...Henry V, and Henry VI call attention to their solitude. Richard says: Of comfort no man speak! Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. Make dust...and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.54 Isolation says things to civil wrong. A fury, more demonic than the starkest penalty the law...

...pride. [3.2.76-81] Like Venus too, Richard resorts under pressure to formal poetic postures. His "Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, / Make dust...rainy eyes / Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth" (3.2.145-47) is reminiscent of Venus "insinuating" with Death: "With Death she humbly doth insinuate;...

...present state. Richard: No matter where. Of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms, of epitaphs, Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills. And yet not so, for what can we bequeath Save our deposed...

...from 1 970 to 1984 Clyde Collins Snow and Maria Julia Bihurriet — of comfort, no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs: Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Shakespeare, King Richard II This report helps fulfill an elementary step in any homicide investigation:...

...directions in Richard's text are also clear character indications. — of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of Kings. A little later...

...father with his power?" (Ill, 2, 143), he answers: No matter where—of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. (IIl, 2, 144-47) Such utterances show that the king and the person are no longer identical, for the...

...is the Duke, my father, with his power? KING RICHARD No matter where. Of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills And yet not so; for what can we bequeath 1 5o Save our deposed...

...familiarity with Shakespeare's historical tragedies. Well might he recite the lament of Richard II: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.45 In the case...

...was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. 89 Of comfort no man speak! Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills. And yet not so - for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed...

...frightful steep, sit dallying with our doubts—then comes the end: Of comfort no man speak. We'll talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. We'll choose executors and talk of wills. And yet, not so—for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed...