Bast. The Dauphin is preparing hitherward: Where, heaven he knows, how we shall answer him: For, in a night, the best part of my power, [The King dies. Sal. You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear. My liege! my lord!-But now a king,-now thus. P. Hen. Even so must I run on, and even so stop. What surety of the world, what hope, what stay, When this was now a king, and now is clay! Bast. Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind, To do the office for thee of revenge; And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven, Where be your powers? Show now your mended faiths: And instantly return with me again, To push destruction and perpetual shame Sal. It seems, you know not then so much as we; The cardinal Pandulph is within at rest, Sal. Nay, it is in a manner done already; With whom yourself, myself, and other lords, Bast. Let it be so:-And you, my noble prince, VOL. IV. With other princes that may best be spared, P. Hen. At Worcester must his body be interr'd; For so he will'd it. Bast. Sal. And the like tender of our love we make To rest without a spot for evermore. P. Hen. I have a kind soul, that would give you thanks, And knows not how to do it, but with tears. But when it first did help to wound itself. us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeunt. PERSONS REPRESENTED. KING RICHARD THE SECOND. EDMUND of Langley, Duke of York, Uncles to Duke of Aumerle, Son to the Duke of York. Duke of Surrey. Earl of Salisbury. Earl Berkley. BAGOT, Creatures to King Richard. Earl of Northumberland. HENRY PERCY, his Son. Lord Ross. Lord Willoughby. Lord Fitzwater. SIR PIERCE of Exton. SIR STEPHEN SCROOP. Queen to King Richard. Duchess of York. Lady attending on the Queen. Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, two Gardeners, Keeper, Messenger, Groom, and other Attendants. SCENE-dispersedly in England and Wales. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD II. ACT I. SCENE I. London. A Room in the Palace. Enter KING RICHARD, attended: JOHN of GAUNT, and other Nobles with him. K. Rich. OLD John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster, Hast thou, according to thy oath and band, Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son; Here to make good the boisterous late appeal, Which then our leisure would not let us hear, Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray? Gaunt. I have, my liege. K. Rich. Tell me moreover, hast thou sounded him, If he appeal the duke on ancient malice; On some known ground of treachery in him? Gaunt. As near as I could sift him on that argument, On some apparent danger seen in him, to face, And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear Re-enter Attendants, with BOLINGBROKE and $ Boling. Many years of happy days befall My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege! |