Unless you please to enter in the castle, Boling. An offer, uncle, that we will accept. Which I have sworn to weed, and pluck away. York. It may be, I will go with you :-but yet I'll pause; For I am loath to break our country's laws. Nor friends, nor foes, to me welcome you are; Things past redress, are now with me past care. SCENE IV.1 A Camp in Wales. Enter SALISBURY, and a Captain. [Exeunt. Cap. My lord of Salisbury, we have staid ten days, And hardly kept our countrymen together, And yet we hear no tidings from the king; Sal. Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman. The king reposeth all his confidence In thee. Cap. 'Tis thought the king is dead: we will not stay. The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven; The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change; Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap,The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other, to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.— Farewell; our countrymen are gone and fled, As well assured, Richard their king is dead. [Exit. 1 Johnson thought this scene had been, by some accident, transposed, and that it should stand as the second scene in the third act. Sal. Ah, Richard! with the eyes of heavy mind, [Exit. ACT III. SCENE I. Bolingbroke's Camp at Bristol. Enter BOLINGBROKE, York, NORTHUMBERLAND, PERCY, WILLOUGHBY, Ross. Officers behind, with BUSHY and GREEN, prisoners. Boling. Bring forth these men. Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls 1 And stained the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks 1 i. e. quite, completely. 2 There seems to be no authority for this. Isabel, Richard's second queen, was but nine years old at this period; his first queen, Anne, died in 1392, and he was very fond of her. Near to the king in blood, and near in love, 2 This, and much more, much more than twice all this, Condemns you to the death.-See them delivered over To execution and the hand of death. Bushy. More welcome is the stroke of death to me, Than Bolingbroke to England.-Lords, farewell. Green. My comfort is,—that Heaven will take our souls, And plague injustice with the pains of hell. Boling. My lord Northumberland, see them despatched. [Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND, and others, Uncle, you say, the queen is at your house; York. A gentleman of mine I have despatched Boling. Thanks, gentle uncle.-Come, lords, away, To fight with Glendower and his complices; Awhile to work, and, after, holiday. [Exeunt.3 1 To dispark signifies to divest a park of its name and character, by destroying the inclosures, and the vert (or whatever bears green leaves, whether wood or underwood), and the beasts of the chase therein; laying it open. 2 The impress was a device, or motto. 3 Johnson says, "here may be properly inserted the last scene of the second act." SCENE II. The Coast of Wales. A Castle in view. Flourish: drums and trumpets. Enter KING RICHARD, Bishop of Carlisle, AUMERLE, and Soldiers. K. Rich. Barkloughly castle call you1this at hand ? Aum. Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air, After your late tossing on the breaking seas? K. Rich. Needs must I like it well; I weep for joy, To stand upon my kingdom once again. Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand, Plays fondly with her tears, and smiles, in meeting, Bishop. Fear not, my lord; that Power, that made you king, Hath power to keep you king, in spite of all. 1 The quarto of 1597 reads they. And we will not, Heaven's offer we refuse; Aum. He means, my lord, that we are too remiss; Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security, Grows strong and great, in substance, and in friends. K. Rich. Discomfortable cousin! know'st thou not, The cloak of night being plucked from off their backs, For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed, A glorious angel: then, if angels fight, Weak men must fall; for Heaven still guards the right. Enter SALISBURY. Welcome, my lord. How far off lies your power? farther off, my gracious lord, Discomfort guides my tongue, 1 The old copies read "that lights," &c. The alteration was made by Johnson. |