That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men Aum. Some honest Christian trust me with a gage, That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this,' If he may be repeal'd to try his honour. Boling. These differences shall all rest under gage, To all his land and signories; when he's return'd, Carl. That honourable day shall ne'er be seen.- Boling.Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom Of good old Abraham!-Lords appellants, Your differences shall all rest under gage, Till we assign you to your days of trial. 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. Worst in this royal presence may I speak, [1] Holinshed says, that on this occasion "he threw down a hood that he had borrowed." STEEV. [2] i.e. nobleness; a word now obsolete. STEEY. What subject can give sentence on his king? Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd Lest child, child's children, cry against you-woe! North. Well have you argued,sir; and, for your pains, Of capital treason we arrest you here : My lord of Westminster, be it your charge To keep him safely till his day of trial. 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. [Exit. York. I will be his conduct. Boling. Lords, you that are here under our arrest, Procure your sureties for your days of answer :— It [3] Here is another proof that our author did not learn in king James's court his elevated notions of the right of kings. I know not any Aatterer of the Stuarts, who has expressed this doctrine in much stronger terms. must be observed that the poet intends, from the beginning to the end, to exhibit this bishop as brave, pious and venerable. JOHNS. [To CARLISLE. Little are we beholden to your love, 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 : 4 Were they not mine? So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found truth in all, but one; I, in twelve thousand, none. To do what service am I sent for hither? York. To do that office, of thine own good will, Which tired majesty did make thee offer, The resignation of thy state and crown To Henry Bolingbroke. K. Rich. Give me the crown :-Here, cousin, sieze the crown; Here, on this side, my hand; on that side, thine. Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high. You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. Boling. Part of your cares you give me with your crown. K. Rich. Your cares set up, do not pluck my cares down. [4] The countenances; the features. JOHNS. My care is-loss of care, by old care done ;5 Now mark me, how I will undo myself; My acts, decrees, and statutes, I deny : God pardon all oaths, that are broke to me ! God keep all vows unbroke, are made to thee! Make me, that nothing have, with nothing griev'd ; God save king Henry, unking'd Richard says, North. No more, but that you read [Offering a paper. These accusations, and these grievous crimes, Committed by your person, and your followers, Against the state and profit of this land; That, by confessing them, the souls of men May deem that you are worthily depos'd. K. Rich. Must I do so? and must I ravel out Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop, [5] Shakspeare often obscures his meaning by playing with sounds aiche ard seems to say here, that his cares are not made less by the increase of Bolingbroke's cares; for this reason, that his care is the loss of care, his grief is that his regal cares are at an end, by the cessation of the care to which he had been accustomed. JOHNS. [6] The oil of consecration. He has mentioned it before. JOHNS [7] That is, if thou wouldst read. over a list of thy own deeds. JOHNS. There should'st thou find one heinous article,— And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,— North. My lord, despatch; read o'er these articles: K. Rich. Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see : And yet salt water blinds them not so much, But they can see a sort of traitors here. K.Rich. No lord of thine, thou haught, insulting man, Good king,-great king,-(and yet not greatly good,) Boling. Go some of you and fetch a looking glass. |