ACT III. SCENE I. Bristol. Before the castle. Enter BOLINGBROKE, YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, Ross, PERCY, WILLOUGHBY, with BUSHY and GREEN, prisoners. Boling. Bring forth these men. Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls— And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks wrongs. Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love 3. part, depart from. 10 20 20. clouds. That sighs turn into clouds is a recurring fancy in Shakespeare's earlier work. Whilst you have fed upon my signories, This and much more, much more than twice all this, Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over To execution and the hand of death. Bushy. More welcome is the stroke of death to me Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell. And plague injustice with the pains of hell. [Exeunt Northumberland and others, Uncle, you say the queen is at your house; York. A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd Boling. Thanks, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away, To fight with Glendower and his complices: Awhile to work, and after holiday. 23. Dispark'd, disenclosed by pulling down the hedges and fences. 24. household coat, my arms blazoned in the stained glass. 25. imprese, heraldic emblem or device. [Exeunt. 30 40 29. the death, death authoritatively inflicted, execution. 43. To fight with Glendower and his complices. This appears to blend two distinct occasions of hostility between Henry and Glendower, as reported by SCENE II. The coast of Wales. A castle in view. Drums: flourish and colours. Enter KING RICH ARD, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, AUMERLE, K. Rich. Barkloughly castle call they this at Aum. Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air, After your late tossing on the breaking seas? K. Rich. Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy To stand upon my kingdom once again. Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand, Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs: As a long-parted mother with her child Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting, Holinshed. (1) Glendower ΤΟ and Mr. Stone thinks these lines introduced a lost or omitted portion of the play' in which Glendower's attack on Lord Grey was presented as warfare on Richard's behalf. I. Barkloughly, Harlech. The name is due to a mere scribal or printer's blunder in Holinshed, standing for Hertlowle' or Hertlow, the last an Anglicised form of the Old Welsh Harddlech.' 8. a long-parted mother, a mother long-parted (with her child). And do thee favours with my royal hands. Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. Car. Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king Hath power to keep you king in spite of all. The means that heaven yields must be embraced, And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse, The proffer'd means of succour and redress. Aum. He means, my lord, that we are too remiss; Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security, not That when the searching eye of heaven is hid, 23. senseless conjuration, adjuration of an inanimate thing. 29-32. Omitted in Ff. 20 30 40 40. boldly; Collier's emendation. Q 'bouldy'; the rest, and Ff, bloody.' But when from under this terrestrial ball The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs, Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves? Can wash the balm off from an anointed king; For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd Enter SALISBURY. Welcome, my lord: how far off lies your power? And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men ! 64. near, nearer. 70. twelve thousand. Accord 50 60 70 ing to Holinshed, forty thousand. |