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of our two cousins coming into London. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
Where did I leave? |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
At that sad stop, my lord, |
Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops |
Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke, |
Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed |
Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know, |
With slow but stately pace kept on his course, |
Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee, |
Bolingbroke!' |
You would have thought the very windows spake, |
So many greedy looks of young and old |
Through casements darted their desiring eyes |
Upon his visage, and that all the walls |
With painted imagery had said at once |
'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!' |
Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning, |
Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck, |
Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen:' |
And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst? |
DUKE OF YORK: |
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, |
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, |
Are idly bent on him that enters next, |
Thinking his prattle to be tedious; |
Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes |
Did scowl on gentle Richard; no man cried 'God save him!' |
No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home: |
But dust was thrown upon his sacred head: |
Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, |
His face still combating with tears and smiles, |
The badges of his grief and patience, |
That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd |
The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted |
And barbarism itself have pitied him. |
But heaven hath a hand in these events, |
To whose high will we bound our calm contents. |
To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now, |
Whose state and honour I for aye allow. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Here comes my son Aumerle. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
Aumerle that was; |
But that is lost for being Richard's friend, |
And, madam, you must call him Rutland now: |
I am in parliament pledge for his truth |
And lasting fealty to the new-made king. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Welcome, my son: who are the violets now |
That strew the green lap of the new come spring? |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not: |
God knows I had as lief be none as one. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
Well, bear you well in this new spring of time, |
Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime. |
What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs? |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
For aught I know, my lord, they do. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
You will be there, I know. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
If God prevent not, I purpose so. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom? |
Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writing. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
My lord, 'tis nothing. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
No matter, then, who see it; |
I will be satisfied; let me see the writing. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
I do beseech your grace to pardon me: |
It is a matter of small consequence, |
Which for some reasons I would not have seen. |
DUKE OF YORK: |
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