free desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.116>Attending but the signal to begin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.117>Sound, trumpets; and set forward, combatants.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A charge sounded</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.118>Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.119>Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.120>And both return back to their chairs again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.121>Withdraw with us: and let the trumpets sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.122>While we return these dukes what we decree.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A long flourish</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.123>Draw near,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.124>And list what with our council we have done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.125>For that our kingdom's earth should not be soil'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.126>With that dear blood which it hath fostered;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.127>And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.128>Of civil wounds plough'd up with neighbours' sword;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.129>And for we think the eagle-winged pride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.130>Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.131>With rival-hating envy, set on you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.132>To wake our peace, which in our country's cradle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.133>Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.134>Which so roused up with boisterous untuned drums,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.135>With harsh resounding trumpets' dreadful bray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.136>And grating shock of wrathful iron arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.137>Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.138>And make us wade even in our kindred's blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.139>Therefore, we banish you our territories:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.140>You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.141>Till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.142>Shall not regreet our fair dominions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.143>But tread the stranger paths of banishment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.144>Your will be done: this must my comfort be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.145>Sun that warms you here shall shine on me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.146>And those his golden beams to you here lent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.147>Shall point on me and gild my banishment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.148>Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.149>Which I with some unwillingness pronounce:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.150>The sly slow hours shall not determinate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.151>The dateless limit of thy dear exile;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.152>The hopeless word of 'never to return'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.153>Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.154>A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.155>And all unlook'd for from your highness' mouth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.156>A dearer merit, not so deep a maim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.157>As to be cast forth in the common air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.158>Have I deserved at your highness' hands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.159>The language I have learn'd these forty years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.160>My native English, now I must forego:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.161>And now my tongue's use is to me no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.162>Than an unstringed viol or a harp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.163>Or like a cunning instrument cased up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.164>Or, being open, put into his hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.165>That knows no touch to tune the harmony:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.166>Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.167>Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.168>And dull unfeeling barren ignorance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.169>Is made my gaoler to attend on me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.170>I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.171>Too far in years to be a pupil now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.172>What is thy sentence then but speechless death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.173>Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.174>It boots thee not to be compassionate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.175>After our sentence plaining comes too late.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.176>Then thus I turn me from my country's light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.177>To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.178>Return again, and take an oath with thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.179>Lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.180>Swear by the duty that you owe to God--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.181>Our part therein we banish with yourselves--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.182>To keep the oath that we administer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.183>You never shall, so help you truth and God!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.184>Embrace each other's love in banishment;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.185>Nor never look upon each other's face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.186>Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.187>This louring tempest of your home-bred hate;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.188>Nor never by advised purpose meet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.189>To plot, contrive, or complot any ill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.190>'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.191>I swear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.192>And I, to keep all this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.193>Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.194>By this time, had the king permitted us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.195>One of our souls had wander'd in the air.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.196>Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.197>As now our flesh is banish'd from this land:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.198>Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.199>Since thou hast far to go, bear not along</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.200>The clogging burthen of a guilty soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>THOMAS MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.201>No, Bolingbroke: if ever I were traitor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.202>My name be blotted from the book of life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.203>And I from heaven banish'd as from hence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.204>But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.205>And all too soon, I fear, the king shall rue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.206>Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.207>Save back to England, all the world's my way.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.208>Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.209>I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.210>Hath from the number of his banish'd years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.211>Pluck'd four away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To HENRY BOLINGBROKE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.212>Six frozen winter spent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.213>Return with welcome home from banishment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.214>How long a time lies in one little word!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.215>Four lagging winters and four wanton springs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.216>End in a word: such is the breath of kings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.217>I thank my liege, that in regard of me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.218>He shortens four years of my son's exile:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.219>But little vantage shall I reap thereby;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.220>For, ere the six years that he hath to spend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.221>Can change their moons and bring their times about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.222>My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.223>Shall be extinct with age and endless night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.224>My inch of taper will be burnt and done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.225>And blindfold death not let me see my son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.226>Why uncle, thou hast many years to live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.227>But not a minute, king, that thou canst give:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.228>Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.229>And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.230>Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.231>But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.232>Thy word is current with him for my death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.233>But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.234>Thy son is banish'd upon good advice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.235>Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.236>Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.237>Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.238>You urged me as a judge; but I had rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.239>You would have bid me argue like a father.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.240>O, had it been a stranger, not my child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.241>To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.242>A partial slander sought I to avoid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.243>And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.244>Alas, I look'd when some of you should say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.245>I was too strict to make mine own away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.246>But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.247>Against my will to do myself this wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.248>Cousin, farewell; and, uncle, bid him so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.249>Six years we banish him, and he shall go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II and train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.250>Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.251>From where you do remain let paper show.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Lord Marshal</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.252>My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.253>As far as land will let me, by your side.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.254>O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.255>That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.256>I have too few to take my leave of you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.257>When the tongue's office should be prodigal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.258>To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.259>Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.260>Joy absent, grief is present for that time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.261>What is six winters? they are quickly gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.262>To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.263>Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.264>My heart will sigh when I miscall it so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.265>Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.266>The sullen passage of thy weary steps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.267>Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.268>The precious jewel of thy home return.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.269>Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.270>Will but remember me what a deal of world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.271>I wander from the jewels that I love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.272>Must I not serve a long apprenticehood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.273>To foreign passages, and in the end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.274>Having my freedom, boast of nothing else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.275>But that I was a journeyman to grief?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.276>All places that the eye of heaven visits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.277>Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.278>Teach thy necessity to reason thus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.279>There is no virtue like necessity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.280>Think not the king did banish thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.281>But thou the king. Woe doth the heavier sit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.282>Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.283>Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.284>And not the king exiled thee; or suppose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.285>Devouring pestilence hangs in our air</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.286>And thou art flying to a fresher clime:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.287>Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.288>To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou comest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.289>Suppose the singing birds musicians,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.290>The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.291>The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.292>Than a delightful measure or a dance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.293>For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.294>The man that mocks at it and sets it light.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.295>O, who can hold a fire in his hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.296>By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.297>Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.298>By bare imagination of a feast?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.299>Or wallow naked in December snow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.300>By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.301>O, no! the apprehension of the good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.302>Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.303>Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.304>Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.305>Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.306>Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.307>Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.308>My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.309>Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.310>Though banish'd, yet a trueborn Englishman.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The court.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING RICHARD II, with BAGOT and GREEN at one door; and the DUKE OF AUMERLE at another</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.1>We did observe. Cousin Aumerle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.2>How far brought you high Hereford on his way?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.3>I brought high Hereford, if you call him so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.4>But to the next highway, and there I left him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.5>And say, what store of parting tears were shed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.6>Faith, none for me; except the north-east wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.7>Which then blew bitterly against our faces,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.8>Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.9>Did grace our hollow parting with a tear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.10>What said our cousin when you parted with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.11>'Farewell:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.12>And, for my heart disdained that my tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.13>Should so profane the word, that taught me craft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.14>To counterfeit oppression of such grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.15>That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.16>Marry, would the word 'farewell' have lengthen'd hours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.17>And added years to his short banishment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.18>He should have had a volume of farewells;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.19>But since it would not, he had none of me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.20>He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis doubt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.21>When time shall call him home from banishment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.22>Whether our kinsman come to see his friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.23>Ourself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.24>Observed his courtship to the common people;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.25>How he did seem to dive into their hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.26>With humble and familiar courtesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.27>What reverence he did throw away on slaves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.28>Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.29>And patient underbearing of his fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.30>As 'twere to banish their affects with him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.31>Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.32>A brace of draymen bid God speed him well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.33>And had the tribute of his supple knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.34>With 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.35>As were our England in reversion his,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.36>And he our subjects' next degree in hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.37>Well, he is gone; and with him go these thoughts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.38>Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.39>Expedient manage must be made, my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.40>Ere further leisure yield them further means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.41>For their advantage and your highness' loss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.42>We will ourself in person to this war:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.43>And, for our coffers, with too great a court</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.44>And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.45>We are inforced to farm our royal realm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.46>The revenue whereof shall furnish us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.47>For our affairs in hand: if that come short,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.48>Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.49>Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.50>They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.51>And send them after to supply our wants;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.52>For we will make for Ireland presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BUSHY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.53>Bushy, what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.54>Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.55>Suddenly taken; and hath sent post haste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.56>To entreat your majesty to visit him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.57>Where lies he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.58>At Ely House.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.59>Now put it, God, in the physician's mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.60>To help him to his grave immediately!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.61>The lining of his coffers shall make coats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.62>To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.63>Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.64>Pray God we may make haste, and come too late!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.65>Amen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Ely House.