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Well you deserve: they well deserve to have, |
That know the strong'st and surest way to get. |
Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes; |
Tears show their love, but want their remedies. |
Cousin, I am too young to be your father, |
Though you are old enough to be my heir. |
What you will have, I'll give, and willing too; |
For do we must what force will have us do. |
Set on towards London, cousin, is it so? |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Yea, my good lord. |
KING RICHARD II: |
Then I must not say no. |
QUEEN: |
What sport shall we devise here in this garden, |
To drive away the heavy thought of care? |
Lady: |
Madam, we'll play at bowls. |
QUEEN: |
'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs, |
And that my fortune rubs against the bias. |
Lady: |
Madam, we'll dance. |
QUEEN: |
My legs can keep no measure in delight, |
When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief: |
Therefore, no dancing, girl; some other sport. |
Lady: |
Madam, we'll tell tales. |
QUEEN: |
Of sorrow or of joy? |
Lady: |
Of either, madam. |
QUEEN: |
Of neither, girl: |
For of joy, being altogether wanting, |
It doth remember me the more of sorrow; |
Or if of grief, being altogether had, |
It adds more sorrow to my want of joy: |
For what I have I need not to repeat; |
And what I want it boots not to complain. |
Lady: |
Madam, I'll sing. |
QUEEN: |
'Tis well that thou hast cause |
But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep. |
Lady: |
I could weep, madam, would it do you good. |
QUEEN: |
And I could sing, would weeping do me good, |
And never borrow any tear of thee. |
But stay, here come the gardeners: |
Let's step into the shadow of these trees. |
My wretchedness unto a row of pins, |
They'll talk of state; for every one doth so |
Against a change; woe is forerun with woe. |
Gardener: |
Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks, |
Which, like unruly children, make their sire |
Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight: |
Give some supportance to the bending twigs. |
Go thou, and like an executioner, |
Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, |
That look too lofty in our commonwealth: |
All must be even in our government. |
You thus employ'd, I will go root away |
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck |
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. |
Servant: |
Why should we in the compass of a pale |
Keep law and form and due proportion, |
Showing, as in a model, our firm estate, |
When our sea-walled garden, the whole land, |
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up, |
Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd, |
Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs |
Swarming with caterpillars? |
Gardener: |
Hold thy peace: |
He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring |
Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf: |
The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter, |
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