BOLINGBROKE          Uncle, you say the Queen is at your house— For God’s sake fairly let her be intreated, Tell her I send to her my kind commends. Take special care my greetings be delivered. YORK                          A gentleman of mine I have dispatched With letters of your love to her at large. BOLINGBROKE          Thanks, gentle uncle. […]

BOLINGBROKE          This and much more, much more than twice all this Condemns you to the death. See them delivered over To execution and the hand of death. BUSHY                        More welcome is the stroke of death to me Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell. GREEN                        My comfort is that heaven will take our souls And plague […]

BOLINGBROKE          Myself—a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the King in blood and nea’er in love Till you did make him misinterpret me— Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my […]

BOLINGBROKE          You have misled a prince, a royal king, A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments, By you unhappied and disfigured clean. You have in manner with your sinful hours Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him, Broke the possession of a royal bed And stained the beauty of a fair queen’s cheeks With […]

Enter Bolingbroke, York, Northumberland, Ross, Percy, Willoughby [and soldiers], with Bushy and Green prisoners BOLINGBROKE          Bring forth these men. Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls, Since presently your souls must part your bodies, With too much urging your pernicious lives, For ’twere no charity. Yet to wash your blood From off my […]

SALISBURY    Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind I see thy glory like a shooting star Fall to the base earth from the firmament. Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest. Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes And crossly to thy good all […]

Enter Earl of Salisbury and a Welsh Captain   CAPTAIN        My lord of Salisbury, we have stayed ten days And hardly kept our countrymen together, And yet we hear no tidings from the King; Therefore we will disperse ourselves. Farewell. SALISBURY    Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman, The King reposeth all his confidence in […]

YORK                                                  So fare you well, Unless you please to enter in the castle And there repose you for this night. BOLINGBROKE          An offer, uncle, that we will accept; But we must win your grace to go with us To Bristol Castle, which they say is held By Bushy, Bagot and their complices, The caterpillars of […]

NORTHUMBERLAND            The noble Duke hath sworn his coming is But for his own, and for the right of that We all have strongly sworn to give him aid. And let him ne’er see joy that breaks that oath. YORK                                      Well well, I see the issue of these arms. I cannot mend it, I must needs […]

NORTHUMBERLAND            The noble Duke hath been too much abused. ROSS                                       It stands your grace upon to do him right. WILLOUGHBY                        Base men by his endowments are made great. YORK                                      My lords of England, let me tell you this: I have had feeling of my cousin’s wrongs And laboured all I could to do him right. […]