Chapter IX: Act II: SCENE I. Ely House

_Enter_ JOHN of GAUNT _sick, with the_ DUKE of YORK, _&c._[977]

_Gaunt._ Will the king come, that I may breathe my last
In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?

_York._ Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath;
For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.

_Gaunt._ O, but they say the tongues of dying men 5
Enforce attention like deep harmony:
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
He that no more must say is listen'd more[978]
Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose;[978][979] 10
More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before:[978]
The setting sun, and music at the close,[978][980]
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,[978][981]
Writ in remembrance more than things long past:[978]
Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,[978][982] 15
My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.[978]

_York._ No; it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds,[983]
As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,[984]
Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound[985]
The open ear of youth doth always listen;[986] 20
Report of fashions in proud Italy,[987]
Whose manners still our tardy apish nation[988]
Limps after in base imitation.[989]
Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity--
So it be new, there's no respect how vile-- 25
That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?[990]
Then all too late comes counsel to be heard,[991]
Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.
Direct not him whose way himself will choose:[992]
'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.[992][993] 30

_Gaunt._ Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus expiring do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;[994]
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; 35
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,[995]
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,[996] 40
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,[996]
This other Eden, demi-paradise;[996][997]
This fortress built by Nature for herself[996]
Against infection and the hand of war;[996][998]
This happy breed of men, this little world,[996][999] 45
This precious stone set in the silver sea,[996]
Which serves it in the office of a wall,[996]
Or as a moat defensive to a house,[996][1000]
Against the envy of less happier lands;[996][1001]
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,[996][1002] 50
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,[996]
Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,[996][1003]
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,[996][1004][1005]
For Christian service and true chivalry,[996][1004][1006]
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry[996] 55
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son;
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:[1007] 60
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege[1008]
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,[1009]
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:[1010]
That England, that was wont to conquer others, 65
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,[1011]
How happy then were my ensuing death!

_Enter_ KING RICHARD _and_ QUEEN, AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN,
BAGOT, ROSS, _and_ WILLOUGHBY.[1012]

_York._ The king is come: deal mildly with his youth;[1013]
For young hot colts being raged do rage the more.[1014] 70

_Queen._ How fares our noble uncle, Lancaster?

_K. Rich._ What comfort, man? how is't with aged Gaunt?

_Gaunt._ O, how that name befits my composition![1015]
Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old:[1015]
Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast;[1015] 75
And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?[1015]
For sleeping England long time have I watch'd;[1015]
Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt:[1015]
The pleasure that some fathers feed upon,[1015]
Is my strict fast; I mean, my children's looks;[1015] 80
And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt:[1015][1016]
Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,[1015]
Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones.[1015]

_K. Rich._ Can sick men play so nicely with their names?[1015]

_Gaunt._ No, misery makes sport to mock itself:[1015] 85
Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me,[1015]
I mock my name, great king, to flatter thee.[1015][1017]

_K. Rich._ Should dying men flatter with those that live?[1015][1018]

_Gaunt._ No, no, men living flatter those that die.[1015]

_K. Rich._ Thou, now a-dying, say'st thou flatterest me.[1015][1019] 90

_Gaunt._ O, no! thou diest, though I the sicker be.[1015]

_K. Rich._ I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.[1015][1020]

_Gaunt._ Now, He that made me knows I see thee ill;[1015]
Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill.[1021]
Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land[1022] 95
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
Commit'st thy anointed body to the cure[1023]
Of those physicians that first wounded thee:
A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, 100
Whose compass is no bigger than thy head;[1024]
And yet, incaged in so small a verge,[1025]
The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.[1026]
O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye
Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons, 105
From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,
Deposing thee before thou wert possess'd,
Which art possess'd now to depose thyself.[1027]
Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world,[1028]
It were a shame to let this land by lease;[1029] 110
But for thy world enjoying but this land,
Is it not more than shame to shame it so?
Landlord of England art thou now, not king:[1030]
Thy state of law is bondslave to the law;[1031]
And thou--

_K. Rich._ A lunatic lean-witted fool,[1032] 115
Presuming on an ague's privilege,
Barest with thy frozen admonition
Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood[1033]
With fury from his native residence.[1034]
Now, by my seat's right royal majesty, 120
Wert thou not brother to great Edward's son,
This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head
Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.[1035]

_Gaunt._ O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,[1036]
For that I was his father Edward's son; 125
That blood already, like the pelican,
Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:[1037]
My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,
Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy souls!
May be a precedent and witness good 130
That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood:[1038]
Join with the present sickness that I have;
And thy unkindness be like crooked age,[1039][1040]
To crop at once a too long wither'd flower.[1039]
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee![1041] 135
These words hereafter thy tormentors be!
Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
Love they to live that love and honour have.

[_Exit, borne off by his Attendants._[1042]

_K. Rich._ And let them die that age and sullens have;
For both hast thou, and both become the grave.[1043] 140

_York._ I do beseech your majesty, impute his words[1044][1045]
To wayward sickliness and age in him:[1044]
He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear
As Harry Duke of Hereford, were he here.

_K. Rich._ Right, you say true: as Hereford's love, so his; 145
As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is.[1046]

_Enter_ NORTHUMBERLAND.[1047]

_North._ My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty.

_K. Rich._ What says he?

_North._ Nay, nothing; all is said:[1048]
His tongue is now a stringless instrument;
Words life and all, old Lancaster hath spent. 150

_York._ Be York the next that must be bankrupt so!
Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

_K. Rich._ The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;
His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.
So much for that. Now for our Irish wars: 155
We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,[1049]
Which live like venom where no venom else
But only they have privilege to live.[1050]
And for these great affairs do ask some charge,
Towards our assistance we do seize to us 160
The plate, coin, revenues and moveables,[1051]
Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd.

_York._ How long shall I be patient? ah, how long[1052]
Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?
Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment,[1053] 165
Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs,
Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke
About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,
Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,
Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face. 170
I am the last of noble Edward's sons,[1054]
Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first:
In war was never lion raged more fierce,[1055]
In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,
Than was that young and princely gentleman. 175
His face thou hast, for even so look'd he,
Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours;[1056]
But when he frown'd, it was against the French
And not against his friends; his noble hand
Did win what he did spend and spent not that 180
Which his triumphant father's hand had won;
His hands were guilty of no kindred blood,[1057]
But bloody with the enemies of his kin.
O Richard! York is too far gone with grief,
Or else he never would compare between.[1058] 185

_K. Rich._ Why, uncle, what's the matter?[1059]

_York._ O my liege,[1059]
Pardon me, if you please; if not, I, pleased[1059][1060]
Not to be pardon'd, am content withal.[1059][1060]
Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford? 190
Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not Hereford live?
Was not Gaunt just, and is not Harry true?
Did not the one deserve to have an heir?
Is not his heir a well-deserving son?
Take Hereford's rights away, and take from time[1061] 195
His charters and his customary rights;
Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day:
Be not thyself; for how art thou a king
But by fair sequence and succession?
Now, afore God--God forbid I say true!--[1062] 200
If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,[1063]
Call in the letters patents that he hath[1064]
By his attorneys-general to sue
His livery and deny his offer'd homage,
You pluck a thousand dangers on your head, 205
You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts[1065]
And prick my tender patience to those thoughts
Which honour and allegiance cannot think.