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter JOHN OF GAUNT sick, with the DUKE OF YORK, & c</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Will the king come, that I may breathe my last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>O, but they say the tongues of dying men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>Enforce attention like deep harmony:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>He that no more must say is listen'd more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>The setting sun, and music at the close,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Writ in remembrance more than things long past:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>No; it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>The open ear of youth doth always listen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>Report of fashions in proud Italy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>Whose manners still our tardy apish nation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>Limps after in base imitation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>So it be new, there's no respect how vile--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>Then all too late comes counsel to be heard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>Direct not him whose way himself will choose:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>Methinks I am a prophet new inspired</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>And thus expiring do foretell of him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>For violent fires soon burn out themselves;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>This other Eden, demi-paradise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>This fortress built by Nature for herself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>Against infection and the hand of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>This happy breed of men, this little world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>This precious stone set in the silver sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>Which serves it in the office of a wall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>Or as a moat defensive to a house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>Against the envy of less happier lands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>Renowned for their deeds as far from home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>For Christian service and true chivalry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Dear for her reputation through the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>Like to a tenement or pelting farm:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>England, bound in with the triumphant sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>That England, that was wont to conquer others,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>How happy then were my ensuing death!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING RICHARD II and QUEEN, DUKE OF AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN, BAGOT, LORD ROSS, and LORD WILLOUGHBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>The king is come: deal mildly with his youth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>For young hot colts being raged do rage the more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>How fares our noble uncle, Lancaster?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>What comfort, man? how is't with aged Gaunt?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>O how that name befits my composition!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>For sleeping England long time have I watch'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>The pleasure that some fathers feed upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>Is my strict fast; I mean, my children's looks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>Can sick men play so nicely with their names?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>No, misery makes sport to mock itself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>I mock my name, great king, to flatter thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>Should dying men flatter with those that live?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>No, no, men living flatter those that die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>Thou, now a-dying, say'st thou flatterest me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>O, no! thou diest, though I the sicker be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>Now He that made me knows I see thee ill;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>And thou, too careless patient as thou art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>Commit'st thy anointed body to the cure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>Of those physicians that first wounded thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Whose compass is no bigger than thy head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>And yet, incaged in so small a verge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>Deposing thee before thou wert possess'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>Which art possess'd now to depose thyself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>It were a shame to let this land by lease;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>But for thy world enjoying but this land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>Is it not more than shame to shame it so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>Landlord of England art thou now, not king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>Thy state of law is bondslave to the law; And thou--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115> A lunatic lean-witted fool,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>Presuming on an ague's privilege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>Darest with thy frozen admonition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>With fury from his native residence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>Now, by my seat's right royal majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>Wert thou not brother to great Edward's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>JOHN OF GAUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>For that I was his father Edward's son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>That blood already, like the pelican,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy souls!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>May be a precedent and witness good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>Join with the present sickness that I have;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>And thy unkindness be like crooked age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>To crop at once a too long wither'd flower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>These words hereafter thy tormentors be!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>Love they to live that love and honour have.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, borne off by his Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>And let them die that age and sullens have;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>For both hast thou, and both become the grave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>I do beseech your majesty, impute his words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>To wayward sickliness and age in him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>As Harry Duke of Hereford, were he here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>Right, you say true: as Hereford's love, so his;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter NORTHUMBERLAND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>What says he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149> Nay, nothing; all is said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>His tongue is now a stringless instrument;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Words, life and all, old Lancaster hath spent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>Be York the next that must be bankrupt so!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>So much for that. Now for our Irish wars:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>Which live like venom where no venom else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>But only they have privilege to live.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>And for these great affairs do ask some charge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>Towards our assistance we do seize to us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>The plate, corn, revenues and moveables,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>How long shall I be patient? ah, how long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>I am the last of noble Edward's sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>In war was never lion raged more fierce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>Than was that young and princely gentleman.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>His face thou hast, for even so look'd he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>But when he frown'd, it was against the French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>And not against his friends; his noble hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>Did will what he did spend and spent not that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>Which his triumphant father's hand had won;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>His hands were guilty of no kindred blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>But bloody with the enemies of his kin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>O Richard! York is too far gone with grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>Or else he never would compare between.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>Why, uncle, what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>O my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>Pardon me, if you please; if n ot, I, pleased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>Not to be pardon'd, am content withal.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not Hereford live?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>Was not Gaunt just, and is not Harry true?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>Did not the one deserve to have an heir?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>Is not his heir a well-deserving son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>His charters and his customary rights;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>Be not thyself; for how art thou a king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>But by fair sequence and succession?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>Now, afore God--God forbid I say true!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203>If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>Call in the letters patent that he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>By his attorneys-general to sue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>His livery, and deny his offer'd homage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>And prick my tender patience, to those thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>Which honour and allegiance cannot think.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>Think what you will, we seize into our hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>His plate, his goods, his money and his lands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>I'll not be by the while: my liege, farewell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>But by bad courses may be understood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.216>That their events can never fall out good.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.217>Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.218>Bid him repair to us to Ely House</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.219>To see this business. To-morrow next</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.220>We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.221>And we create, in absence of ourself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.222>Our uncle York lord governor of England;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.223>For he is just and always loved us well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.224>Come on, our queen: to-morrow must we part;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.225>Be merry, for our time of stay is short</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II, QUEEN, DUKE OF AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN, and BAGOT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.226>Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.227>And living too; for now his son is duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LORD WILLOUGHBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.228>Barely in title, not in revenue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.229>Richly in both, if justice had her right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.230>My heart is great; but it must break with silence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.231>Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.232>Nay, speak thy mind; and let him ne'er speak more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.233>That speaks thy words again to do thee harm!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>LORD WILLOUGHBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.234>Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.235>If it be so, out with it boldly, man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.236>Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.237>No good at all that I can do for him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.238>Unless you call it good to pity him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.239>Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.240>Now, afore God, 'tis shame such wrongs are borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.241>In him, a royal prince, and many moe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.242>Of noble blood in this declining land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.243>The king is not himself, but basely led</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.244>By flatterers; and what they will inform,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.245>Merely in hate, 'gainst any of us all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.246>That will the king severely prosecute</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.247>'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.248>The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.249>And quite lost their hearts: the nobles hath he fined</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.250>For ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>LORD WILLOUGHBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.251>And daily new exactions are devised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.252>As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.253>But what, o' God's name, doth become of this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.254>Wars have not wasted it, for warr'd he hath not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.255>But basely yielded upon compromise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.256>That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.257>More hath he spent in peace than they in wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.258>The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>LORD WILLOUGHBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.259>The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.260>Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.261>He hath not money for these Irish wars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.262>His burthenous taxations notwithstanding,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.263>But by the robbing of the banish'd duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.264>His noble kinsman: most degenerate king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.265>But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.266>Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.267>We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.268>And yet we strike not, but securely perish.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.269>We see the very wreck that we must suffer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.270>And unavoided is the danger now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.271>For suffering so the causes of our wreck.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.272>Not so; even through the hollow eyes of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.273>I spy life peering; but I dare not say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.274>How near the tidings of our comfort is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>LORD WILLOUGHBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.275>Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.276>Be confident to speak, Northumberland:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.277>We three are but thyself; and, speaking so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.278>Thy words are but as thoughts; therefore, be bold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.279>Then thus: I have from Port le Blanc, a bay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.280>In Brittany, received intelligence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.281>That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.282>That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.283>His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.284>Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir John Ramston,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.285>Sir John Norbery, Sir Robert Waterton and Francis Quoint,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.286>All these well furnish'd by the Duke of Bretagne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.287>With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.288>Are making hither with all due expedience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.289>And shortly mean to touch our northern shore:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.290>Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.291>The first departing of the king for Ireland.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.292>If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.293>Imp out our drooping country's broken wing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.294>Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.295>Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.296>And make high majesty look like itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.297>Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.298>But if you faint, as fearing to do so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.299>Stay and be secret, and myself will go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.300>To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LORD WILLOUGHBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.301>Hold out my horse, and I will first be there.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter QUEEN, BUSHY, and BAGOT</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Madam, your majesty is too much sad:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>You promised, when you parted with the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>To lay aside life-harming heaviness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>And entertain a cheerful disposition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>To please the king I did; to please myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>I cannot do it; yet I know no cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>Why I should welcome such a guest as grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>As my sweet Richard: yet again, methinks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>Is coming towards me, and my inward soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>With nothing trembles: at some thing it grieves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>More than with parting from my lord the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>Divides one thing entire to many objects;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>Distinguish form: so your sweet majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>Looking awry upon your lord's departure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>Find shapes of grief, more than himself, to wail;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>Which, look'd on as it is, is nought but shadows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>Of what it is not. Then, thrice-gracious queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>More than your lord's departure weep not: more's not seen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>Which for things true weeps things imaginary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>It may be so; but yet my inward soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>Persuades me it is otherwise: howe'er it be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>I cannot but be sad; so heavy sad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>As, though on thinking on no thought I think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>'Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>'Tis nothing less: conceit is still derived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>From some forefather grief; mine is not so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>For nothing had begot my something grief;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>Or something hath the nothing that I grieve:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>'Tis in reversion that I do possess;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>But what it is, that is not yet known; what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GREEN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>God save your majesty! and well met, gentlemen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>I hope the king is not yet shipp'd for Ireland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>Why hopest thou so? 'tis better hope he is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>That he, our hope, might have retired his power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>And driven into despair an enemy's hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>Who strongly hath set footing in this land:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>And with uplifted arms is safe arrived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>At Ravenspurgh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52> Now God in heaven forbid!