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Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens :
And, toil'd with works of war, retired himself
To Italy; and there, at Venice, gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colors he had fought so long.
Bol. Why, bishop, is Norfolk dead?

Car. As sure as I live, my lord.

Bol. Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom

Of good old Abraham! Lords, appellants,
Your differences shall all rest under gage,
Till we assign you to your days of trial.

Enter YORK, attended.

York. Great duke of Lancaster, I come to thee
From plume-pluck'd Richard, who with willing soul
Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields
To the possession of thy royal hand.

Ascend his throne, descending now from him ;-
And long live Henry, of that name the fourth.

Bol. In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne.
Car. Marry, God forbid !—

Worst in this royal presence may I speak,
Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.
Would God, that any in this noble presence
Were enough noble to be upright judge
Of noble Richard; then true nobless 1 would

1 Nobleness.

Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.
What subject can give sentence on his king?
And who sits here, that is not Richard's subject?
Thieves are not judged, but they are by to hear,
Although apparent guilt be seen in them:
And shall the figure of God's majesty,
His captain, steward, deputy elect,
Anointed, crowned, planted many years,
Be judged by subject and inferior breath,
And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,
That, in a Christian climate, souls refined
Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!
I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,
Stirr'd up by Heaven thus boldly for his king,
My lord of Hereford here, whom you call king
Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king:
And if you crown him, let me prophesy,-
The blood of English shall manure the ground,
And future ages groan for this foul act;
Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,
And, in this seat of peace, tumultuous wars
Shall kin with kin, and kind with kind confound;
Disorder, horror, fear, and mutiny

Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd

The field of Golgotha and dead men's sculls.

O, if you raise this house against this house,
It will the wofullest division prove,

That ever fell upon this cursed earth.

Prevent, resist it, let it not be so ;

Lest child, child's children, cry against you-Woe!

North. Well have you argued, sir; and, for your

pains,

Of capital treason we arrest you here.—
My lord of Westminster, be it your charge
To keep him safely till his day of trial.

May't please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit?

Bol. Fetch hither Richard, that in common view He may surrender; so we shall proceed

Without suspicion.

York.

I will be his conduct.

[Exit.

Bol. Lords, you that here are under our arrest, Procure your sureties for your days of answer :Little are we beholden to your love,

[to Carlisle. And little look for at your helping hands.

Re-enter YORK, with KING RICHARD, and Officers bearing the crown, &c.

K. Ri. Alack, why am I sent for to a king, Before I have shook off the regal thoughts Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs :Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me

To this submission. Yet I well remember

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The favors of these men. Were they not mine?
Did they not sometime cry, All hail! to me?
So Judas did to Christ; but he, in twelve,

Countenance.

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