SCENE I.-London. A Room in the Palace. Enter KING RICHARD, attended: JOHN OF GAUNT, and other Nobles, with him.
K. Rich. Old John of Gaunt, time-honor'd
Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,1
Brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son;
Here to make good the boisterous late appeal,
Which then our leisure would not let us hear,
Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?
Gaunt. I have, my liege.
Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object
Against the duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray!
Boling. First, (heaven be the record to my speech!;
In the devotion of a subject's love,
Lan-Tendering the precious safety of my prince,
And free from other misbegotten hate,
Come I appellant to this princely presence.-
Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee,
And mark my greeting well; for what I speak,
My body shall make good upon this earth,
Or my divine soul answer it in heaven.
Thou art a traitor, and a miscreant;
Too good to be so, and too bad to live:
Since, the more fair and crystal is the sky.
The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.
Once more, the more to aggravate the note,
With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat;
And wish, (so please my sovereign.) ere I move,
What my tongue speaks, my right-drawn sword may
prove.
K. Rich. Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded
him,
If he appeal the duke on ancient malice;
Or worthily as a good subject should,
On some known ground of treachery in him?
Gaunt. As near as I could sift him on that argu-
ment,-
On some apparent danger seen in him,
Aim'd at your highness; no inveterate malice.
K. Rich. Then call them to our presence; face
to face,
And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear
The accuser, and the accused, freely speak:
[Exeunt some Attendants.
High-stomach'd are they both, and full of ire,
In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.
Re-enter Attendants, with BOLINGBROKE and
NORFOLK.
Boling. May many years of happy days befall
My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege!
Nor. Each day still better other's happiness;
Until the heavens, envying earth's good hap,
Add an immortal title to your crown!
K. Rich. We thank you both: yet one but flat
As well appeareth by the cause you come;
Namely, to appeal each other of high treason.
Nor. Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal
Tis not the trial of a woman's war,
The bitter clamor of two eager tongues,
Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain:
The blood is hot, that must be cool'd for this,
Yet can I not of such tame patience boast,
As to be hush'd, and nought at all to say:
First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me
From giving reins and spurs to my free speech:
Which else would post, until it had return'd
These terms of treason doubled down his throat.
Setting aside his high blood's royalty,
And let him be no kinsman to my liege,
I do defy him, and I spit at him;
Call him-a slanderous coward, and a villain
Which to maintain, I would allow him odds,
And meet him, were I tied to run a-foot
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,
Or any other ground inhabitable,
Wherever Englishman durst set his icoL
2Uninhabitable
Mean time, let this defend my loyalty,--
By all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie.
Boling. Pale trembling coward, there I throw
Disclaiming here the kindred of a king;
And lay aside my high blood's royalty,
Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except:
If guilty dread hath left thee so much strength,
As to take up mine honor's pawn, then stoop;
By that, and all the rights of knighthood else,
Will I make good against thee, arm to arm,
What I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise.
Nor. I take it up; and, by that sword I swear,
Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,
Pl answer thee in any fair degree,
Or chivalrous design of knightly trial:
And, when I mount, alive may I not light,
it be traitor, or unjustly fight!
K. Rich. What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge!
It must be great, that can inherit us
So much as of a thought of ill in him.
Boling. Look, what I speak my life shall prove
That Mowbray hath receiv'd eight thousand nobles,
In tame of lendings for your highness' soldiers;
The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments,
Like a filse traitor, and injurious villain.
Besides I say, and will in battle prove,-
there, or elswhere, to the furthest verge
That ever was survey'd by English eye,-
That all the treasons, for these eighteen years
Complotted and contrived in this land,
Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
Further I say, and further will maintain
Ton his bad life, to make all this good,-
That he did plot the duke of Gloster's death;
Suggest his soon-believing adversaries;
And, consequently, like a traitor coward,
Miced out his innocent soul through streams
Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries,
Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,
To me, for justice, and rough chastisement;
And, by the glorious worth of my descent,
Tuis arm shall do it, or this life be spent.
