Chapter XI: Act IV: SCENE I. Westminster Hall

_Enter as to the Parliament_, BOLINGBROKE, AUMERLE,
NORTHUMBERLAND, PERCY, FITZWATER, SURREY, _the_ BISHOP of
CARLISLE, _the_ ABBOT of WESTMINSTER, _and another_ Lord,
Herald, Officers, _and_ BAGOT.[1548]

_Boling._ Call forth Bagot.[1549]
Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind;[1550]
What thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death;
Who wrought it with the king, and who perform'd
The bloody office of his timeless end. 5

_Bagot._ Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.

_Boling._ Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.

_Bagot._ My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue
Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd.[1551]
In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted, 10
I heard you say, 'Is not my arm of length,
That reacheth from the restful English court
As far as Calais, to mine uncle's head?'[1552]
Amongst much other talk, that very time,
I heard you say that you had rather refuse[1553] 15
The offer of an hundred thousand crowns
Than Bolingbroke's return to England;[1554][1555]
Adding withal, how blest this land would be[1555][1556]
In this your cousin's death.[1555]

_Aum._ Princes and noble lords,[1557]
What answer shall I make to this base man? 20
Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars,[1558]
On equal terms to give him chastisement?[1559]
Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd[1560]
With the attainder of his slanderous lips.[1561]
There is my gage, the manual seal of death, 25
That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,[1562]
And will maintain what thou hast said is false[1563]
In thy heart-blood, though being all too base[1564]
To stain the temper of my knightly sword.

_Boling._ Bagot, forbear; thou shalt not take it up. 30

_Aum._ Excepting one, I would he were the best
In all this presence that hath moved me so.

_Fitz._ If that thy valour stand on sympathy,[1565]
There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine:
By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,[1566] 35
I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it,
That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death.
If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest;[1567]
And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,
Where it was forged, with my rapier's point. 40

_Aum._ Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day.[1568]

_Fitz._ Now, by my soul, I would it were this hour.

_Aum._ Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this.[1569]

_Percy._ Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is as true
In this appeal as thou art all unjust; 45
And that thou art so, there I throw my gage,
To prove it on thee to the extremest point
Of mortal breathing: seize it, if thou darest.

_Aum._ An if I do not, may my hands rot off[1570]
And never brandish more revengeful steel 50
Over the glittering helmet of my foe!

_Another Lord._ I task the earth to the like, forsworn
Aumerle;[1571][1572]
And spur thee on with full as many lies[1571]
As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear[1571][1573]
From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn;[1571][1574] 55
Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.[1571]

_Aum._ Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all:[1571]
I have a thousand spirits in one breast,[1571]
To answer twenty thousand such as you.[1571]

_Surrey._ My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well[1575][1576] 60
The very time Aumerle and you did talk.[1575][1577]

_Fitz._ 'Tis very true: you were in presence then;[1578]
And you can witness with me this is true.

_Surrey._ As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.[1579]

_Fitz._ Surrey, thou liest.[1580]

_Surrey._ Dishonourable boy![1581] 65
That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword,[1581]
That it shall render vengeance and revenge
Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie[1582]
In earth as quiet as thy father's skull:
In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn;[1583] 70
Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.

_Fitz._ How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse!
If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,[1584]
I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness,
And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies, 75
And lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith,[1585]
To tie thee to my strong correction.
As I intend to thrive in this new world,[1586]
Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal:
Besides, I heard the banish'd Norfolk say,[1587] 80
That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men
To execute the noble duke at Calais.

_Aum._ Some honest Christian trust me with a gage,
That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this,
If he may be repeal'd, to try his honour.[1588] 85

_Boling._ These differences shall all rest under gage
Till Norfolk be repeal'd: repeal'd he shall be,
And, though mine enemy, restored again
To all his lands and signories: when he's return'd,[1589]
Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial. 90

_Car._ That honourable day shall ne'er be seen.[1590]
Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought
For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,[1591]
Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross
Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens; 95
And toil'd with works of war, retired himself[1592]
To Italy; and there at Venice gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,[1593]
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long. 100

_Boling._ Why, bishop, is Norfolk dead?[1594]

_Car._ As surely as I live, my lord.[1595]

_Boling._ Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom[1596][1597]
Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants,[1597][1598]
Your differences shall all rest under gage[1597] 105
Till we assign you to your days of trial.