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>Ah, madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>The Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>With all their powerful friends, are fled to him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>Why have you not proclaim'd Northumberland</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>And all the rest revolted faction traitors?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>We have: whereupon the Earl of Worcester</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>And all the household servants fled with him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>To Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>Despair not, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>Who shall hinder me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>I will despair, and be at enmity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>A parasite, a keeper back of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>Which false hope lingers in extremity.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE OF YORK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>Here comes the Duke of York.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>With signs of war about his aged neck:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>O, full of careful business are his looks!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>Your husband, he is gone to save far off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>Whilst others come to make him lose at home:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.84>Here am I left to underprop his land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.85>Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.86>Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.87>Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.88>My lord, your son was gone before I came.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.89>He was? Why, so! go all which way it will!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.90>The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.91>And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.92>Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.93>Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.94>Hold, take my ring.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.95>My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.96>To-day, as I came by, I called there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.97>But I shall grieve you to report the rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.98>What is't, knave?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.99>An hour before I came, the duchess died.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.100>God for his mercy! what a tide of woes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.101>Comes rushing on this woeful land at once!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.102>I know not what to do: I would to God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.103>So my untruth had not provoked him to it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.104>The king had cut off my head with my brother's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.105>What, are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.106>How shall we do for money for these wars?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.107>Come, sister,--cousin, I would say--pray, pardon me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.108>Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.109>And bring away the armour that is there.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.110>Gentlemen, will you go muster men?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.111>If I know how or which way to order these affairs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.112>Thus thrust disorderly into my hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.113>Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.114>The one is my sovereign, whom both my oath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.115>And duty bids defend; the other again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.116>Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrong'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.117>Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.118>Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.119>Dispose of you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.120>Gentlemen, go, muster up your men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.121>And meet me presently at Berkeley.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.122>I should to Plashy too;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.123>But time will not permit: all is uneven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.124>And every thing is left at six and seven.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DUKE OF YORK and QUEEN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.125>The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.126>But none returns. For us to levy power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.127>Proportionable to the enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.128>Is all unpossible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.129>Besides, our nearness to the king in love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.130>Is near the hate of those love not the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BAGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.131>And that's the wavering commons: for their love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.132>Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.133>By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.134>Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BAGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.135>If judgement lie in them, then so do we,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.136>Because we ever have been near the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.137>Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol castle:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.138>The Earl of Wiltshire is already there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.139>Thither will I with you; for little office</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.140>The hateful commons will perform for us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.141>Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.142>Will you go along with us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BAGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.143>No; I will to Ireland to his majesty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.144>Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.145>We three here art that ne'er shall meet again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.146>That's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.147>Alas, poor duke! the task he undertakes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.148>Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.149>Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.150>Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.151>Well, we may meet again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BAGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.152>I fear me, never.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Wilds in Gloucestershire.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE and NORTHUMBERLAND, with Forces</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>Believe me, noble lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>These high wild hills and rough uneven ways</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>Making the hard way sweet and delectable.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>But I bethink me what a weary way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>Which, I protest, hath very much beguiled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>The tediousness and process of my travel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>But theirs is sweetened with the hope to have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>The present benefit which I possess;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>And hope to joy is little less in joy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>Than hope enjoy'd: by this the weary lords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>Shall make their way seem short, as mine hath done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>By sight of what I have, your noble company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>Of much less value is my company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>Than your good words. But who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HENRY PERCY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>It is my son, young Harry Percy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>Sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>Harry, how fares your uncle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>I had thought, my lord, to have learn'd his health of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>Why, is he not with the queen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>No, my good Lord; he hath forsook the court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>Broken his staff of office and dispersed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>The household of the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>What was his reason?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>He was not so resolved when last we spake together.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>To offer service to the Duke of Hereford,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>And sent me over by Berkeley, to discover</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>What power the Duke of York had levied there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>No, my good lord, for that is not forgot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>Which ne'er I did remember: to my knowledge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>I never in my life did look on him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Then learn to know him now; this is the duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>My gracious lord, I tender you my service,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>Such as it is, being tender, raw and young:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Which elder days shall ripen and confirm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>To more approved service and desert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>I count myself in nothing else so happy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>As in a soul remembering my good friends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>And, as my fortune ripens with thy love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>It shall be still thy true love's recompense:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>How far is it to Berkeley? and what stir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Keeps good old York there with his men of war?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>Mann'd with three hundred men, as I have heard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>None else of name and noble estimate.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LORD ROSS and LORD WILLOUGHBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>A banish'd traitor: all my treasury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enrich'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>Shall be your love and labour's recompense.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LORD WILLOUGHBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>And far surmounts our labour to attain it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LORD BERKELEY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LORD BERKELEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>My lord, my answer is--to Lancaster;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>And I am come to seek that name in England;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>And I must find that title in your tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>Before I make reply to aught you say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LORD BERKELEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>Mistake me not, my lord; 'tis not my meaning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>To raze one title of your honour out:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>From the most gracious regent of this land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>To take advantage of the absent time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>And fright our native peace with self-born arms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE OF YORK attended</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>I shall not need transport my words by you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>Here comes his grace in person. My noble uncle!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>Whose duty is deceiveable and false.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>My gracious uncle--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>Tut, tut!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>I am no traitor's uncle; and that word 'grace.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>In an ungracious mouth is but profane.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>But then more 'why?' why have they dared to march</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>Frighting her pale-faced villages with war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>And ostentation of despised arms?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>Comest thou because the anointed king is hence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>And in my loyal bosom lies his power.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>Were I but now the lord of such hot youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.101>As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.102>Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.103>From forth the ranks of many thousand French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.104>O, then how quickly should this arm of mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.105>Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.106>And minister correction to thy fault!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.107>My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.108>On what condition stands it and wherein?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.109>Even in condition of the worst degree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.110>In gross rebellion and detested treason:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.111>Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.112>Before the expiration of thy time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.113>In braving arms against thy sovereign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.114>As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.115>But as I come, I come for Lancaster.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.116>And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.117>Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.118>You are my father, for methinks in you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.119>I see old Gaunt alive; O, then, my father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.120>Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.121>A wandering vagabond; my rights and royalties</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.122>Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.123>To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.124>If that my cousin king be King of England,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.125>It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.126>You have a son, Aumerle, my noble cousin;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.127>Had you first died, and he been thus trod down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.128>He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.129>To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.130>I am denied to sue my livery here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.131>And yet my letters-patents give me leave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.132>My father's goods are all distrain'd and sold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.133>And these and all are all amiss employ'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.134>What would you have me do? I am a subject,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.135>And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.136>And therefore, personally I lay my claim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.137>To my inheritance of free descent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.138>The noble duke hath been too much abused.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LORD ROSS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.139>It stands your grace upon to do him right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LORD WILLOUGHBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.140>Base men by his endowments are made great.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.141>My lords of England, let me tell you this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.142>I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.143>And laboured all I could to do him right;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.144>But in this kind to come, in braving arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.145>Be his own carver and cut out his way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.146>To find out right with wrong, it may not be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.147>And you that do abet him in this kind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.148>Cherish rebellion and are rebels all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.149>The noble duke hath sworn his coming is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.150>But for his own; and for the right of that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.151>We all have strongly sworn to give him aid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.152>And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.153>Well, well, I see the issue of these arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.154>I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.155>Because my power is weak and all ill left:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.156>But if I could, by Him that gave me life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.157>I would attach you all and make you stoop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.158>Unto the sovereign mercy of the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.159>But since I cannot, be it known to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.160>I do remain as neuter. So, fare you well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.161>Unless you please to enter in the castle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.162>And there repose you for this night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.163>An offer, uncle, that we will accept:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.164>But we must win your grace to go with us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.165>To Bristol castle, which they say is held</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.166>By Bushy, Bagot and their complices,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.167>The caterpillars of the commonwealth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.168>Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.169>It may be I will go with you: but yet I'll pause;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.170>For I am loath to break our country's laws.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.171>Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.172>Things past redress are now with me past care.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. A camp in Wales.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter EARL OF SALISBURY and a Welsh Captain</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>My lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>And hardly kept our countrymen together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>And yet we hear no tidings from the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EARL OF SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>The other to enjoy by rage and war:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>Farewell: our countrymen are gone and fled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>As well assured Richard their king is dead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>EARL OF SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>I see thy glory like a shooting star</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>Fall to the base earth from the firmament.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>And crossly to thy good all fortune goes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Bristol. Before the castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD ROSS, HENRY PERCY, LORD WILLOUGHBY, with BUSHY and GREEN, prisoners</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Bring forth these men.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>Since presently your souls must part your bodies--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>With too much urging your pernicious lives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>For 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>From off my hands, here in the view of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>I will unfold some causes of your deaths.