The unstooping firmness of my upright soul: He is our subject, Mowbray, so art thou: Free speech and fearless I to thee allow.] Nor. Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart, Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest. Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais I slew him not; but to my own disgrace 4 130 + Exactly, i.e. precisely; without omitting any detail. 140 [The which no balm can cure but his heart-} blood Which breath'd this poison. K. Rich. Rage must be withstood:Give me his gage:-lions make leopards tame. Nor. Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame, And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,], 5 When, here used as an expression of impatience. 180 The purest treasure mortal times afford K. Rich. Cousin, throw down your gage; do you begin. Boling. O, God defend my soul from such foul sin! Shall I seem crest-fall'n in my father's sight? Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height Before this out-dar'd dastard? Ere my tongue Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong, 191 Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear The slavish motive1 of recanting fear, And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace, Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face. [Exit Gaunt. K. Rich. We were not born to sue, but to command; 29 Yet art thou slain in him: thou dost consent The best way is-to venge my Gloster's death. Gaunt, God's is the quarrel; for God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight, Hath caus'd his death: the which if wrongfully, 7 Model, image. |