Chapter X: Act III: SCENE I. Bristol. Before the Castle

_Enter_ BOLINGBROKE, YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, ROSS, PERCY,
WILLOUGHBY, _with_ BUSHY _and_ GREEN, _prisoners_.[1290]

_Boling._ 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,[1291]
For 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood 5
From off my hands, here in the view of men
I will unfold some causes of your deaths.[1292]
You have misled a prince, a royal king,
A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
By you unhappied and disfigured clean: 10
You have in manner with your sinful hours
Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
Broke the possession of a royal bed[1293]
And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks
With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.[1294] 15
Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,
Near to the king in blood, and near in love
Till you did make him misinterpret me,[1295]
Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries,
And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds,[1296] 20
Eating the bitter bread of banishment;
Whilst you have fed upon my signories,[1297]
Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,
From my own windows torn my household coat,[1298]
Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,[1299] 25
Save men's opinions and my living blood,
To show the world I am a gentleman.
This and much more, much more than twice all this,
Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over[1300]
To execution and the hand of death. 30

_Bushy._ More welcome is the stroke of death to me
Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.[1301]

_Green._ My comfort is that heaven will take our souls
And plague injustice with the pains of hell.

_Boling._ My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatch'd. 35

[_Exeunt Northumberland and others, with the prisoners._[1302]

Uncle, you say the queen is at your house;
For God's sake, fairly let her be entreated:[1303]
Tell her I send to her my kind commends;
Take special care my greetings be deliver'd.[1304]

_York._ A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd 40
With letters of your love to her at large.

_Boling._ Thanks, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away,[1305]
To fight with Glendower and his complices:[1306]
Awhile to work, and after holiday. [_Exeunt._

SCENE II. _The coast of Wales. A castle in view._

_Drums: flourish and colours. Enter_ KING RICHARD, _the_ BISHOP
of CARLISLE, AUMERLE, _and Soldiers_.[1307]

_K. Rich._ Barkloughly castle call they this at hand?[1308]

_Aum._ Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air,[1309]
After your late tossing on the breaking seas?[1310]

_K. Rich._ Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy
To stand upon my kingdom once again. 5
Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,
Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs:
As a long-parted mother with her child[1311]
Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,[1312]
So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,[1313] 10
And do thee favours with my royal hands.[1314]
Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth,
Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;
But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,
And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way, 15
Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet
Which with usurping steps do trample thee:
Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies;
And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower.[1315]
Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder[1316] 20
Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies.
Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords:
This earth shall have a feeling and these stones
Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king 25
Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.[1317]

_Car._ Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king
Hath power to keep you king in spite of all.
The means that heaven yields must be embraced,[1318][1319]
And not neglected; else, if heaven would,[1318][1320] 30
And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse,[1318][1321]
The proffer'd means of succour and redress.[1318][1322]

_Aum._ He means, my lord, that we are too remiss;
Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,[1323]
Grows strong and great in substance and in power.[1324] 35

_K. Rich._ Discomfortable cousin! know'st thou not[1325]
That when the searching eye of heaven is hid,[1326]
Behind the globe, that lights the lower world,[1326][1327]
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen
In murders and in outrage, boldly here;[1328] 40
But when from under this terrestrial ball[1329]
He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines
And darts his light through every guilty hole,[1330]
Then murders, treasons and detested sins,
The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs, 45
Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves?
So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke,
Who all this while hath revell'd in the night
Whilst we were wandering with the antipodes,[1331]
Shall see us rising in our throne, the east, 50
His treasons will sit blushing in his face,[1332]
Not able to endure the sight of day,
But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.[1333]
Not all the water in the rough rude sea[1334]
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;[1335] 55
The breath of worldly men cannot depose[1336]
The deputy elected by the Lord:
For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd[1337]
To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,[1338]
God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay[1339] 60
A glorious angel: then, if angels fight,
Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.

_Enter_ SALISBURY.

Welcome, my lord: how far off lies your power?[1340]

_Sal._ Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord,
Than this weak arm: discomfort guides my tongue 65
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,[1341]
Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth:[1342]
O, call back yesterday, bid time return,
And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men![1343] 70
To-day, to-day, unhappy day, too late,
O'erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune and thy state:[1344]
For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead,
Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fled.[1345]

_Aum._ Comfort, my liege: why looks your grace so pale? 75

_K. Rich._ But now the blood of twenty thousand men[1346]
Did triumph in my face, and they are fled;
And, till so much blood thither come again,[1347]
Have I not reason to look pale and dead?[1347]
All souls that will be safe fly from my side, 80
For time hath set a blot upon my pride.

_Aum._ Comfort, my liege; remember who you are.

_K. Rich._ I had forgot myself: am I not king?
Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest.[1348]
Is not the king's name twenty thousand names?[1349] 85
Arm, arm, my name! a puny subject strikes
At thy great glory. Look not to the ground,
Ye favourites of a king: are we not high?
High be our thoughts: I know my uncle York
Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here?[1350] 90

_Enter_ SCROOP.

_Scroop._ More health and happiness betide my liege[1351]
Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!

_K. Rich._ Mine ear is open and my heart prepared:
The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.
Say, is my kingdom lost? why, 'twas my care; 95
And what loss is it to be rid of care?
Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we?
Greater he shall not be; if he serve God,
We'll serve Him too and be his fellow so:
Revolt our subjects? that we cannot mend; 100
They break their faith to God as well as us:
Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay;[1352]
The worst is death, and death will have his day.

