Life and death of King Richard the second

The Life and Death
I pleas’d not tobepardonM^rncom^nt with alls
Seel<c you tqdbiz<?jartd gripe into your hands
The RoyaitK^nd Rightesofbaninvd
Is not Gaunt ck$d?and doth iiot Hereford live1? -■ -'' i R
Was not Gam /uftf-aud is' noi Harry ;v
Didnottlaeonedeferve tohaveanheyre ?
Is not his heyre a well-deferving fonne?
Take Here fords rights away^nd take from time R ;i>. il
His Charters, arid his euftom rie - rights •' * •'
Let not to morrow then itifue to day,
He not thy felfe. For how art thou a King
But by faire fecpience a.nd fiiccelTioti
Now afore God, God •forbid T fay triied1 c rj ’ •
3 fyou doe wrongfully force Herefords right,' /n ;
Call in his Letters Patentsthat he hath
By his Atturneyes generall, to fue
His Livery, and deny his offer’d homage,
You plucke a thoufand dangers on your head, *:
Youloofeathoufond WelMifpofed hearty
And pricke my tender patienee to thofe thoughts
Which honor and allegeance cannot thinke. '
i?#V.Thinke what you will: wefeife into our hands.
His plate,his goods,his money,and hislands*
Lor, He not be by the while: My Leige ^rewell.
What will enfue hereof, there’s none can tell, •
Butby badcouries may be Hnderfteod.
That their events can never fail out good. Exit*
Rich* Goe Bufhie to the Earle of Wiltfoire ftreight,
Bid him repaire to us tv Ely Houfe, ; ‘ : j
To fee this bufineffe: to morrow nest
We will forand’tis tinfo,! u:dW:
And we create in abfence of our folfe
Our Vnct.Ie Lord Governer of England ^
For he is /ufR andaiwaycsIov’d us well*
Comeon our Queeffojtomdrrow muft wepart, y
Be merry, for our time of Hay is fhorr*
tJMmt North,}Villottghby^and Roff-
Nor* Well Lords;theDuke of Laocafterisdcad.
va Reff.
ef Richard the feceHd.
Sof And living tbo/cr now his fonne is Duke*
mil. Barely in title, not .in revennew.
'Nor* Richly in both, if juft ice had her right.
Rojf, My heart is great: but it muft breake with ftlence
EerT be disburthen d with a liberall tongue.
Nor. Nay fpeake thy mind &: Jet him ne’r fpeake more
That Ipeakes thy words againe to doe thee harme.
W/. Tends that thou’d ft fpeake toth’ D* of Hereford:’
if it be fo,out with it boldly man:
Quicke is mine eare to heare of good towards him*
B^No good at all that I can doe for him,
Vnlelfe you call it good to pity him.
Bereft and gelded of his patrimony*
Nor* Now afore heaven, *ts ftiamefuch wrongs are
borne.
In him a royal! Prince, and many moe
Of noble blood in this declining Land;
TheKingis nothimfelfe, but bafely led
By flatterers, and what they will informe
Meerely in hate ’gainft any of us all:
That will the King foverely profocute
’Gainft us,our lives, our childrcn,and our heires*
Rojf*The Commons hath he pill’d with grievous taxes
And quite loft their hearts: the Nobles hath he fin’d
For ancient quarrels,and quite loft their hearts*
Wil. And daily new exa&ions are devis’d.
As blankes, benevolences, and I wot not what:
But what o’ Gods name doth become of this ?
Mr. Wacres hath not wafted it/or wait'd he hath not,
^ut bafely yeelded upon comprimize.
That which his Anceftors archieu’d with blowes:
M®re]latb he fpent inpeace,then they in warres* "
S’-f Jhe Earie of Wilt (hire hath the Realme in fame.
WW. The King s grow ne bankrupt like a broken man.
Reproaeh^nd defo!utIon hangeth over him-
ru-li 13 n0t money for tbefelrifh warres •
(Hrs bnrthenous taxations notwithflandine) ’
hut by the robbing ofthe banilh’d Luke. ^
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