North. The commons will not then be satisfied. K. Rich. They shall be satisfied: I'll read enough, When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's-myself. Re-enter Attendant, with a Glass. Give me that glass, and therein will I read.- And made no deeper wounds?-O, flattering glass, Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face, Did keep ten thousand men 32? Was this the face, As brittle as the glory is the face; [Dashes the Glass against the ground. For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.— Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face. Boling. The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd The shadow of your face. K. Rich. Say that again. The shadow of my sorrow? Ha! let's see:'Tis very true, my grief lies all within 34; And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul; There lies the substance: and I thank thee, king, 32 To his household came every day to meate ten thousand men.'-Chronicle History. 33 The quarto omits this line and the four preceding words. 34 But I have that within which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe.'-Hamlet, For thy great bounty, that not only giv'st Boling. Name it, fair cousin. K. Rich. Fair cousin! I am greater than a king: For, when I was a king, my flatterers Were then but subjects: being now a subject, Being so great, I have no need to beg. Boling. Yet ask. K. Rich. And shall I have? Boling. You shall. K. Rich. Then give me leave to go. K. Rich. Whither you will, so I were from your sights. Boling. Go, some of you, convey him to the Tower. K. Rich. O, good! Convey?-Conveyers 35 are you all, That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall 36. [Exeunt K. RICH. Some Lords, and a Guard. Boling. On Wednesday next we solemnly set down Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves. [Exeunt all but the Abbot, Bishop of Carlisle, and AUMErle. Abbot. A woful pageant have we here beheld. Car. The woe's to come: the children yet unborn Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn. Pistol 35 To convey was formerly often used in an ill sense. says of stealing convey the wise it call;' and 'to convey' is the word for slight of hand or juggling. Richard means that it is a term of contempt, 'jugglers are you all.' 36 This is the last of the additional lines first printed in the quarto of 1608. In the first editions there is no personal appearance of King Richard. Aum. You holy clergymen, is there no plot [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE I. London. A Street leading to the Tower. Enter Queen, and Ladies. Queen. This way the king will come; this is the way To Julius Cæsar's ill-erected tower1, To whose flint bosom my condemned lord Enter KING RICHARD, and Guards. But soft, but see, or rather do not see, And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.— 1 By ill erected is probably meant erected for evil purposes. 2 Model anciently signified, according to the dictionaries, 'the platform or form of any thing.' And map is used for picture resemblance. In The Rape of Lucrece Shakspeare calls sleep 'the map of death.' And not King Richard; thou most beauteous inn3, Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodg'd in thee, When triumph is become an ale-house guest?' K. Rich. Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden: learn, good soul, To think our former state a happy dream; From which awak'd, the truth of what we are Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France, K. Rich. A king of beasts, indeed: if aught but I had been still a happy king of men. Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France: 3 Inn does not probably here mean a house of public entertainment, but a dwelling or lodging generally. In which sense the word was anciently used. 4 Sworn brother alludes to the fratres jurati, who, in the age of adventure, bound themselves by mutual oaths to share fortunes together. Vide note on King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. 5 Passed. And, ere thou bid good night, to quit their grief, And send the hearers weeping to their beds. And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black, Enter NORTHUMBERLAND, attended. North. My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is chang'd; You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.- The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,— And he shall think, that thou, which know'st the way way To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne. North. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Take leave, and part; for you must part forthwith. K. Rich. Doubly divorc'd?-Bad men, ye violate 6 To requite their mournful stories. 7 The quarto of 1597 reads tale. 8 Thus in Othello: 'Honest Iago hath ta'en order for it.' |