_Scroop._ Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd
To bear the tidings of calamity. 105
Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,[1353]
As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
So high above his limits swells the rage[1354]
Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land 110
With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.[1355]
White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps[1356]
Against thy majesty; boys, with women's voices,[1357]
Strive to speak big and clap their female joints[1358]
In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown:[1359] 115
Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows[1360]
Of double-fatal yew against thy state;[1361]
Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills[1362]
Against thy seat: both young and old rebel,[1362]
And all goes worse than I have power to tell. 120

_K. Rich._ Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill.
Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? where is Bagot?[1363]
What is become of Bushy? where is Green?
That they have let the dangerous enemy
Measure our confines with such peaceful steps? 125
If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it:[1364]
I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke.[1365]

_Scroop._ Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord.[1366]

_K. Rich._ O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption!
Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man![1367] 130
Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart!
Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas!
Would they make peace? terrible hell make war
Upon their spotted souls for this offence![1368]

_Scroop._ Sweet love, I see, changing his property,[1369] 135
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate:
Again uncurse their souls; their peace is made
With heads, and not with hands: those whom you curse[1370]
Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound[1371]
And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.[1372] 140

_Aum._ Is Bushy, Green and the Earl of Wiltshire dead?

_Scroop._ Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads.[1373]

_Aum._ Where is the duke my father with his power?

_K. Rich._ No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs; 145
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.[1374]
Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground? 150
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth[1375]
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground[1376] 155
And tell sad stories of the death of kings:
How some have been deposed; some slain in war;
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;[1377]
Some poison'd by their wives; some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown 160
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antique sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, 165
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin[1378]
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king![1379] 170
Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood[1380]
With solemn reverence: throw away respect,[1380]
Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,[1381]
For you have but mistook me all this while:
I live with bread like you, feel want,[1382] 175
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,[1382][1383][1384]
How can you say to me, I am a king?[1382][1384][1385]

_Car._ My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes,[1386]
But presently prevent the ways to wail.
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, 180
Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe,
And so your follies fight against yourself.[1387]
Fear, and be slain; no worse can come to fight:[1388][1389]
And fight and die is death destroying death;[1388][1390]
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.[1388] 185

_Aum._ My father hath a power; inquire of him,[1388]
And learn to make a body of a limb.[1388]

_K. Rich._ Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come
To change blows with thee for our day of doom.[1391]
This ague fit of fear is over-blown;[1391] 190
An easy task it is to win our own.[1391]
Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power?
Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.[1392]

_Scroop._ Men judge by the complexion of the sky[1392]
The state and inclination of the day:[1392] 195
So may you by my dull and heavy eye,[1392]
My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.[1392]
I play the torturer, by small and small
To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:
Your uncle York is join'd with Bolingbroke,[1393] 200
And all your northern castles yielded up
And all your southern gentlemen in arms
Upon his party.

_K. Rich._ Thou hast said enough.[1394]
Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth [_To Aumerle._[1395]
Of that sweet way I was in to despair! 205
What say you now? what comfort have we now?
By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly
That bids me be of comfort any more.
Go to Flint castle: there I'll pine away;
A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey. 210
That power I have, discharge; and let them go[1396]
To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,[1397]
For I have none: let no man speak again
To alter this, for counsel is but vain.

_Aum._ My liege, one word.

_K. Rich._ He does me double wrong 215
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
Discharge my followers: let them hence away,[1398]
From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day.[1399] [_Exeunt._

SCENE III. _Wales. Before Flint castle._

_Enter, with drum and colours_, BOLINGBROKE, YORK,
NORTHUMBERLAND, Attendants, _and forces_.[1400]

_Boling._ So that by this intelligence we learn
The Welshmen are dispersed; and Salisbury
Is gone to meet the king, who lately landed
With some few private friends upon this coast.

_North._ The news is very fair and good, my lord: 5
Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.

_York._ It would beseem the Lord Northumberland
To say 'King Richard': alack the heavy day[1401]
When such a sacred king should hide his head.

_North._ Your grace mistakes; only to be brief,[1402] 10
Left I his title out.[1403]

_York._ The time hath been,[1404]
Would you have been so brief with him, he would[1404][1405]
Have been so brief with you, to shorten you,[1406][1407]
For taking so the head, your whole head's length.[1406][1408]

_Boling._ Mistake not, uncle, further than you should.[1409] 15

_York._ Take not, good cousin, further than you should,[1409]
Lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads.[1410]

_Boling._ I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself[1411]
Against their will. But who comes here?[1412]

_Enter_ PERCY.

Welcome, Harry: what, will not this castle yield?[1413] 20

_Percy._ The castle royally is mann'd, my lord,[1414]
Against thy entrance.[1415]

_Boling._ Royally![1416]
Why, it contains no king?[1416]

_Percy._ Yes, my good lord,
It doth contain a king; King Richard lies[1417] 25
Within the limits of yon lime and stone:[1418]
And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,[1419]
Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman
Of holy reverence; who, I cannot learn.

_North._ O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle.[1420][1421] 30

_Boling._ Noble lords,[1421][1422]
Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle;
Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley[1423]
Into his ruin'd ears, and thus deliver:[1424]
Henry Bolingbroke[1424][1425][1426] 35
On both his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand[1426][1427]
And sends allegiance and true faith of heart[1428]
To his most royal person; hither come[1429]
Even at his feet to lay my arms and power,[1430]
Provided that my banishment repeal'd 40
And lands restored again be freely granted:
If not, I'll use the advantage of my power
And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood
Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen:[1431]
The which, how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke[1432] 45
It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench[1433]
The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land,
My stooping duty tenderly shall show.
Go, signify as much, while here we march
Upon the grassy carpet of this plain. 50
Let's march without the noise of threatening drum,[1434]
That from this castle's tatter'd battlements[1435]
Our fair appointments may be well perused.
Methinks King Richard and myself should meet
With no less terror than the elements 55
Of fire and water, when their thundering shock[1436]
At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.
Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water:[1437]
The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain[1437][1438]
My waters; on the earth, and not on him.[1437][1439] 60
March on, and mark King Richard how he looks.

_Parle without, and answer within. Then a flourish. Enter on the
walls_, KING RICHARD, _the_ BISHOP of CARLISLE, AUMERLE,
SCROOP, _and_ SALISBURY.[1440]

See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,[1441]
As doth the blushing discontented sun
From out the fiery portal of the east,
When he perceives the envious clouds are bent 65
To dim his glory and to stain the track[1442]
Of his bright passage to the occident.

