Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enrich'd Ross. Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord. Willo. And far surmounts our labour to attain it. Boling. Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor; Which, till my infant fortune comes to years, Enter BERKELEY. North. It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess. Berk. My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you. Boling. My lord, my answer is-to Lancaster ; 70 And I am come to seek that name in England; And I must find that title in your tongue, Before I make reply to aught you say. Berk. Mistake me not, my lord; 'tis not my meaning To raze one title of your honour out: To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will, Enter YORK attended. Boling. I shall not need transport my words by you; Here comes his grace in 79. absent time, time of the king's absence. 80. self-borne, borne in your own cause, not your sovereign's; person. 80 My noble uncle! [Kneels. York. Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee, Whose duty is deceivable and false. Boling. My gracious uncle York. Tut, tut! Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle : I am no traitor's uncle; and that word 'grace' Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs So many miles upon her peaceful bosom, Comest thou because the anointed king is hence? Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men, From forth the ranks of many thousand French, O, then how quickly should this arm of mine, Boling. My gracious uncle, let me know my fault : On what condition stands it and wherein ? York. Even in condition of the worst degree, In gross rebellion and detested treason: 84. deceivable, deceptive. 95. despised, despicable, base (as taking a mean advantage of the absent time'). 100. As when brave Gaunt, etc. gined. 90 100 The incident is ima 107. On what condition, what is its nature and in what does it consist? Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come In braving arms against thy sovereign. Boling. As I was banish'd, I was banish'd But as I come, I come for Lancaster. And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace you I see old Gaunt alive; O, then, my father, To my inheritance of free descent. North. The noble duke hath been too much abused. Ross. It stands your grace upon to do him right. Willo. Base men by his endowments are made great. 112. braving, defiant. 116. indifferent, impartial. 128. to the bay, to the last York. My lords of England, let me tell you this: I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs To find out right with wrong, it may not be; North. The noble duke hath sworn his coming is I cannot mend it, I must needs confess, Boling. An offer, uncle, that we will accept: Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away. York. It may be I will go with you but yet I'll pause; For I am loath to break our country's laws. [Exeunt. 140 150 160 170 Enter SALISBURY and a Welsh Captain. Cap. My Lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days, And hardly kept our countrymen together, And yet we hear no tidings from the king; man: The king reposeth all his confidence in thee. The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd : As well assured Richard their king is dead. [Exit. Sal. Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind Fall to the base earth from the firmament. 11. lean-look'd, lean-looking. [Exit. ΤΟ 20 |