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DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Some honest Christian trust me with a gage |
That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this, |
If he may be repeal'd, to try his honour. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
These differences shall all rest under gage |
Till Norfolk be repeal'd: repeal'd he shall be, |
And, though mine enemy, restored again |
To all his lands and signories: when he's return'd, |
Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial. |
BISHOP OF CARLISLE: |
That honourable day shall ne'er be seen. |
Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought |
For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field, |
Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross |
Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens: |
And toil'd with works of war, retired himself |
To Italy; and there at Venice gave |
His body to that pleasant country's earth, |
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, |
Under whose colours he had fought so long. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Why, bishop, is Norfolk dead? |
BISHOP OF CARLISLE: |
As surely as I live, my lord. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom |
Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants, |
Your differences shall all rest under gage |
Till we assign you to your days of trial. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee |
From plume-pluck'd Richard; who with willing soul |
Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields |
To the possession of thy royal hand: |
Ascend his throne, descending now from him; |
And long live Henry, fourth of that name! |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne. |
BISHOP OF CARLISLE: |
Marry. God forbid! |
Worst in this royal presence may I speak, |
Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth. |
Would God that any in this noble presence |
Were enough noble to be upright judge |
Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would |
Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong. |
What subject can give sentence on his king? |
And who sits here that is not Richard's subject? |
Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear, |
Although apparent guilt be seen in them; |
And shall the figure of God's majesty, |
His captain, steward, deputy-elect, |
Anointed, crowned, planted many years, |
Be judged by subject and inferior breath, |
And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God, |
That in a Christian climate souls refined |
Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed! |
I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks, |
Stirr'd up by God, thus boldly for his king: |
My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king, |
Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king: |
And if you crown him, let me prophesy: |
The blood of English shall manure the ground, |
And future ages groan for this foul act; |
Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels, |
And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars |
Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound; |
Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny |
Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd |
The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls. |
O, if you raise this house against this house, |
It will the woefullest division prove |
That ever fell upon this cursed earth. |
Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, |
Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe! |
NORTHUMBERLAND: |
Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains, |
Of capital treason we arrest you here. |
My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge |
To keep him safely till his day of trial. |
May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Fetch hither Richard, that in common view |
He may surrender; so we shall proceed |
Without suspicion. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
I will be his conduct. |
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