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>You have misled a prince, a royal king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>By you unhappied and disfigured clean:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>You have in manner with your sinful hours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>Broke the possession of a royal bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>Near to the king in blood, and near in love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Till you did make him misinterpret me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>Eating the bitter bread of banishment;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>Whilst you have fed upon my signories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>From my own windows torn my household coat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>Save men's opinions and my living blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>To show the world I am a gentleman.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>This and much more, much more than twice all this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>To execution and the hand of death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUSHY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>More welcome is the stroke of death to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GREEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>My comfort is that heaven will take our souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>And plague injustice with the pains of hell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatch'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND and others, with the prisoners</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>Uncle, you say the queen is at your house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>For God's sake, fairly let her be entreated:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>Tell her I send to her my kind commends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>Take special care my greetings be deliver'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>With letters of your love to her at large.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>Thank, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>To fight with Glendower and his complices:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>Awhile to work, and after holiday.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The coast of Wales. A castle in view.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Drums; flourish and colours. Enter KING RICHARD II, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, and Soldiers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>Barkloughly castle call they this at hand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>After your late tossing on the breaking seas?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>To stand upon my kingdom once again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>As a long-parted mother with her child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>And do thee favours with my royal hands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>Which with usurping steps do trample thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>This earth shall have a feeling and these stones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BISHOP OF CARLISLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>Hath power to keep you king in spite of all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>The means that heaven yields must be embraced,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>And not neglected; else, if heaven would,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>The proffer'd means of succor and redress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>He means, my lord, that we are too remiss;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>Grows strong and great in substance and in power.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>Discomfortable cousin! know'st thou not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>That when the searching eye of heaven is hid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>Behind the globe, that lights the lower world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>In murders and in outrage, boldly here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>But when from under this terrestrial ball</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>And darts his light through every guilty hole,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>Then murders, treasons and detested sins,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>Who all this while hath revell'd in the night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>Whilst we were wandering with the antipodes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>Shall see us rising in our throne, the east,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>His treasons will sit blushing in his face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>Not able to endure the sight of day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>Not all the water in the rough rude sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>The breath of worldly men cannot depose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>The deputy elected by the Lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>A glorious angel: then, if angels fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter EARL OF SALISBURY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>Welcome, my lord how far off lies your power?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>EARL OF SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>Than this weak arm: discomfort guides my tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>And bids me speak of nothing but despair.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>O, call back yesterday, bid time return,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>To-day, to-day, unhappy day, too late,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>O'erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune and thy state:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fled.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>Comfort, my liege; why looks your grace so pale?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>But now the blood of twenty thousand men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>Did triumph in my face, and they are fled;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>And, till so much blood thither come again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>Have I not reason to look pale and dead?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>All souls that will be safe fly from my side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>For time hath set a blot upon my pride.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>Comfort, my liege; remember who you are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>I had forgot myself; am I not king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>Is not the king's name twenty thousand names?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>Arm, arm, my name! a puny subject strikes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>At thy great glory. Look not to the ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>Ye favourites of a king: are we not high?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>High be our thoughts: I know my uncle York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR STEPHEN SCROOP</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIR STEPHEN SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>More health and happiness betide my liege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Mine ear is open and my heart prepared;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>Say, is my kingdom lost? why, 'twas my care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>And what loss is it to be rid of care?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>Greater he shall not be; if he serve God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>We'll serve Him too and be his fellow so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>Revolt our subjects? that we cannot mend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>They break their faith to God as well as us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>The worst is death, and death will have his day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SIR STEPHEN SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>To bear the tidings of calamity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>Like an unseasonable stormy day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>As if the world were all dissolved to tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>So high above his limits swells the rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>Against thy majesty; boys, with women's voices,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>Strive to speak big and clap their female joints</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>The very beadsmen learn to bend their bows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>Of double-fatal yew against thy state;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>Against thy seat: both young and old rebel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>And all goes worse than I have power to tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? where is Bagot?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>What is become of Bushy? where is Green?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>That they have let the dangerous enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>Measure our confines with such peaceful steps?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SIR STEPHEN SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>Would they make peace? terrible hell make war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>Upon their spotted souls for this offence!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SIR STEPHEN SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>Sweet love, I see, changing his property,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>Again uncurse their souls; their peace is made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>With heads, and not with hands; those whom you curse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.139>Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.140>And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.141>Is Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SIR STEPHEN SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.142>Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.143>Where is the duke my father with his power?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.144>No matter where; of comfort no man speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.145>Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.146>Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.147>Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.148>Let's choose executors and talk of wills:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.149>And yet not so, for what can we bequeath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.150>Save our deposed bodies to the ground?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.151>Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.152>And nothing can we call our own but death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.153>And that small model of the barren earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.154>Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.155>For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.156>And tell sad stories of the death of kings;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.157>How some have been deposed; some slain in war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.158>Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.159>Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.160>All murder'd: for within the hollow crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.161>That rounds the mortal temples of a king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.162>Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.163>Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.164>Allowing him a breath, a little scene,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.165>To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.166>Infusing him with self and vain conceit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.167>As if this flesh which walls about our life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.168>Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.169>Comes at the last and with a little pin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.170>Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.171>Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.172>With solemn reverence: throw away respect,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.173>Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.174>For you have but mistook me all this while:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.175>I live with bread like you, feel want,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.176>Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.177>How can you say to me, I am a king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BISHOP OF CARLISLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.178>My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.179>But presently prevent the ways to wail.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.180>To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.181>Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.182>And so your follies fight against yourself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.183>Fear and be slain; no worse can come to fight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.184>And fight and die is death destroying death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.185>Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.186>My father hath a power; inquire of him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.187>And learn to make a body of a limb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.188>Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.189>To change blows with thee for our day of doom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.190>This ague fit of fear is over-blown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.191>An easy task it is to win our own.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.192>Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.193>Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SIR STEPHEN SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.194>Men judge by the complexion of the sky</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.195>The state and inclination of the day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.196>So may you by my dull and heavy eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.197>My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.198>I play the torturer, by small and small</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.199>To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.200>Your uncle York is join'd with Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.201>And all your northern castles yielded up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.202>And all your southern gentlemen in arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.203>Upon his party.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.204> Thou hast said enough.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.205>Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To DUKE OF AUMERLE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.206>Of that sweet way I was in to despair!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.207>What say you now? what comfort have we now?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.208>By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.209>That bids me be of comfort any more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.210>Go to Flint castle: there I'll pine away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.211>A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.212>That power I have, discharge; and let them go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.213>To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.214>For I have none: let no man speak again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.215>To alter this, for counsel is but vain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.216>My liege, one word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.217>He does me double wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.218>That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.219>Discharge my followers: let them hence away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.220>From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Wales. Before Flint castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, with drum and colours, HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, Attendants, and forces</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>So that by this intelligence we learn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>Is gone to meet the king, who lately landed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>With some few private friends upon this coast.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>The news is very fair and good, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>It would beseem the Lord Northumberland</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>To say 'King Richard:' alack the heavy day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>When such a sacred king should hide his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>Your grace mistakes; only to be brief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>Left I his title out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>The time hath been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>Would you have been so brief with him, he would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>Have been so brief with you, to shorten you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>For taking so the head, your whole head's length.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>Mistake not, uncle, further than you should.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>Take not, good cousin, further than you should.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>Lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>Against their will. But who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HENRY PERCY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>Welcome, Harry: what, will not this castle yield?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>The castle royally is mann'd, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>Against thy entrance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>Royally!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>Why, it contains no king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>Yes, my good lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>It doth contain a king; King Richard lies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>Within the limits of yon lime and stone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>Of holy reverence; who, I cannot learn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>Noble lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>Into his ruin'd ears, and thus deliver:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>Henry Bolingbroke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>On both his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>And sends allegiance and true faith of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40>To his most royal person, hither come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>Even at his feet to lay my arms and power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>Provided that my banishment repeal'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>And lands restored again be freely granted:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>If not, I'll use the advantage of my power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>The which, how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>My stooping duty tenderly shall show.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>Go, signify as much, while here we march</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>Upon the grassy carpet of this plain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>Let's march without the noise of threatening drum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>That from this castle's tatter'd battlements</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>Our fair appointments may be well perused.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>Methinks King Richard and myself should meet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>With no less terror than the elements</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>Of fire and water, when their thundering shock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.59>At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.60>Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.61>The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.62>My waters; on the earth, and not on him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.63>March on, and mark King Richard how he looks.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Parle without, and answer within. Then a flourish. Enter on the walls, KING RICHARD II, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, SIR STEPHEN SCROOP, and EARL OF SALISBURY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.64>See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.65>As doth the blushing discontented sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.66>From out the fiery portal of the east,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.67>When he perceives the envious clouds are bent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.68>To dim his glory and to stain the track</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.69>Of his bright passage to the occident.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.70>Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.71>As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.72>Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.73>That any harm should stain so fair a show!