_York._ Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth
Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,[1443] 70
That any harm should stain so fair a show![1444]

_K. Rich._ We are amazed; and thus long have we stood
To watch the fearful bending of thy knee, [_To North._[1445]
Because we thought ourself thy lawful king:[1446]
And if we be, how dare thy joints forget[1447] 75
To pay their awful duty to our presence?[1448]
If we be not, show us the hand of God
That hath dismiss'd us from our stewardship;
For well we know, no hand of blood and bone
Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre, 80
Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.
And though you think that all, as you have done,
Have torn their souls by turning them from us,
And we are barren and bereft of friends;
Yet know, my master, God omnipotent,[1449] 85
Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf
Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike
Your children yet unborn and unbegot,
That lift your vassal hands against my head
And threat the glory of my precious crown. 90
Tell Bolingbroke--for yond methinks he stands--[1450]
That every stride he makes upon my land[1451]
Is dangerous treason: he is come to open[1452]
The purple testament of bleeding war;
But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,[1453] 95
Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons
Shall ill become the flower of England's face,[1454][1455]
Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace[1455][1456]
To scarlet indignation and bedew
Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood.[1457] 100

_North._ The king of heaven forbid our lord the king
Should so with civil and uncivil arms
Be rush'd upon! Thy thrice noble cousin[1458]
Harry Bolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand;[1459]
And by the honourable tomb he swears, 105
That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones,
And by the royalties of both your bloods,
Currents that spring from one most gracious head,
And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,[1460]
And by the worth and honour of himself, 110
Comprising all that may be sworn or said,
His coming hither hath no further scope
Than for his lineal royalties and to beg
Enfranchisement immediate on his knees:
Which on thy royal party granted once, 115
His glittering arms he will commend to rust,
His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart
To faithful service of your majesty.
This swears he, as he is a prince, is just;[1461]
And, as I am a gentleman, I credit him.[1462] 120

_K. Rich._ Northumberland, say thus the king returns:[1463]
His noble cousin is right welcome hither;
And all the number of his fair demands
Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction:[1464]
With all the gracious utterance thou hast[1464][1465] 125
Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends.[1466]
We do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not, [_To Aumerle._[1467]
To look so poorly and to speak so fair?
Shall we call back Northumberland, and send
Defiance to the traitor, and so die? 130

_Aum._ No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words[1468]
Till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords.[1469]

_K. Rich._ O God, O God! that e'er this tongue of mine,
That laid the sentence of dread banishment
On yon proud man, should take it off again[1470] 135
With words of sooth! O that I were as great
As is my grief, or lesser than my name!
Or that I could forget what I have been,
Or not remember what I must be now!
Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat, 140
Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me.

_Aum._ Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke.

_K. Rich._ What must the king do now? must he submit?
The king shall do it: must he be deposed?
The king shall be contented: must he lose 145
The name of king? o' God's name, let it go:[1471]
I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,[1472]
My figured goblets for a dish of wood, 150
My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff,
My subjects for a pair of carved saints
And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little little grave, an obscure grave;
Or I'll be buried in the king's highway, 155
Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet[1473]
May hourly trample on their sovereign's head;
For on my heart they tread now whilst I live;[1474]
And buried once, why not upon my head?[1474]
Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted cousin![1475] 160
We'll make foul weather with despised tears;
Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,
And make a dearth in this revolting land.
Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,
And make some pretty match with shedding tears?[1476] 165
As thus, to drop them still upon one place,[1477]
Till they have fretted us a pair of graves
Within the earth; and, therein laid,--there lies[1478][1479]
Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes.[1478]
Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see[1478] 170
I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.[1478][1480]
Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,
What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty
Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?
You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay. 175

_North._ My lord, in the base court he doth attend
To speak with you; may it please you to come down.[1481]

_K. Rich._ Down, down I come; like glistering Phaeton,
Wanting the manage of unruly jades.[1482]
In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,[1483][1484] 180
To come at traitors' calls and do them grace.[1483]
In the base court? Come down? Down, court! down, king![1483][1485]
For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.[1483]

[_Exeunt from above._[1486]

_Boling._ What says his majesty?

_North._ Sorrow and grief of heart[1487]
Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man: 185
Yet he is come.[1488]

_Enter_ KING RICHARD _and his attendants below_.[1488][1489]

_Boling._ Stand all apart,[1488]
And show fair duty to his majesty.[1488] [_He kneels down._[1490]
My gracious lord,--[1488]

_K. Rich._ Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee[1491] 190
To make the base earth proud with kissing it:
Me rather had my heart might feel your love
Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know,[1492][1493]
Thus high at least, although your knee be low.[1492][1494] 195

_Boling._ My gracious lord, I come but for mine own.

_K. Rich._ Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all.

_Boling._ So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,
As my true service shall deserve your love.

_K. Rich._ Well you deserve: they well deserve to have,[1495] 200
That know the strong'st and surest way to get.
Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes;[1496]
Tears show their love, but want their remedies.
Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Though you are old enough to be my heir.[1497] 205
What you will have, I'll give, and willing too;
For do we must what force will have us do.
Set on towards London, cousin, is it so?[1498]

_Boling._ Yea, my good lord.

_K. Rich._ Then I must not say no.

[_Flourish. Exeunt._[1499]

SCENE IV. _Langley. The_ DUKE of YORK'S _garden_.

_Enter the_ QUEEN _and two_ Ladies.[1500]

_Queen._ What sport shall we devise here in this garden,
To drive away the heavy thought of care?

_Lady._ Madam, we'll play at bowls.[1501]

_Queen._ 'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,
And that my fortune runs against the bias. 5

_Lady._ Madam, we'll dance.

_Queen._ My legs can keep no measure in delight,
When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief:
Therefore, no dancing, girl; some other sport.