K. Rich. How high a pitch his resolution soars!
Thomas of Norfolk, what say'st thou to this?
Nr. 0, let my sovereign turn away his face,
And bid his ears a little while be deaf,
Till I have told this slander of his blood,
How God, and good men, hate so foul a liar.
In haste whereof, most heartily I pray Your highness to assign our trial day.
K. Rich. Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be rul'd by me;
Let's purge this cnoler without letting blood:
This we prescribe, though no physician;
Deep malice makes too deep incision:
Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed;
Our doctors say, this is no time to bleed.-
Good uncle, let this end where it begun;
We'll calm the duke of Norfolk, you your son.
Gaunt. To be a make-peace shall become my age.
Throw down, my son, the duke of Norfolk's gage.
K. Rich. And, Norfolk, throw down his.
Gaunt.
When, Harry? when
Obedience bids, I should not bid again.
K. Rich. Norfolk, throw down; we bid; there is xo boot.
Nor. Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot: My life thou shalt command, but not my shame The one my duty owes; but my fair name, (Despite of death, that lives upon my grave,) To dark dishonor's use thou shalt not have.
I am disgraced, impeach'd, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear; The which no balm can cure, but his heart-blood Which breath'd this poison.
Rage must be withstood; Give me kis gage:-Lions make leopards tame. Nor. Yea but not change their spots: take but
And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,
The purest treasure mortal times aflord,
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
Is-spotless reputation; that away,
A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest
Is-a bold spirit in a loyal breast;
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done: of Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try;
K. Rich. Mowbray, impartial are our eyes, and
Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir,
As he is but my father's brother's son,)
Now by my sceptre's awe I make a vow,
Such neighbor nearness to our sacred blood
Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize
The unstooping firmness of my upright soul;
He is our subject, Mowbray, so art thou;
Free speech, and fearless, I do thee allow.
Nr. Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart,
Torough the false passage of thy throat, thou liest,
Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais,
Disburs'd I duly to his highness' soldiers:
The other part reserv'd I by consent;
fer that my sovereign liege was in my debt,
on remainder of a dear account, Nace last I went to France to fetch his Now swallow down that lie.-For Gloster's death,
Islew him not; but to my own disgrace,
Neglected my sworn duty in that case.--
For you, my noble lord of Lancaster,
The honorable father to my foe,
nce did I lay in ambush for your life,
A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul:
Pat, ere I last receiv'd the sacrament,
dd confess it; and exactly begg'd
Your grace's pardon, and, I hope, I had it.
my
fault: As for the rest appeal'd,
It issues from the rancor of a villain,
A recreant and most degenerate traitor:
Which in myself I boldly will defend;
And interchangeably hurl down my gage
pon this overweening traitor's foot,
To prove myself a loyal gentleman
Even in the best blood cham.ber'd in his bosom:
In that I live, and for that will I die.
K. Rich. Cousin, throw down your gage; do you
K. Rich. We were not born to sue, but to command:
Which since we cannot do to make you friends,
Be ready as your lives shall answer it,
At Coventry, upon saint Lambert's day;
There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
The swelling difference of your settled hate;
Since we cannot atone1 you, we shall see
Justice design the victor's chivalry.-
Marshal, command our officers at arms
Be ready to direct these home-alarms.
SCENE 11.-The same. A Room in the Duke of
Lancaster's Palace.
Enter GAUNT and DUCHESS OF GLOSTER. Gaunt. Alas! the part I had in Gloster's bloo To stir against the butchers of his life. Doth more solicit me, than your exclaims, But since correction lieth in those hands, Which made the fault that we cannot correct, Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven; Who, when he sees the hours ripe on earth, Will rain hot vengeance on offende s' heads.