_K. Rich._ Think what you will, we seize into our hands[1066]
His plate, his goods, his money and his lands.[1067] 210

_York._ I'll not be by the while: my liege, farewell:
What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell;
But by bad courses may be understood
That their events can never fall out good. [_Exit._

_K. Rich._ Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight: 215
Bid him repair to us to Ely House
To see this business. To-morrow next[1068]
We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow:
And we create, in absence of ourself,
Our uncle York lord governor of England; 220
For he is just and always loved us well.
Come on, our queen: to-morrow must we part;
Be merry, for our time of stay is short.

[_Flourish. Exeunt King, Queen, Aumerle, Bushy, Green, and
Bagot._[1069]

_North._ Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead.[1070]

_Ross._ And living too; for now his son is duke. 225

_Willo._ Barely in title, not in revenue.[1071]

_North._ Richly in both, if justice had her right.

_Ross._ My heart is great; but it must break with silence,
Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue.

_North._ Nay, speak thy mind; and let him ne'er speak more 230
That speaks thy words again to do thee harm!

_Willo._ Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford?[1072]
If it be so, out with it boldly, man;
Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.

_Ross._ No good at all that I can do for him; 235
Unless you call it good to pity him,
Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.

_North._ Now, afore God, 'tis shame such wrongs are borne[1073]
In him a royal prince and many moe[1074]
Of noble blood in this declining land. 240
The king is not himself, but basely led
By flatterers; and what they will inform.
Merely in hate, 'gainst any of us all,[1075]
That will the king severely prosecute
'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs.[1075][1076] 245

_Ross._ The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes,[1077]
And quite lost their hearts: the nobles hath he fined[1078]
For ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts.[1079]

_Willo._ And daily new exactions are devised,
As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what:[1080] 250
But what, o' God's name, doth become of this?[1081]

_North._ Wars have not wasted it, for warr'd he hath not,[1082][1083]
But basely yielded upon compromise[1082]
That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows:[1082][1084]
More hath he spent in peace than they in wars.[1082] 255

_Ross._ The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm.

_Willo._ The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man.[1085]

_North._ Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him.[1086]

_Ross._ He hath not money for these Irish wars,
His burthenous taxations notwithstanding, 260
But by the robbing of the banish'd duke.

_North._ His noble kinsman: most degenerate king!
But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,
Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm;
We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,[1087] 265
And yet we strike not, but securely perish.

_Ross._ We see the very wreck that we must suffer;
And unavoided is the danger now,[1088]
For suffering so the causes of our wreck.

_North._ Not so; even through the hollow eyes of death 270
I spy life peering; but I dare not say[1089]
How near the tidings of our comfort is.

_Willo._ Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.

_Ross._ Be confident to speak, Northumberland:
We three are but thyself; and, speaking so, 275
Thy words are but as thoughts; therefore, be bold.[1090]

_North._ Then thus: I have from Port le Blanc, a bay[1091][1092]
In Brittany, received intelligence[1092][1093]
That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,[1094]
................................ 280
That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,
His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,[1095]
Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir John Ramston,[1096]
Sir John Norbery, Sir Robert Waterton and Francis Quoint,[1097]
All these well furnish'd by the Duke of Bretagne 285
With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war.
Are making hither with all due expedience
And shortly mean to touch our northern shore:
Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay
The first departing of the king for Ireland. 290
If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,[1098]
Imp out our drooping country's broken wing,
Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown,[1099]
Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt[1100]
And make high majesty look like itself, 295
Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh;[1101]
But if you faint, as fearing to do so,
Stay and be secret, and myself will go.

_Ross._ To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear.

_Willo._ Hold out my horse, and I will first be there. 300

[_Exeunt._

SCENE II. _The palace._[1102]

_Enter_ QUEEN, BUSHY, _and_ BAGOT.

_Bushy._ Madam, your majesty is too much sad.[1103]
You promised, when you parted with the king,
To lay aside life-harming heaviness,[1104]
And entertain a cheerful disposition.

_Queen._ To please the king I did; to please myself 5
I cannot do it; yet I know no cause
Why I should welcome such a guest as grief,
Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest
As my sweet Richard: yet again, methinks,
Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb, 10
Is coming towards me, and my inward soul[1105]
With nothing trembles: at some thing it grieves,[1106]
More than with parting from my lord the king.

_Bushy._ Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,[1107]
Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;[1108] 15
For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,[1109]
Divides one thing entire to many objects;
Like perspectives, which, rightly gazed upon,[1110]
Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry,[1110]
Distinguish form: so your sweet majesty,[1111] 20
Looking awry upon your lord's departure,
Find shapes of grief, more than himself, to wail;[1112]
Which, look'd on as it is, is nought but shadows[1113]
Of what it is not. Then, thrice-gracious queen,[1114][1115]
More than your lord's departure weep not: more's not
seen;[1115][1116] 25
Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye,[1117]
Which for things true weeps things imaginary.[1118]

_Queen._ It may be so; but yet my inward soul
Persuades me it is otherwise: howe'er it be,[1119]
I cannot but be sad; so heavy sad,[1120] 30
As, though on thinking on no thought I think,[1121][1122]
Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.[1121][1123]

_Bushy._ 'Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady.

_Queen._ 'Tis nothing less: conceit is still derived[1124]
From some forefather grief; mine is not so, 35
For nothing hath begot my something grief;[1125][1126]
Or something hath the nothing that I grieve:[1125][1127]
'Tis in reversion that I do possess;[1125][1128]
But what it is, that is not yet known; what[1125][1129]
I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot.[1125][1129] 40

_Enter_ GREEN.[1130]

_Green._ God save your majesty! and well met, gentlemen:[1131]
I hope the king is not yet shipp'd for Ireland.

_Queen._ Why hopest thou so? 'tis better hope he is;
For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope:[1132]
Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp'd? 45

_Green._ That he, our hope, might have retired his power,
And driven into despair an enemy's hope,[1133]
Who strongly hath set footing in this land:
The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself,
And with uplifted arms is safe arrived[1134] 50
At Ravenspurgh.[1134][1135]

_Queen._ Now God in heaven forbid!