_Lady._ Madam, we'll tell tales.[1502] 10

_Queen._ Of sorrow or of joy?[1502][1503]

_Lady._ Of either, madam.

_Queen._ Of neither, girl:[1504]
For if of joy, being altogether wanting,
It doth remember me the more of sorrow;
Or if of grief, being altogether had,[1505] 15
It adds more sorrow to my want of joy:
For what I have I need not to repeat;
And what I want it boots not to complain.[1506]

_Lady._ Madam, I'll sing.

_Queen._ 'Tis well that thou hast cause;
But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep. 20

_Lady._ I could weep, madam, would it do you good.

_Queen._ And I could sing, would weeping do me good,[1507][1508]
And never borrow any tear of thee.[1507][1509]

_Enter a_ Gardener, _and two_ Servants.

But stay, here come the gardeners:[1510]
Let's step into the shadow of these trees. 25
My wretchedness unto a row of pins,[1511]
They'll talk of state; for every one doth so
Against a change; woe is forerun with woe.

[_Queen and Ladies retire._[1512]

_Gard._ Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,[1513]
Which, like unruly children, make their sire 30
Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:
Give some supportance to the bending twigs.
Go thou, and like an executioner,
Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,[1514]
That look too lofty in our commonwealth: 35
All must be even in our government.
You thus employ'd, I will go root away
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck[1515]
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.

_Serv._ Why should we in the compass of a pale[1516] 40
Keep law and form and due proportion,
Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,[1517]
When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
Is full of weeds; her fairest flowers choked up,
Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruin'd, 45
Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs[1518]
Swarming with caterpillars?

_Gard._ Hold thy peace:
He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring[1518][1519]
Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf:
The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,[1520] 50
That seem'd in eating him to hold him up,
Are pluck'd up root and all by Bolingbroke,[1521]
I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.

_Serv._ What, are they dead?

_Gard._ They are; and Bolingbroke[1522]
Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it[1522][1523] 55
That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land[1522][1524]
As we this garden! We at time of year[1522][1525]
Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit-trees,[1525]
Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,
With too much riches it confound itself: 60
Had he done so to great and growing men,
They might have lived to bear and he to taste
Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches[1526]
We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:[1527]
Had he done so, himself had borne the crown, 65
Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.[1528]

_Serv._ What, think you then the king shall be deposed?[1529]

_Gard._ Depress'd he is already, and deposed
'Tis doubt he will be: letters came last night[1530][1531]
To a dear friend of the good Duke of York's,[1530][1532] 70
That tell black tidings.[1533]

_Queen._ O, I am press'd to death through want of speaking![1533][1534]

[_Coming forward._

Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden,[1533][1535]
How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?[1533][1536]
What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee 75
To make a second fall of cursed man?
Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed?
Darest thou, thou little better thing than earth,
Divine his downfal? Say, where, when, and how,
Camest thou by this ill tidings? speak, thou wretch.[1537] 80

_Gard._ Pardon me, madam: little joy have I
To breathe this news; yet what I say is true.[1538]
King Richard, he is in the mighty hold
Of Bolingbroke: their fortunes both are weigh'd:
In your lord's scale is nothing but himself,[1539] 85
And some few vanities that make him light;
But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,
Besides himself, are all the English peers,
And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.
Post you to London, and you will find it so;[1540] 90
I speak no more than every one doth know.

_Queen._ Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot,
Doth not thy embassage belong to me,
And am I last that knows it? O, thou think'st[1541]
To serve me last, that I may longest keep 95
Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go,[1542]
To meet at London London's king in woe.
What, was I born to this, that my sad look
Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke?
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,[1543] 100
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.

[_Exeunt Queen and Ladies._[1544]

_Gard._ Poor queen! so that thy state might be no worse,
I would my skill were subject to thy curse.
Here did she fall a tear; here in this place[1545]
I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace:[1546] 105
Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,
In the remembrance of a weeping queen. [_Exeunt._[1547]

FOOTNOTES:

[1290] ACT III. SCENE I. Bristol. Before the Castle.] Capell.

Enter Bolingbroke....] Ff Q₅. Enter Duke of Hereford, Y., N., B. and G. prisoners. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1291] _too_] _two_ Q₄ Q₅.

[1292] _deaths_] _death_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1293] _possession_] _profession_ Q₄.

[1294] _by_] Q₁. _with_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1295] _you_] _they_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1296] _sigh'd_] _sight_ Q₁ Q₂.

_clouds_] _climes_ Long MS.

[1297] _Whilst_] Q₁. _While_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1298] _my_] Q₁ Q₂. _mine_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1299] _imprese_] Q₅. _impreese_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _impresse_ Q₄ F₁ F₂ F₃. _impress_ F₄.

[1300] _over_] om. Pope.

[1301] _Lords, farewell_] Omitted in Ff Q₅.

[1302] _see_] _seem_ Capell (corrected in Notes).

[Exeunt....] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1303] _God's_] _Heavens_ Ff Q₅.

[1304] _deliver'd_] _delivered_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1305] _lords_] _my lords_ Pope. After this line S. Walker would supply _And lead we forth our well appointed powers._

[1306] _To fight ... complices_] Omitted by Theobald.

_Glendower_] _Glendor_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Glendoure_ Ff. _Gendoure_ Q₅.

[1307] SCENE II. The coast ... view.] Capell. Changes to the coast of Wales. Pope.

Drums ... colours.] Ff Q₅. Flourish: drums, and colours. Rowe (ed. 1). Flourish: drums and trumpets. Rowe (ed. 2).

Enter....] Enter the King, Aumerle, Carleil, &c. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. (Carlile. Q₃ Q₄). Enter Richard, Aumerle, Carlile, and Souldiers. Ff Q₅.

[1308] _Barkloughly_] _Berkley_ Grey conj.

_they_] Q₁. _you_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1309] _Yea_] _Even so_ Keightley conj.