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.74>We are amazed; and thus long have we stood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.75>To watch the fearful bending of thy knee,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To NORTHUMBERLAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.76>Because we thought ourself thy lawful king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.77>And if we be, how dare thy joints forget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.78>To pay their awful duty to our presence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.79>If we be not, show us the hand of God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.80>That hath dismissed us from our stewardship;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.81>For well we know, no hand of blood and bone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.82>Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.83>Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.84>And though you think that all, as you have done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.85>Have torn their souls by turning them from us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.86>And we are barren and bereft of friends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.87>Yet know, my master, God omnipotent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.88>Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.89>Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.90>Your children yet unborn and unbegot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.91>That lift your vassal hands against my head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.92>And threat the glory of my precious crown.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.93>Tell Bolingbroke--for yond methinks he stands--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.94>That every stride he makes upon my land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.95>Is dangerous treason: he is come to open</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.96>The purple testament of bleeding war;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.97>But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.98>Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.99>Shall ill become the flower of England's face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.100>Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.101>To scarlet indignation and bedew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.102>Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.103>The king of heaven forbid our lord the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.104>Should so with civil and uncivil arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.105>Be rush'd upon! Thy thrice noble cousin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.106>Harry Bolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.107>And by the honourable tomb he swears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.108>That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.109>And by the royalties of both your bloods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.110>Currents that spring from one most gracious head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.111>And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.112>And by the worth and honour of himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.113>Comprising all that may be sworn or said,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.114>His coming hither hath no further scope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.115>Than for his lineal royalties and to beg</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.116>Enfranchisement immediate on his kn ees:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.117>Which on thy royal party granted once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.118>His glittering arms he will commend to rust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.119>His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.120>To faithful service of your majesty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.121>This swears he, as he is a prince, is just;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.122>And, as I am a gentleman, I credit him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.123>Northumberland, say thus the king returns:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.124>His noble cousin is right welcome hither;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.125>And all the number of his fair demands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.126>Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.127>With all the gracious utterance thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.128>Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.129>We do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To DUKE OF AUMERLE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.130>To look so poorly and to speak so fair?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.131>Shall we call back Northumberland, and send</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.132>Defiance to the traitor, and so die?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.133>No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.134>Till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.135>O God, O God! that e'er this tongue of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.136>That laid the sentence of dread banishment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.137>On yon proud man, should take it off again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.138>With words of sooth! O that I were as great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.139>As is my grief, or lesser than my name!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.140>Or that I could forget what I have been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.141>Or not remember what I must be now!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.142>Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.143>Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.144>Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.145>What must the king do now? must he submit?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.146>The king shall do it: must he be deposed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.147>The king shall be contented: must he lose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.148>The name of king? o' God's name, let it go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.149>I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.150>My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.151>My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.152>My figured goblets for a dish of wood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.153>My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.154>My subjects for a pair of carved saints</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.155>And my large kingdom for a little grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.156>A little little grave, an obscure grave;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.157>Or I'll be buried in the king's highway,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.158>Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.159>May hourly trample on their sovereign's head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.160>For on my heart they tread now whilst I live;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.161>And buried once, why not upon my head?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.162>Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted cousin!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.163>We'll make foul weather with despised tears;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.164>Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.165>And make a dearth in this revolting land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.166>Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.167>And make some pretty match with shedding tears?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.168>As thus, to drop them still upon one place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.169>Till they have fretted us a pair of graves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.170>Within the earth; and, therein laid,--there lies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.171>Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.172>Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.173>I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.174>Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.175>What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.176>Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.177>You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.178>My lord, in the base court he doth attend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.179>To speak with you; may it please you to come down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.180>Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.181>Wanting the manage of unruly jades.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.182>In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.183>To come at traitors' calls and do them grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.184>In the base court? Come down? Down, court!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.185>down, king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.186>For night-owls shriek where mounting larks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.187>should sing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt from above</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.188>What says his majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.189>Sorrow and grief of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.190>Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.191>Yet he is come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING RICHARD and his attendants below</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.192>Stand all apart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.193>And show fair duty to his majesty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He kneels down</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.194>My gracious lord,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.195>Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.196>To make the base earth proud with kissing it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.197>Me rather had my heart might feel your love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.198>Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.199>Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.200>Thus high at least, although your knee be low.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.201>My gracious lord, I come but for mine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.202>Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.203>So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.204>As my true service shall deserve your love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.205>Well you deserve: they well deserve to have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.206>That know the strong'st and surest way to get.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.207>Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.208>Tears show their love, but want their remedies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.209>Cousin, I am too young to be your father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.210>Though you are old enough to be my heir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.211>What you will have, I'll give, and willing too;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.212>For do we must what force will have us do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.213>Set on towards London, cousin, is it so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.214>Yea, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.215>Then I must not say no.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. LANGLEY. The DUKE OF YORK's garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the QUEEN and two Ladies</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>What sport shall we devise here in this garden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>To drive away the heavy thought of care?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>Madam, we'll play at bowls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>And that my fortune rubs against the bias.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>Madam, we'll dance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>My legs can keep no measure in delight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>Therefore, no dancing, girl; some other sport.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>Madam, we'll tell tales.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>Of sorrow or of joy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>Of either, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>Of neither, girl:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>For of joy, being altogether wanting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>It doth remember me the more of sorrow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>Or if of grief, being altogether had,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>It adds more sorrow to my want of joy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>For what I have I need not to repeat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>And what I want it boots not to complain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>Madam, I'll sing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>'Tis well that thou hast cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>I could weep, madam, would it do you good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>And I could sing, would weeping do me good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>And never borrow any tear of thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Gardener, and two Servants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>But stay, here come the gardeners:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>Let's step into the shadow of these trees.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>My wretchedness unto a row of pins,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>They'll talk of state; for every one doth so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>Against a change; woe is forerun with woe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>QUEEN and Ladies retire</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Gardener</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>Which, like unruly children, make their sire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>Give some supportance to the bending twigs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>Go thou, and like an executioner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>That look too lofty in our commonwealth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>All must be even in our government.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>You thus employ'd, I will go root away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>The noisome weeds, which without profit suck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>Why should we in the compass of a pale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>Keep law and form and due proportion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.46>Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.47>Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.48>Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.49>Swarming with caterpillars?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Gardener</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.50>Hold thy peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.51>He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.52>Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.53>The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.54>That seem'd in eating him to hold him up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.55>Are pluck'd up root and all by Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.56>I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.57>What, are they dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Gardener</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.58>They are; and Bolingbroke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.59>Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.60>That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.61>As we this garden! We at time of year</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.62>Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit-trees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.63>Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.64>With too much riches it confound itself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.65>Had he done so to great and growing men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.66>They might have lived to bear and he to taste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.67>Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.68>We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.69>Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.70>Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.71>What, think you then the king shall be deposed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Gardener</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.72>Depress'd he is already, and deposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.73>'Tis doubt he will be: letters came last night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.74>To a dear friend of the good Duke of York's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.75>That tell black tidings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.76>O, I am press'd to death through want of speaking!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Coming forward</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.77>Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.78>How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.79>What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.80>To make a second fall of cursed man?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.81>Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.82>Darest thou, thou little better thing than earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.83>Divine his downfall? Say, where, when, and how,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.84>Camest thou by this ill tidings? speak, thou wretch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Gardener</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.85>Pardon me, madam: little joy have I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.86>To breathe this news; yet what I say is true.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.87>King Richard, he is in the mighty hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.88>Of Bolingbroke: their fortunes both are weigh'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.89>In your lord's scale is nothing but himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.90>And some few vanities that make him light;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.91>But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.92>Besides himself, are all the English peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.93>And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.94>Post you to London, and you will find it so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.95>I speak no more than every one doth know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.96>Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.97>Doth not thy embassage belong to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.98>And am I last that knows it? O, thou think'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.99>To serve me last, that I may longest keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.100>Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.101>To meet at London London's king in woe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.102>What, was I born to this, that my sad look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.103>Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.104>Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.105>Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt QUEEN and Ladies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GARDENER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.106>Poor queen! so that thy state might be no worse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.107>I would my skill were subject to thy curse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.108>Here did she fall a tear; here in this place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.109>I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.110>Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.111>In the remembrance of a weeping queen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Westminster Hall.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, as to the Parliament, HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, NORTHUMBERLAND, HENRY PERCY, LORD FITZWATER, DUKE OF SURREY, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, the Abbot Of Westminster, and another Lord, Herald, Officers, and BAGOT</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Call forth Bagot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>What thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>Who wrought it with the king, and who perform'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>The bloody office of his timeless end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BAGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BAGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>I heard you say, 'Is not my arm of length,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>That reacheth from the restful English court</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>As far as Calais, to mine uncle's head?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>Amongst much other talk, that very time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>I heard you say that you had rather refuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>The offer of an hundred thousand crowns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>Than Bolingbroke's return to England;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>Adding withal how blest this land would be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>In this your cousin's death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>Princes and noble lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>What answer shall I make to this base man?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>On equal terms to give him chastisement?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>With the attainder of his slanderous lips.