_Green._ Ah madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,[1136]
The Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy,[1137]
The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby,
With all their powerful friends, are fled to him. 55

_Bushy._ Why have you not proclaim'd Northumberland
And all the rest revolted faction traitors?[1138]

_Green._ We have: whereupon the Earl of Worcester[1139]
Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship,[1140]
And all the household servants fled with him[1141] 60
To Bolingbroke.[1141][1142]

_Queen._ So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,[1143]
And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir:
Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,
And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother,[1144] 65
Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd.

_Bushy._ Despair not, madam.

_Queen._ Who shall hinder me?
I will despair, and be at enmity
With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,[1145]
A parasite, a keeper back of death, 70
Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,
Which false hope lingers in extremity.

_Enter_ YORK.[1146]

_Green._ Here comes the Duke of York.[1147]

_Queen._ With signs of war about his aged neck;
O, full of careful business are his looks![1148] 75
Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words.[1149]

_York._ Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:[1150]
Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,
Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.[1151]
Your husband, he is gone to save far off, 80
Whilst others come to make him lose at home:[1152]
Here am I left to underprop his land,
Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;[1153]
Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him.[1154] 85

_Enter a_ Servant.[1155]

_Serv._ My lord, your son was gone before I came.[1156]

_York._ He was? Why, so! go all which way it will!
The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,[1157]
And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side.
Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;[1158] 90
Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:[1159]
Hold, take my ring.[1160]

_Serv._ My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,[1156][1161]
To-day, as I came by, I called there;[1160][1162][1163]
But I shall grieve you to report the rest.[1163] 95

_York._ What is't, knave?[1164]

_Serv._ An hour before I came, the duchess died.[1156]

_York._ God for his mercy! what a tide of woes[1165]
Comes rushing on this woeful land at once![1166]
I know not what to do: I would to God,[1165] 100
So my untruth had not provoked him to it,
The king had cut off my head with my brother's.
What, are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland?[1167]
How shall we do for money for these wars?
Come, sister,--cousin, I would say,--pray, pardon me. 105
Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts[1168]
And bring away the armour that is there. [_Exit Servant._[1169]
Gentlemen, will you go muster men?[1170]
If I know how or which way to order these affairs[1171]
Thus thrust disorderly into my hands,[1172] 110
Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen:[1173]
The one is my sovereign, whom both my oath[1174]
And duty bids defend; the other again[1175]
Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrong'd,[1176]
Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right. 115
Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, I'll[1177]
Dispose of you.[1177]
Gentlemen, go, muster up your men,[1177][1178]
And meet me presently at Berkeley.[1179]
I should to Plashy too;[1180] 120
But time will not permit: all is uneven,[1180]
And every thing is left at six and seven.[1180]

[_Exeunt York and Queen._[1181]

_Bushy._ The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,[1182]
But none returns. For us to levy power
Proportionable to the enemy[1183] 125
Is all unpossible.[1183][1184]

_Green._ Besides, our nearness to the king in love
Is near the hate of those love not the king.

_Bagot._ And that's the wavering commons: for their love[1185]
Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them[1186] 130
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.

_Bushy._ Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd.[1187]

_Bagot._ If judgement lie in them, then so do we,
Because we ever have been near the king.[1188]

_Green._ Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol
castle:[1189][1190] 135
The Earl of Wiltshire is already there.

_Bushy._ Thither will I with you; for little office[1191]
The hateful commons will perform for us,[1192]
Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.[1193]
Will you go along with us?[1194] 140

_Bagot._ No; I will to Ireland to his majesty.[1189][1195]
Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain,
We three here part that ne'er shall meet again.[1196]

_Bushy._ That's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke.

_Green._ Alas, poor duke! the task he undertakes[1197] 145
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry:
Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever.[1198]

_Bushy._ Well, we may meet again.[1198]

_Bagot._ I fear me, never.[1198]

[_Exeunt._[1199]

SCENE III. _Wilds in Gloucestershire._

_Enter_ BOLINGBROKE _and_ NORTHUMBERLAND, _with Forces_.[1200]

_Boling._ How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now?

_North._ Believe me, noble lord,[1201]
I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire:[1202]
These high wild hills and rough uneven ways[1203]
Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome;[1204] 5
And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,[1205]
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
But I bethink me what a weary way
From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found[1206]
In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,[1207] 10
Which, I protest, hath very much beguiled
The tediousness and process of my travel:
But theirs is sweetened with the hope to have
The present benefit which I possess;[1208]
And hope to joy is little less in joy[1209] 15
Than hope enjoy'd: by this the weary lords
Shall make their way seem short, as mine hath done[1210]
By sight of what I have, your noble company.[1211]

_Boling._ Of much less value is my company
Than your good words. But who comes here?[1212][1213] 20

_Enter_ HENRY PERCY.[1214]

_North._ It is my son, young Harry Percy,[1214][1215]
Sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever.[1216]
Harry, how fares your uncle?[1217]

_Percy._ I had thought, my lord, to have learn'd his health of
you.[1217][1218]

_North._ Why, is he not with the queen?[1217][1219] 25

_Percy._ No, my good Lord; he hath forsook the court,
Broken his staff of office and dispersed
The household of the king.

_North._ What was his reason?[1220]
He was not so resolved when last we spake together.[1220][1221]

_Percy._ Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor. 30
But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh,
To offer service to the Duke of Hereford,
And sent me over by Berkeley, to discover[1222]
What power the Duke of York had levied there;
Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh.[1223] 35

_North._ Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy?[1224]

_Percy._ No, my good Lord, for that is not forgot
Which ne'er I did remember: to my knowledge,
I never in my life did look on him.

_North._ Then learn to know him now; this is the duke. 40

_Percy._ My gracious lord, I tender you my service,
Such as it is, being tender, raw and young;
Which elder days shall ripen and confirm
To more approved service and desert.

_Boling._ I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure 45
I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends;
And, as my fortune ripens with thy love,[1225]
It shall be still thy true love's recompense:
My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it. 50

_North._ How far is it to Berkeley? and what stir
Keeps good old York there with his men of war?

_Percy._ There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,[1226]
Mann'd with three hundred men, as I have heard;[1227]
And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour;[1228] 55
None else of name and noble estimate.

_Enter_ ROSS _and_ WILLOUGHBY.[1229]

_North._ Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby,[1230]
Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste.

_Boling._ Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues
A banish'd traitor: all my treasury 60
Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enrich'd
Shall be your love and labour's recompense.

_Ross._ Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord.

_Willo._ And far surmounts our labour to attain it.

_Boling._ Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor;[1231] 65
Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,
Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?[1232]

_Enter_ BERKELEY.

_North._ It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess.

