ACT V. SCENE 1. London. A street leading to the Tower  Enter the QUEEN, with her attendants    QUEEN. This way the King will come; this is the way     To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower,     To whose flint bosom my condemned lord     Is doom'd a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke.     Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth     Have any resting for her true King's queen.              Enter KING RICHARD and Guard      But soft, but see, or rather do not see,     My fair rose wither. Yet look up, behold,     That you in pity may dissolve to dew,     And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.     Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand;     Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,     And not King Richard; thou most beauteous inn,     Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodg'd in thee,     When triumph is become an alehouse guest?   KING RICHARD. Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,     To make my end too sudden. Learn, good soul,     To think our former state a happy dream;     From which awak'd, the truth of what we are     Shows us but this: I am sworn brother, sweet,     To grim Necessity; and he and     Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France,     And cloister thee in some religious house.     Our holy lives must win a new world's crown,     Which our profane hours here have thrown down.   QUEEN. What, is my Richard both in shape and mind     Transform'd and weak'ned? Hath Bolingbroke depos'd     Thine intellect? Hath he been in thy heart?     The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw     And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage     To be o'erpow'r'd; and wilt thou, pupil-like,     Take the correction mildly, kiss the rod,     And fawn on rage with base humility,     Which art a lion and the king of beasts?   KING RICHARD. A king of beasts, indeed! If aught but beasts,     I had been still a happy king of men.     Good sometimes queen, prepare thee hence for France.     Think I am dead, and that even here thou takest,     As from my death-bed, thy last living leave.     In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire     With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales     Of woeful ages long ago betid;     And ere thou bid good night, to quit their griefs     Tell thou the lamentable tale of me,     And send the hearers weeping to their beds;     For why, the senseless brands will sympathize     The heavy accent of thy moving tongue,     And in compassion weep the fire out;     And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black,     For the deposing of a rightful king.               Enter NORTHUMBERLAND attended    NORTHUMBERLAND. My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is chang'd;     You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.     And, madam, there is order ta'en for you:     With all swift speed you must away to France.   KING RICHARD. Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal     The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,     The time shall not be many hours of age     More than it is, ere foul sin gathering head     Shall break into corruption. Thou shalt think     Though he divide the realm and give thee half     It is too little, helping him to all;     And he shall think that thou, which knowest the way     To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,     Being ne'er so little urg'd, another way     To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.     The love of wicked men converts to fear;     That fear to hate; and hate turns one or both     To worthy danger and deserved death.   NORTHUMBERLAND. My guilt be on my head, and there an end.     Take leave, and part; for you must part forthwith.   KING RICHARD. Doubly divorc'd! Bad men, you violate     A twofold marriage-'twixt my crown and me,     And then betwixt me and my married wife.     Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me;     And yet not so, for with a kiss 'twas made.     Part us, Northumberland; I towards the north,     Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime;     My wife to France, from whence set forth in pomp,     She came adorned hither like sweet May,     Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day.   QUEEN. And must we be divided? Must we part?   KING RICHARD. Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.   QUEEN. Banish us both, and send the King with me.   NORTHUMBERLAND. That were some love, but little policy.   QUEEN. Then whither he goes thither let me go.   KING RICHARD. So two, together weeping, make one woe.     Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here;     Better far off than near, be ne'er the near.     Go, count thy way with sighs; I mine with groans.   QUEEN. So longest way shall have the longest moans.   KING RICHARD. Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short,     And piece the way out with a heavy heart.     Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief,     Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief.     One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part;     Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart.   QUEEN. Give me mine own again; 'twere no good part     To take on me to keep and kill thy heart.     So, now I have mine own again, be gone.     That I may strive to kill it with a groan.   KING RICHARD. We make woe wanton with this fond delay.     Once more, adieu; the rest let sorrow say.            Exeunt     SCENE 2. The DUKE OF YORK's palace  Enter the DUKE OF YORK and the DUCHESS    DUCHESS. My Lord, you told me you would tell the rest,     When weeping made you break the story off,     Of our two cousins' coming into London.   YORK. Where did I leave?   DUCHESS. At that sad stop, my lord,     Where rude misgoverned hands from windows' tops     Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.   YORK. Then, as I said, the Duke, great Bolingbroke,     Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed     Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know,     With slow but stately pace kept on his course,     Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee, Bolingbroke!'     You would have thought the very windows spake,     So many greedy looks of young and old     Through casements darted their desiring eyes     Upon his visage; and that all the walls     With painted imagery had said at once     'Jesu preserve thee! Welcome, Bolingbroke!'     Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,     Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck,     Bespake them thus, 'I thank you, countrymen.'     And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.   DUCHESS. Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst?   YORK. As in a theatre the eyes of men     After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage     Are idly bent on him that enters next,     Thinking his prattle to be tedious;     Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes     Did scowl on gentle Richard; no man cried 'God save him!'     No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home;     But dust was thrown upon his sacred head;     Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,     His face still combating with tears and smiles,     The badges of his grief and patience,     That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd     The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted,     And barbarism itself have pitied him.     But heaven hath a hand in these events,     To whose high will we bound our calm contents.     To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,     Whose state and honour I for aye allow.   