_Enter_ YORK, _attended_.[1599]

_York._ Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee[1600]
From plume-pluck'd Richard; who with willing soul
Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields[1601]
To the possession of thy royal hand: 110
Ascend his throne, descending now from him;
And long live Henry, fourth of that name![1602]

_Boling._ In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne.

_Car._ Marry, God forbid![1603][1604]
Worst in this royal presence may I speak,[1605] 115
Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.[1606]
Would God that any in this noble presence[1607]
Were enough noble to be upright judge
Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would[1608]
Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong. 120
What subject can give sentence on his king?
And who sits here that is not Richard's subject?[1609]
Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,
Although apparent guilt be seen in them;
And shall the figure of God's majesty, 125
His captain, steward, deputy, elect,[1610]
Anointed, crowned, planted many years,[1611]
Be judged by subject and inferior breath,[1612]
And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,[1613]
That in a Christian climate souls refined 130
Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!
I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,
Stirr'd up by God, thus boldly for his king.[1604]
My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,
Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king: 135
And if you crown him, let me prophesy;
The blood of English shall manure the ground,
And future ages groan for this foul act;[1614]
Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,
And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars 140
Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;
Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny
Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd
The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls.
O, if you raise this house against this house,[1615] 145
It will the woefullest division prove
That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,[1616]
Lest child, child's children, cry against you 'woe!'[1617]

_North._ Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains, 150
Of capital treason we arrest you here.
My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge
To keep him safely till his day of trial.
May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit.[1618][1619]

_Boling._ Fetch hither Richard, that in common view[1618][1620] 155
He may surrender; so we shall proceed[1618][1620]
Without suspicion.[1618][1620]

_York._ I will be his conduct.[1618][1621] [_Exit._

_Boling._ Lords, you that here are under our arrest,[1618][1622]
Procure your sureties for your days of answer.[1618]
Little are we beholding to your love,[1618][1623] 160
And little look'd for at your helping hands.[1618][1624]

_Re-enter_ YORK, _with_ RICHARD, _and_ Officers _bearing the
regalia_.[1618][1625]

_K. Rich._ Alack, why am I sent for to a king,[1618][1626]
Before I have shook off the regal thoughts[1618]
Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd[1618]
To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs:[1618][1627] 165
Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me[1618][1628][1629]
To this submission. Yet I well remember[1618][1628][1630]
The favours of these men: were they not mine?[1618][1628]
Did they not sometime cry, 'all hail!' to me?[1618][1628][1631]
So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,[1618][1628] 170
Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.[1618]
God save the king! Will no man say amen?[1618][1632]
Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen.[1618][1632]
God save the king! although I be not he;[1618][1632]
And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.[1618][1632] 175
To do what service am I sent for hither?[1618]

_York._ To do that office of thine own good will[1618]
Which tired majesty did make thee offer,[1618]
The resignation of thy state and crown[1618]
To Henry Bolingbroke.[1618][1633] 180

_K. Rich._ Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the
crown;[1618][1634]
Here cousin;[1618][1635][1636]
On this side my hand, and on that side yours.[1618][1635][1637]
Now is this golden crown like a deep well[1618][1638]
That owes two buckets, filling one another,[1618][1638] 185
The emptier ever dancing in the air,[1618][1638]
The other down, unseen and full of water:[1618][1638]
That bucket down and full of tears am I,[1618][1638]
Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.[1618][1638][1639]

_Boling._ I thought you had been willing to resign.[1618][1638] 190

_K. Rich._ My crown I am; but still my griefs are mine:[1618][1638]
You may my glories and my state depose,[1618][1638]
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.[1618][1638]

_Boling._ Part of your cares you give me with your crown.[1618][1638]

_K. Rich._ Your cares set up do not pluck my cares
down.[1618][1638] 195
My care is loss of care, by old care done;[1618][1638]
Your care is gain of care, by new care won:[1618][1638]
The cares I give, I have, though given away;[1618][1638]
They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay.[1618][1638][1640]