_Berk._ My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you.[1233]

_Boling._ My lord, my answer is--to Lancaster;[1234] 70
And I am come to seek that name in England;[1235]
And I must find that title in your tongue,[1236]
Before I make reply to aught you say.

_Berk._ Mistake me not, my Lord; 'tis not my meaning
To raze one title of your honour out:[1237] 75
To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,
From the most gracious regent of this land,[1238]
The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on
To take advantage of the absent time[1239]
And fright our native peace with self-born arms. 80

_Enter_ YORK _attended_.[1240]

_Boling._ I shall not need transport my words by you;[1241]
Here comes his grace in person.
My noble uncle! [_Kneels._[1242]

_York._ Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,
Whose duty is deceiveable and false.

_Boling._ My gracious uncle-- 85

_York._ Tut, tut![1243]
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:[1243][1244]
I am no traitor's uncle; and that word 'grace'[1245]
In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs[1246] 90
Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground?[1247]
But then more 'why?' why have they dared to march[1248]
So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,
Frighting her pale-faced villages with war
And ostentation of despised arms?[1249] 95
Comest thou because the anointed king is hence?
Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind,
And in my loyal bosom lies his power.
Were I but now the lord of such hot youth[1250]
As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself[1251] 100
Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,
From forth the ranks of many thousand French,[1252]
O, then how quickly should this arm of mine,
Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee[1253]
And minister correction to thy fault! 105

_Boling._ My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:
On what condition stands it and wherein?[1254]

_York._ Even in condition of the worst degree,
In gross rebellion and detested treason:
Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come 110
Before the expiration of thy time,
In braving arms against thy sovereign.[1255]

_Boling._ As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford:
But as I come, I come for Lancaster.
And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace 115
Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye:
You are my father, for methinks in you[1256]
I see old Gaunt alive; O, then, my father,[1257]
Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd
A wandering vagabond; my rights and royalties 120
Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away
To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?
If that my cousin king be King of England,[1258]
It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster.
You have a son, Aumerle, my noble cousin;[1259] 125
Had you first died, and he been thus trod down.
He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father,
To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay.[1260]
I am denied to sue my livery here,
And yet my letters-patents give me leave:[1261] 130
My father's goods are all distrain'd and sold;
And these and all are all amiss employ'd.[1262]
What would you have me do? I am a subject,
And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me;[1263]
And therefore personally I lay my claim 135
To my inheritance of free descent.[1264]

_North._ The noble duke hath been too much abused.

_Ross._ It stands your grace upon to do him right.

_Willo._ Base men by his endowments are made great.

_York._ My lords of England, let me tell you this: 140
I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs
And laboured all I could to do him right;
But in this kind to come, in braving arms,[1265]
Be his own carver and cut out his way,
To find out right with wrong, it may not be;[1266] 145
And you that do abet him in this kind
Cherish rebellion and are rebels all.

_North._ The noble duke hath sworn his coming is[1267]
But for his own; and for the right of that
We all have strongly sworn to give him aid; 150
And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath![1268]

_York._ Well, well, I see the issue of these arms:
I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,
Because my power is weak and all ill left:
But if I could, by Him that gave me life, 155
I would attach you all and make you stoop
Unto the sovereign mercy of the king;
But since I cannot, be it known to you
I do remain as neuter. So, fare you well;[1269]
Unless you please to enter in the castle 160
And there repose you for this night.[1270]

_Boling._ 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[1271]
By Bushy, Bagot and their complices,[1272] 165
The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

_York._ It may be I will go with you: but yet I'll pause;[1273]
For I am loath to break our country's laws.
Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are:[1274] 170
Things past redress are now with me past care. [_Exeunt._[1275]

SCENE IV. _A camp in Wales._

_Enter_ SALISBURY _and a_ Welsh Captain.[1276]

_Cap._ My Lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days,[1277]
And hardly kept our countrymen together,[1278]
And yet we hear no tidings from the king;
Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell.[1279]

_Sal._ Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman: 5
The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.[1280]

_Cap._ 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay.
The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd[1281]
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;[1282]
The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth 10
And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change;
Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,[1283]
The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
The other to enjoy by rage and war:[1284]
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.[1285] 15
Farewell: our countrymen are gone and fled,
As well assured Richard their king is dead. [_Exit._[1286]

_Sal._ Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind[1287][1288]
I see thy glory like a shooting star[1288]
Fall to the base earth from the firmament. 20
Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,[1289]
Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest:
Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes,
And crossly to thy good all fortune goes. [_Exit._[1286]

FOOTNOTES:

[977] Ely House] London. A room in Ely-house. Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

Enter John of GAUNT sick, with the Duke of York, &c.] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Enter Gaunt, sicke with Yorke. F₁ F₂. Enter Gaunt sicke, with the Duke of Yorke. Q₅. Enter sick Gaunt, with York. F₃ F₄.

[978] _He ... ear._] Put in the margin, as spurious, by Pope.

[979] _have_] _hath_ Q₃ Q₄.

[980] _at the close_] Q₁. _at the glose_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _is the close_ Ff Q₅. _in the close_ Rowe.

[981] _As ... sweetest last_] (_As the last taste of sweets is sweetest_) _last_ Rann (Mason conj.).

[982] _life's_] _lives_ F₄. lives Qq F₁ F₂ F₃.

[983] _No; it_] _His ear_ Pope.

_sounds_] _charms_ Pope.

[984] _of whose ... fond_] Edd. (Collier conj.). _of whose taste the wise are found_ Q₁. _of whose state the wise are found_ Q₂. _of his state: then there are found_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. _of his state; there are beside_ Pope. _of whose taste th'unwise are fond_ Lettsom conj.

[985] _metres_] Malone (Steevens conj.). _meeters_ Qq Ff. _metr'ers_ Anon. conj.

_venom sound_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff. _venome sound_ Q₁ Q₅. _venom'd sound_ Pope.

[986] _ear_] _eare_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁. _eares_ F₂ Q₅. _ears_ F₃ F₄.

[987] _Report_] _Reports_ Capell.

[988] _tardy apish_] _tardy-apish_ Dyce (S. Walker conj.).

[989] _base_] _base awkward_ Pope.

[990] _his_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁. _their_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[991] _Then_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _That_ Ff Q₅.

[992] _Direct ... lose_] Put in the margin, as spurious, by Pope.

[993] _wilt thou lose._] _thou wilt lose._ Q₄. _wilt thou lose?_ Capell conj.

[994] _burn_] _do burn_ Seymour conj.

[995] _insatiate_] _insaitat_ Q₅.

[996] See note (XIII).

[997] _demi-paradise_] _this demi-paradise_ England's Parnassus.

[998] _infection_] _intestion_ 'England's Parnassus.' _invasion_ Johnson conj. (withdrawn). _infestion_ Farmer conj. _insection_ Becket conj. _infraction_ Jackson conj.

