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Of double-fatal yew against thy state; |
Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills |
Against thy seat: both young and old rebel, |
And all goes worse than I have power to tell. |
KING RICHARD II: |
Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill. |
Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? where is Bagot? |
What is become of Bushy? where is Green? |
That they have let the dangerous enemy |
Measure our confines with such peaceful steps? |
If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it: |
I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke. |
SIR STEPHEN SCROOP: |
Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord. |
KING RICHARD II: |
O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption! |
Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man! |
Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart! |
Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas! |
Would they make peace? terrible hell make war |
Upon their spotted souls for this offence! |
SIR STEPHEN SCROOP: |
Sweet love, I see, changing his property, |
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate: |
Again uncurse their souls; their peace is made |
With heads, and not with hands; those whom you curse |
Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound |
And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Is Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead? |
SIR STEPHEN SCROOP: |
Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Where is the duke my father with his power? |
KING RICHARD II: |
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: |
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; |
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes |
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, |
Let's choose executors and talk of wills: |
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath |
Save our deposed bodies to the ground? |
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's, |
And nothing can we call our own but death |
And that small model of the barren earth |
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. |
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground |
And tell sad stories of the death of kings; |
How some have been deposed; some slain in war, |
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; |
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd; |
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown |
That rounds the mortal temples of a king |
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, |
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, |
Allowing him a breath, a little scene, |
To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, |
Infusing him with self and vain conceit, |
As if this flesh which walls about our life, |
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus |
Comes at the last and with a little pin |
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king! |
Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood |
With solemn reverence: throw away respect, |
Tradition, form and ceremonious duty, |
For you have but mistook me all this while: |
I live with bread like you, feel want, |
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, |
How can you say to me, I am a king? |
BISHOP OF CARLISLE: |
My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, |
But presently prevent the ways to wail. |
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, |
Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe, |
And so your follies fight against yourself. |
Fear and be slain; no worse can come to fight: |
And fight and die is death destroying death; |
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
My father hath a power; inquire of him |
And learn to make a body of a limb. |
KING RICHARD II: |
Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come |
To change blows with thee for our day of doom. |
This ague fit of fear is over-blown; |
An easy task it is to win our own. |
Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power? |
Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour. |
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