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>There is my gage, the manual seal of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>And will maintain what thou hast said is false</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>In thy heart-blood, though being all too base</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>To stain the temper of my knightly sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>Bagot, forbear; thou shalt not take it up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>Excepting one, I would he were the best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>In all this presence that hath moved me so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LORD FITZWATER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>If that thy valour stand on sympathy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Where it was forged, with my rapier's point.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LORD FITZWATER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Now by my soul, I would it were this hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is as true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>In this appeal as thou art all unjust;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>And that thou art so, there I throw my gage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>To prove it on thee to the extremest point</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>Of mortal breathing: seize it, if thou darest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>An if I do not, may my hands rot off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>And never brandish more revengeful steel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>Over the glittering helmet of my foe!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>And spur thee on with full as many lies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>I have a thousand spirits in one breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>To answer twenty thousand such as you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DUKE OF SURREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>The very time Aumerle and you did talk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LORD FITZWATER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>'Tis very true: you were in presence then;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>And you can witness with me this is true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DUKE OF SURREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LORD FITZWATER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>Surrey, thou liest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DUKE OF SURREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>Dishonourable boy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>That it shall render vengeance and revenge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>In earth as quiet as thy father's skull:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LORD FITZWATER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>And lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>To tie thee to my strong correction.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>As I intend to thrive in this new world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Besides, I heard the banish'd Norfolk say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>To execute the noble duke at Calais.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Some honest Christian trust me with a gage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>If he may be repeal'd, to try his honour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>These differences shall all rest under gage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>Till Norfolk be repeal'd: repeal'd he shall be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>And, though mine enemy, restored again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>To all his lands and signories: when he's return'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BISHOP OF CARLISLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>That honourable day shall ne'er be seen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>And toil'd with works of war, retired himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>To Italy; and there at Venice gave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>His body to that pleasant country's earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>Under whose colours he had fought so long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>Why, bishop, is Norfolk dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BISHOP OF CARLISLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>As surely as I live, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>Your differences shall all rest under gage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>Till we assign you to your days of trial.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE OF YORK, attended</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>From plume-pluck'd Richard; who with willing soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>To the possession of thy royal hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>Ascend his throne, descending now from him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>And long live Henry, fourth of that name!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BISHOP OF CARLISLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>Marry. God forbid!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>Worst in this royal presence may I speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>Would God that any in this noble presence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>Were enough noble to be upright judge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>What subject can give sentence on his king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>And who sits here that is not Richard's subject?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>Although apparent guilt be seen in them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>And shall the figure of God's majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>His captain, steward, deputy-elect,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>Anointed, crowned, planted many years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>Be judged by subject and inferior breath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>That in a Christian climate souls refined</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>Stirr'd up by God, thus boldly for his king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>And if you crown him, let me prophesy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>The blood of English shall manure the ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>And future ages groan for this foul act;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>O, if you raise this house against this house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>It will the woefullest division prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>That ever fell upon this cursed earth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.152>Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.153>Of capital treason we arrest you here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.154>My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.155>To keep him safely till his day of trial.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.156>May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.157>Fetch hither Richard, that in common view</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.158>He may surrender; so we shall proceed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.159>Without suspicion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.160> I will be his conduct.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.161>Lords, you that here are under our arrest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.162>Procure your sureties for your days of answer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.163>Little are we beholding to your love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.164>And little look'd for at your helping hands.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter DUKE OF YORK, with KING RICHARD II, and Officers bearing the regalia</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.165>Alack, why am I sent for to a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.166>Before I have shook off the regal thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.167>Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.168>To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.169>Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.170>To this submission. Yet I well remember</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.171>The favours of these men: were they not mine?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.172>Did they not sometime cry, 'all hail!' to me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.173>So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.174>Found truth in all but one: I, in twelve thousand, none.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.175>God save the king! Will no man say amen?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.176>Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.177>God save the king! although I be not he;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.178>And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.179>To do what service am I sent for hither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.180>To do that office of thine own good will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.181>Which tired majesty did make thee offer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.182>The resignation of thy state and crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.183>To Henry Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.184>Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.185>Here cousin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.186>On this side my hand, and on that side yours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.187>Now is this golden crown like a deep well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.188>That owes two buckets, filling one another,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.189>The emptier ever dancing in the air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.190>The other down, unseen and full of water:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.191>That bucket down and full of tears am I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.192>Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.193>I thought you had been willing to resign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.194>My crown I am; but still my griefs are mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.195>You may my glories and my state depose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.196>But not my griefs; still am I king of those.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.197>Part of your cares you give me with your crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.198>Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.199>My care is loss of care, by old care done;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.200>Your care is gain of care, by new care won:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.201>The cares I give I have, though given away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.202>They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.203>Are you contented to resign the crown?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.204>Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.205>Therefore no no, for I resign to thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.206>Now mark me, how I will undo myself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.207>I give this heavy weight from off my head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.208>And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.209>The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.210>With mine own tears I wash away my balm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.211>With mine own hands I give away my crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.212>With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.213>With mine own breath release all duty's rites:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.214>All pomp and majesty I do forswear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.215>My manors, rents, revenues I forego;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.216>My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.217>God pardon all oaths that are broke to me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.218>God keep all vows unbroke that swear to thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.219>Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.220>And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.221>Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.222>And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.223>God save King Harry, unking'd Richard says,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.224>And send him many years of sunshine days!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.225>What more remains?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.226> No more, but that you read</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.227>These accusations and these grievous crimes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.228>Committed by your person and your followers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.229>Against the state and profit of this land;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.230>That, by confessing them, the souls of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.231>May deem that you are worthily deposed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.232>Must I do so? and must I ravel out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.233>My weaved-up folly? Gentle Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.234>If thy offences were upon record,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.235>Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.236>To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.237>There shouldst thou find one heinous article,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.238>Containing the deposing of a king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.239>And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.240>Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.241>Nay, all of you that stand and look upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.242>Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.243>Though some of you with Pilate wash your hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.244>Showing an outward pity; yet you Pilates</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.245>Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.246>And water cannot wash away your sin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.247>My lord, dispatch; read o'er these articles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.248>Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.249>And yet salt water blinds them not so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.250>But they can see a sort of traitors here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.251>Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.252>I find myself a traitor with the rest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.253>For I have given here my soul's consent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.254>To undeck the pompous body of a king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.255>Made glory base and sovereignty a slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.256>Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.257>My lord,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.258>No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.259>Nor no man's lord; I have no name, no title,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.260>No, not that name was given me at the font,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.261>But 'tis usurp'd: alack the heavy day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.262>That I have worn so many winters out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.263>And know not now what name to call myself!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.264>O that I were a mockery king of snow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.265>Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.266>To melt myself away in water-drops!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.267>Good king, great king, and yet not greatly good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.268>An if my word be sterling yet in England,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.269>Let it command a mirror hither straight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.270>That it may show me what a face I have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.271>Since it is bankrupt of his majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.272>Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit an attendant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.273>Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.274>Fiend, thou torment'st me ere I come to hell!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.275>Urge it no more, my Lord Northumberland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.276>The commons will not then be satisfied.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.277>They shall be satisfied: I'll read enough,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.278>When I do see the very book indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.279>Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Attendant, with a glass</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.280>Give me the glass, and therein will I read.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.281>No deeper wrinkles yet? hath sorrow struck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.282>So many blows upon this face of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.283>And made no deeper wounds? O flattering glass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.284>Like to my followers in prosperity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.285>Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.286>That every day under his household roof</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.287>Did keep ten thousand men? was this the face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.288>That, like the sun, did make beholders wink?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.289>Was this the face that faced so many follies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.290>And was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.291>A brittle glory shineth in this face:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.292>As brittle as the glory is the face;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dashes the glass against the ground</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.293>For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.294>Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.295>How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.296>The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.297>The shadow or your face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.298>Say that again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.299>The shadow of my sorrow! ha! let's see:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.300>'Tis very true, my grief lies all within;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.301>And these external manners of laments</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.302>Are merely shadows to the unseen grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.303>That swells with silence in the tortured soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.304>There lies the substance: and I thank thee, king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.305>For thy great bounty, that not only givest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.306>Me cause to wail but teachest me the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.307>How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.308>And then be gone and trouble you no more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.309>Shall I obtain it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.310> Name it, fair cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.311>'Fair cousin'? I am greater than a king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.312>For when I was a king, my flatterers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.313>Were then but subjects; being now a subject,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.314>I have a king here to my flatterer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.315>Being so great, I have no need to beg.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.316>Yet ask.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.317>And shall I have?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.318>You shall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.319>Then give me leave to go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.320>Whither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.321>Whither you will, so I were from your sights.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.322>Go, some of you convey him to the Tower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.323>O, good! convey? conveyers are you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.324>That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt KING RICHARD II, some Lords, and a Guard</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.325>On Wednesday next we solemnly set down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.326>Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all except the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, the Abbot of Westminster, and DUKE OF AUMERLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>Abbot</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.327>A woeful pageant have we here beheld.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>BISHOP OF CARLISLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.328>The woe's to come; the children yet unborn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.329>Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.330>You holy clergymen, is there no plot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.331>To rid the realm of this pernicious blot?