Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs, Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first : K. Rich. Why, uncle, what's the matter ?. Pardon me, if you please; if not, I, pleas'd Seek you to feize, and gripe into your hands, Take Hereford's Rights away, and take from time Let not to morrow then enfue to day; Be not thy felf. For how art thou a King, But by fair fequence and fucceffion? If you do wrongfully feize Hereford's Right, By his attorneys-general to fue His livery, and deny his offer'd homage; You pluck a thousand dangers on your head; B 3. You You lofe a thousand well-difpofed hearts; And prick my tender patience to thofe thoughts, K. Rich. Think, what you will; we feize into our hands His plate, his goods, his money, and his lands. York. I'll not be by, the while; my Liege, farewel : What will enfue thereof, there's none can tell. But by bad courses may be understood, That their events can never fall out good. [Exit. K. Rich. Go, Busby, to the Earl of Wiltshire ftrait, Bid him repair to us to Ely-House, To fee this bufinefs done: To morrow next And we create, in abfence of our self, [Flouride. [Exeunt, King, Queen, &c. Manent Northumberland, Willoughby, and Rofs. North. Well, Lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead. North. Richly in both, if juftice had her right. filence. Ere't be disburthen'd with a lib'ral tongue. North. Nay, fpeak your mind; and let him ne'er fpeak more, That fpeaks thy words again to do thee harm. Willo. Tends, what you'd speak, to the Duke of Hereford ? If it be fo, out with it boldly, man Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him. Rofs. No good at all that I can do for him, Unless you call it good to pity him, Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Nerth. North. Now, afore heav'n, it's fhame, fuch wrongs are borne In him a royal Prince, and many more 'Gainft us, our lives, our children, and our heirs. But bafely yielded upon compromife That, which his Ancestors atchiev'd with blows: Rofs. The Earl of Wiltshire hath the Realm in farm. man. North. Reproach, and diffolution, hangeth over him. Rofs. He hath not mony for these Irish wars, (His burthenous taxations notwithstanding) But by the robbing of the banish'd Duke. North. His noble Kinfman-moft degenerate King! But, lords, we hear this fearful tempeft fing, Yet feek no fhelter to avoid the ftorm: We see the wind fit fore upon our fails, And yet we ftrike not, but fecurely perish. Rofs. We fee the very wreck, that we must suffer; And unavoided is the danger now, For fuff'ring fo the causes of our wreck. North, Not fo: ev'n through the hollow eyes of Death I fpy life peering; but I dare not fay, How near the tidings of our comfort is. Willo. Nay, let us fhare thy thoughts, as thou dost ours. B 4 Rofs. Rofs. Be confident to speak, Northumberland; We three are but thy felf, and speaking fo, Thy words are but as thoughts, therefore be bold. North. Then thus, my friends, I have from Port lo Blanc, A bay in Bretagne, had intelligence, That Harry Hereford, Rainald lord Cobham, Sir John Norberie, Sir Robert Waterton, and Francis All these well furnish'd by the Duke of Bretagne But if you faint, as fearing to do fo, Stay, and be fecret, and my felf will go. Rofs. To horfe, to horfe, urge Doubts to them that fear. Willo. Hold out my horse, and I will firft be there. SCENE the Court. Enter Queen, Bushy, and Bagot. [Exeunt. Bully. MAdam, your Majefty is much too fad ; You promis'd, when you parted with the King, To lay afide felf-harming heaviness, And entertain a chearful difpofition. Queen. To please the King, I did; to please my self, I I cannot do it; yet I know no cause, Finds fhapes of grief, more than himself, to wail; Which, for things true, weeps things imaginary.. I cannot but be fad; fo heavy-fad,. As,, though, on thinking, on no thought I think, (4) Like Peripectives, which, rightly gaz'd upon,, Diftinguish Form.] This is a very fine Similitude, and the Thing meant is This. Amongst Mathematical Recreations, This which your Mafters in Optics amufe themselves with, holds a principal Place. They draw a Figure, in which all the Rules of Perspective are directly inverted: fo that, confequently, if held in the fame Pofition with thofe Pictures which are drawn, according to the Rules of Perspective, it must present Nothing but Confufion and to be feen in Form, and under a regular Appearance, it must be look'd upon from a contrary Station: or, as Shakespeare fays, ey'd awry. Thefe kind of Pictures are now very common; but not so, I believe, in our Author's Time, tho' he fo well understood their Nature. Mr. Warburton, B:5 Makes |