Duch. Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? Hath love in thy old blood no living fire? Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one, Were as seven phials of his sacred blood, Or seven fair branches springing from one root: Some of those seven are dried by nature's course, Some of those branches by the destinies cut: But, Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloster.-One phial full of Edward's sacred blood, One flourishing branch of his most royal root,— Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt;
Is hack'd down, and his summer leaves all faded, By envy's hand, and murder's bloody axe.
Ah, Gaunt! his blood was thine; that bed, that womb,
That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee, Made him a man; and though thou liv'st, and breath'st,
Yet art thou slain in him: thou dost consent
In some large measure to thy father's death,
In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,
Who was the model of thy father's life.
Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is despair:
In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd,
Thou show'st the naked pathway to thy life,
Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee:
That which in mean men we entitle-patience,
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
What shall I say? to safeguard thine own life,
The best way is-to 'venge my Gloster's death.
Gaunt. Heaven's is the quarrel; for heaven's
substitute,
His deputy anointed in his sight,
Hath caus'd his death: the which, if wrongfully,
Let heaven revenge; for I may never lift
An angry arm against his minister.
Duch. Where then, alas! may I complain myself?
Gaunt. To heaven, the widow's champion and
Duch. Why then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt. Thou go'st to Coventry, there to behold Our cousin Hereford and tell Mowbray fight: O, sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear, That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast! Or, if misfortune miss the first career, Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom, That they may break his foaming courser's back, And throw the rider headlong in the lists, A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford! Farewell, old Gaunt; thy sometime brother's wife, With her companion grief must end her life.
Gaunt. Sister, farewell: I must to Coventry:
As much good stay with thee, as go with me!
Duch. Yet one word more;-Grief boundeth
where it falls,
Not with the empty hollowness, but weight:
I take my leave before I have begun;
For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
Commend me to my brother, Edmund York.
Lo, this is all:-Nay, yet depart not so:
Though this be all, do not so quickly go;
I shall remember more. Bid him-0, what?-
With all good speed at Plashy visit me.
Alack, and what shall good old York there see,
But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls,
Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones!
And what cheer there for welcome, but my groans?
Therefore commend me; let him not come there,
To seek out sorrow that dwells every where:
Desolate, desolate, will I hence, and die;
The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye.
[Exeunt. SCENE III.-Gosford Green, near Coventry. Lists set out, and a Throne. Heralds, &c., attending.
Enter the Lord Marshal and AUMERLE. Mar. My lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd? Aum. Yea, at all points: and longs to enter in. Mar. The duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold, Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet. Aum. Why, then the champions are prepared and stay
For nothing but his majesty's approach. Flourish of Trumpets. Enter KING RICHARD, who takes his seat on his throne; GAUNT, and several Noblemen, who take their places. A trumpet is sounded, and answered by another trumpet within. Then enter NORFOLK, in armor, preceded by a Herald.
K. Rich. Marshal, demand of yonder champion The cause of his arrival here in arms: Ask him his name; and orderly proceed To swear him in the justice of his cause.
Mar. In God's name, and the king's, say who thou art,
And why thou com'st, thus knightly clad in arms: Against what man thou com'st, and what thy quarrel:
Speak truly, on thy knighthood, and thy oath;
And so defend thee heaven, and thy valor!
Nor. My name is Thomas Mowbray, duke of
Norfolk;
Who hither come engaged by my oath.
(Which, heaven defend, a knight shoula violate!)
Both to defend my loyalty and truth,
To God, my king, and my succeeding issue,
Against the duke of Hereford that appeals me:
And, by the grace of God, and this mine arm,
To prove him, in defending of myself,
A traitor to my God, my king, and me:
And, as I truly fight, defend me heaven!
Trumpet sounds. Enter BOLINGBROKE, in armer, preceded by a Herald.
K. Rich. Marshal, ask yonder knight in a me
Both who he is, and why he cometh hither
Thus plated in habiliments of war;
And formally according to our law
Depose him in the justice of his cause.
