Plan. My father was attached, not attainted; 6 To fcourge you for this apprehenfion; Look to it well, and fay, you are well warn'd. Som. Ah, thou fhalt find us ready for thee still, And know us by thefe colours for thy foes; For these my friends, in fpight of thee, fhall wear. Plan. And by my foul, this pale and angry rofe, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate, Will I for ever and my faction wear; Until it wither with me to my grave, Or flourish to the height of my degree. Suf. Go forward, and be choak'd with thy ambition : And fo farewel, until I meet thee next. Som. Have with thee, Pool: farewel, Richard. [Exit. ambitious [Exit. Plan. How I am brav'd, and must perforce endure it! War. This blot, that they object against your house, Shall be wip'd out in the next Parliament, Call'd for the truce of Winchester and Glofter, Shall fend, between the red rose and the white, Plan. Good mafter Vernon, I am bound to you; Plan. Thanks, gentle Sir. Come, let us four to dinner; I dare fay, [Exeunt. Enter Mortimer, brought in a chair, and jailors. Mor. K 7 Let dying Mortimer here reft himself. 8 Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer. These eyes, like lamps whose wafting oil is spent, 7 Let dying Mortimer here rest bimfelf. I know not whether Milton did not take from this hint the lines with which he opens his tragedy. 8 This Edmund Mortimer, when K. Richard II. fet out upon his fatal Irish expedition, was declared by that Prince Heir Apparent to the Crown: for which Reafon K. Henry IV. and V. took Care to keep him in Prifon during their whole Reigns. THEO. • Exigent, end. But But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come? Keep. Richard Plantagenet, my Lord, will come; Mor. Enough; my foul then fhall be fatisfy'd. But now the arbitrator of despairs, Juft death, kind *umpire of men's miferies, Enter Richard Plantagenet. Keep. My Lord, your loving nephew now is come. Mer. Richard Plantagenet, my friend? Is he come? Plan. Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly us'd, Your nephew, late defpifed Richard, comes. Mor. Direct mine arms, I may embrace his neck, And in his bofom fpend my latest gafp. Oh, tell me, when my lips do touch his cheeks, And now declare, fweet ftem from York's great ftock, Plan. Firft, lean thine aged back against mine arm, And in that cafe I'll tell thee my Difeafe. This, day, in argument upon a cafe, Some words there grew 'twixt Somerfet and me, Umpire of mifery.] That is, he that terminates or concludes mifery. The expreffion VOL. IV. is harsh and force 1. Difaffeems to be here una finess or dfientent. M m Elfe Elfe with the like I had requited him. And for alliance' fake, declare the cause Mor. This caufe, fair nephew, that imprifon'd me, Plan. Difcover more at large what caufe that was, For I am ignorant and cannot guefs. Mor. I will, if that my fading breath permit, Endeavour'd my advancement to the throne. * From Lyonel Duke of Clarence, the third fon Haughty is high. Lea Levied an army, weening to redeem Plan. Of which, my Lord, your honour is the laft. Mor. True; and thou feeft, that I no iffue have; And that my fainting words do warrant death. Thou art my heir. The reft I wish thee gather; But yet be wary in thy ftudious care. Plan. Thy grave admonishments prevail with me; Mor. With filence, nephew, be thou politick: As Princes do their Courts when they are cloy'd Plan. Ŏ uncle, would fome part of my young years Mor. Thou doft then wrong me, as that flaught'rer doth, Which giveth many wounds when one will kill. And fo farewel; and fair be all thy hopes, And profp'rous be thy life, in peace and war! [Dies. Plan. And peace, no war, befal thy parting foul! In prifon haft thou spent a pilgrimage, And, like a hermit, over paft thy days. |