_my lord_] _my good lord_ Pope. _good my lord_ Grant White conj.

[1310] _your late_] _your_ Pope. _late_ Steevens (1793).

[1311] _with_] _from_ Rann (Capell conj.).

[1312] _tears and smiles_] _teares and smiles_ Q₁ Q₃. _teares, and smiles_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. _tears and smiles_, Knight.

_meeting_] _weeping_ Capell (withdrawn).

[1313] _weeping, smiling_] _weeping-smiling_ Dyce (S. Walker and Delius conj.).

_my_] _the_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1314] _favours_] Q₁. The rest _favour_.

[1315] _thy_] _my_ Q₄.

[1316] _pray thee_] _prethee_ Ff Q₅.

[1317] _rebellion's_] Q₁ Q₂. _rebellious_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1318] _The means ... redress_] Omitted in Ff Q₅.

[1319] _heaven yields_] Pope. _heavens yeeld_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _heaven's yield_ Anon. conj.

[1320] _neglected; else, if_] Pope. _neglected. Else_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _neglected then: else,_ Capell.

[1321] _will not_] Q₁ Q₂. _would not_ Q₃ Q₄.

_will not, heaven's offer we refuse,_] _would not heav'n's offer, we refuse_ Theobald.

[1322] _The proffer'd_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _The poofered_ Q₄. _That proffers_ Capell conj.

_succour_] Pope. _succors_ Q₁ Q₂. _succours_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1323] _our_] _their_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1324] _power_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _friends_ Ff Q₅.

[1325] _know'st_] _knowest_ Ff Q₅.

[1326] _is hid, Behind ... world_] _that lights The lower-world is hid behind the globe_ Malone conj.

[1327] _that_] _and_ Hammer.

[1328] _boldly_ Dyce (Collier conj.). _bouldy_ Q₁. _bloudy_ Q₂. _bloodie_ Q₃ Q₄. _bloody_ Ff Q₅.

[1329] _this_] _his_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1330] _light_] _lightning_ Ff Q₅.

_light ... every_] _lightning through each_ Long MS.

[1331] _Whilst ... antipodes_] Omitted in Ff Q₅.

[1332] _sit_] _set_ F₃ F₄.

[1333] _his sin_] _themselves_ Seymour conj.

[1334] _rough rude_] _rough-rude_ S. Walker conj.

_rude_] _wide_ Collier conj.

[1335] _off from_] _from_ Ff Q₅.

_an anointed_] _a'nointed_ Anon. conj.

[1336] _worldly_] _wordly_ F₂.

_cannot_] _can cannot_ Q₄.

[1337] _press'd_] _prest_ Qq Ff.

[1338] _shrewd_] _sharp_ Pope.

[1339] _God_] _Heaven_ Ff Q₅.

_Richard_] _Ric:_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.

[1340] SCENE III. Pope.

_lord_] _lo:_ Q₁ Q₂.

[1341] _day too ... lord_] _day (too ... lord)_ Pope.

_me_] Q₁ Q₂. _my_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

_lord_] _lo:_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.

[1342] _thy_] _my_ F₂ Q₅.

[1343] _twelve thousand_] See note (XIX).

[1344] _O'erthrows_] _Orethrowes_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _Orethrows_ F₃. _O'rethrows_ F₄. _Overthrowes_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

_friends_] _frindes_ Q₂.

_state_] _tate_ F₂.

[1345] _and_] _or_ Collier MS.

[1346] _twenty thousand_] _20000._ Q₁ Q₂.

[1347] _And ... dead_] Put in the margin, as spurious, by Pope.

[1348] _coward_] Q₁. _coward,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _sluggard_ Ff Q₅.

_coward majesty!_] _sluggard! majesty_ Seymour conj.

[1349] _twenty_] _forty_ Ff Q₅.

[1350] _Hath ... here?_] As two lines in Ff Q₅ ending _turn ... here?_ Capell ends the first line at _who_.

_enough_] om. Pope.

[1351] SCENE IV. Pope.

[1352] _and decay_] _loss, decay_ Ff Q₅.

[1353] _makes_] Q₁ Q₂. _make_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

_shores_] _showers_ Q₄.

[1354] _swells_] _swell_ Steevens (1778).

[1355] _harder_] _more hard_ Pope.

[1356] _White-beards_] _White beards_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _White Beares_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _White Bears_ F₃ F₄.

[1357] _boys_] _boies_ Q₁. _and boyes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _and boys_ F₃ F₄.

[1358] _clap_] _clasp_ Pope. _clip_ Ritson conj.

_female_] _feeble_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[1359] _arms ... crown:_] _armes ... crowne,_ Q₁ Q₂. _armes, ... crowne,_ Q₃ Q₄. _armes: ... crowne_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _armes: ... crown_ F₃. _arms: ... crown_ F₄.

_arms against_] _armour 'gainst_ Collier MS.

[1360] _Thy_] _The_ Rowe.

_bows_] _browes_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1361] _double-fatal_] Warburton. _double fatal_ Qq Ff. _doubly-fatal_ Hanmer.

_yew_] Hanmer. _ewe_ Q₁ Q₂ F₄. _woe_ Q₃ Q₄. _Eugh:_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃.

_state;_] _state,_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _state_ Ff Q₅.

[1362] _bills ... seat:_] _bils ... seate,_ Q₁. _billes, ... seate_ Q₂. _billes: ... seate_ Q₃ Q₄. _bills: ... seat_ Ff Q₅.

[1363] _where is Bagot_] Omitted by Hanmer.

_Bagot_] _he got_ Theobald.

[1364] _heads_] _hands_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1365] _they have_] _they've_ Pope.

_Bolingbroke_] _Bulling._ Q₁.

[1366] _have they_] _they have_ Rowe.

[1367] _won_] _woon_ Q₁ F₁. _woonne_ Q₂. _wonne_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1368] _offence_] om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄, ending line 133 at _hell_ (_hel,_ Q₁. _hell,_ Q₂. _hell_ Q₃ Q₄).

