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That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends? |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
I have too few to take my leave of you, |
When the tongue's office should be prodigal |
To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart. |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
Thy grief is but thy absence for a time. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Joy absent, grief is present for that time. |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
What is six winters? they are quickly gone. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten. |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
My heart will sigh when I miscall it so, |
Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage. |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
The sullen passage of thy weary steps |
Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set |
The precious jewel of thy home return. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make |
Will but remember me what a deal of world |
I wander from the jewels that I love. |
Must I not serve a long apprenticehood |
To foreign passages, and in the end, |
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else |
But that I was a journeyman to grief? |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
All places that the eye of heaven visits |
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. |
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; |
There is no virtue like necessity. |
Think not the king did banish thee, |
But thou the king. Woe doth the heavier sit, |
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. |
Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour |
And not the king exiled thee; or suppose |
Devouring pestilence hangs in our air |
And thou art flying to a fresher clime: |
Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it |
To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou comest: |
Suppose the singing birds musicians, |
The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd, |
The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more |
Than a delightful measure or a dance; |
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite |
The man that mocks at it and sets it light. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
O, who can hold a fire in his hand |
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? |
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite |
By bare imagination of a feast? |
Or wallow naked in December snow |
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? |
O, no! the apprehension of the good |
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse: |
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more |
Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore. |
JOHN OF GAUNT: |
Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way: |
Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu; |
My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet! |
Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, |
Though banish'd, yet a trueborn Englishman. |
KING RICHARD II: |
We did observe. Cousin Aumerle, |
How far brought you high Hereford on his way? |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
I brought high Hereford, if you call him so, |
But to the next highway, and there I left him. |
KING RICHARD II: |
And say, what store of parting tears were shed? |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Faith, none for me; except the north-east wind, |
Which then blew bitterly against our faces, |
Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance |
Did grace our hollow parting with a tear. |
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