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KING RICHARD II.
0, Richard, York is too far gone with grief,
Or else he never would compare between.
K. Rich. Why, uncle, what’s the matter ?
York.
Pardon me, if you please ; if not, I, pleas’d
Not to be pardon’d, am content withal.
Seek you to seize, and gripe into your hands,
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Q„ my liege,
The royalties and rights of banish’d Hereford
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‘Is not Gaunt dead ? and doth not Hereford live ?
Was not Gaunt just ? and is not Harry true ?
Did not the one deserve to have an heir ? u
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Take Hereford’s rights awayj'ancl take from time
His charters, and his customary rights ;
Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day;
Be not thyself, for how art thou a king,
But by fair sequence and succession ?
If you do wrongfully seize Hereford’s right,
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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:
Whp.t wilj.pnsue hereof, there’s none can tell;
But by bad coursed may be understood,
ThatTIIeir events fian never fall out good.
[Exit.
K. Rich. Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight;
Bid him repair to us to Ely Housi
To se^Yhis business. To-morrow (next
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We will for Ireland; and ’tis time, I trow;