[1369] _love, I see, changing_] _love (I see) changing_ Ff Q₅. _love I see changing_ Q₁. _love I see changing,_ Q₂. _love's (I see) changing:_ Q₃. _Iove's (I see) changing_ Q₄.

[1370] _heads_] _head_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1371] _wound_] _hand_ Ff Q₅.

[1372] _hollow_] _hallow'd_ Warburton.

[1373] _Ay_] _I_ Q₁. _Ye_ Q₂. _Yea_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

_Bristol_] _Bristow_ Qq Ff.

[1374] _on_] _in_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1375] _model_] _modle_ Q₁.

[1376] _God's_] _Heavens_ Ff Q₅.

[1377] _the ghosts_] _their ghosts_ Jervis conj.

_have deposed_] _dispossess'd_ Pope. _have depriv'd_ S. Walker conj.

[1378] _little_] _lettle_ Q₃.

[1379] _through_] _thorough_ Q₁.

_wall_] Q₁. _walls_ Q₂ Ff Q₅. _walles_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1380] _blood With ... reverence:_] Ff Q₅. _blood, With ... reverence_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1381] _Tradition_] _Addition_ Roderick conj.

[1382] _I live with ... king?_] Left as in Qq Ff. _I live on ... want like you ... friends, like you ... king?_ Pope, ending the lines at _you, ... thus, ... king?_ Steevens ends the lines _grief ... thus ... king._

[1383] _friends:_] _friends, fear enemies_ S. Walker conj.

_subjected_] _and being subjected_ Seymour conj.

[1384] _need ... say_] As one line. Keightley conj.

[1385] _king_] _kin_ Q₃.

[1386] _sit ... woes_] _wail their present woes_ Ff Q₅.

[1387] _And so ... yourself_] Omitted in Ff Q₅.

[1388] _Fear ... limb_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1389] _to fight_] _from fight_ Pope (in margin).

[1390] _destroying_] _defying_ Johnson conj. (withdrawn).

[1391] _To change ... own_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1392] _Speak ... say_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1393] _is_] _hath_ Capell (corrected in Notes).

_with_] _to_ F₄.

[1394] _party_] _faction_ Ff Q₅.

[1395] [To Aumerle] Theobald.

[1396] _them_] _'em_ Ff Q₅.

[1397] _hath_] _have_ Delius conj.

[1398] _hence away_] _away_ Pope. _hence, away_ Theobald.

[1399] _Bolingbroke's_] _Bullingbrooke_ F₂.

[1400] SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope.

Wales ...] Capell. Bolingbroke's camp. Pope. B.'s camp near Flint. Theobald.

Enter ...] Enter ... Attendants. Ff Q₅. Enter Bull., Yorke, North. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1401] _alack_] _ah_ Pope.

[1402] _mistakes_] _mistakes me_ Rowe. _mistaketh_ Delius conj.

[1403] _his_] _this_ Q₅.

[1404] _The ... him_] As in Ff Q₅. As one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1405] _Would you_] _Should you_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1406] _Have ... length._] _Have been so brief, to shorten you the head._ Pope.

[1407] _with you_] Ff Q₅. om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄, reading _He would ... you_ as one line.

[1408] _taking so_] _taking off_ Keightley conj.

_your_] _the_ Theobald.

[1409] _further_] _farther_ Ff Q₅.

[1410] _mistake the_] _mistake, the_ Q₅ F₄. _mistake; the_ Rowe.

_o'er our heads_] _over our heads_ Q₁ Q₂. _over your heads_ Q₃ Q₄. _ore your head_ Ff Q₅.

[1411] _and oppose not_] _nor oppose_ Pope. _and will not oppose_ Capell (ending the line here). _and do not oppose_ or _and I not oppose_ Seymour conj. _and oppose me not_ Anon. conj.

_myself_] om. Steevens conj.

[1412] _Against_] _Againe_ F₂.

_will_] _willes_ Q₃ Q₄.

_here?_] _here? 'tis Percy_ Hanmer.

[1413] _Welcome,_] _Well,_ Hanmer.

[1414] _royally is_] _is royally_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1415] _thy_] _your_ Pope.

[1416] _Royally!... king?_] As one line in Qq Ff. So Hanmer, reading _doth contain. Royally! how so?_ Capell, reading _Against ... so?_ as one line. _Royally, say'st thou_ Seymour conj.

[1417] _King_] _Kind_ F₂ F₃.

[1418] _yon_] _yond_ Ff Q₅.

[1419] _are the_] Q₁. _the_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. om. Pope.

[1420] _O_] om. Pope.

_O, belike it is the_] _Believe me_ Seymour conj.

[1421] _it is ... lords_] As one line by S. Walker.

[1422] _lords_] _lord_ Ff Q₅. _lord_ [To North. Rowe.

[1423] _parley_] _parlee_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _parle_ Ff Q₅.

[1424] _Into ... Bolingbroke_] S. Walker arranges as two lines, the first ending _ears_.

[1425] _Henry Bolingbroke_] _Henry Bullingbrooke_ Ff Q₅. _H. Bull._ Q₁ Q₂. _H. Bul._ Q₃ Q₄. _Henry of Bolingbroke_ Pope. _Harry of Bolingbroke_ Capell.

[1426] _Henry ... hand_] As one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _That Harry ... knees Doth, in his duty, kiss ... hand_ Seymour conj.

[1427] _On both_] _Upon_ Ff Q₅ ending the lines _kisse ... allegeance ... come_.

[1428] _true_] om. Pope.

[1429] _To his most_] Q₁ Q₂. _To his_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. _unto his_ Pope ending the lines _knees ... allegiance ... person_.

_hither come_] om. Pope.

[1430] _to lay_] _I lay_ Pope.

