PERSONS REPRESENTED. KING RICHARD II. Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 1. Act III. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 5. EDMUND OF LANGLEY, Duke of York; uncle to the King. Appears, Act II. sc. 1; Act IV. sc. 1. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 6. JOHN OF GAUNT, Duke of Lancaster; uncle to the King. Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 1. HENRY, surnamed BOLINGBROKE, Duke of Hereford, son to John of Gaunt, afterwards King Henry IV. Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 1. Act II. sc. 3. Act V. sc. 3; sc. 6. BUSHY, a creature to King Richard. Appears, Act I. sc. 4. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act III. sc. 1. BAGOT, a creature to King Richard. Appears, Act I. sc. 4. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 1. GREEN, a creature to King Richard. Appears, Act I. sc. 4. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act III. sc. 1. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND. Appears, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3. HENRY PERCY, son to the Earl of Northumberland. Appears, Act II. sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3. Appears, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1. Appears, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1. Appears, Act IV. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 6. BISHOP OF CARLISLE. Appears, Act III. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 1. ABBOTT OF WESTMINSTER. Appears, Act IV. sc. 1. LORD MARSHAL; and another Lord. Appear, Act I. sc. 3. SIR PIERCE OF EXTON. SIR STEPHEN SCROOP. Appears, Act III. sc. 2; sc. 3. Captain of a band of Welchmen. Appears, Act II. sc. 4. QUEEN to King Richard. Appears, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act III. sc. 4. Act V. sc. 1. DUCHESS OF GLOSTER. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. DUCHESS OF YORK. Appears, Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3. Lady attending on the Queen. Appears, Act III. sc. 4. Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Two Gardeners, Keeper, Messenger, Groom, and other attendants. Enter KING RICHARD, attended; JOHN OF GAUNT, and other Nobles, with him. K. RICH. Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster, Hast thou, according to thy oath' and band", Band. Bund and bond are each the past participle passive of the verb to bind; and hence the band, that by which a thing is confined, and the bond, that by which one is constrained, are one and the same thing. Hereford. In the old copies this title is invariably spelt and pronounced Herford. In Hardynge's Chronicle' the word is always written Herford or Harford. It is constantly Herford, as a dissyllable, in Daniel's Civile Warres.' Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray? K. RICH. Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him, Or worthily, as a good subject should, On some known ground of treachery in him? Aim'd at your highness,-no inveterate malice. [Exeunt some Attendants. Re-enter Attendants, with BOLINGBROKE and Norfolk. BOLING. Many years of happy days befal My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege! NOR. Each day still better other's happiness; K. RICH. We thank you both: yet one but flatters us, Tendering the precious safety of my prince, ■ You come. On which you come: or you come on. position is not unusual. The omission, in such a case, of the pre And wish, (so please my sovereign,) ere I move, What my tongue speaks, my right-drawn sword may prove. NOR. Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal: "T is not the trial of a woman's war, The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, These terms of treason doubled a down his throat. I do defy him, and I spit at him; Call him a slanderous coward, and a villain : And lay aside my high blood's royalty, Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except: Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder, Or chivalrous design of knightly trial: And, when I mount, alive may I not light, If I be traitor, or unjustly fight! K. RICH. What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge? • Doubled. In folio of 1623, doubly; doubled is the reading of the quartos. Inhabitable. Uninhabitable, unhabitable. Jonson, and Taylor the Water-poet, both use the word in this sense, strictly according to its Latin derivation. So the quarto of 1597. The first folio reads, "What I have spoken, or thou canst devise." It must be great, that can inherit us a So much as of a thought of ill in him. BOLING. Look, what I said my life shall prove it true;— Or here, or elsewhere, to the furthest verge That all the treasons, for these eighteen years Complotted and contrived in this land, Fetch'd from false Mowbray their first head and spring. Further I say,-and further will maintain Upon his bad life, to make all this good, That he did plot the duke of Gloster's death; Suggest his soon-believing adversaries; And, consequently, like a traitor coward, Sluic'd out his innocent soul through streams of blood: Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries, Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth, K. RICH. How high a pitch his resolution soars !— And bid his ears a little while be deaf, The unstooping firmness of my upright soul: Inherit us. To inherit was not only used in the sense of to inherit as an heir, but in that of to receive generally. It is here used for to cause to receive, in the same way that to possess is either used for to have, or to cause to have. Said. So the folio. In the first quarto, speak. • Lewd, in its early signification, means misled, deluded; and thence it came to stand, as here, for wicked. The laity-" the body of the Christian people," as Gibbon calls them-were designated as lewede by the clergy. (See Tooke, vol. ii. p. 383.) • Suggest-prompt. Our kingdom's heir. So the folio. The earlier copies, my kingdom's heir. |