[999] _men_] _man_ England's Parnassus.

[1000] _as a_] _as_ Q₁ Q₂.

[1001] _happier_] _happy_ Pope.

[1002] _This ... England_] Omitted in England's Parnassus and by Pope.

[1003] _by ... by_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ and England's Parnassus, _by ... for_ Ff Q₅. _for ... for_ Rowe. _for ... by_ Pope.

[1004] Johnson suggests that these lines should be transposed.

[1005] _for_] Q₁ Ff Q₅. _in_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ and England's Parnassus.

[1006] _Christian_] _charitie_, England's Parnassus.

[1007] _or_] _and_ Q₄.

[1008] _siege_] _surge_ Grey conj.

[1009] _is now_] _is_ Pope. _'s now_ S. Walker conj.

[1010] _blots_] _bolts_ Steevens conj.

[1011] _Ah,_] Q₅. _Ah_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Ah!_ F₁ F₄. _Ah?_ F₂ F₃. O, Capell.

_vanish_] _vanisht_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1012] Enter ...] Enter King, Queene, ... Ff Q₅. Enter the King and Queene, &c. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (after line 70).

Ross,] Roos, Grant White (and passim).

[1013] SCENE II. Pope.

[1014] _being raged_] _inrag'd_ Pope. _being 'rag'd_ Hanmer. _being rein'd_ Singer (Ritson conj. and Long MS.). _being urg'd_ Collier (Collier MS.). _being chaf'd_ Jervis conj. _being curb'd_ Keightley conj.

[1015] _O, how ... I see thee ill_] Put in the margin, as spurious, by Pope.

[1016] _hast thou_] _thou hast_ Theobald.

[1017] _I mock_] Q₁ Ff Q₅. _O mock_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1018] _flatter with_] Q₁. _flatter_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. _then flatter_ Heath conj.

[1019] _flatterest_] _flatter'st_ Ff Q₅.

[1020] _and see_] Q₁. _I see_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1021] _to see_] om. Seymour conj.

_to see ... ill_] _but seeing thee too, ill_ Pope, _and in thee seeing ill_ Capell.

_and_] om. Long MS.

[1022] _thy land_] Q₁ _the land_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1023] _commit'st_] _Giv'st_ Pope.

[1024] _head_] _hand_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1025] _incaged_] F₁ F₂. _inraged_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _encaged_ Q₅. _ingaged_ F₃ F₄.

[1026] _The_] _Thy_ Pope.

[1027] _Which_] _Who_ Pope.

[1028] _wert_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₄. _were_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃.

[1029] _this_] Qq F₄. _his_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[1030] _now, not_] Theobald, _now not, not_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _now not, nor_ Q₄. _and not_ Ff Q₅.

[1031] _of law_] _o'er law_ Hanmer.

[1032] _And thou--_ K. Rich. _A lunatic_] _And thou_ King. _A lunatike_ Q₁. _And thou. King. A lunatick_ Q₂. _And thou._ King. _Ah lunaticke_ Q₃ Q₄ (_lunatick_ Q₄). _And--_ Rich. _And thou, a lunaticke_ Ff Q₅ (_lunatick_ F₃ F₄). _And thou--_ K. Rich. _And thou, a lunatick_ Warburton.

[1033] _chasing_] _chafing_ Ff Q₅.

[1034] _residence._] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _residence?_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. _residence;_ F₄.

[1035] _unreverent_] _unreverend_ Theobald.

[1036] _brother_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₃ F₄. _brothers_ Q₁ F₁ F₂.

[1037] _Hast thou_] _Thou hast_ Ff Q₅.

_out_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1038] _respect'st_] _respects_ Warburton.

[1039] Becket would transpose these lines.

[1040] _like crooked age_] _times crook'd edge_ Johnson conj.

[1041] _Live_] _Die_ Capell conj.

[1042] _Exit ... Attendants_] Capell. Exit. Qq Ff.

[1043] _the grave_] _thee grave_ Q₂.

[1044] Arranged as in Qq Ff. Pope ends line 141 at _impute_ and omits _in him_.

[1045] _I do beseech_] _Beseech_ Steevens.

[1046] _all_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

Enter Northumberland.] Omitted in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1047] SCENE III. Pope.

[1048] _says he?_] _sayes he?_ Qq F₁ F₂. _saies he?_ F₃. _say's he?_ F₄. _says old Gaunt?_ Pope. _says he now?_ Capell. _sayeth he?_ Anon. conj.

_says he?_ North. _Nay, nothing_] _says he?_ North. _Says he,--Nothing_ Lettsom conj.

_Nay_] om. Q₃ Q₄.

[1049] _those_] _these_ Capell.

_kerns_] _kerne_ Q₁ Q₂.

[1050] _have_] _hath_ Capell.

[1051] _revenues_] _and revennewes_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄. (_reuenewes_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₄. _reueneues_ Q₃. _reuennewes_ F₁. _revennews_ F₂. _revenews_ F₃. _revenues_ F₄).

[1052] _ah_] _oh_ Ff Q₅.

[1053] _nor_] _not_ Rowe.

[1054] _noble_] _the noble_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1055] _war_] _warres_ F₂ Q₅ F₃. _wars_ F₄.

raged] _ragde_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _rage_ Q₄. _rag'd_ Ff Q₅.

[1056] _the_] Ff Q₅. _a_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1057] _kindred_] Q₃ Q₄. _kinred_ Q₁ Q₂. _kindreds_ Ff Q₅.

[1058] _between._] _between--_ Hanmer.

[1059] Arranged as by Theobald. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ end the lines with _matter?... please ... with all_ (_withal_ Q₂. _withall_ Q₄). As four lines ending _uncle, ... matter?... if not ... with all._ in Ff Q₅.

[1060] _Pardon ... withal._] Put in the margin, as spurious, by Pope.

[1061] _rights_] _right_ Q₄.

[1062] _Now ... true!--_] omitted by Pope.

[1063] _rights_] _rightes_ Q₁. _right_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1064] _the_] _his_ FF Q₅.

[1065] _lose_] Q₂ F₄. _loose_ Q₁ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃.

[1066] _seize_] Q₃ Q₄ F₄. _cease_ Q₁. _ceaze_ Q₂. _seise_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃.

[1067] _lands_] _land_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1068] _business_] _business done_ Rowe.

[1069] Flourish. Exeunt....] Exeunt.... Capell. Exeunt King and Queene: Manet North. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Flourish. Manet North. Willoughby, and Ross. Ff Q₅.

[1070] SCENE IV. Pope.

[1071] _revenue_] _revennew_ Ff Q₅ (_revenue_ F₃ F₄).

