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Scene III.]
KING RICHARD II.
Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,
And make some pretty match with shedding tears
As thus ;—to drop them still upon one place,
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Till they have fretted us a pair of graves
Within the earth; and, therein laid—there lies
Two kinsmen digg’dtWir stapes with weeping eyes.
Would no| th,is-.ill ilo well ?—Well, well, I see 170
I talk but hlly, and you mock at me.—
Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,
What says King Bolingbroke ? will his majesty
Give BichaKl ktave to live till Richard die ?
You m'ake a leg^ana Bolingbroke says—ay. 175
North. My lord, in the base court he doth attend \ -x-zrA'A , < ' ,
To speak with you ; may’t please you to come down ? J ; r
^ J Jf.'Rich. Down, down, I come ; like glistering Phaeton,
Wanting the manage of unruly jades, v
[Northumberland retires to Bolingbroke.
In the base court ? Base court, where kings grow base, 180
To come at traitors’ calls, and do them grace. A ■’ / , ,
In the base court ? Come down 1 Down court! down king !
For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
[Exeunt above.
Boling. What says his majesty ?
North. 7 ^ ^ Sorrow and grief of heart
Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man : 185
Yet he is come.
Enter King Richard, attended, below.
Boling. Stand all apart,
And shew fair duty to his majesty.— , . .1 £ jf
My gracious lord— Q ll
[Kneeling. 1 ^
K. Rich. Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee, 190
To make the base earth proud with kissing it:
Me rather had my heart might feel your love
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Than my unpleas’d eye see your courtesy,
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