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KING RICHARD II.
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Frighting her pale-fac’d villages with war,
And ostentationoFde^ised arms ?
Com’st thou because the anointed king is hence ?
Why, foolish hoy, the king is left behind,
And in my loyal bosom lies his power.
Were I but now the lord of sdch hot youth
As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself,
Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,
From forth the ranks of many thousand French, f ' • < 4A r ■ ' '
0, then, how quickly should this arm of mine,
Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee,
And minister correction to thy fault!
Boling. My graciom? uncle, let me know my fault;
On what condition stands it, and wherein ?
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York. Even in condition of the worst degree—
In gross rebellion and detested treason :
Thou art a banish’d man, and here art come,
Before the expiration of thy time,
In braying arms against thy sovereign.
Boling. As I was banish’d, I was banish’d Hereford :
But as I come, I come forfBancaster. ^ ^
And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace
Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye :
You are my father, for methinks in you
I see old Gaunt alive ; 0, then, my father,
Will you permit that I shall stand condemn’d
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A wand’ring vagabond ; my rights and royalties
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Pluck’d from my arms perforce, and given away
, ' To upstart unthrifts ? Wherefore was I bom ?
F If that my cousin king be king of England, iU >
(It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster. ^ .
' You have a son, Aumerle, my noble kinsman ; 125
'Had you first died, and he been thus trod down,
He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father,
To rouse his wrongs, and chase them to the bay,
M I am denied to sue my livery here,
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