[1072] _that thou wouldst_] _that thou'dst_ Ff Q₅. _what you'd_ Pope. _that that thou'dst_ Keightley conj.

_the Duke_] Q₁ F₄. _the D._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _th' Du._ F₁ F₂. _th' D._ Q₅. _th' Duke_ F₃.

[1073] _God_] _heaven_ Ff Q₅.

_'tis_] F₁. _tis_ Q₁ Q₂. _t'is_ Q₃ Q₄. _'its_ F₂. _'ts_ Q₅. _it's_ F₃ F₄.

[1074] _moe_]Ff Q₅. _mo_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _more_ Rowe.

[1075] _'gainst ... 'Gainst_] Ff Q₅. _gainst ... Gainst_ Q₁. _against ... Against_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1076] _lives_] _wives_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[1077] _pill'd_] F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄. _pild_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _pil'd_ F₁.

[1078] _And quite_] _And_ Pope. _And hath quite_ Keightley conj.

[1079] _and ... hearts_] om. S. Walker conj., ending lines 246-248 at _pill'd ... hearts ... quarrels_.

[1080] _benevolences, and I_] _benevolences, I_ Pope. _benevolence', I_ S. Walker conj.

[1081] _But...._] North. _But_ Q₃ Q₄.

_o'_] Ff Q₅. _a_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1082] Given to _North._ in Q₁ Ff Q₅; to _Willo._ in Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1083] _Wars have_] Rowe. _Wars hath_ Q₁ Q₂ Ff. _Warres hath_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _War hath_ Capell.

[1084] _noble_] om. Ff Q₅. See note (XIV).

[1085] _king's_] _king_ Q₁ Q₂.

[1086] _dissolution_] _desolution_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.

_hangeth over_] _hang o'er_ Hanmer.

[1087] _sails_] _salles_ F₁ (Capell's copy).

[1088] _unavoided is_] _unavoidable_ Pope.

[1089] _spy_] _espie_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

_peering_] _peercing_ Q₅.

[1090] _as thoughts_] _our thoughts_ Singer (Collier MS.).

[1091] _thus_] _thus, my friends_ Pope.

[1092] See note (XV).

[1093] _Brittany_] _Brittanie_ Q₂ Q₃. _Brittaine_ Q₁. _Britaine_ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _Britain_ F₃ F₄.

_received_] _had_ Pope.

[1094] _Duke of_] om. Pope. See note (XVI).

_Rainold_] Q₁ Q₂. _Raynold_ Q₃ Q₄. _Rainald_ Ff. _Raynald_ Q₅. _Reignold_ Capell. _Reginald_ Collier.

[1095] _brother_] _uncle_ Rann conj.

[1096] _Ramston_] _Rainston_ Ff Q₅.

[1097] _Quoint_] _Coines_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1098] _slavish_] _countries slavish_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1099] _broking_] Q₁ Q₂. _broken_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _brooking_ Ff.

[1100] _our_] _the_ Q₅.

_gilt_] Ff Q₅. _guilt_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1101] _post_] _haste_ F₃ F₄.

[1102] SCENE II.] SCENE V. Pope. The palace.] The court of England. Pope.

[1103] _too much_] _much too_ Pope.

[1104] _life-harming_] Q₁ Q₂. _half-harming_ Q₃ Q₄. _selfe-harming_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _self harming_ F₃ F₄.

[1105] _towards_] _toward_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_me, ... soul_] Ff Q₅. _me ... soule,_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1106] _With ... at_] _Which nothing trembles, at_ F₃ F₄. _Which nothing trembles at,_ Rowe (ed. 1).

_With nothing trembles: at some thing_] _With something trembles, yet at nothing_ Warburton.

_at some thing it_] _yet at some-thing_ Pope.

_some thing_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _some-thing_ Q₁ Ff Q₅.

[1107] _hath_] _had_ Q₅.

[1108] _shows ... is_] _shews ... is_ Qq Ff (_shews_ F₃ F₄). _show ... are_ Pope.

[1109] _eye_] Ff Q₅. _eyes_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1110] _rightly gazed upon ... eyed awry_] _wrily gaz'd upon ... ey'd aright_ Capell. _gaz'd upon awry ... ey'd aright_ Blackstone conj.

[1111] _Distinguish_] _Distinguisht_ Q₄.

[1112] _Find_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₃ F₄. _Finde_ Q₁ F₁ F₂. _Finds_ Pope.

[1113] _it is, is_] _they are, are_ Hanmer.

[1114] _it is_] _they are_ Hanmer.

_thrice-gracious queen_] _thrice (gracious Queene)_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1115] _Then ... weep not_] _gracious queen, then weep not More than your lord's departure_ Pope.

[1116] _more's_] Ff Q₅. _more is_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1117] _eye_] _eyes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1118] _weeps_] _weepes_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _weepe_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _weep_ F₃ F₄.

[1119] _if is_] om. Pope.

_it be_] _'t be_ S. Walker conj.

[1120] _so_] _most_ Pope.

[1121] _As, though ... shrink_] Placed in the margin, as spurious, by Pope.

[1122] _though_] _thought_ Q₁.

_on thinking on_] _one thinking, on_ F₃ F₄. _in thinking, on_ Capell (Johnson conj.). _unthinking, on_ Collier MS.

_on no_] _on, no_ Q₄ Q₅.

_no thought_] _no thing_ Lettsom conj.

[1123] _Makes_] _'T makes_ Capell.

[1124] _nothing_] _something_ Seymour conj.

[1125] _For nothing ... I wot_] Placed in the margin, as spurious, by Pope.

[1126] _grief_] _woe_ Collier MS.

[1127] _Or_] _Not_ Johnson conj.

_grieve_] _guess_ Collier MS.

[1128] _reversion that ... possess_] _reversion--that ... possess_ Johnson conj.

[1129] _But ... wot_] _But what it is, not known, 'tis nameless woe_ Pope.

[1130] Enter Green] Omitted in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1131] SCENE VI. Pope.

_God_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Heaven_ Ff Q₅.

[1132] _designs crave_] _design craves_ Capell.

_his haste_] om. F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1133] _enemy's hope_] _enemy_ Pope.

[1134] _And ... Ravenspurgh_] As in Ff Q₅; as one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1135] _Ravenspurgh_] _Ravenspurg_ Ff Q₅.

[1136] _Ah_] _O_ Ff Q₅.

_that_] _what_ Rowe.

[1137] _The Lord_] om. Anon. conj.

_his son young Henry_] _his son yong H._ Q₁. _his yong sonne H._ Q₂. _his young sonne H._ Q₃. _his young Son H._ Q₄. _his yong sonne Henrie_ F₁. _his yong sonne Henry_ F₂. _his young sonne Henry_ Q₅. _his young son Henry_ F₃ F₄. _his young son_ Pope. _young Henry_ Seymour conj.

