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London. A street leading to the Tower.
[Enter QUEEN and Ladies]
QUEEN
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This way | the king | will come:| this is | the
way
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To Jul|ius Cae|sar's ill-|erect|ed tower:
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To whose | flint bos/om, my | condem|ned lord
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Is doomed | a pris|oner, by / proud Bol|ingbroke.
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Here let us rest,| if this | rebel|lious earth
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Have an|y rest|ing for her // true king's queen.
[Enter KING RICHARD II and Guard]
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But soft,| but see,| or rath|er do / not see,
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My fair | rose wither: yet | look^up;| behold,
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That you | in pi|ty may | dissolve | to dew,
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And wash | him fresh | again | with
true-|love^tears.
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Ah thou,| the mod|el where / old Troy | did
stand,
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Thou map | of hon|or, thou / King Rich|ard's
tomb,
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And not | King^Rich|ard: thou | most beaut|eous
inn,
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Why should | hard-favored grief | be lodged | in
thee,
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When tri|umph is | become | an alehouse guest.
KING RICHARD II
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Join^not | with grief,| fair* wom|an, do | not so,
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To make | my end | too* sud|den: learn | good
soul,
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To think | our form|er state | a hap|py dream,
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From which | awaked,| the truth | of what | we
are,
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Shows us | but this.| I am / sworn broth|er
(sweet)
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To grim | neces|sity;| and he | and I
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Will keep | a league | till death.| Hie thee | to
France,
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And cloist|er thee | in some | relig|ious house:
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Our ho|ly lives | must win | a new world's crown,
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Which our pro|fane^hours | here have | stricken |
down.
QUEEN
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What, is | my Rich|ard both | in shape | and mind
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Transformed,| and weak|ened? Hath | Boling|broke
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De||posed thine^|intel|lect? Hath | he been |
in thy heart?
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The li|on dy|ing, thrust|eth forth | his paw,
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And wounds | the earth,| if noth|ing else,| with
rage
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To be | orepowered:| and wilt / thou,
pup|il-like,
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Take thy | correc|tion mild|ly, kiss | the rod,
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And fawn | on rage | with base | humil|ity,
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Which art | a li|on, and | a king | of beasts?
KING RICHARD II
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A king | of beasts | indeed:| if aught | but
beasts,
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I had | been still | a hap|py king | of men.
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Good* (some|time queen)| prepare | thee hence |
for France:
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Think I am | dead, and | that ev|en here | thou
takst,
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As from | my death-|bed, thy | last living leave.
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In wint|er's ted|ious nights | sit by | the fire
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With good | old folks,| and let | them tell |
thee tales
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Of woe|ful ag|es, long | ago | betide:
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And ere | thou bid | good^night,| to quit | their
grief,
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Tell thou / the la|mentab|le tale | of me,
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And send | the hear|ers weep|ing to | their beds:
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For why?| The sense|less brands | will
sym|pathize
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The hea|vy ac|cent of | thy mov|ing tongue,
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And in | compas|sion weep | the fi|re out:
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And some | will mourn | in ashes,| some
coal-black,
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For the | depos|ing of | a right|ful king.
[Enter NORTHUMBERLAND and others]
NORTHUMBERLAND
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My lord,| the mind | of Bol|ingbroke | is
changed.
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You must | to Pom|fret, not | unto | the Tower.
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And mad|am, there | is ord|er tane | for you:
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With all | swift speed, you | must away | to
France.
KING RICHARD II
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Northum|berland,| thou lad|der where|withal
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The mount|ing Bol|ingbroke | ascends | my throne,
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The time | shall not | be ma|ny hours | of age,
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More than it | is, ere | foul sin, gath|ering
head,
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Shalt break | into | corrup|tion: thou | shalt
think,
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Though he | divide | the realm,| and give | thee
half,
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It is | too lit|tle, help|ing him | to all:
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He shall think,| that thou | which knowst | the
way
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To plant | unright|ful kings,| wilt know | again,
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Being nere | so lit|tle urged | anoth|er way,
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To pluck | him head|long from | the u/surped
throne.
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The love | of wick|ed friends | converts | to
fear;
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That fear, to hate;| and hate | turns^one,| or
both,
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To worth|y dang|er, and | deserv|ed death.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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My guilt | be on | my head,| and there | an end:
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Take^leave,| and part,| for you | must part |
forthwith.
KING RICHARD II
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Doubly di|vorced? (Bad men)| ye vi|olate
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A twofold mar|riage; 'twixt | my crown,| and me,
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And then | betwixt | me, and | my mar|ried wife.
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Let me | unkiss | the oath |'twixt thee,| and me,
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And yet | not so,| for with | a kiss |'twas made,
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Part us,| Northum|berland:| I toward the north,
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Where shive|ring cold | and sick|ness pines | the
clime:
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My queen | to France:| from whence,| set forth |
in pomp,
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She came | adorn|ed hith|er like*/ sweet May;
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Sent^back | like^Hal|lowmas,| or shortst | of
day.
QUEEN
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And must | we be | divid|ed? Must | we part?
KING RICHARD II
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Aye, hand from^hand |(my love)| and heart | from
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QUEEN
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Banish | us both,| and send | the king | with me.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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That were | some love,| but lit|tle pol|icy.
QUEEN
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Then whith|er he | goes, thith/er let | me go.
KING RICHARD II
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So two | togeth|er weeping*,| make one woe.
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Weep^thou | for me | in France,| I for / thee
here:
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Better | far^off,| than near,| be nere | the
near.
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Go* count | thy way | with sighs;| I*, mine | with
groans.
QUEEN
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So long|est way | shall have | the long|est
moans.
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Twice for | one^step | I'll groan,| the way |
being short,
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And piece | the way | out with | a hea|vy heart.
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Come, come, in woo|ing sor|row let's | be brief,
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Since^wed|ding it,| there is | such^length | in
grief:
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One^kiss | shall stop | our mouths,| and dumb|ly
part;
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Thus give | I mine,| and thus | take^I | thy
heart.
QUEEN
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Give me | mine^own | again:| 'twere no | good*
part,
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To take | on me | to keep,| and kill | thy heart.
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So, now / I have | mine^own | again,| be gone,
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That I | might strive | to kill | it with | a
groan.
KING RICHARD II
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We make woe want|on with | this fond | delay:
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Once^more | adieu;| the rest,| let sor|row say.
[Exeunt]