When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ,' and that's-myself. Re-enter Attendant, with a Glass. Give me that glass, and therein will I read.- And made no deeper wounds ?-O, flattering glass, Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face, Did keep ten thousand men? Was this the face, As brittle as the glory is the face; [Dashes the glass against the ground. For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face. Boling. The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd The shadow of your face. K. Rich. Say that again. The shadow of my sorrow? Ha! let's see:'Tis very true, my grief lies all within; And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, Boling. Name it, fair cousin. K.Rich. Fair cousin? Why, I am greater than a king: For, when I was a king, my flatterers Were then but subjects; being now a subject, I have a king here to my flatterer. Being so great, I have no need to beg. Boling. Yet ask. [1] This phrase is from the 139th Psalm, V. 15: "-- and in thy beck were all my members written." STEEV. K. Rich. And shall I have? Boling. You shall. K. Rich. Then give me leave to go. K. Rich. Whither you will, so I were from your sights. are you all,2 That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall. [Exeunt K. RICHARD, some Lords, and a Guard.. Boling. On Wednesday next, we solemnly set down Our coronation : lords prepare yourselves. [Exeunt all but the Abbot, Bishop of Carlisle, Abbot. A woeful pageant have we here beheld. Your hearts of sorrow, and your eyes of tears; ACT V. [Exeunt. SCENE I.—London. A Street leading to the Tower. Queen and Ladies. Queen. THIS way the king will come; this is the way Enter [2] To convey is a term often used in an ill sense, and so Richard under. stands it here. Pistol says of stealing, convey, the wise it call and to convey is the word for sleight of hand, which seems to be alluded to here. "Ye are all," says the deposed prince, "jugglers, who rise with this nimble dexterity by the fall of a good king." JOHNS. .[3] This pathetic denunciation shews that Shakspeare intended to impress his auitors with a dislike of the deposal of Richard. JOHNS. [4] To conceal, to keep secret. JOHNS. [51 The tower of London is traditionally said to have been the work of Julius Caesar. JOHNS. To whose flint bosom my condemned lord Enter King RICHARD and Guards. But soft, but see, or rather do not see, And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.— K. Rich. Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France, ical: "Here rest, if any rest can harbour here." MILTON. Even the Cronykil of A. of Wyntown, on this occasion is not unpoet "The king Richard of Yngland "Wes in his flowris than Regnand : "Bot his flowris eftyr sone "Fadyt, and ware all undone." [7] Thou picture of greatness. JOHNS. B. IX. ch. xviii. v. 61, &c. STEEV. Model, it has already been observed, is used by our author, for a thing made after a pattern. He is, I believe, singular in this use of the word. MALONE. [9] Do not thou unite with grief against me; do not, by thy additional sorrows, enable grief to strike me down at once. My own part of sorrow I can bear, but thy affliction will immediately destroy me. JOHNS. [1] I have reconciled myself to necessity, I am in a state of amity with the constraint I have sustained JOHNS. The expression-sworn_brother, alludes to the fratres jurati, who in the ages of adventure bound themselves by mutual oaths, to share fortunes together. STEEV. |