[1431] _slaughter'd_] Ff Q₅. _slaughtered_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1432] _Bolingbroke_] _Bulling._ Q₁.

[1433] _bedrench_] _be drench_ Q₃. _be drencht_ Q₄.

[1434] [Nor. bows; and approaches the Castle, with a Trumpet, &c. Capell.

[1435] _this_] _the_ Capell. See note (XX).

_tatter'd_] Ff Q₅. _tottered_ Q₁ Q₂. _tattered_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1436] _shock_] _shocke_ Q₁. _smoke_ Q₂. _smoake_ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _smoak_ F₃ F₄.

[1437] _Be he ... him._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1438] _whilst_] _while_ Ff Q₅.

_rain_] _raigne._ Q₁ Q₂. _raigne_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1439] _waters; on_] Rowe (ed. 2). _water's on_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _waters on_ Ff Q₅.

[1440] Parle ...] Parle ... Richard, Carlile ... Ff Q₅. The trumpets sound. Richard appeareth on the walls. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (trumpet Q₃ Q₄).

[1441] SCENE VI. Pope.

_See ..._] Ff Q₅. Bull. _See ..._ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. York. _See ..._ Hanmer (Warburton), continuing the speech of York to _show!_ line 71. Percy. _See ..._ Dyce conj.

[1442] _track_] _tract_ Ff Q₅.

[1443] _alack, alack_] _alacke_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1444] _harm_] _storm_ Singer (Collier MS.).

[1445] _fearful_] _faithful_ Collier MS.

[To North.] Rowe.

[1446] _thy_] _the_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1447] _And if_] _An if_ S. Walker and Delius conj.

[1448] _their_] _the_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

_to our_] _of our_ Q₅.

[1449] _master_] _masters_ Capell conj.

[1450] _yond_] Ff Q₅. _yon_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _he stands_] _he is_ Ff Q₅. _is he_ Capell conj.

[1451] _my_] _the_ Rowe.

[1452] _open_] _ope_ Ff Q₅.

[1453] _live in_] _light in_ Warburton. _give him_ Anon. conj. apud Halliwell conj.

_peace,_] _peace._ F₂.

[1454] _ill become the flower of_] _ill become the floor of_ Theobald conj. _mis-become the flow'ry_ Hanmer.

_face_] _race_ Heath conj.

[1455] _face ... peace_] _peace ... face_ Malone conj.

[1456] _her_] om. Q₄.

[1457] _pastures'_] Capell. _pasture's_ Theobald. _pastors_ Qq Ff. _pastor's_ Pope.

[1458] _Thy_] _no, thy_ Pope. _This thy_ S. Walker conj.

[1459] _Bolingbroke_] _of Bolingbroke_ Pope.]

_humbly_] om. Pope.

[1460] _buried ... warlike_] _warlike ... buried_ Warburton.

[1461] _a prince, is just_] Ff Q₅. _princesse just_ Q₁ Q₂. _a prince just_ Q₃ Q₄. _a prince, as just_ Seymour conj.

[1462] _I am_] om. Collier MS.

_gentleman_] _gentlem_ Q₃.

[1463] _thus_] Q₂. _thus,_ Q₁. _thus:_ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.

[1464] _contradiction: ... hast,_] Ff Q₅. _contradiction, ... hast,_ Q₁ Q₂. _contradiction, ... hast;_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1465] _thou_] _that thou_ Capell conj.

[1466] [Northumberland retires to Bolingbroke. Collier.

[1467] _We do_] _King. We do_ Q₁ Q₂.

_ourselves_] _our selves_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. Q₄. _our selfe_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _our self_ F₃ F₄. _us_ Capell.

_cousin_] _coz_ S. Walker conj.

[To Aumerle.] Rowe.

[1468] _lord;_] _lo:_ Q₁.

[1469] _helpful_] _hopeful_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1470] _yon_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _you_ Q₄. _yond_ Ff Q₅.

[1471] _king_] _a king_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

_o'_] Ff Q₅. _a_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1472] _almsman's_] _almshouse_ Johnson (1771).

[1473] _trade_] _tread_ Theobald (Warburton).

[1474] _For ... Head?_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1475] _weep'st_] _weepest_ Q₃ Q₄.

[1476] _shedding_] _sheading_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1477] _As_] _And_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

_thus,_] _thus:_ Ff Q₅. _thus_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1478] _Within ... at me_] Put in the margin, as spurious, by Pope.

[1479] _there_] _their_ Q₃ Q₄ F₂.

_lies_] _lie_ Roberts MS. apud Halliwell.

[1480] _laugh_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _mock_ Ff Q₅.

[1481] _may it_] _may't_ Pope.

[1482] [North. retires again to Boling. Collier.

[1483] _In ... sing._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1484] _court?_] FF Q₅. _court,_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1485] _court?... down?_] Capell. _court ... downe:_ Qq Ff.

[1486] _shriek_] _shreeke_ Q₁ Q₃ Q₄. _shreek_ Q₂ F₄. _shrike_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃.

[Exeunt ...] Capell.

[1487] _his majesty_] _he now_ Seymour conj.

_and grief_] om. Pope.

[1488] _Yet ... lord_] S. Walker reads as two lines, ending _show. lord;_ Pope has three, the first ending _show_.

[1489] _come_] _come, my lord_ Capell.

Enter ...] Capell.

[1490] [He kneels down.] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. om. Ff Q₅.

[1491] _Fair ... knee_] As in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄; as two lines in Ff Q₅.

[1492] _Up ... low_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1493] [raising him. Capell.

[1494] [touching his own head. Steevens.

[1495] _you deserve_] _you deserv'd_ Ff Q₅ (reading line 200 as two lines ending _deserv'd ... have_).

[1496] _hands_] Q₃ Q₄. _handes_ Q₁ Q₂. _hand_ Ff Q₅.

[1497] _my_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1498] _Set ... so_] Printed as two lines in Ff Q₅.

