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Richard II (Folio 1, 1623)
The Life and Death of Richard the Second. 41
2256Your Heart of Sorrow, and your Eyes of Teares.
2257Come home with me to Supper, Ile lay a Plot
2259Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.
2260Enter Queene, and Ladies.
2261Qu. This way the King will come: this is the way
2264Is doom'd a Prisoner, by prowd Bullingbrooke.
2265Here let vs rest, if this rebellious Earth
2266Haue any resting for her true Kings Queene.
2267Enter Richard, and Guard.
2269My faire Rose wither: yet looke vp; behold,
2270That you in pittie may dissolue to dew,
2273Thou Mappe of Honor, thou King Richards Tombe,
2274And not King Richard: thou most beauteous Inne,
2275Why should hard-fauor'd Griefe be lodg'd in thee,
2278To make my end too sudden: learne good Soule,
2279To thinke our former State a happie Dreame,
2280From which awak'd, the truth of what we are,
2281Shewes vs but this. I am sworne Brother (Sweet)
2282To grim Necessitie; and hee and I
2283Will keepe a League till Death. High thee to France,
2285Our holy liues must winne a new Worlds Crowne,
2286Which our prophane houres here haue stricken downe.
2288Transform'd, and weaken'd? Hath Bullingbrooke
2289Depos'd thine Intellect? hath he beene in thy Heart?
2290The Lyon dying, thrusteth forth his Paw,
2291And wounds the Earth, if nothing else, with rage
2292To be o're-powr'd: and wilt thou, Pupill-like,
2294And fawne on Rage with base Humilitie,
2295Which art a Lyon, and a King of Beasts?
2297I had beene still a happy King of Men.
2298Good (sometime Queene) prepare thee hence for France:
2299Thinke I am dead, and that euen here thou tak'st,
2300As from my Death-bed, my last liuing leaue.
2302With good old folkes, and let them tell thee Tales
2303Of wofull Ages, long agoe betide:
2304And ere thou bid good-night, to quit their griefe,
2305Tell thou the lamentable fall of me,
2306And send the hearers weeping to their Beds:
2308The heauie accent of thy mouing Tongue,
2312Enter Northumberland.
2313North. My Lord, the mind of Bullingbrooke is chang'd.
2314You must to Pomfret, not vnto the Tower.
2315And Madame, there is order ta'ne for you:
2317Rich. Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall
2318The mounting Bullingbrooke ascends my Throne,
2319The time shall not be many houres of age,
2320More then it is, ere foule sinne, gathering head,
2321Shall breake into corruption: thou shalt thinke,
2322Though he diuide the Realme, and giue thee halfe,
2325To plant vnrightfull Kings, wilt know againe,
2326Being ne're so little vrg'd another way,
2327To pluck him headlong from the vsurped Throne.
2328The Loue of wicked friends conuerts to Feare;
2329That Feare, to Hate; and Hate turnes one, or both,
2330To worthie Danger, and deserued Death.
2331North. My guilt be on my Head, and there an end:
2332Take leaue, and part, for you must part forthwith.
2333Rich. Doubly diuorc'd? (bad men) ye violate
2334A two-fold Marriage; 'twixt my Crowne, and me,
2335And then betwixt me, and my marryed Wife.
2336Let me vn-kisse the Oath 'twixt thee, and me;
2338Part vs, Northumberland: I, towards the North,
2340My Queene to France: from whence, set forth in pompe,
2341She came adorned hither like sweet May;
2344Rich. I, hand from hand (my Loue) and heart frō heart.
2347Qu. Then whither he goes, thither let me goe.
2348Rich. So two together weeping, make one Woe.
2349Weepe thou for me in France; I, for thee heere:
2351Goe, count thy Way with Sighes; I, mine with Groanes.
2354And peece the Way out with a heauie heart.
2355Come, come, in wooing Sorrow let's be briefe,
2356Since wedding it, there is such length in Griefe:
2358Thus giue I mine, and thus take I thy heart.
2359Qu. Giue me mine owne againe: 'twere no good part,
2360To take on me to keepe, and kill thy heart.
2361So, now I haue mine owne againe, be gone,
2362That I may striue to kill it with a groane.
2363Rich. We make Woe wanton with this fond delay:
2365Scoena Secunda.
2366Enter Yorke, and his Duchesse.
2369Of our two Cousins comming into London.
2370Yorke. Where did I leaue?
2372Where rude mis-gouern'd hands, from Windowes tops,
d 3 Yorke. Then