_Boling._ Are you contented to resign the crown?[1618][1638] 200

_K. Rich._ Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;[1618][1638][1641]
Therefore no no, for I resign to thee.[1618][1638][1642]
Now mark me, how I will undo myself:[1618]
I give this heavy weight from off my head[1618]
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,[1618] 205
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;[1618]
With mine own tears I wash away my balm,[1618][1643]
With mine own hands I give away my crown,[1618]
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,[1618]
With mine own breath release all duty's rites:[1618][1644] 210
All pomp and majesty I do forswear;[1618]
My manors, rents, revenues I forego;[1618][1645]
My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:[1618]
God pardon all oaths that are broke to me![1618]
God keep all vows unbroke that swear to thee![1618][1646] 215
Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,[1618]
And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved![1618]
Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,[1618][1647]
And soon lie Richard in an earthy pit![1618][1647][1648]
God save King Harry, unking'd Richard says,[1618][1647][1649] 220
And send him many years of sunshine days![1618][1647][1650]
What more remains?[1618]

_North._ No more, but that you read[1618][1651]
These accusations and these grievous crimes[1618]
Committed by your person and your followers[1618]
Against the state and profit of this land;[1618] 225
That, by confessing them, the souls of men[1618]
May deem that you are worthily deposed.[1618]

_K. Rich._ Must I do so? and must I ravel out[1618]
My weaved-up folly? Gentle Northumberland,[1618][1652]
If thy offences were upon record,[1618] 230
Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop[1618]
To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst,[1618][1653]
There shouldst thou find one heinous article,[1618]
Containing the deposing of a king[1618]
And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,[1618] 235
Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven:[1618]
Nay, all of you that stand and look upon,[1618][1654]
Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,[1618][1655]
Though some of you with Pilate wash your hands[1618]
Showing an outward pity; yet you Pilates[1618][1656] 240
Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross,[1618][1657]
And water cannot wash away your sin.[1618]

_North._ My lord, dispatch; read o'er these articles.[1618]

_K. Rich._ Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see:[1618]
And yet salt water blinds them not so much[1618] 245
But they can see a sort of traitors here.[1618]
Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself,[1618]
I find myself a traitor with the rest;[1618]
For I have given here my soul's consent[1618]
To undeck the pompous body of a king;[1618][1658] 250
Made glory base and sovereignty a slave,[1618][1659]
Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant.[1618]

_North._ My lord,--[1618]

_K. Rich._ No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man,[1618][1660]
Nor no man's lord; I have no name, no title,[1618][1661] 255
No, not that name was given me at the font,[1618]
But 'tis usurp'd: alack the heavy day,[1618]
That I have worn so many winters out,[1618]
And know not now what name to call myself![1618]
O that I were a mockery king of snow,[1618][1662] 260
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,[1618]
To melt myself away in water-drops![1618]
Good king, great king, and yet not greatly good,[1618][1663]
An if my word be sterling yet in England,[1618][1664]
Let it command a mirror hither straight,[1618][1665] 265
That it may show me what a face I have,[1618]
Since it is bankrupt of his majesty.[1618][1666]

_Boling._ Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass.[1618]

[_Exit an attendant._[1618][1667]

_North._ Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come.[1618]

_K. Rich._ Fiend, thou torment'st me ere I come to
hell![1618][1668] 270

_Boling._ Urge it no more, my Lord Northumberland.[1618]

_North._ The commons will not then be satisfied.[1618]

_K. Rich._ They shall be satisfied: I'll read enough,[1618]
When I do see the very book indeed[1618]
Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.[1618] 275

_Re-enter_ Attendant, _with a glass_.[1618][1669]

Give me the glass, and therein will I read.[1618][1670][1671]
No deeper wrinkles yet? hath sorrow struck[1618][1670]
So many blows upon this face of mine,[1618][1670]
And made no deeper wounds? O flattering glass,[1618][1670]
Like to my followers in prosperity,[1618][1670] 280
Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face[1618][1672][1673][1674]
That every day under his household roof[1618][1673]
Did keep ten thousand men? was this the face[1618][1673][1675][1676]
That, like the sun, did make beholders wink?[1618][1673][1676]
Was this the face that faced so many
follies,[1618][1673][1677][1678] 285
And was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke?[1618][1678][1679]
A brittle glory shineth in this face:[1618][1678]
As brittle as the glory is the face;[1618][1678]

[_Dashes the glass against the ground._[1618][1678][1680]

