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Nor never look upon each other's face; |
Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile |
This louring tempest of your home-bred hate; |
Nor never by advised purpose meet |
To plot, contrive, or complot any ill |
'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
I swear. |
THOMAS MOWBRAY: |
And I, to keep all this. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:-- |
By this time, had the king permitted us, |
One of our souls had wander'd in the air. |
Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh, |
As now our flesh is banish'd from this land: |
Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm; |
Since thou hast far to go, bear not along |
The clogging burthen of a guilty soul. |
THOMAS MOWBRAY: |
No, Bolingbroke: if ever I were traitor, |
My name be blotted from the book of life, |
And I from heaven banish'd as from hence! |
But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know; |
And all too soon, I fear, the king shall rue. |
Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray; |
Save back to England, all the world's my way. |
KING RICHARD II: |
Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes |
I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect |
Hath from the number of his banish'd years |
Pluck'd four away. |
Six frozen winter spent, |
Return with welcome home from banishment. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
How long a time lies in one little word! |
Four lagging winters and four wanton springs |
End in a word: such is the breath of kings. |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
I thank my liege, that in regard of me |
He shortens four years of my son's exile: |
But little vantage shall I reap thereby; |
For, ere the six years that he hath to spend |
Can change their moons and bring their times about |
My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light |
Shall be extinct with age and endless night; |
My inch of taper will be burnt and done, |
And blindfold death not let me see my son. |
KING RICHARD II: |
Why uncle, thou hast many years to live. |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
But not a minute, king, that thou canst give: |
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, |
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; |
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, |
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage; |
Thy word is current with him for my death, |
But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath. |
KING RICHARD II: |
Thy son is banish'd upon good advice, |
Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave: |
Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour? |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. |
You urged me as a judge; but I had rather |
You would have bid me argue like a father. |
O, had it been a stranger, not my child, |
To smooth his fault I should have been more mild: |
A partial slander sought I to avoid, |
And in the sentence my own life destroy'd. |
Alas, I look'd when some of you should say, |
I was too strict to make mine own away; |
But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue |
Against my will to do myself this wrong. |
KING RICHARD II: |
Cousin, farewell; and, uncle, bid him so: |
Six years we banish him, and he shall go. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know, |
From where you do remain let paper show. |
Lord Marshal: |
My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride, |
As far as land will let me, by your side. |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words, |
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