Som. And on my side it is so well apparell'd, So clear, so shining, and so evident, That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye. Plan. Since you are tongue-ty'd, and so loath to speak, In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts: flatterer, nor ne But dare maintain the party of the truth, colour Of base-insinuating flattery, I pluck this white rose, with Plantagenet. merset; young SoAnd say withal, I think he held the right. Ver. Stay, Lords, and Gentlemen; and pluck no more, Till you conclude that he, upon whose side. The fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree, Shall yield the other in the right opinion. Som. Good master Vernon, it is well objected; If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence. Plan. And I. Ver. Then, for the truth and plainness of the case, I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here, Ver. If I, my Lord, for my opinion bleed, Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, And keep me on the side where still I am. Som. Well, well, come on: Who else? Law. Unless my study and my books be false, The argument you held, was wrong in you ;. [To SOMERSET, In sign whereof, I pluck a white rose too. Plan. Now, Somerset, where is your argument? Som. Here, in my scabbard; meditating that, Shall die your white in a bloody red. Plan. Mean time, your chee's do counterfeit our roses; For pale they look with fear, as witnessing -Som. No, Plantagenet, 'Tis not for fear; but anger, that thy cheeks Blush for pure same, to counterfeit our roses; And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error. Plan. Hath not thy rose canker, Somerset? Som. Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? Plan. Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth; Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood. Som. Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses, That shall maintain what I have said is true, Plan. Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand, I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy. Suf. Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet. Plan. Proud Poole, I will; and scorn both him and thee. Suf. I'll turn my part thereof into hy throat. Som. Away, away, good William De làPoole! We grace the yeoman, by conversing with him. War. Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset; His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence, On any plot of ground in Christendom: Were growing time once ripen'd to my will. To scourge you for this apprehension: Look to it well; and say you are well warn'd. Som. Ay, thou shalt find us ready for thee still: And know us by these colours, for thy foes; For these my friends, in spite of thee, shall wear. Plan. And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose As cognizance of my blood-drinking háte, Will I for ever, and my faction, wear; ambition! And so farewell, until I meet thee next. Som. Have with thee, Poole. [Exit. Farewell, ambitious Richard. [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, And here I prophecy, This brawl to-day That you on my behalf would pluck a flower. Plan. Thanks, gentle Sir. Come, let us four to dinner: I dare say, [Exeunt. VOL. X. 11 SCENE V. The same. A Room in the Tower. Enter MORTIMER, brought in a chair by two Keepers. Mor. Kind keepers of my weak decaying age, Let dying Mortimer here rest himself. Even like a man new haled from the rack, These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent: Unable to support this lamp of clay, But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come? 1. Keep. Richard Plantagenet, my Lord, will come: We sent unto the Temple, to his chamber; Poor gentleman! his wrong doth equal mine. |