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Speak it in French, king; say, 'pardonne moi.' |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy? |
Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord, |
That set'st the word itself against the word! |
Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land; |
The chopping French we do not understand. |
Thine eye begins to speak; set thy tongue there; |
Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear; |
That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce, |
Pity may move thee 'pardon' to rehearse. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Good aunt, stand up. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
I do not sue to stand; |
Pardon is all the suit I have in hand. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
I pardon him, as God shall pardon me. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! |
Yet am I sick for fear: speak it again; |
Twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain, |
But makes one pardon strong. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
With all my heart |
I pardon him. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
A god on earth thou art. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
But for our trusty brother-in-law and the abbot, |
With all the rest of that consorted crew, |
Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels. |
Good uncle, help to order several powers |
To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are: |
They shall not live within this world, I swear, |
But I will have them, if I once know where. |
Uncle, farewell: and, cousin too, adieu: |
Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true. |
DUCHESS OF YORK: |
Come, my old son: I pray God make thee new. |
EXTON: |
Didst thou not mark the king, what words he spake, |
'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?' |
Was it not so? |
Servant: |
These were his very words. |
EXTON: |
'Have I no friend?' quoth he: he spake it twice, |
And urged it twice together, did he not? |
Servant: |
He did. |
EXTON: |
And speaking it, he wistly look'd on me, |
And who should say, 'I would thou wert the man' |
That would divorce this terror from my heart;' |
Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go: |
I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe. |
KING RICHARD II: |
I have been studying how I may compare |
This prison where I live unto the world: |
And for because the world is populous |
And here is not a creature but myself, |
I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out. |
My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, |
My soul the father; and these two beget |
A generation of still-breeding thoughts, |
And these same thoughts people this little world, |
In humours like the people of this world, |
For no thought is contented. The better sort, |
As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd |
With scruples and do set the word itself |
Against the word: |
As thus, 'Come, little ones,' and then again, |
'It is as hard to come as for a camel |
To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.' |
Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot |
Unlikely wonders; how these vain weak nails |
May tear a passage through the flinty ribs |
Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls, |
And, for they cannot, die in their own pride. |
Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves |
That they are not the first of fortune's slaves, |
Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars |
Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame, |
That many have and others must sit there; |
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