_on_] _one_ F₂.

[1499] [Flourish. Exeunt.] Ff Q₅. om. Q₁ Q₂. Exeunt. Q₃ Q₄.

[1500] SCENE IV.] Scæna Quarta. F₁. Scæna Quinta. F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄. SCENE VII. Pope.

Langley ... garden.] Capell. A garden. Pope. A garden in the Queen's Court. Theobald.

Enter ...] Ff Q₅. Enter the Queene with her Attendants. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (Quenne Q₄).

[1501] Lady.] 1 L. Capell (and passim).

[1502] _we'll ... sorrow ... of joy_] _we will ... joy ... grief_ Capell, reading as one line _Madam ... grief_.

[1503] _joy_] Rowe (ed. 2). _griefe_ Qq Ff.

[1504] _Of neither_] _No, of neither_ Capell.

[1505] _had_] _sadd_ Q₄.

[1506] _what_] _of what_ Hanmer.

[1507] _And ... sing ... thee._] _An ... sing ... thee?_ Jackson conj.

[1508] _sing ... weeping_] Qq Ff. _weep ... weeping_ Pope. _sing ... singing_ Staunton conj. See note (XXI).

[1509] Enter ...] Ff Q₅. Enter Gardeners. Q₁. Enter Gardiners. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Pope (after line 26).

[1510] _But stay ... gardeners_] Placed by Pope after line 26.

_stay_] _stay, girl_ Keightley conj.

_come_] Q₁ F₂ Q₅. _commeth_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _comes_ F₁ F₃ F₄.

_gardeners_] _gardiners of this place_ Capell.

[1511] _unto ... pins_] _suits with a row of pines_ Pope.

_pins,_] _pinnes,_ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. _pines,_ Q₁ Q₂ F₄. _pines._ Q₃ Q₄.

[1512] _change; woe_] Ff Q₅. _change woe_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

_with woe_] _with mocks_ Warburton.

[Queen....] Pope.

[1513] _yon_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _yond_ Ff Q₅. _yong_ Q₁.

_apricocks_] _aphricokes_ Q₁. _aphricockes_ Q₂. _apricots_ Johnson.

[1514] _too_] Ff Q₅. _two_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1515] _which_] Q₁. The rest _that_.

[1516] Serv.] Ser. Ff Q₅. Man. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (and passim).

[1517] _as_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

_estate_] _state_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

_our firm estate_] _a firm state_ Warburton.

[1518] _disorder'd_] Ff Q₅. _disordered_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1519] _suffer'd_] Ff Q₅. _suffered_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _suffred_ Q₄.

[1520] _which_] Q₁. The rest _that_.

[1521] _pluck'd_] _pluckt_ Q₁ Q₂. _puld_ Q₃ Q₄. _pull'd_ Ff Q₅.

[1522] _They are ... year_] Arranged as by Capell; in Qq Ff the lines end _are ... king ... trimm'd ... year_.

[1523] _seized_] _ceasde_ Q₁ Q₂.

_O,_] om. F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

_is it_] _it is_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _is't_ Theobald.

[1524] _had_] _hath_ Q₅.

_so_] om. F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.

[1525] _garden! We at time of year Do wound_] Capell. _garden at time of yeare Do wound_ Q₁ Q₂. _garden, at time of yeare Do wound_ Q₃ Q₄. _garden, at time of yeare; And wound_ F₁ F₂ Q₅. _garden at time of year; And wound_ F₃ F₄. _garden dress, And wound_ Pope. _garden, who at times of year Do wound_ Steevens (1773). _garden! who at time of year Do wound_ Id. (1785). _garden at the time of yeare We wound_ Collier MS. _garden do at time of year And wound_ Delius conj. _garden. At due time of year We wound_ Grant White conj.

_in_] Q₁. The rest _with_.

[1526] _duty:_] _duety:_ Q₁. _dutie:_ Q₂. _duetie:_ Q₃ Q₄. _dutie._ F₁. _dutie. All_ F₂. _duty. All_ Q₅ F₃ F₄. _duty. The_ S. Walker conj.

[1527] _live_] _line_ Q₄.

[1528] _of ... hath_] _and ... hath_ Ff Q₅. _and ... have_ Pope.

[1529] _then_] Pope. om. Qq Ff. _that_ Long MS.

[1530] _'Tis ... York's_] _'Tis doubted he will be. Letters last night Came to a dear friend of the duke of York_ Pope.

[1531] _doubt_] _doubted_ Ff Q₅.

[1532] _good_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

_York's_] _Yorkes_ Q₁ Q₄ F₁. _Yorks_ Q₂ Q₃. _Yorke_ F₂ Q₅. _York_ F₃ F₄.

[1533] Malone arranges as four lines, ending _death ... likeness ... dares ... news?_

[1534] [Coming forward.] Starting from her concealment. Capell.

[1535] _old_] om. Pope.

_set_] _set here_ Steevens conj.

_dress this garden_] _dress out this garden. Say,_ Malone conj.

[1536] _harsh rude_] _harsh_ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄. om. Pope. _harsh-rude_ Steevens (1793).

_this_] _these_ Dyce.

[1537] _this_] _these_ Pope.

[1538] _this_] Q₁. The rest _these_.

[1539] _lord's_] _Lo._ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1540] _you will_] _you'l_ Ff Q₅.

[1541] _knows_] _know_ Q₅.

_think'st_] Ff Q₅. _thinkest_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[1542] _Thy_] _The_ Hanmer.

[1543] _these_] _this_ Ff Q₅.

[1544] _Pray God_] _I would_ Ff Q₅.

[Exeunt....] Pope. Exit. Qq Ff.

[1545] _fall_] Q₁. The rest _drop_.

[1546] _rue, sour_] _rewsowre_ Q₄.

[1547] _the_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[Exeunt.] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Exit. Ff Q₅.

Westminster Hall.] Malone. London. Pope.