Mar. What is thy name? and wherefore em'st thou hither,
Before king Richard, in his royal lists? Against whom comest thou? and what's thy quarrel?
Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven!
Boling. Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby, Am I; who ready here do stand in arms, To prove, by heaven's grace, and my body's valor, In lists, on Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk. That he's a traitor, foul and dangerous, To God of heaven, king Richard, and to me: And, as I truly fight, defend me heaven!
Mar. On pain of death, no person be so bold
Or daring-hardy, as to touch the lists;
Except the marshal, and such officers
Appointed to direct these fair designs.
Boting. Lord Marshal, let me kiss my sovereign's
hand,
And bow my knee before his majesty:
For Mowbray, and myself, are like two men
That vow a long and weary pilgrimage;
Then let us take a ceremonious leave,
And loving farewell of our several friends.
Mar. The appellant in all duty greets your high
And craves to kiss your hand, and take his leave. K. Rich. We will descend, and told him in our
Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right,
So be thy fortune in this royal fight!
Farewell, my blood; which if to-day thou shed,
Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.
Boling. O, let no noble eye profane a tear
For me, if I be gored with Mowbray's spear;
As confident, as is the falcon's flight
Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.——————
My loving lord, [To Lord Marshal.] I take my
leave of you;-
Of you, my noble cousin, lord Aumerle;-
Not sick, although I have to do with death;
But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.—
Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet
The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet:
O thou, the earthly author of my blood,-
Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,
Doth with a two-fold vigor lift me up
To reach at victory above my head,-
Add proof unto mine armor with thy prayers;
And with thy blessing steel my lance's point,
That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat,
And furbish new the name of John of Gaunt,
Even in the lusty 'havior of his son.
Gaunt. Heaven in thy good cause make toe Be swift like lightning in the execution: prosperous! And let thy blows, doubly redoubled, Fall like amazing thunder on the casque Of thy adverse, pernicious enemy: Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live. Boling. Mine innocency, and saint George to thrive! [He takes his su Nor. [Rising.] However heaven, or fortune, cas. my lot,
There lives or dies, true to king Richard's throne,
A loyal, just, and upright gentleman:
Never did captive with a freer heart
Cast off his chains of bondage, and embrace
His golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement,
More than my dancing soul doth celebrate
This feast of battle with mine adversary.-
Most mighty liege,-and my companion peers,—
Take from my mouth the wish of happy years:
As gentle and as jocund, as to jest,
Go I to fight; Truth hath a quiet breast.
K. Rich. Farewell, my lord: securely I espy
Virtue with valor couched in thine eye.-
Order the trial, marshal, and begin.
[The KING and the Lords return to their seats. Mr. Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby, Receive thy lance; and God defend the right! Boling. Rising.] Strong as a tower in hope, I cry-amen.
Mar. Go bear this lance, [To an Officer.] to Thomas duke of Norfolk.
1 Her. Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby, Stands here for God, his sovereign, and himself, On pain to be found false and recreant,
To prove the duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,
A traitor to his God, his king, and him,
And dares him to set forward to the fight.
* Her. Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk,
On pain to be found false and recreant,
Both to defend himself, and to approve
Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,
To God, his sovereign, and to him, disloyal;
Courageously, and with a free desire,
Attending but the signal to begin.
Mer. Sound trumpets; and set forward, com-
batants.
[A charge sounded.
Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
K. Rich. Let them lay by their helmets and their
And both return back to their chairs again:-
Withdraw with us:-and let the trumpets sound,
While we return these dukes what we decree.-
[A long flourish.
Draw near,
[To the combatants.
And list, what with our council we have done.
For that our kingdom's earth should not be soil'd
With that dear blood which it hath fostered;
And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
fevil wounds plough'd up with neighbors' swords;
And for we think the eagle-winged pride
ky-aspining and ambitious thoughts
With rival-hating envy, set you on
To wake our peace, which in our country's cradle
Fats the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep;]
Which so rous'd up, with boisterous untuned drums,
With harsh resounding trumpets' dreadful bray,
And grating shock of wrathful iron arms,
Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace,
And make us wade even in our kindred's blood;-
Therefore we banish you our territories:-
You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of death,
Till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields,
shall not regreet our fair dominions,
But tread the stranger paths of banishment.