For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.[1618][1678][1681]
Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,[1618][1678][1682] 290
How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face.[1618]

_Boling._ The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd[1618]
The shadow of your face.[1618]

_K. Rich._ Say that again.[1618][1683]
The shadow of my sorrow! ha! let's see:[1618][1683]
'Tis very true, my grief lies all within;[1618][1683] 295
And these external manners of laments[1618][1683][1684]
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief,[1618][1683]
That swells with silence in the tortured soul;[1618][1683]
There lies the substance: and I thank thee, king,[1618][1685]
For thy great bounty, that not only givest[1618][1686] 300
Me cause to wail but teachest me the way[1618]
How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon,[1618]
And then be gone and trouble you no more.[1618]
Shall I obtain it?[1618]

_Boling._ Name it, fair cousin.[1618][1687]

_K. Rich._ 'Fair cousin'? I am greater than a king:[1618][1688] 305
For when I was a king, my flatterers[1618][1689]
Were then but subjects; being now a subject,[1618][1689]
I have a king here to my flatterer.[1618][1689]
Being so great, I have no need to beg.[1618][1689]

_Boling._ Yet ask.[1618] 310

_K. Rich._ And shall I have?[1618][1690]

_Boling._ You shall.[1618][1691]

_K. Rich._ Then give me leave to go.[1618][1692]

_Boling._ Whither?[1618]

_K. Rich._ Whither you will, so I were from your
sights.[1618][1693] 315

_Boling._ Go, some of you convey him to the Tower.[1618]

_K. Rich._ O, good! convey? conveyers are you all,[1618][1694][1695]
That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall.[1694][1696]

[_Exeunt King Richard, some Lords, and a Guard._

_Boling._ On Wednesday next we solemnly set down[1697]
Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves.[1697] 320

[_Exeunt all except the Bishop of Carlisle, the
Abbot of Westminster, and Aumerle._[1698]

_Abbot._ A woeful pageant have we here beheld.[1699]

_Car._ The woe's to come; the children yet unborn[1700]
Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.

_Aum._ You holy clergymen, is there no plot
To rid the realm of this pernicious blot? 325

_Abbot._ My lord,[1701]
Before I freely speak my mind herein,
You shall not only take the sacrament
To bury mine intents, but also to effect[1702]
Whatever I shall happen to devise. 330
I see your brows are full of discontent,
Your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears:[1703]
Come home with me to supper; and I'll lay[1704]
A plot shall show us all a merry day.[1704] [_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[1548] Enter....] Ff Q₅. Enter Bullingbroke with the Lords to Parliament. Q₁. Enter Bull.... Q₂ (in margin). Enter B., Aumerle, and others. Q₃ Q₄.

the Bishop of Carlisle] Carlile Ff Q₅.

and another Lord] Omitted in Ff Q₅.

[1549] [Enter Bagot. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Officers set him to the Bar. Capell.

_forth Bagot_] _Bagot forth_ Pope (reading as one line _Call ... mind_).

[1550] _Now, Bagot, freely ... mind_] _now freely speak thy mind._ Pope. _Now Bagot freely speak._ Capell.

[1551] _once it hath_] _it hath once_ Ff Q₅.

_deliver'd_ Ff Q₅. _delivered_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1552] _Calais_] _Callice_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Callis_ Ff Q₅.

_mine_] _my_ Ff Q₅.

[1553] _that you had rather_] _you rather had_ Pope. _too, you had rather_ Capell.

[1554] _Than_] _Than to see_ or _Than see proud_ Keightley conj.

_Than ... England_] _Than Bolingbroke to England should return_ Seymour conj.

_Bolingbroke's_] _Bullingbrooke_ F₂ F₃. _Bullingbrook_ F₄. _to have Bolingbroke_ Capell.

[1555] _Than ... death._] Arranged as by Capell; as two lines in Qq Ff, ending _withal ... death_; Hanmer ends the lines _adding ... in this ... death_.

[1556] _withal_] om. Pope, who reads 17-19 as two lines, ending _adding ... death_.

[1557] _Princes and_] _My_ Seymour conj.

[1558] _stars_] _stem_ Warburton conj.

[1559] _him_] _them_ Q₁. _my_ Q₂.

