Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow : Thy word is current with him for my death; K. Rich. Thy son is banish'd upon good advice, sour. You urg'd 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. 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? Gaunt. Thy grief is but thy absence for a time. ten. Gaunt. Call it a 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 Boling. Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make Gaunt. All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Think not, the king did banish thee; But thou the king: Woe doth the heavier sit, 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 presence strew'd; Than a delightful measure, or a dance : Or wallow naked in December snow, Had I thy youth, and cause, I would not stay. soil, adieu; My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet! [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The Same. A Room in the King's Castle. Enter King RICHARD, BAGOT, and GREEN; K. Rich. We did observe.-Cousin Aumerle, How far brought you high Hereford on his way? Aum. I brought high Hereford, if you call him so, But to the next highway, and there I left him. K. Rich. And, say, what store of parting tears were Aum. 'Faith, none by me: except the north-east wind, Which then blew bitterly against our faces, Awak'd 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? Aum. Farewell: And, for my heart disdained that my tongue That word seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave. Marry, would the word farewell have lengthen'd hours, He should have had a volume of farewells; K. Rich. He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis doubt, What reverence he did throw away on slaves; As 'twere, to banish their affects with him. And he our subjects' next degree in hope. Green. Well, he is gone; and with him go these thoughts. Now for the rebels, which stand out in Ireland ;- K. Rich. We will ourself in person to this war, |