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A wandering vagabond; my rights and royalties |
Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away |
To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born? |
If that my cousin king be King of England, |
It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster. |
You have a son, Aumerle, my noble cousin; |
Had you first died, and he been thus trod down, |
He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father, |
To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay. |
I am denied to sue my livery here, |
And yet my letters-patents give me leave: |
My father's goods are all distrain'd and sold, |
And these and all are all amiss employ'd. |
What would you have me do? I am a subject, |
And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me; |
And therefore, personally I lay my claim |
To my inheritance of free descent. |
NORTHUMBERLAND: |
The noble duke hath been too much abused. |
LORD ROSS: |
It stands your grace upon to do him right. |
LORD WILLOUGHBY: |
Base men by his endowments are made great. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
My lords of England, let me tell you this: |
I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs |
And laboured all I could to do him right; |
But in this kind to come, in braving arms, |
Be his own carver and cut out his way, |
To find out right with wrong, it may not be; |
And you that do abet him in this kind |
Cherish rebellion and are rebels all. |
NORTHUMBERLAND: |
The noble duke hath sworn his coming is |
But for his own; and for the right of that |
We all have strongly sworn to give him aid; |
And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath! |
DUKE OF YORK: |
Well, well, I see the issue of these arms: |
I cannot mend it, I must needs confess, |
Because my power is weak and all ill left: |
But if I could, by Him that gave me life, |
I would attach you all and make you stoop |
Unto the sovereign mercy of the king; |
But since I cannot, be it known to you |
I do remain as neuter. So, fare you well; |
Unless you please to enter in the castle |
And there repose you for this night. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
An offer, uncle, that we will accept: |
But we must win your grace to go with us |
To Bristol castle, which they say is held |
By Bushy, Bagot and their complices, |
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, |
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away. |
DUKE OF 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. |
Captain: |
My lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days, |
And hardly kept our countrymen together, |
And yet we hear no tidings from the king; |
Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell. |
EARL OF SALISBURY: |
Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman: |
The king reposeth all his confidence in thee. |
Captain: |
'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. |
The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd |
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven; |
The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth |
And lean-look'd 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. |
EARL OF SALISBURY: |
Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind |
I see thy glory like a shooting star |
Fall to the base earth from the firmament. |
Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, |
Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest: |
Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes, |
And crossly to thy good all fortune goes. |
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