[1560] _soil'd_] _spoyld_ F₂. _spoyl'd_ Q₅. _spoild_ F₃. _spoil'd_ F₄.

[1561] _attainder_] _attainture_ Capell conj.

[1562] _I say_] Q₁. The rest omit.

_liest_] _liest, Bagot_ Hanmer.

[1563] _will_] _I'll_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1564] _heart_] _hearts_ Q₅.

[1565] _sympathy_] _sympathize_ F₁. _sympathies_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1566] _which_] Q₁. The rest _that_.

[1567] _it twenty times,_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _it, twenty times_ Ff Q₅.

[1568] _live to see that_] Q₁. _live I to see the_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _live to see the_ Ff Q₅.

[1569] _Fitzwater_] _Fitzwaters_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1570] _An if_] Edd. (Capell conj.). _And if_ Qq Ff.

[1571] Another Lord. _I task ... as you_] Omitted in Ff Q₅. See note (XXII).

[1572] _task the earth_] _taske the earth_ Q₁. _take the earth_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _task thee_ Capell. _take thy oath_ Johnson conj. _task thy heart_ Steevens conj. _take oath_ S. Walker conj.

[1573] _As_] Capell. _As it_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

_holloa'd_] _hollowed_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1574] _sun to sun_] Capell. _sinne to sinne_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1575] _My lord ... talk_] As three lines in Ff Q₅, ending _Fitzwater ... time ... talk_.

[1576] _do_] om. Pope.

[1577] _Aumerle_] _(Aumerle)_ Q₁.

[1578] _'Tis very true_] _My Lord, 'Tis very true_ Ff Q₅. _My Lord, 'tis true_ Pope.

[1579] _As ... true_] As two lines, the first ending _heaven,_ in Ff Q₅.

[1580] _Surrey_] _Suerrie_ Q₃.

[1581] _Dishonourable ... sword,_] As one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1582] _do lie_] _rest_ Pope.

[1583] _my_] Q₁ Q₃ Q₄. _mine_ Q₂ Ff Q₅.

[1584] _live,_] _live,--_ Capell.

[1585] my] om. Q₁. _the_ Q₂.

[1586] _As I intend_] _A I intended_ F₂ F₃. _As I intended_ Q₅ F₄.

[1587] _heard_] _heare_ Q₄.

[1588] Throws down his hood. Grant White (from Holinshed).

[1589] _all_] om. Seymour conj.

_lands and_] om. Pope.

_he's_] _he is_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1590] _ne'er_] F₄. _ne're_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. _never_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1591] _Jesu_] _Jesus_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1592] _And_] _Then_ Pope.

[1593] _that_] _a_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1594] _Why, bishop_] _Why B._ Q₁ Q₂. om. Capell.

[1595] _As surely_] Q₁. _As sure_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. _Sure_ Pope.

[1596] _sweet soul_] _soul_ Pope.

[1597] In Ff Q₅ the lines end _soul ... Abraham ... gage_.

[1598] _good old_] _good_ Pope, ending the lines _soul ... appealants_.

_Abraham_] _father Abraham_ Keightley conj.

_Lords_] _My lords_ Capell.

_appellants_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₄. _appeallants_ Q₃. _appealants_ Ff Q₅.

[1599] _you to_] _to you_ Collier MS.

Enter ... attended.] Capell.

Enter Yorke. Qq Ff.

[1600] SCENE II. Pope.

[1601] _thee_] _the_ Q₁.

[1602] _fourth of that name_] _of that name the fourth_ Ff Q₅.

[1603] _Marry_] F₃ F₄. _Mary_ Qq F₁ F₂.

[1604] _God_] _Heaven_ Ff Q₅.

[1605] _may I_] _I may_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

_speak,_] _speak?_ Hanmer.

[1606] _beseeming me_] _beseems it me_ Johnson conj.

[1607] _that_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1608] _noblesse_] Q₁. The rest _noblenesse_.

[1609] _here_] _not here_ Q₂ Q₃.

[1610] _deputy, elect_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _deputy elect_ Ff Q₅.

[1611] _crowned, planted_] _crown'd, planted_ F₁. _crown'd and planted_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1612] _subject_] _subjects_ Q₅.

_breath_] _breaths_ S. Walker conj.

