And prick my tender patience to those thoughts K. Rich. Think what you will; we seize into `our hands His plate, his goods, his money, and his lands. York. I'll not be by, the while: My liege, farewell: What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell; But by bad courses may be understood, That their events can never fall out good. [Exit. K. Rich. Go, Bushy, to the earl of Wiltshire straight; Bid him repair to us, to Ely-house, To see this business: To-morrow next We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow; [Flourish. [Exeunt King, Queen, Bushy, Aumerle, Green, and Bagot. North. Well, lords, the duke of Lancaster is dead. Ross. And living too; for now his son is duke. Willo. Barely in title, not in revenue. North. Richly in both, if justice had her right. Ross. My heart is great; but it must break with Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue. [silence, North. Nay, speak thy mind; and let him ne'er speak more, That speaks thy words again, to do thee harm! Willo. Tends that thou'dst speak, to the duke of [Hereford? Quick is mine ear, to hear of good towards him. Ross. No good at all, that I can do for him; If it be so, out with it boldly, man; Unless you call it good to pity him, Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. [are borne, North. Now, afore heaven, 'tis shame such wrongs In him a royal prince, and many more Merely in hate, 'gainst any of us all, That will the king severely prosecute 'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs. Ross. The commons hath he pill'd with grievous And lost their hearts: the nobles hath he fin'd, [taxes, For ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts. Willo. And daily new exactions are devis'd; As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what: But what, o'God's name, doth become of this? North. Wars have not wasted it, for warr'd he hath But basely yielded upon compromise, That which his ancestors achiev'd with blows: [not, Ross. The earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm. Willo. The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man. North. Reproach and dissolution, hangeth over him. Ross. He hath not money for these Irish wars, His burdenous taxations notwithstanding, But by the robbing of the banish'd duke. North. His noble kinsman: most degenerate king! But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm: We see the wind sit sore upon our sails, And yet we strike not, but securely perish. Ross. We see the very wreck that we must suffer; And unavoided is the danger now, For suffering so the causes of our wreck. [death, North. Not so; even through the hollow eyes of I spy life peering; but I dare not say [ours. Willo. Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost Ross. Be confident to speak, Northumberland: We three are but thyself; and, speaking so, That Harry Hereford, Reignold lord Cobham His brother, archbishop late of Canterbury, Sir Thomas Erpingham, sir John Ramston, Sir John Norbery, sir Robert Waterton, and Francis All these well furnish'd by the duke of Bretagne, Ross. To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear. Willo. Hold out my horse, and I will first be there. [Exeunt. SCENE II. The same. A Room in the Palace. Enter QUEEN, BUSHY, and BAGOT. Bushy. Madam, your majesty is too much sad: You promis'd, when you parted with the king, To lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. Queen. To please the king, I did; to please myself, I cannot do it; yet I know no cause Why I should welcome such a guest as grief, Bushy. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, Which show like grief itself, but are not so: For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, As, though, in thinking, on no thought I think,—— Bushy. Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady. But what it is, that is not yet known; what Enter GREEN. Green. God save your majesty !—and well met gentlemen: I hope, the king is not yet shipp'd for Ireland. Queen. Why hop'st thou so? 'tis better hope, he is; For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope; Then wherefore dost thou hope, he is not shipp'd? Green. That he, our hope, might have retir'd his And driven into despair an enemy's hope, [power, Who strongly hath set footing in this land: The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arriv'd At Ravenspurg. Queen. Now God in heaven forbid! Green. O, madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,--The lord Northumberland, his young son Henry Percy, The lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby, With all their powerful friends, are fled to him. Bushy. Why have you not proclaim'd NorthumberAnd all the rest of the revolting faction, [land, Traitors? Green. We have: whereon the earl of Worcester Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship, And all the household servants fled with him To Bolingbroke. Queen. So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe, And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir: Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy; Who shall hinder me? I will despair, and be at enmity Who gently would dissolve the bands of life Enter YORK. Green. Here comes the duke of York. For heaven's sake, speak comfortable words. York. Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts: Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:- Enter a Servant. Serv. My lord, your son was gone before I came. |