Or that I could forget what I have been! Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me. broke. K. Rich. What must the king do now? Must he submit? The king shall do it. Must he be depos'd? Some way 10 Richard's expense in regard to dress was very extraordinary. He had one coate which he caused to be made for him of gold and stone, valued at 3000 marks.'-Holinshed. Some way of common trade' is some way of frequent resort, a common course; as, at present, a road of much traffic,' i. e. frequent resort. As thus:-To drop them still upon one place, 14 Wanting the manage of unruly jades. [NORTH. retires to BOLING. In the base court? Base court 15, where kings grow base, To come at traitors' calls, and do them grace. In the base court? Come down? Down, court! down, king! For night-owls shriek, where mounting larks should sing. [Exeunt, from above. Boling. What says his majesty? North. Sorrow and grief of heart Makes him speak fondly 16, like a frantick man : Yet he is come. 12 A bow. 13 It should be remembered that the affirmative particle ay was formerly written and sounded I, which rhymed well with die. 14 Lower. 15 That is the lower court of the castle; basse cour, Fr. Thus in Cavendish's Life of Wolsey:- My lord being advertised that the duke was coming, even at hand, he caused all his gentlemen to wait upon him down through the hall into the base court.Edition 1825, p. 211. 16 Foolishly. Enter KING RICHARD, and his Attendants, below. Boling. Stand all apart, And show fair duty to his majesty. My gracious lord, [Kneeling. K.Rich. Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee, 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. 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, That know the strong'st and surest way to get. K. Rich. Then I must not say, no 17. [Flourish. Exeunt. 17 The duke, with a high sharpe voyce bade bring forth the king's horses; and then two little nagges, not worth forty franks, were brought forth: the king was set on one, and the earle of Salisburie on the other; and thus the duke brought the king from Flint to Chester, where he was delivered to the duke of Gloucester's sonne (that loved him but little, for he had put their father to death), who led him straight to the castle.'STOWE (p. 521, edit. 1605), from a manuscript account written by a person who was present. SCENE IV. Langley. The Duke of York's Garden. Enter the Queen, and two Ladies. Queen. What sport shall we devise here in this garden, To drive away the heavy thought of care? 1 Lady. Madam, we'll play at bowls. "Twill make me think, my fortune 1 Lady. Madam, we will dance. Queen. My legs can keep no measure in delight, When my poor heart no measure keėps in grief; Therefore, no dancing, girl; some other sport. 1 Lady. Madam, we'll tell tales. Queen. 1 Lady. Of either, madam. Of sorrow, or of joy 2? Queen. It adds more sorrow to my want of joy : Queen. 3 'Tis well, that thou hast cause; But thou should'st please me better, would'st thou weep. 1 The bias was a weight inserted in one side of a bowl, which gave it a particular inclination in bowling. 2 All the old copies read of sorrow or of grief.' Pope made the necessary alteration. 3 Profits. 4 See note on Act i. Sc. 2, p. 11. 1 Lady. I could weep, madam, would it do you good. Queen. And I could weeps, would weeping do me good, And never borrow any tear of thee. But stay, here come the gardeners: Enter a Gardener, and two Servants. My wretchedness unto a row of pins, [Queen and Ladies retire. Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, 1 Serv. Why should we, in the compass of a pale, 5 The old copies read and I could sing. The emendation is Pope's. 6 The poet, according to the common doctrine of prognostication, supposes dejection to forerun calamity, and a kingdom to be filled with rumours of sorrow when any great disaster is impending. |