[1613] _O, forfend_] _O, forbid_ Ff Q₅. _forbid_ Seymour conj.

_God_] om. Pope.

[1614] _this_] Q₁. _his_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1615] _you_] _yon_ Q₁.

_raise_] _reare_ Ff Q₅.

_against this_] _against his_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1616] _Prevent it_] Qq Ff. _Prevent_ Pope.

_let_] _and let_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁.

[1617] _child, child's_] _children's_ Pope.

[1618] _May it please you ... true king's fall._] Omitted in Q₁ Q₂.

[1619] _commons'_] _common_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1620] _Fetch ... suspicion_] Continued to Northumberland, and printed as two lines, the first ending _view_, in Q₃ Q₄.

[1621] [Exit.] om. Q₃ Q₄.

[1622] _here are_] F₁ F₂ Q₅. _are here, are_ Q₃ Q₄. _are here_ F₃ F₄.

[1623] [To Carl. Hanmer.

_beholding_] _beholden_ Pope.

[1624] _little look'd for_] _look for little_ Collier MS.

_look'd_] _looke_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1625] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter king Richard. Q₃ Q₄. Enter Richard and Yorke. Ff Q₅.

[1626] SCENE III. Pope.

[1627] _limbs_] _limbes_ Q₃ Q₄. _knee_ Ff Q₅.

[1628] _Give sorrow ... twelve_] As four lines in Q₃ Q₄, ending _submission ... men ... hail ... twelve_.

[1629] _tutor_] Q₃ Q₄. _tuture_ F₁. _returne_ F₂ Q₅. _return_ F₃ F₄.

[1630] _well_] _will_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1631] _sometime_] _sometimes_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1632] _God save ... me_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1633] _To Henry Bolingbroke_] Omitted by Pope.

_Henry_] _Harry_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1634] _Give ... cousin_] Omitted in Q₃ Q₄.

_seize the crown_] Seizes the crown. Singer (as a stage direction).

[1635] _Here ... yours_] As one line in Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1636] _Here cousin_] _Here_ Pope (reading _Here, on ... thine_ as one line). om. Malone (1821).

[1637] _and on ... yours_] Q₃ Q₄. _on ... thine_ Ff Q₅.

[1638] _Now is ... to thee_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1639] _griefs_] _griefe_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1640] _tend_] _'tend_ F₁.

[1641] _Ay, no; no, ay;_] _I, no no I;_ Q₃ Q₄. _I, no; no, I:_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _I no; no, I_ F₃. _I no; no I,_ F₄.

[1642] _no no,_] Q₃ Q₄. _no, no,_ Ff Q₅.

[1643] _balm_] _balme_ Q₃ Q₄ F₁. _blame_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1644] _duty's rites_] _duties rites_ Q₃ Q₄. _dutious oathes_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _dutious oaths_ F₃ F₄. _duties, rites_ Collier. _duteous rites_ Id. conj. _duties, rights_ Id. conj. apud Delius.

[1645] _manors_] F₁ F₂. _manners_ Q₃. _mannors_ Q₄ Q₅ F₄.

[1646] _that swear_] Q₃ Q₄. _are made_ Ff Q₅.

[1647] _Long ... days_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1648] _earthy_] _earthly_ Q₄.

[1649] _Harry_] Q₃ Q₄. _Henry_ Ff Q₅.

[1650] _sunshine_] _sun-shines_ Q₄.

[1651] [Offering a paper. Capell.

[1652] _folly_] Q₃ Q₄. _follyes_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _follies_ F₃ F₄.

_Gentle_] _Oh_ Pope.

[1653] _them?_] Ff Q₅. _them,_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1654] _all_] Ff Q₅. om. Q₃ Q₄.

_upon_] Q₃ Q₄. _upon me_ Ff Q₅.

[1655] _bait_] _bate_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1656] _you_] _yon_ F₃.

[1657] _deliver'd_] _deliver_ Q₃. _delivered_ Q₄ F₄.

[1658] _To_] Q₃ Q₄. _T'_ Ff Q₅.

[1659] _Made_] _Make_ Capell.

_and sovereignty_] Q₃ Q₄. _a soveraigntie_ F₁. _a soveraigne_ F₂ Q₅. _a soveraign_ F₃ F₄.

