Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard II.F. Hart, 1878 - 104 pages |
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arms Aumerle Bagot banished Bishop of Carlisle blood Bolingbroke Castle Booth breath Bushy cousin crown deposed doth Duchess of Gloster Duke of Gloster Duke of Hereford Duke of Lancaster Duke of Norfolk Duke of York earth Edited by William EDMUND OF LANGLEY Edwin Booth's England Enter Bolingbroke Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fear flatter Flint Castle friends give glory grace grave Green grief Groom hand hast hath head heart heaven hither honour Ireland John of Gaunt Keeper King Richard's seizure king's kiss Kneels land liege London looks lord majesty Mary de Bohun noble North passages Pomfret presents prince proud Queen reign Richard the Second Richard's experience royal royalty Scene sceptre seize servants Shakespeare shame sorrow soul sovereign speak sweet tell thee Thomas Mowbray thou art thought throne tomb tongue tragedy traitor treason uncle usurp weeping wife William Winter
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Page 23 - Let's choose executors, and talk of wills : And yet not so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own, but death ; /And that small model a of the barren earth, : Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For Heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Page 23 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 20 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 9 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? " Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic k summer's heat?
Page 10 - O but they say the tongues of dying men 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.
Page 48 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
Page 9 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 10 - That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 49 - Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented. Sometimes am I king; Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again; and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleas'd, till he be eas'd With being nothing.