And never brandish more revengeful steel Over the glittering helmet of my foe! Lord. I take the earth to the like, forsworn And thee on with full as many lies As may be holla'd in thy treacherous ear From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn; Engage it to the trial, if thou dar'st. Aum. Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw I have a thousand spirits in one breast, do remember well The very time Aumerle and you did talk. Fitz. My lord, 'tis true: you were in presence then; And you can witness with me, this is true. Surrey. As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true. Fitz. Surrey, thou liest. Surrey. In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn; Fitz. How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse! If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live, I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness, And spit upon him, whilst I say, he lies, As I intend to thrive in this new world,2 2 — in this new world,] In this world where I have just begun to be an actor. Surrey, a few lines above, called him boy. say, Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal: Aum. Some honest Christian trust me with a gage, That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this, Boling. These differences shall all rest under gage, Till Norfolk be repeal'd: repeal'd he shall be, Car. That honourable day shall ne'er be seen.— Boling. Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom Of good old Abraham!-Lords appellants, Enter YORK, attended. York. Great duke of Lancaster, I come to thee From plume-pluck'd Richard; who with willing soul Adopts thee heir, and his high scepter yields To the possession of thy royal hand: Ascend his throne, descending now from him,And long live Henry, of that name the fourth! Boling. In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne. Car. Marry, God forbid! Worst in this royal presence may I speak, you Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels, Shall kin with kin, and kind with kind confound; Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd The field of Golgotha, and dead men's sculls. 3 nobless-] i. e. nobleness; a word now obsolete, but used both by Spenser and Ben Jonson. O, if you rear this house against this house, That ever fell upon this cursed earth: Lest child, child's children, cry against you-woe! North. Well have you argu'd, sir; and, for your pains, Of capital treason we arrest you here:— May't please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit. Boling. Fetch hither Richard, that in common view He may surrender; so we shall proceed Without suspicion. York. [Exit. I will be his conduct. Boling. Lords, you that are here under our arrest, Procure your sureties for your days of answer:Little are we beholden to your love, [To CARLISLE. And little look'd for at your helping hands. Re-enter YORK, with King RICHARD, and Officers bearing the Crown, &c. K. Rich. Alack, why am I sent for to a king, Before I have shook off the regal thoughts Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee:Give sorrow leave a while to tutor me To this submission. Yet I well remember The favours of these men: Were they not mine? Did they not sometime cry, all hail! to me? So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve, his conduct.] i. e. conductor. The favours, &c.] The countenances, the features. Found truth in all, but one; I, in twelve thousand, none. God save the king!-Will no man say, amen? York. To do that office, of thine own good will, K. Rich. Give me the crown:-Here, cousin, seize the crown; Here, on this side, my hand; on that side, thine. The other down, unseen, and full of water: You may my glories and my state depose, crown. your K. Rich. Your cares set up, do not pluck my cares down. My care is loss of care, by old care done;' • The emptier ever dancing-] This is a comparison not easily accommodated to the subject, nor very naturally introduced. The best part is this line, in which he makes the usurper the empty bucket. JOHNSON. 7 My care is-loss of care, by old care done ;] Shakspeare often obscures his meaning by playing with sounds. Richard seems |