_Percy_] om. Capell.

[1138] _all the rest_] _al the rest_ Q₁. _the rest of the_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _the rest of that_ F₃ F₄. _all of that_ Pope. _all the rest of the_ Capell (ending the line at _faction_).

_revolted_] _revolting_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1139] _whereupon_] _whereon_ Pope.

[1140] _broke_] _broken_ Q₁.

[1141] _And all ... Bolingbroke_] Arranged as in Pope; as one line in Qq Ff.

[1142] _To Bolingbroke_] om. Capell.

[1143] _to my_] Q₁. _The rest of my._

[1144] _new-deliver'd_] _new delveerd_ Q₁ Q₂. _new delivered_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1145] _cozening_] _couetous_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1146] _hope lingers_] _hopes linger_ Ff Q₅.

Enter York] om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Enter York, part. armed. Collier MS.

[1147] SCENE VII. Pope.

_Here comes_] _Madam, here comes my lord_ Seymour conj.

[1148] _O_] _How_ Anon. conj.

[1149] _Uncle, for God's sake_] _For heav'ns sake, uncle_ Seymour conj.

_God's_] _heaven's_ Ff Q₅.

_speak_] om. Pope.

[1150] _Should ... thoughts_] Omitted in Ff Q₅.

[1151] _cares_] Q₁. The rest _care_.

[1152] _him lose_] _him loose_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _his loose_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. _his lose_ F₄.

[1153] _comes the_] _comes his_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

_that his_] _after_ Pope.

[1154] _flatter'd_] _flatterd_ Q₁ Q₂. _flattered_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1155] Enter ...] Ff Q₅. The rest omit.

[1156] Serv.] Servingman Q₁ Q₂.

[1157] _they are cold_] _cold_ Pope.

[1158] _Sirrah_] om. Pope.

[1159] _me_] om. Pope.

[1160] _Hold ... called there_] Arranged as in the first four Quartos; as two lines in Ff Q₅, ending _forgot ... call'd there._

[1161] _your lordship_] om. Pope.

[1162] _as I came by, I_] Q₁. _I came came by and_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1163] _To-day ... to report_] _I to-day came by And call'd there, but--alack! I shall but grieve you if I_ Seymour conj.

[1164] _knave_] om. Pope.

[1165] _God_] _Heaven_ Ff Q₅.

[1166] _Comes_] _Come_ Ff Q₅.

[1167] _no_] Q₁. _two_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. om. Ff Q₅.

[1168] _fellow_] _follow_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1169] [Exit ...] Capell.

[1170] _go_] om. Ff Q₅. _go and_ Pope. Seymour would continue this line to _if I._

[1171] _or which way_] om. Pope. See note (XVII).

[1172] _Thus thrust disorderly_] Steevens. _Thus disorderly thrust_ Qq Ff. _Disorderly thus thrust_ Pope. _Thus most disorderly thrust_ Capell.

[1173] _Both are_] _They are both_ Pope.

_are my kinsmen_] _my kinsmen are_ Seymour conj.

[1174] _The one_] _Tone_ Q₁ Q₂. _T'one_ Q₃ Q₄. _Th'one_ Ff Q₅.

_is_] om. Pope.

[1175] _the other_] Q₅. _tother_ Q₁ Q₂. _t'other_ Q₃ Q₄. _Th'other_ Ff Q₅.

[1176] _Is my kinsman_] _My kinsman is, one_ Pope. _He is my kinsman_ Capell. _My kinsman is, too_ Seymour conj. _Is my near kinsman_ Collier MS.

[1177] _Well ... men_] As two lines in Qq Ff, ending _cousin ... men_.

[1178] _Gentlemen_] om. Pope (ending the lines) _I'll ... men_.

[1179] _Berkeley_] _Barkly_ Q₁ Q₂. _Barckly_ Q₃ Q₄. _Barkley castle_ Ff Q₅. (_Barkly_ F₃ F₄). _Berkley, gentlemen_ Capell (reading lines 117, 118 with Pope).

[1180] _I should ... seven_] Arranged as by Pope; as two lines in Qq Ff, ending _permit ... seven_.

[1181] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt Duke, Qu. man. Bush. Green. Q₁ Q₂. Exeunt Duke, & Queene: manent Bushie and Greene. Q₃ Q₄. Exit. Ff. Ex. Q₅.

[1182] SCENE VIII. Pope.

_to Ireland_] Ff Q₅. _for Ireland_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1183] _Proportionable ... unpossible_] Arranged as in Pope; as one line in Qq Ff.

[1184] _all_] om. Seymour conj.

_unpossible_] _impossible_ Ff Q₅.

[1185] _that's_] Ff Q₅. _that is_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1186] _whoso_] Q₅. _who so_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff. who Pope.

[1187] _Wherein_] _Therein_ Q₅.

[1188] _ever have been_] _have been ever_ Ff Q₅.

[1189] _Well_ and _No_] Placed in a separate line by Dyce.

[1190] _I will_] _I'll_ Pope.

_Bristol_] _Brist._ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1191] _will I_] _will will I_ Q₄.

[1192] _The hateful commons will_] Pope. _Will the hateful commons_ Qq Ff.

[1193] _to pieces_] Q₁. The rest _in pieces_.

[1194] _go along_] _go_ Pope, _along_ Seymour conj. inserting _We must be brief_.

[1195] _I will_] _I'll_ Pope.

[1196] _ne'er_] _nere_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _neere_ Q₄. _neu'r_ F₁ F₂. _nev'r_ Q₅ F₃. _never_ F₄.

[1197] Green.] Bag. Capell.

[1198] _Farewell ... ever._ Bushy. _Well ... again._] Bush. _Farewell ... again_ Ff Q₅. Bush. _Farewell ... ever._ Green. _Well ... again._ Rowe.

[1199] [Exeunt.] om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Exit. F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. Ex. F₄.

[1200] SCENE III.] SCENE IX. Pope.

Wilds ...] Capell. In Gloucestershire. Pope. A wild prospect ... Theobald.

Enter ...] Enter B. and N. journeying; Forces with them. Capell. Enter Hereford, Northumberland. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Enter the Duke of H. and N. Ff Q₅.

[1201] _Believe ... lord,_] Omitted by Pope. _Believe ... lord, I cannot tell;_ Capell. _Believe ... lord, 'tis past my knowledge_ Seymour conj.

[1202] _here_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1203] _wild_] _wide_ Q₅.

[1204] _Draws ... makes_] _Draw ... make_ Rowe. See note (XVIII).

[1205] _your_] _our_ Ff Q₅.

