And know not now what name to call myself! Good king, great king-(and yet not greatly good), Boling. Go some of you, and fetch a looking-glass. [Exit an Attendant. North. Read o'er this paper, while the glass doth come. K. Rich. Fiend! thou torment'st me ere I come to hell. Boling. Urge it no more, my lord Northumberland. North. The commons will not then be satisfied. K. Rich. They shall be satisfied: I'll read enough, When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's-myself. Re-enter Attendant with a Glass. Give me that glass, and therein will I read.--- And made no deeper wounds ?-O, flattering glass, Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face, Did keep ten thousand men? Was this the face, [Dashes the glass against the ground. For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.- The shadow of your face. K. Rich. Say that again. The shadow of my sorrow? Ha! let's see: "Tis very true, my grief lies all within ; And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, That swells with silence in the tortured soul; There lies the substance: and I thank thee, king, Boling. Name it, fair cousin. K. Rich. Fair cousin? Why, I am greater than a king: For, when I was a king, my flatterers Were then but subjects; being now a subject, Being so great, I have no need to beg. K. Rich. And shall I have? Boling. You shall. K. Rich. Then give me leave to go. K. Rich. Whither you will, so I were from your sights. [Exeunt KING RICHARD, some Lords, and a Guard. Boling. On Wednesday next, we solemnly set down Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves. [Exeunt all but the ABBOT, Bishop of CARLISLE, and Abbot. A woeful pageant have we here beheld. Aum. You holy clergyman, is there no plot To rid the realm of this pernicious blot? Abbot. Before I freely speak my mind herein, [Exevnt. ACT V. SCENE I.-London. A Street leading to the Tower. Queen. This way the king will come; this is the way To whose flint bosom my condemned lord Enter KING RICHARD, and Guards. But soft, but see, or rather do not see, * Thieves. + Erected for evil purposes. And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.- K. Rich. Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France, Queen. What, is my Richard both in shape and mind And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage And fawn on rage with base humility, K. Rich. A king of beasts, indeed; if aught but beasts, Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France: In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks; and let them tell thee tales And, ere thou bid good night, to quit their grief, And send the hearers weeping to their beds. For why, the senseless brands will sympathize And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black, For the deposing of a rightful king. Enter NORTHUMBERLAND, attended. North. My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed; You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower. And, Madam, there is order ta'en for you; With all swift speed you must away to France. K. Rich. Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal *Picture of greatness. VOL. II. + Passed. 2 C Be quits with them Shall break into corruption: thou shalt think, And he shall think, that thou, which know'st the way Being ne'er so little urged, another way To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne. North. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Sent back like Hallowmas, or short'st of day. Queen. And must we be divided? must we part? K. Rich. Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart. Go, count thy way with sighs; I, mine with groans. K. Rich. Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short, And piece the way out with a heavy heart. Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief, Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief. One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part; Thus give I mine, and thus I take thy heart. [They kiss. Queen. Give me mine own again; 'twere no good part, To take on me to keep, and kill thy heart. So, now I have my own again, begone, That I may strive to kill it with a groan. Kiss again. K. Rich. We make woe wanton with this fond delay: Once more, adieu; the rest let sorrow say. [Exeunt. SCENE II.- The same. A Room in the Duke of YORK'S Palace. Enter YORK, and his DUCHESS. Duch. My lord, you told me, you would tell the rest, When weeping made you break the story off Of our two cousins coming into London. * Nigher. York. Where did I leave ? Duch. At that sad stop, my lord, Where rude misgovern'd hands, from window tops, York. Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke,Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed, Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know, With slow, but stately pace, kept on his course, Duch. Alas! poor Richard! where rides he the while ? Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd But heaven hath a hand in these events; To whose high will we bound our calm contents. Whose state and honour I for ayet allow. Enter AUMERLE. Duch. Here comes my son Aumerle. But that is lost, for being Richard's friend, And, Madam, you must call him Rutland now: I am in parliament pledge for his truth, And lasting fealty to the new-made king. Duch. Welcome, my son: Who are the violets now, That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? Aum. Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not: God knows, I had as lief be none, as one. *Tapestry hung from the windows. † Ever. |