Boling. Your will be done: This must my com-
That sun that warms you here, shall shine on me;
And those his golden beams, to you here lent,
Scal point on me, and gild my banishment.
K. kich. Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,
Which I with some unwillingness pronounce:
The fly-slow hours shall not determinate
The diteless limit of thy dear exile;—
The hopeless word of -never to return,
breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.
Nor. A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, And all unlook'd for from your highness' mouth: A dearer merit, not so deep a maim As to be cast forth in the common air, Have I deserved at your highness' hand.
The language I have learn'd these forty years, My native English, now must I forego, And now my tongue's use is to me no more, Than an unstringed viol or a harp; fit, like a cunning instrument cased up, r. being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony. Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue, wubly portcullis'd, with my teeth, and lips; Arad dull. unfeeling, barren ignorance
Is made my gaoler to attend on me.
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
Too far in years to be a pupil now;
What is thy sentence, then, but speechless death,
Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath
K. Rich. It boots thee not to be compassionate;
After our sentence, plaining comes too late.
Nor. Then thus I turn me from my country's light,
To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.
K. Rich. Return again, and take an oath with thee Lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands; Swear by the duty that you owe to heaven, (Our part therein we banish with yourselves,) To keep the oath that we administer:You never shall, (so help you truth and heaven!) Embrace each other's love in banishment; Nor never look upon each other's face; Nor never write, regrect, nor reconcile This lowering tempest of your home-bred hate; Nor never by advised purpose meet, To plot, contrive, or complot any ill, 'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land. Boling. I swear.
Nor. And I, to keep all this.
Boling. Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy;-
By this time, had the king permitted us,
One of our souls had wander'd in the air,
Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh,"
As now our flesh is banish'd from this land:
Confess thy treasons, ere thou fly the realm:
Since thou hast far to go, bear not along
The clogging burden of a guilty soul.
Nor. No, Bolingbroke; if ever I were traitor,
My name be blotted from the book of life,
And I from heaven banish'd as from hence!
But what thou art, heaven, thou, and I do know;
And all too soon, I fear the king shall rue.-
Farewell, my liege:-Now no way can I stray;
Save back to England, all the world's my way. [Exit.
K. Rich. Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes
I see thy grieved heart; thy sad aspect
Hath from the number of his banish'd years
Pluck'd four away:-Six frozen winters spent,
Return [To BOLING.] with welcome home from
banishment.
Boling. How long a time lies in one little word! Four lagging winters, and four wanton springs, End in a word; such is the breath of kings.
Gaunt. I thank my liege, that in regard of me, He shortens four years of my son's exile: But little vantage shall I reap thereby; For, ere the six years that he hath to spend, Can change their moons, and bring their times about, My oil-dried lamp, and time-bewasted light, Shall be extinct with age and endless night; My inch of taper will be burnt and done, And blindfold death not let me see my son. K. Rich. Why, uncle thou hast many years to live. Gaunt. But not a minute, king, that thou canst
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow:
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
Thy word is current with him for my death;
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;
But, dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.
K. Rich. Thy son is banish'd upon good advice;
Whereto thy tongue a party verdict gave;8
Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lower?
Gaunt. Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion.
You urged me as a judge; but I had rather,
You would have bid me argue like a father:-
O, had it been a stranger, not my child,
To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:
A partial slander sought I to avoid,
And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.
Alas, I look'd, when some of you should say,
I was too strict to make mine own away;
But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue,
Against my will to do myself this wrong.
K. Rich. Cousin, farewell:-and, uncle bid him so,
Six years, we banish him, and he shall go.
[Flourish. Exeunt K. RICHARD and Train. Aum. Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know,
From where you do remain let paper show.