[1206] _Cotswold_] Hanmer. _Cotshall_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Coltshold_ Ff Q₅.

[1207] _In_] By Hanmer.

[1208] _which_] Q₁. The rest _that_.

[1209] _to joy_] _of joy_ Malone conj.] _t'enjoy_ Seymour conj.

[1210] _done_] _been_ Collier MS.

[1211] _noble_] om. Seymour conj.

[1212] _good words_] _good words, my lord_ Seymour conj.

[1213] S. Walker proposed to read _Than ... It_ is as one line.

[1214] Enter Henry] Enter Harry Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Enter H. Ff Q₅.

[1215] _my son_] _my son, my lord,_ Capell.

[1216] _Worcester, whencesoever._] _Worcester whencesoever._ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _Worcester whensoever:_ Q₄. _Worcester: Whencesoever._ Ff (in the same line). _Worcester: whencesoever,_ Q₅.

[1217] As two lines in Capell, ending _lord ... queen?_

[1218] _had_] om. Pope.

_to have learn'd_] _that I should learn_ Seymour conj., reading as one line, _my lord ... you._

[1219] _Why_] _Of me! why so?_ Seymour conj.

[1220] _What ... resolved_] As one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1221] _last we_] _we last_ Ff Q₅.

_together_] om. Steevens conj.

[1222] _over_] _o'er_ Pope.

[1223] _directions_] _direction_ Ff Q₅.

[1224] _Hereford, boy_] _Herefords boy_ Q₁ Q₂.

[1225] _thy love_] _my love_ Q₅.

[1226] _yon_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _yond_ Ff Q₅.

[1227] _three hundred_] _300. men_ Q₁ Q₂.

[1228] _are ... of_] om. Seymour conj.

_of_] om. Pope.

_and_] om. Pope.

[1229] _estimate_] _estimation_ Q₃ Q₄.

Enter....] Ff Q₅. om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1230] _come_] _comes_ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1231] _thanks_] _thanke's_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.

[1232] _Stands ... bounty_] _Must for my bounty stand_ Seymour conj.

_who_] _who now_ Pope.

[1233] _My lord of_] _Lord_ Pope.

_is to you_] _is--_ Steevens conj.

[1234] _is--to_] Malone. _is to_ Qq Ff.

[1235] _And_] _As_ Anon. conj.

[1236] _And I must_] _For I must_ Capell conj.

_tongue_] _towne_ F₂ Q₅. _town_ F₃ F₄.

[1237] _raze_] _race_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _'rase_ Capell.

_title_] _tittle_ Capell conj.

[1238] _gracious regent of_] _gratious regent of_ Q₁. _ghorious of_ Q₂. _glorious of_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. _glorious of all_ Hanmer.

[1239] _time_] _king_ Theobald conj.

[1240] Enter Y. attended.] Capell. Enter Yorke. Ff Q₅. om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1241] SCENE X. Pope.

[1242] _My noble_] _Noble_ Pope.

[Kneels.] Rowe.

[1243] _Tut ... uncle_] As one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Omitted by Pope.

[1244] _no uncle_] om. Ff Q₅.

[1245] _and_] om. Pope.

_word_] om. Mitford conj.

[1246] _those_] _these_ Ff Q₅.

[1247] _a dust_] _the dust_ Q₅.

[1248] _But then more 'why?'_] _But then more why?_ Q₁. _But more than why?_ Q₂ Q₃. _But more then why?_ Q₄. _But more then why,_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. _But more then, why,_ F₄. _But more than,--why,_ Theobald. _But more than this;_ Tyrwhitt conj. _Why?--but then more:--_ Jackson conj.

[1249] _despised_] _despightful_ Hanmer. _disposed_ Warburton. _despited_ Becket conj. _despoiling_ Collier (Collier MS.). _displayed_ Singer conj. _ostentation of despised_] _ostentation's undisguised_ Bullock conj.

[1250] _the lord_] _lord_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1251] _myself_] _my selfe_ Q₁ Q₂ F₁. _thy selfe_ Q₃ Q₄ F₂ Q₅. _thy self_ F₃ F₄.

[1252] _thousand_] _thousands_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1253] _palsy_] _Plashy_ Q₅.

[1254] _On_] _In_ Johnson conj.

[1255] _thy_] _my_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1256] _for_] _or_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1257] _my_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1258] _King of_] _King in_ Q₁.

[1259] _cousin_] _kinsman_ FF Q₅.

[1260] _wrongs_] _wrongers_ Heath conj.

[1261] _letters-patents_] _letters-patent_ Malone.

[1262] _are all_] om. Q₅.

[1263] _And I_] _And_ Ff Q₅.

[1264] _my_] _mine_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1265] _kind to come, in_] Q₁. _kind to come in_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1266] _wrong_] _wrongs_ Ff Q₅.

[1267] North.] Yor. Q₅.

[1268] _ne'er_] F₄. _ne're_ Q₃ Q₄. _never_ Q₁ Q₂. _nev'r_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[1269] _fare you well_] _farewell_ Pope.

[1270] _there_] _there, my lords_ Collier (Collier MS.).

_night._] _night, or so._ Capell.

[1271] _Bristol_] _Bristoll_ Q₅. The rest _Bristow_.

[1272] _complices_] _complicies_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1273] _with you_] om. Pope.

[1274] _Nor friends_] _Not friends_ Q₅. _For friends_ F₃ F₄.

_welcome you_] _you welcome_ Jackson conj.

[1275] Exeunt.] om. Q₃ Q₄.

[1276] SCENE IV.] SCENE XI. Pope. Johnson proposes to insert this Scene after Act III. Sc. I.

A camp in Wales.] Capell. In Wales. Theobald.

Enter....] Enter Earl of S. and a Welch Captaine Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Enter Salisbury and a Captaine Ff Q₅.

[1277] Cap.] Welch. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1278] _our_] Qq F₁. _your_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1279] _will_] _all_ Rowe.

[1280] _all ... thee_] _in thee all his confidence_ Capell.

_all his_] om. Seymour conj.

_confidence_] _trust_ Pope.

[1281] _are all_] Q₁ F₃ F₄. _all are_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅.

[1282] _And_] _The_ Q₅.

[1283] _leap_] _rape_ Capell conj.

[1284] _to enjoy_] _hope t' enjoy_ Pope. _in hope t' enjoy_ Theobald.

[1285] _signs_] _boding signs_ Hanmer.

_or fall_] Q₁. The rest omit.

[1286] [Exit.] om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1287] _with the_] Q₁. _with_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. _ah, with_ Pope.

[1288] _with the ... I see_] _I with ... Do see_ Seymour conj.

[1289] _Thy sun_] _The sun_ Dyce.