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>Abbot</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.332>My lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.333>Before I freely speak my mind herein,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.334>You shall not only take the sacrament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.335>To bury mine intents, but also to effect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.336>Whatever I shall happen to devise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.337>I see your brows are full of discontent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.338>Your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.339>Come home with me to supper; and I'll lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.340>A plot shall show us all a merry day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. A street leading to the Tower.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter QUEEN and Ladies</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>This way the king will come; this is the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>To whose flint bosom my condemned lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>Is doom'd a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>Have any resting for her true king's queen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING RICHARD II and Guard</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>But soft, but see, or rather do not see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>My fair rose wither: yet look up, behold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>That you in pity may dissolve to dew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>And not King Richard; thou most beauteous inn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodged in thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>When triumph is become an alehouse guest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>To make my end too sudden: learn, good soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>To think our former state a happy dream;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>From which awaked, the truth of what we are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>Shows us but this: I am sworn brother, sweet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>To grim Necessity, and he and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>And cloister thee in some religious house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>Our holy lives must win a new world's crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>Which our profane hours here have stricken down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>What, is my Richard both in shape and mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Transform'd and weaken'd? hath Bolingbroke deposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>Thine intellect? hath he been in thy heart?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>To be o'erpower'd; and wilt thou, pupil-like,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>And fawn on rage with base humility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>Which art a lion and a king of beasts?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>A king of beasts, indeed; if aught but beasts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>I had been still a happy king of men.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>Think I am dead and that even here thou takest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>As from my death-bed, thy last living leave.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>With good old folks and let them tell thee tales</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>Of woeful ages long ago betid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>And ere thou bid good night, to quit their griefs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>Tell thou the lamentable tale of me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>And send the hearers weeping to their beds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>For why, the senseless brands will sympathize</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>The heavy accent of thy moving tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>And in compassion weep the fire out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>For the deposing of a rightful king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter NORTHUMBERLAND and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>And, madam, there is order ta'en for you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>With all swift speed you must away to France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>The time shall not be many hours of age</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>More than it is ere foul sin gathering head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>Shalt break into corruption: thou shalt think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>Though he divide the realm and give thee half,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>It is too little, helping him to all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>And he shall think that thou, which know'st the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>Being ne'er so little urged, another way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>The love of wicked men converts to fear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>To worthy danger and deserved death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>My guilt be on my head, and there an end.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>Take leave and part; for you must part forthwith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>A twofold marriage, 'twixt my crown and me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>And then betwixt me and my married wife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>And yet not so, for with a kiss 'twas made.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>Part us, Northumberland; I toward the north,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>My wife to France: from whence, set forth in pomp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>She came adorned hither like sweet May,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>And must we be divided? must we part?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>Banish us both and send the king with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>That were some love but little policy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>Then whither he goes, thither let me go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>So two, together weeping, make one woe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>Better far off than near, be ne'er the near.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>Go, count thy way with sighs; I mine with groans.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>So longest way shall have the longest moans.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>And piece the way out with a heavy heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93>Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUEEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>Give me mine own again; 'twere no good part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>To take on me to keep and kill thy heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>So, now I have mine own again, be gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>That I might strive to kill it with a groan.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>We make woe wanton with this fond delay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>Once more, adieu; the rest let sorrow say.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The DUKE OF YORK's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DUKE OF YORK and DUCHESS OF YORK</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>My lord, you told me you would tell the rest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>When weeping made you break the story off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>of our two cousins coming into London.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>Where did I leave?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5> At that sad stop, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>With slow but stately pace kept on his course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>Bolingbroke!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>You would have thought the very windows spake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>So many greedy looks of young and old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>Through casements darted their desiring eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>Upon his visage, and that all the walls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>With painted imagery had said at once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>As in a theatre, the eyes of men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>Are idly bent on him that enters next,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>Thinking his prattle to be tedious;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>Did scowl on gentle Richard; no man cried 'God save him!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>But dust was thrown upon his sacred head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>His face still combating with tears and smiles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>The badges of his grief and patience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>And barbarism itself have pitied him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>But heaven hath a hand in these events,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>To whose high will we bound our calm contents.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>Whose state and honour I for aye allow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>Here comes my son Aumerle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>Aumerle that was;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>But that is lost for being Richard's friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>And, madam, you must call him Rutland now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>I am in parliament pledge for his truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>And lasting fealty to the new-made king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE OF AUMERLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>Welcome, my son: who are the violets now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>That strew the green lap of the new come spring?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>God knows I had as lief be none as one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>For aught I know, my lord, they do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>You will be there, I know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>If God prevent not, I purpose so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>My lord, 'tis nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>No matter, then, who see it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>I will be satisfied; let me see the writing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>I do beseech your grace to pardon me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>It is a matter of small consequence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>Which for some reasons I would not have seen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>I fear, I fear,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69> What should you fear?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>'Tis nothing but some bond, that he is enter'd into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>Bound to himself! what doth he with a bond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>Boy, let me see the writing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>I do beseech you, pardon me; I may not show it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>I will be satisfied; let me see it, I say.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He plucks it out of his bosom and reads it</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>Treason! foul treason! Villain! traitor! slave!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>What is the matter, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>Ho! who is within there?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>Saddle my horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>God for his mercy, what treachery is here!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>Why, what is it, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>Give me my boots, I say; saddle my horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>Now, by mine honour, by my life, by my troth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>I will appeach the villain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>What is the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>Peace, foolish woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>I will not peace. What is the matter, Aumerle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>Good mother, be content; it is no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>Than my poor life must answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>Thy life answer!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>Bring me my boots: I will unto the king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Servant with boots</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>Strike him, Aumerle. Poor boy, thou art amazed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>Hence, villain! never more come in my sight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>Give me my boots, I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>Why, York, what wilt thou do?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>Have we more sons? or are we like to have?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>And rob me of a happy mother's name?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>Is he not like thee? is he not thine own?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>Thou fond mad woman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>And interchangeably set down their hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>To kill the king at Oxford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>He shall be none;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>We'll keep him here: then what is that to him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>Away, fond woman! were he twenty times my son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>I would appeach him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>Hadst thou groan'd for him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>As I have done, thou wouldst be more pitiful.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>But now I know thy mind; thou dost suspect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>That I have been disloyal to thy bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.116>And that he is a bastard, not thy son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.117>Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that mind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.118>He is as like thee as a man may be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.119>Not like to me, or any of my kin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.120>And yet I love him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.121>Make way, unruly woman!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.122>After, Aumerle! mount thee upon his horse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.123>Spur post, and get before him to the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.124>And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.125>I'll not be long behind; though I be old,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.126>I doubt not but to ride as fast as York:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.127>And never will I rise up from the ground</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.128>Till Bolingbroke have pardon'd thee. Away, be gone!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A royal palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, HENRY PERCY, and other Lords</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>'Tis full three months since I did see him last;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>If any plague hang over us, 'tis he.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>I would to God, my lords, he might be found:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>Inquire at London, 'mongst the taverns there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>For there, they say, he daily doth frequent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>With unrestrained loose companions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>And beat our watch, and rob our passengers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Takes on the point of honour to support</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>So dissolute a crew.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>My lord, some two days since I saw the prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>And told him of those triumphs held at Oxford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>And what said the gallant?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>His answer was, he would unto the stews,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>And from the common'st creature pluck a glove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>And wear it as a favour; and with that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>He would unhorse the lustiest challenger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>As dissolute as desperate; yet through both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>May happily bring forth. But who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE OF AUMERLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>Where is the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>What means our cousin, that he stares and looks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>So wildly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>God save your grace! I do beseech your majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>To have some conference with your grace alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>Withdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt HENRY PERCY and Lords</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>What is the matter with our cousin now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>For ever may my knees grow to the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>Intended or committed was this fault?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>To win thy after-love I pardon thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>Then give me leave that I may turn the key,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>That no man enter till my tale be done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>Have thy desire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>[Within] My liege, beware; look to thyself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>Villain, I'll make thee safe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drawing</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>Stay thy revengeful hand; thou hast no cause to fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>[Within] Open the door, secure, foolhardy king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>Shall I for love speak treason to thy face?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>Open the door, or I will break it open.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE OF YORK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>What is the matter, uncle? speak;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>Recover breath; tell us how near is danger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>That we may arm us to encounter it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49>Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>The treason that my haste forbids me show.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51>Remember, as thou read'st, thy promise pass'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>I do repent me; read not my name there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>My heart is not confederate with my hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>I tore it from the traitor's bosom, king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>Fear, and not love, begets his penitence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>A serpent that will sting thee to the heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>O heinous, strong and bold conspiracy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>O loyal father of a treacherous son!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>From when this stream through muddy passages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.63>Hath held his current and defiled himself!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.64>Thy overflow of good converts to bad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.65>And thy abundant goodness shall excuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.66>This deadly blot in thy digressing son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.67>So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.68>And he shall spend mine honour with his shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.69>As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.70>Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.71>Or my shamed life in his dishonour lies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.72>Thou kill'st me in his life; giving him breath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.73>The traitor lives, the true man's put to death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.74>[Within] What ho, my liege! for God's sake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.75>let me in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.76>What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.77>A woman, and thy aunt, great king; 'tis I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.78>Speak with me, pity me, open the door.