And thou art flying to a fresher clime: Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou comest: Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the strew'd, presence The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay. Boling. Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu; My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet! 289. the presence strew'd, the presence-chamber strewed with rushes. [Exeunt. 291. measure, a dance. 290 300 stately 299. fantastic, imaginary. SCENE IV. The court. Enter the KING, with BAGOT and GREEN at one door; and the DUKE OF AUMERLE at another. K. Rich. We did observe. Cousin Aumerle, How far brought you high Hereford on his way? Aum. I brought high Hereford, if you call him So, But to the next highway, and there I left him. K. Rich. And say, what store of parting tears were shed? Aum. Faith, none for me; except the north- Which then blew bitterly against our faces, K. Rich. What said our cousin when you Aum. 'Farewell :' And, for my heart disdained that my tongue That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave. And added years to his short banishment, K. Rich. He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis When time shall call him home from banishment, 1. We did observe; cf. v. 24. 13. that, i.e. his disdaining 6. for me, as far as I was concerned. to abuse the word. Whether our kinsman come to see his friends. What reverence he did throw away on slaves, As 'twere to banish their affects with him. A brace of draymen bid God speed him well With 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends;' And he our subjects' next degree in hope. Green. Well, he is gone; and with him go Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland, war: And, for our coffers, with too great a court And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light, 24. his courtship to the common people. Holinshed speaks of the universal grief at Bolingbroke's departure, and of the multitudes who 'ran after him in every town and street where he came,' but does not suggest that Bolingbroke courted them.' 30. affects, affections. 30 40 39. Expedient manage must be made, prompt steps must be taken. 45. farm our royal realm. Holinshed mentions as 'a common brute' (rumour) that Richard had pledged the revenues of England to the Earl of Wiltshire, Bagot, Bushy, and Green. Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters; Bushy, what news? Enter BUSHY. Bushy. Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, Suddenly taken; and hath sent post haste K. Rich. Where lies he? Bushy. At Ely House. K. Rich. Now put it, God, in the physician's mind To help him to his grave immediately! The lining of his coffers shall make coats To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars. Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him: Pray God we may make haste, and come too late! All. Amen. [Exeunt. 50 60 ACT II. SCENE I. Ely House. Enter JOHN OF GAUNT sick, with the DUKE OF Gaunt. Will the king come, that I may breathe my last 58. Ely House; the Bishop of Ely's palace, in Holborn. Sc. I. The scene as far as V. 138 is based upon the bare record in Holinshed of Gaunt's death. This actually occurred on Feb. 3, 1399. In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth? For all in vain comes counsel to his ear. Gaunt. O, but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain, For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. He that no more must say is listen'd more Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose; More are men's ends mark'd than their lives The setting sun, and music at the close, York. No; it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds, As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond, Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity ΙΟ 20 F1 has of his state: then there are sound'; Q1of whose taste the wise are found.' 21. fashions in proud Italy. Shakespeare is transferring to the fourteenth century a social phenomenon of his own time. M |