1865Ser. What are they dead?

1866Gard. They are,

1867And Bullingbrooke hath seiz'd the wastefull King.

1868Oh, what pitty is it, that he had not so trim'd

1869Aad drest his Land, as we this Garden, at time of yeare,

1870And wound the Barke, the skin of our Fruit-trees,

1871Least being ouer-proud with Sap and Blood,

1872With too much riches it confound it selfe?

1873Had he done so, to great and growing men,

1874They might haue liu'd to beare, and he to taste

1875Their fruites of dutie. Superfluous branches

1876We lop away, that bearing boughes may liue:

1877Had he done so, himselfe had borne the Crowne,

1878Which waste and idle houres, hath quite thrown downe.

1879Ser. What thinke you the King shall be depos'd?

1880Gar. Deprest he is already, and depos'd

1881'Tis doubted he will be. Letters came last night

1882To a deere Friend of the Duke of Yorkes,

1883That tell blacke tydings.

1884Qu: Oh I am prest to death through want of speaking:

1885Thou old Adams likenesse, set to dresse this Garden:

1886How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this vnpleasing (newes

1887What Eue? what Serpent hath suggested thee,

1888To make a second fall of cursed man?

1889Why do'st thou say, King Richard is depos'd,

1890Dar'st thou, thou little better thing then earth,

1891Diuine his downfall? Say, where, when, and how

1892Cam'st thou by this ill-tydings? Speake thou wretch.

1893Gard. Pardon me Madam. Little ioy haue I

1894To breath these newes; yet what I say, is true;

1895King Richard, he is in the mighty hold

1896Of Bullingbrooke, their Fortunes both are weigh'd:

1897In your Lords Scale, is nothing but himselfe,

1898And some few Vanities, that make him light:

1899But in the Ballance of great Bullingbrooke,

1900Besides himselfe, are all the English Peeres,

1901And with that oddes he weighes King Richard downe.

1902Poste you to London, and you'l finde it so,

1903I speake no more, then euery one doth know.

1904Qu. Nimble mischance, that art so light of foote,

1905Doth not thy Embassage belong to me?

1906And am I last that knowes it? Oh thou think'st

1907To serue me last, that I may longest keepe

1908Thy sorrow in my breast. Come Ladies goe,

1909To meet at London, Londons King in woe.

1910What was I borne to this: that my sad looke,

1911Should grace the Triumph of great Bullingbrooke.

1912Gard'ner, for telling me this newes of woe,

1913I would the Plants thou graft'st, may neuer grow. Exit.

1914G Poore Queen, so that thy State might be no worse,

1915I would my skill were subiect to thy curse:

1916Heere did she drop a teare, heere in this place

1917Ile set a Banke of Rew, sowre Herbe of Grace:

1918Rue, eu'n for ruth, heere shortly shall be seene,

1919In the remembrance of a Weeping Queene. Exit.

1924Bullingbrooke. Call forth Bagot.

1925Now Bagot, freely speake thy minde,

1926What thou do'st know of Noble Glousters death:

1927Who wrought it with the King, and who perform'd

1928The bloody Office of his Timelesse end.

1929Bag. Then set before my face, the Lord Aumerle.

1930Bul. Cosin, stand forth, and looke vpon that man.

1931Bag. My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue

1932Scornes to vnsay, what it hath once deliuer'd.

1933In that dead time, when Glousters death was plotted,

1934I heard you say, Is not my arme of length,

1935That reacheth from the restfull English Court

1936As farre as Callis, to my Vnkles head.

1937Amongst much other talke, that very time,

1938I heard you say, that you had rather refuse

1939The offer of an hundred thousand Crownes,

1940Then Bullingbrookes returne to England; adding withall,

1941How blest this Land would be, in this your Cosins death.

1942Aum. Princes, and Noble Lords:

1943What answer shall I make to this base man?

1944Shall I so much dishonor my faire Starres,

1945On equall termes to giue him chasticement?

1946Either I must, or haue mine honor soyl'd

1947With th' Attaindor of his sland'rous Lippes.

1948There is my Gage, the manuall Seale of death

1949That markes thee out for Hell. Thou lyest,

1950And will maintaine what thou hast said, is false,

1951In thy heart blood, though being all too base

1952To staine the temper of my Knightly sword.

1953Bul. Bagot forbeare, thou shalt not take it vp.

1954Aum. Excepting one, I would he were the best

1955In all this presence, that hath mou'd me so.

1956Fitz. If that thy valour stand on sympathize:

1957There is my Gage, Aumerle, in Gage to thine:

1958By that faire Sunne, that shewes me where thou stand'st,

1959I heard thee say (and vauntingly thou spak'st it)

1960That thou wer't cause of Noble Glousters death.

1961If thou deniest it, twenty times thou lyest,

1962And I will turne thy falshood to thy hart,

1963Where it was forged with my Rapiers point.

1964Aum. Thou dar'st not (Coward) liue to see the day.

1965Fitz. Now by my Soule, I would it were this houre.

1966Aum. Fitzwater thou art damn'd to hell for this.

1967Per. Aumerle, thou lye'st: his Honor is as true

1968In this Appeale, as thou art all vniust:

1969And that thou art so, there I throw my Gage

1970To proue it on thee, to th'extreamest point

1971Of mortall breathing. Seize it, if thou dar'st.

1972Aum. And if I do not, may my hands rot off,

1973And neuer brandish more reuengefull Steele,

1974Ouer the glittering Helmet of my Foe.

1975Surrey. My Lord Fitz-water:

1976I do remember well, the very time

1977Aumerle, and you did talke.

1978Fitz. My Lord,

1979'Tis very true: You were in presence then,

1980And you can witnesse with me, this is true.

1981Surrey. As false, by heauen,

1982As Heauen it selfe is true.

1983Fitz. Surrey, thou Lyest.

1984Surrey. Dishonourable Boy;

1985That Lye, shall lie so heauy on my Sword,

1986That it shall render Vengeance, and Reuenge,

1987Till thou the Lye-giuer, and that Lye, doe lye

1988In earth as quiet, as thy Fathers Scull.

1989In proofe whereof, there is mine Honors pawne,

1990Engage it to the Triall, if thou dar'st.