YORK              I fear, I fear— DUCHESS                               What should you fear? ’Tis nothing but some bond that he is entered into For gay apparel ’gainst the triumph day. YORK              Bound to himself? What doth he with a bond That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool. Boy, let me see the writing. AUMERLE      I […]

YORK              What news from Oxford, do these jousts and triumphs hold? AUMERLE      For aught I know, my lord, they do. YORK              You will be there, I know. AUMERLE      If God prevent it not, I purpose so. YORK              What seal is that that hangs without thy bosom? Yea, look’st thou pale? Let me see the […]

Enter Aumerle DUCHESS                   Here comes my son Aumerle. YORK                                                                          Aumerle that was, But that is lost for being Richard’s friend, And, madam, you must call him Rutland now. I am in Parliament pledge for his truth And lasting fealty to the new-made King. DUCHESS                   Welcome my son. Who are the violets now That strew the […]

YORK                                      No man cried God save him, No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home, But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God for some strong purpose steeled […]

DUCHESS       Alack poor Richard, where rode he the whilst? YORK              As in a theatre the eyes of men After a well-graced actor leaves the stage Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious, Even so, or with much more contempt, men’s eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard.           (5.2.22-28)   […]

YORK              Then as I said the Duke, great Bolingbroke, Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed Which his aspiring rider seemed to know, With slow but stately pace kept on his course Whilst all tongues cried ‘God save thee Bolingbroke!’ You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and […]

Enter the Duke and Duchess of York DUCHESS       My lord, you told me you would tell the rest, When weeping made you break the story off Of our two cousins coming into London. YORK              Where did I leave? DUCHESS                                           At that sad stop, my lord, Where rude misgoverned hands from windows’ tops Threw dust and […]

RICHARD        Twice for one step I’ll groan, the way being short, And piece the way out with a heavy heart. Come, come, in wooing sorrow let’s be brief, Since wedding it there is such length in grief. One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part. Thus give I mine and thus take I thy […]

QUEEN                                   And must we be divided, must we part? RICHARD                                Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart. QUEEN                                   Banish us both and send the King with me. NORTHUMBERLAND            That were some love but little policy. QUEEN                                   Then whither he goes, thither let me go. RICHARD                                So two together weeping make one woe. […]

RICHARD        Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate A twofold marriage—’twixt my crown and me, And then betwixt me and my married wife. [To the Queen] Let me unkiss the oath ’twixt thee and me— And yet not so, for with a kiss ’twas made. Part us, Northumberland: I towards the north Where shivering cold and […]