Mar. My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride, As far as land will let me, by your side.
Gaunt. O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,
That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?
Boling. I have too few to take my leave of you,
When the tongue's office should be prodigal
To breathe the abundant dolor of the heart.
Gaunt. Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.
Boling, Joy absent, grief is present for that time.
Gaunt. What is six winters? they are quickly gone.
Boling. To men in joy: but grief makes one hour
Gaunt. Call ita travel that thou tak'st for pleasure. Boling. My heart will sigh when I miscall it so, Which finds it an enforced pilgrimage.
Gaunt. The sullen passage of thy weary steps Esteem a foil, wherein thou art to set The precious jewel of thy home-return.
Boling. Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make Will but remember me what a deal of world
I wander from the jewels that I love.
Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
To foreign passages, and in the end,
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else,
But that I was a journeyman to grief?
Gaunt. All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:
Teach thy necessity to reason thus;
There is no virtue like necessity.
Think not, the king did banish thee;
But thou, the king: Woe doth the heavier sit,
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
Go, say-I sent thee forth to purchase honor,
And not-the king exiled thee: or suppose,
Devouring pestilence hangs in our air,
And thou art flying to a fresher clime,
Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou com'st:
Suppose the singing birds, musicians;
The grass whereon thou tread'st, the presence1 strew'd;
The flowers, fair ladies; and thy steps no more
Than a delightful measure or a dance:
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it, and sets it light.
Boling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand,
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
By bare imagination of a feast!
Or wallow naked in December snow,
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
O, no, the apprehension of the good,
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more,
Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Gaunt. Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on
Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay. Boling. Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu!
My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet!
Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,-
Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishman.
[Exeunt. SCENE IV.-The same. A Room in the King's Castle.
Aum. I brought high Hereford, if you call hum
But to the next high way, and there I let him. K. Rich. And, say, what store of parting tears were shed?
Aum. 'Faith, none by me: except the north-east wind,
Which then blew bitterly against our faces, Awaked the sleeping rheum; and so, by chance, Did grace our hollow parting with a tear.
K. Rich. What said our cousin, when you parted with him?
And, for my heart disdained that my tongue
Should so profane the word, that taught me craft
To counterfeit oppression of such grief,
That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave.
Marry, would the word farewell have lengthen d
hours,
And added years to his short banishment,
He should have had a volume of farewells;
But since it would not, he had none of me.
K. Rich. He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis doubt,
When time shall call him home from banishment,
Whether our kinsman come to see his friends.
Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green,
Observ'd his courtship to the common people:-
How he did seem to dive into their hearts,
With humble and familiar courtesy;
What reverence he did throw away on slaves;
Wooing poor craftsmen, with the craft of smiles,
And patient underbearing of his fortune,
As 'twere to banish their affects with him.
Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;
A brace of draymen bid-God speed him well,
And had the tribute of his supple knee,
With-Thanks, my countrymen, my being friends;
As were our England in reversion his,
And he our subjects' next degree in hope.
Green. Well, he is gone; and with him go these
Now for the rebels, which stand out in Ireland;-
Expedient manage must be made, my lieze;
Ere further leisure yield them further means,
For their advantage, and your highness' loss.
K. Rich. We will ourself in person to this war.
And, for our coffers-with too great a court,
And liberal largess-are grown somewhat light,
We are enforced to farm our royal realm;
The revenue whereof shali furnish us
For our affairs in hand: If that come short,
Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters;
Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich,
They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold,
And send them after to supply our wants;
For we will make for Ireland presently.
K. Rich. Now put it, heaven, in his physician's mind,
To help him to his grave immediately!
The lining of his coffers shall make coats
Enter KING RICHARD, BAGOT, and GREEN; AUMERLE To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars.—
K. Rich. We did observe.-Cousin Aumerle, How far brought you high Hereford on his way?
Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him: Pray heaven, we may make haste, and come tog late! [Exeunt
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