[1660] _thou haught_] om. Pope.

_haught insulting_] _haught-insulting_ Ff Q₅.

[1661] _Nor_] Q₃ Q₄. _No, nor_ Ff Q₅.

[1662] _mockery king_] Q₃ Q₄. _mockerie, king_ Ff Q₅.

[1663] _Good ... good_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1664] _An if_] Theobald. _And if_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. _Ah if_ Pope.

_word_] Ff Q₅. _name_ Q₃ Q₄.

_sterling_] _starling,_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1665] _hither_] _hether_ Q₃.

[1666] _his_] _it's_ Capell conj.

[1667] [Exit ...] Capell.

[1668] _torment'st_] Rowe. _torments_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1669] Re-enter....] Capell. Enter one with a Glasse. Ff Q₅. om. Q₃ Q₄.

[1670] _Give me ... prosperity_] As four lines in Q₃ Q₄, ending _yet?... this ... woundes?... prosperitie._

[1671] _the_] _that_ Ff Q₅.

_and ... read_] Omitted in Q₃ Q₄.

[1672] _Thou ... me_] Omitted in Q₃ Q₄.

[1673] _Was this ... follies,_] As three lines in Q₃ Q₄, ending _his ... men?... follies?_ See note (XXIII).

[1674] _this face_] _this_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1675] _keep_] _feed_ Capell.

[1676] _was ... wink?_] Omitted in Q₃ Q₄.

[1677] _Was ... that_] Q₃ Q₄. _Is ... which_ Ff Q₅.

[1678] _Was this ... sport_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1679] _And_] Q₃ Q₄. _That_ Ff Q₅.

[1680] [Dashes....] Theobald.

[1681] _a hundred_] Q₃ Q₄. _an hundred_ Ff Q₅.

[1682] _sport_] _spor_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1683] _Say ... soul_] As five lines in Q₃ Q₄, ending _sorrow; ... griefe ... manners ... unseene, ... soule._

[1684] _manners_] _manner_ F₁.

_laments_] _lament_ Capell.

[1685] _There ... substance_] Omitted in Q₃ Q₄.

[1686] _For ... bounty_] Omitted in Q₃ Q₄, reading as one line _And I ... givest_.

[1687] _Shall ... it?_] Omitted in Q₃ Q₄.

_fair_] _my fair_ Hanmer.

[1688] _cousin?_] _coose, why?_ Q₃ Q₄. _cousin? why_ Steevens.

[1689] _For ... beg_] In Q₃ Q₄ the lines end _subiects ... heere ... beg._

[1690] _have?_] _have it?_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1691] _You_] _Ay, you_ Seymour conj.

[1692] _Then_] _Why then_ Q₃ Q₄. _Why, pr'ythee_ Seymour conj.

_go_] _go then_ Seymour conj.

[1693] _sights_] _sight_ Pope.

[1694] _O, good ... fall_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1695] _good!_] _good:_ Ff Q₅. _good_ Q₃ Q₄.

_convey?_] Capell. _convey,_ Q₃. _convay_ Q₄. _convey:_ Ff Q₅.

[1696] [Exeunt ...] Capell.

[1697] _On ... yourselves._] _Let it be so, and loe on Wednesday next, We solemnly proclaime our coronation, Lords, be ready all._ Q₁ Q₂.

[1698] After this line Johnson inserts _Let it be so, and lo be ready all._

Exeunt ...] Exeunt. Manent West. Caleil, Aumerle. Q₁ Exeunt. Manet West Carleil, Aumerle. Q₂. Exeunt. Manet West., Carleill, Aumerle. Q₃ Q₄. Exeunt. Ff Q₅.

[1699] SCENE IV. Pope.

[1700] _woe's_] _woes_ F₁.

[1701] _My lord,_] _My Lo:_ Q₁ Q₂. om. Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1702] _intents_] _intent_ Q₄.

_also_] om. Pope.

[1703] _hearts_] _harts_ Q₁. _hart_ Q₂. _heart_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1704] _and I'll lay A plot shall ... day_] Pope. _Ile lay a plot, Shall ... day_ Qq Ff (_I'le_ F₄. _plot_ Ff Q₅). _I will lay A plot shall ... day_ Malone.