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The king shall do it: must he be depos'd?
The king shall be contented: must he lose
The name of king? o' God's name, let it go:
I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
[My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,
My figur'd goblets for a dish of wood,]
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,
Some way of common trade,2 where subjects'
feet

May hourly trample on their sovereign's head; For on my heart they tread now whilst I live; And buried once, why not upon my head?[Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted

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I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.— [To Northumberland] 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.

North. My lord, in the base court he doth attend

To speak with you; may it please you to come down.

K. Rich. Down, down I come; like glist'ring Phaethon,

Wanting the manage of unruly jades. [In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,

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My gracious lord,—

[He kneels down.

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To make the base earth proud with kissing it:
Me rather had my heart might feel your love
Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy.
Up, cousin, up;-your heart is up, I know,
Thus high at least [Touching his own head],
although your knee be low.

Boling. My gracious lord, I come but for

mine own.

5 Digg'd who digged.

6 Make a leg, i.e. make a bow, or curtsey.

Manage of, control of. 8 Fondly, foolishly.

9 Me rather had, i.e. I had rather.

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Gard. Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks, Which, like unruly children, make their sire 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,
That look too lofty in our commonwealth:
All must be even in our government.-]
You thus employ'd, I will go root away
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.

Serv. Why should we, in the compass of a pale,

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Queen. O, I am press'd to death through want of speaking! [Coming forward. Thou,- [She pauses, as if half-choked by her emotion]

Old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden, How dares

Thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?

What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee
To make a second fall of cursed man?
Why dost thou say King Richard is depos'd?
Dar'st thou, thou little better thing than
earth,

'Tis doubt, i.e. no doubt.

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Besides himself, are all the English peers, And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.

Post you to London, and you'll find it so; 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
To serve me last, that I may longest keep
Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go,
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 Boling-
broke?

VOL. II.

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It doth remember me1 the more of sorrow; 14
Or if of grief, being altogether had,
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
Lady. Madam, I'll sing.

Queen. Tis well that thou hast cause;
But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst
thou weep.

Lady. I could weep, madam, would it do
you good.

Queen. And I could weep, would weeping
do me good,

And never borrow any tear of thee.
But, ladies, stay, here come the gardeners:
Let's step into the shadow of these trees.
My wretchedness unto3 a row of pins,
They'll talk of state; for every one doth so
Against a change; woe is forerun with woe.

Enter a Gardener, and two Sereants.

[Queen and ladies retire.

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Keep law and form and due proportion,
Showing, as in a model, our firm state,
When our sea-walled garden, the whole land.
Is full of weeds; her fairest flowers chok'd up a
Her fruit-trees all unprun'd, her hedges ruind Hvis
Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome Tri

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