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.79>A beggar begs that never begg'd before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.80>Our scene is alter'd from a serious thing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.81>And now changed to 'The Beggar and the King.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.82>My dangerous cousin, let your mother in:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.83>I know she is come to pray for your foul sin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.84>If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.85>More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.86>This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.87>This let alone will all the rest confound.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUCHESS OF YORK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.88>O king, believe not this hard-hearted man!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.89>Love loving not itself none other can.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.90>Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.91>Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.92>Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.93>Rise up, good aunt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.94>Not yet, I thee beseech:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.95>For ever will I walk upon my knees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.96>And never see day that the happy sees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.97>Till thou give joy; until thou bid me joy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.98>By pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DUKE OF AUMERLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.99>Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.100>Against them both my true joints bended be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.101>Ill mayst thou thrive, if thou grant any grace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.102>Pleads he in earnest? look upon his face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.103>His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.104>His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.105>He prays but faintly and would be denied;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.106>We pray with heart and soul and all beside:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.107>His weary joints would gladly rise, I know;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.108>Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.109>His prayers are full of false hypocrisy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.110>Ours of true zeal and deep integrity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.111>Our prayers do out-pray his; then let them have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.112>That mercy which true prayer ought to have.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.113>Good aunt, stand up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.114>Nay, do not say, 'stand up;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.115>Say, 'pardon' first, and afterwards 'stand up.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.116>And if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.117>'Pardon' should be the first word of thy speech.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.118>I never long'd to hear a word till now;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.119>Say 'pardon,' king; let pity teach thee how:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.120>The word is short, but not so short as sweet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.121>No word like 'pardon' for kings' mouths so meet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DUKE OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.122>Speak it in French, king; say, 'pardonne moi.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.123>Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.124>Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.125>That set'st the word itself against the word!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.126>Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.127>The chopping French we do not understand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.128>Thine eye begins to speak; set thy tongue there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.129>Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.130>That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.131>Pity may move thee 'pardon' to rehearse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.132>Good aunt, stand up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.133>I do not sue to stand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.134>Pardon is all the suit I have in hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.135>I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.136>O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.137>Yet am I sick for fear: speak it again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.138>Twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.139>But makes one pardon strong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.140>With all my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.141>I pardon him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.142> A god on earth thou art.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.143>But for our trusty brother-in-law and the abbot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.144>With all the rest of that consorted crew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.145>Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.146>Good uncle, help to order several powers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.147>To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.148>They shall not live within this world, I swear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.149>But I will have them, if I once know where.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.150>Uncle, farewell: and, cousin too, adieu:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.151>Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>DUCHESS OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.152>Come, my old son: I pray God make thee new.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter EXTON and Servant</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>EXTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>Didst thou not mark the king, what words he spake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>Was it not so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4> These were his very words.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>EXTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>'Have I no friend?' quoth he: he spake it twice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>And urged it twice together, did he not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>He did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>EXTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>And speaking it, he wistly look'd on me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>And who should say, 'I would thou wert the man'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>That would divorce this terror from my heart;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Pomfret castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING RICHARD</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.1>I have been studying how I may compare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.2>This prison where I live unto the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.3>And for because the world is populous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.4>And here is not a creature but myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.5>I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.6>My brain I'll prove the female to my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.7>My soul the father; and these two beget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.8>A generation of still-breeding thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.9>And these same thoughts people this little world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.10>In humours like the people of this world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.11>For no thought is contented. The better sort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.12>As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.13>With scruples and do set the word itself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.14>Against the word:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.15>As thus, 'Come, little ones,' and then again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.16>'It is as hard to come as for a camel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.17>To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.18>Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.19>Unlikely wonders; how these vain weak nails</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.20>May tear a passage through the flinty ribs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.21>Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.22>And, for they cannot, die in their own pride.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.23>Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.24>That they are not the first of fortune's slaves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.25>Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.26>Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.27>That many have and others must sit there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.28>And in this thought they find a kind of ease,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.29>Bearing their own misfortunes on the back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.30>Of such as have before endured the like.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.31>Thus play I in one person many people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.32>And none contented: sometimes am I king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.33>Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.34>And so I am: then crushing penury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.35>Persuades me I was better when a king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.36>Then am I king'd again: and by and by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.37>Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.38>And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.39>Nor I nor any man that but man is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.40>With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.41>With being nothing. Music do I hear?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.42>Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.43>When time is broke and no proportion kept!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.44>So is it in the music of men's lives.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.45>And here have I the daintiness of ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.46>To cheque time broke in a disorder'd string;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.47>But for the concord of my state and time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.48>Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.49>I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.50>For now hath time made me his numbering clock:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.51>My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.52>Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.53>Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.54>Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.55>Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.56>Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.57>Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.58>Show minutes, times, and hours: but my time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.59>Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.60>While I stand fooling here, his Jack o' the clock.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.61>This music mads me; let it sound no more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.62>For though it have holp madmen to their wits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.63>In me it seems it will make wise men mad.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.64>Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.65>For 'tis a sign of love; and love to Richard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.66>Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Groom of the Stable</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Groom</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.67>Hail, royal prince!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.68>Thanks, noble peer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.69>The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.70>What art thou? and how comest thou hither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.71>Where no man never comes but that sad dog</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.72>That brings me food to make misfortune live?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Groom</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.73>I was a poor groom of thy stable, king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.74>When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.75>With much ado at length have gotten leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.76>To look upon my sometimes royal master's face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.77>O, how it yearn'd my heart when I beheld</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.78>In London streets, that coronation-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.79>When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.80>That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.81>That horse that I so carefully have dress'd!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.82>Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.83>How went he under him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Groom</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.84>So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.85>So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.86>That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.87>This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.88>Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.89>Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.90>Of that proud man that did usurp his back?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.91>Forgiveness, horse! why do I rail on thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.92>Since thou, created to be awed by man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.93>Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.94>And yet I bear a burthen like an ass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.95>Spurr'd, gall'd and tired by jouncing Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Keeper, with a dish</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Keeper</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.96>Fellow, give place; here is no longer stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.97>If thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Groom</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.98>What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Keeper</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.99>My lord, will't please you to fall to?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.100>Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Keeper</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.101>My lord, I dare not: Sir Pierce of Exton, who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.102>lately came from the king, commands the contrary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.103>The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.104>Patience is stale, and I am weary of it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Beats the keeper</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Keeper</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.105>Help, help, help!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter EXTON and Servants, armed</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING RICHARD II</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.106>How now! what means death in this rude assault?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.107>Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Snatching an axe from a Servant and killing him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.108>Go thou, and fill another room in hell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He kills another. Then Exton strikes him down</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.109>That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.110>That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.111>Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.112>Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.113>Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>EXTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.114>As full of valour as of royal blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.115>Both have I spill'd; O would the deed were good!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.116>For now the devil, that told me I did well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.117>Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.118>This dead king to the living king I'll bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.119>Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. Windsor castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK, with other Lords, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.1>Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.2>Is that the rebels have consumed with fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.3>Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.4>But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter NORTHUMBERLAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.5>Welcome, my lord what is the news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.6>First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.7>The next news is, I have to London sent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.8>The heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt, and Kent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.9>The manner of their taking may appear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.10>At large discoursed in this paper here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.11>We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.12>And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LORD FITZWATER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LORD FITZWATER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.13>My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.14>The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.15>Two of the dangerous consorted traitors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.16>That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.17>Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.18>Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HENRY PERCY, and the BISHOP OF CARLISLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HENRY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.19>The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.20>With clog of conscience and sour melancholy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.21>Hath yielded up his body to the grave;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.22>But here is Carlisle living, to abide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.23>Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.24>Carlisle, this is your doom:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.25>Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.26>More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.27>So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.28>For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.29>High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter EXTON, with persons bearing a coffin</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>EXTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.30>Great king, within this coffin I present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.31>Thy buried fear: herein all breathless lies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.32>The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.33>Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.34>Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.35>A deed of slander with thy fatal hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.36>Upon my head and all this famous land.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>EXTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.37>From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HENRY BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.38>They love not poison that do poison need,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.39>Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.40>I hate the murderer, love him murdered.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.41>The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.42>But neither my good word nor princely favour:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.43>With Cain go wander through shades of night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.44>And never show thy head by day nor light.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.45>Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.46>That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.47>Come, mourn with me for that I do lament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.48>And put on sullen black incontinent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.49>I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.50>To wash this blood off from my guilty hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.51>March sadly after; grace my mournings here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.52>In weeping after this untimely bier.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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