17571759Two kinsmen digd their graues with weeping eies:

17581760Would not this ill do well? well well I see,

17591761I talke but idlely, and you laugh at me.

17601762Most mightie Prince my Lord Northumberland,

17611763What saies king Bullingbroke, will his maiestie

17621764Giue Richard leaue to liue till Richard dye,

17631765You make a leg and Bullingbroke saies I.

17641766North. My Lord, in the base court he doth attend,

17651767To speake with you, may it please you to come downe.

17661768King. Downe, downe I come, like glistring Phaeton:

17671769Wanting the manage of vnrulie Iades.

17681770In the base court, base court where Kinges growe base,

17691771To come at traitors calls, and do them grace,

17701772In the base court come downe: downe court, downe King,

17711773For night owles shreeke where mounting larkes should sing.

17721774Bull. What saies his maiestie?

17731775North. Sorrowe and greife of hart,

17741776Makes him speake fondly like a frantike man,

17751777Yet he is come.

17761778Bull. Stand all apart,

17771779And shew faire dutie to his Maiestie: ( he kneeles downe.

17781780My gratious Lord.

17791781King. faire coosen, you debase your princely knee,

17811782To make the base earth proud with kissing it:

17821783Me rather had my hart might feele your loue,

17831784Then my vnpleased eie see your curtesie:

17841785Vp coosen vp, your hart is vp I knowe,

17851786Thus high at least, although your knee be lowe.

17861787Bull. My gratious Lord, I come but for mine owne.

17881788King. Your owne is yours, and I am yours and all.

17901789Bull. So farre be mine my most redoubted Lord,

17911790As my true seruice shall deserue your loue.

17921791King. Well you deserue: they well deserue to haue,

17941792That know the strong'st and surest way to get,

17951793Vncle giue me your handes, nay drie your eies,

17961794Teares shew their loue, but want their remedies.

17971795Coosen I am to yong to be your Father,