His captain, steward, deputy elect, Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd Lest child's child's children cry against you-woe! pains, Of capital treason we arrest you here :- suit.4 rest, [Exit. our ar Procure your sureties for your days of answer:Little are we beholden to your love, [TO CAR. 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 ing be; Therefore no no, for I resign to thee. My manors, rents, revenues, I forego; My acts, decrees, and statutes, I deny : The favours of these men: Were they not mine? My weav'd up follies? Gentle Northumberland, Did they not sometime cry, all hail! to me? So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none. God save the king!-Will no man say, amen ? York. To do that office, of thine own good will, K. Rich. Give me the crown; -Here, cousin, seize the crown; On this side, my hand; and on that side, yours. Now is this golden crown like a deep well, If thy offences were upon record, 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, ter. Even that 'cut-purse of the empire, Claudius, in Hamlet, affects to believe that such divinity doth hedge a king." 1 The quarto reads forfend. 2 The quarto reads raise. 3 i. e. grandchildren. Pope altered it to 'children's children, and was followed by others. The old copies read, Lest child, childs children.' 4 What follows, almost to the end of the act, is not found in the first two quartos. The addition was made in the quarto of 1608. In the quarto, 1597, after the words his day of trial, the scene thus closes : Bol. Let it be so and lo! on Wednesday next 5 i. e. conductor. 6 The quarto reads limbs. 7 Countenances, features. 8 Owns. 9 Shakspeare often obscures his meaning by playing with sounds. Richard seems to say here that his cares are not made less by the increase of Bolingbroke's cares; his grief is, that his regal cares are at an end, by the cessation of care to which he had been accus tomed." 10 Attend. 11 Oil of consecration. 12 The first quarto reads duty's rites. 13 Thus the folio. The quarto reads that swear. 14 That is, if thou would'st read over a list of the own deeds. An if my word be sterling yet in England, Boling. Go some of you, and fetch a looking- come. Boling. Urge it no more, my Lord Northumber- Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face, Did keep ten thousand men ? Was this the face, As brittle as the glory is the face; [Dashes the Glass against the ground. Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves. [Exeunt all but the Abbot, Bishop of Carlisle, and AUMERLE. Abbot. A woful pageant have we here beheld. Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn. ACT V. [Exeunt. SCENE I. London. A Street leading to the Tower. Queen. This way the king will come; this is the way To Julius Cæsar's ill-erected tower, For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.- stroy'd The shadow of your face. K. Rich. Say that again. The shadow of my sorrow? Ha! let's sce:- Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, 1 A sort is a set or company. 2 i. e. haughty. 3 His for its. It was common in the poet's time to use the personal for the neutral pronoun. 4 To his household came every day to meate ten thousand men.- Chronicle History. 5 The quarto omits this line and the four preceding words. 6 But I have that within which passeth show.' These but the trappings and the suits of woe.' Hamlet. 7 To convey was formerly often used in an ill sense. Pistol says of stealing, convey the wise it call; and ، to convey' is the word for slight of hand or juggling. Richard means that it is a term of contempt, jugglers are you all. But soft, but see, or rather do not see, That you in pity may dissolve to dew, And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.- K. Rich. Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden: learn, good soul 8 This is the last of the additional lines first printed in the quarto of 1608. In the first editions there is no personal appearance of King Richard. 9 By ill-erected is probably meant erected for evil purposes. 10 Model anciently signified, according to the dictionaries, 'the platform or form of any thing. And map is used for picture resemblance. In the Rape of Lucrece Shakspeare calls sleep the map of death." 11 Inn does not probably here mean a house of public entertainment, but a dwelling or lodging generally. In which sense the word was anciently used. 12 Sworn brother alludes to the fratres jurati, who in the age of adventure, bound themselves by mutu oaths to share fortunes together. |