DUCHESS. Here comes my son Aumerle.   YORK. Aumerle that was     But that is lost for being Richard's friend,     And madam, you must call him Rudand now.     I am in Parliament pledge for his truth     And lasting fealty to the new-made king.                    Enter AUMERLE    DUCHESS. Welcome, my son. Who are the violets now     That strew the green lap of the new come spring?   AUMERLE. Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not.     God knows I had as lief be none as one.   YORK. Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,     Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime.     What news from Oxford? Do these justs and triumphs hold?   AUMERLE. For aught I know, my lord, they do.   YORK. You will be there, I know.   AUMERLE. If God prevent not, I purpose so.   YORK. What seal is that that without thy bosom?     Yea, look'st thou pale? Let me see the writing.   AUMERLE. My lord, 'tis nothing.   YORK. No matter, then, who see it.     I will be satisfied; let me see the writing.   AUMERLE. I do beseech your Grace to pardon me;     It is a matter of small consequence     Which for some reasons I would not have seen.   YORK. Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.     I fear, I fear-   DUCHESS. What should you fear?     'Tis nothing but some bond that he is ent'red into     For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph-day.   YORK. Bound to himself! What doth he with a bond     That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.     Boy, let me see the writing.   AUMERLE. I do beseech you, pardon me; I may not show it.   YORK. I will be satisfied; let me see it, I say.                 [He plucks it out of his bosom, and reads it]     Treason, foul treason! Villain! traitor! slave!   DUCHESS. What is the matter, my lord?   YORK. Ho! who is within there?                      Enter a servant      Saddle my horse.     God for his mercy, what treachery is here!   DUCHESS. Why, York, what is it, my lord?   YORK. Give me my boots, I say; saddle my horse.                                                     Exit servant     Now, by mine honour, by my life, my troth,     I will appeach the villain.   DUCHESS. What is the matter?   YORK. Peace, foolish woman.   DUCHESS. I will not peace. What is the matter, Aumerle?   AUMERLE. Good mother, be content; it is no more     Than my poor life must answer.   DUCHESS. Thy life answer!   YORK. Bring me my boots. I will unto the King.                His man enters with his boots    DUCHESS. Strike him, Aumerle. Poor boy, thou art amaz'd.     Hence, villain! never more come in my sight.   YORK. Give me my boots, I say.   DUCHESS. Why, York, what wilt thou do?     Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own?     Have we more sons? or are we like to have?     Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?     And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age     And rob me of a happy mother's name?     Is he not like thee? Is he not thine own?   YORK. Thou fond mad woman,     Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?     A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament,     And interchangeably set down their hands     To kill the King at Oxford.   DUCHESS. He shall be none;     We'll keep him here. Then what is that to him?   YORK. Away, fond woman! were he twenty times my son     I would appeach him.   DUCHESS. Hadst thou groan'd for him     As I have done, thou wouldst be more pitiful.     But now I know thy mind: thou dost suspect     That I have been disloyal to thy bed     And that he is a bastard, not thy son.     Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that mind.     He is as like thee as a man may be     Not like to me, or any of my kin,     And yet I love him.   YORK. Make way, unruly woman!                             Exit   DUCHESS. After, Aumerle! Mount thee upon his horse;     Spur post, and get before him to the King,     And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee.     I'll not be long behind; though I be old,     I doubt not but to ride as fast as York;     And never will I rise up from the ground     Till Bolingbroke have pardon'd thee. Away, be gone.                                                           Exeunt     SCENE 3. Windsor Castle  Enter BOLINGBROKE as King, PERCY, and other LORDS    BOLINGBROKE. Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?     'Tis full three months since I did see him last.     If any plague hang over us, 'tis he.     I would to God, my lords, he might be found.     Inquire at London, 'mongst the taverns there,     For there, they say, he daily doth frequent     With unrestrained loose companions,     Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes     And beat our watch and rob our passengers,     Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy,     Takes on the point of honour to support     So dissolute a crew.   PERCY. My lord, some two days since I saw the Prince,     And told him of those triumphs held at Oxford.   BOLINGBROKE. And what said the gallant?   PERCY. His answer was, he would unto the stews,     And from the common'st creature pluck a glove     And wear it as a favour; and with that     He would unhorse the lustiest challenger.   BOLINGBROKE. As dissolute as desperate; yet through both     I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years     May happily bring forth. But who comes here?                  Enter AUMERLE amazed    AUMERLE. Where is the King?   BOLINGBROKE. What means our cousin that he stares and looks     So wildly?   AUMERLE. God save your Grace! I do beseech your Majesty,     To have some conference with your Grace alone.   BOLINGBROKE. Withdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone.                                           Exeunt PERCY and LORDS     What is the matter with our cousin now?   AUMERLE. For ever may my knees grow to the earth,                                                     [Kneels]     My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth,     Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak.   BOLINGBROKE. Intended or committed was this fault?     If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,     To win thy after-love I pardon thee.   AUMERLE. Then give me leave that I may turn the key,     That no man enter till my tale be done.   BOLINGBROKE. Have thy desire.             [The DUKE OF YORK knocks at the door and crieth]   YORK. [Within] My liege, beware; look to thyself;     Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there.   BOLINGBROKE. [Drawing] Villain, I'll make thee safe.   AUMERLE. Stay thy revengeful hand; thou hast no cause to fear.   YORK. [Within] Open the door, secure, foolhardy King.     Shall I, for love, speak treason to thy face?     Open the door, or I will break it open.                      Enter YORK    BOLINGBROKE. What is the matter, uncle? Speak;     Recover breath; tell us how near is danger,     That we may arm us to encounter it.   YORK. Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know     The treason that my haste forbids me show.   AUMERLE. Remember, as thou read'st, thy promise pass'd.     I do repent me; read not my name there;     My heart is not confederate with my hand.   YORK. It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down.     I tore it from the traitor's bosom, King;     Fear, and not love, begets his penitence.     Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove     A serpent that will sting thee to the heart.   BOLINGBROKE. O heinous, strong, and bold conspiracy!     O loyal father of a treacherous son!     Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain,     From whence this stream through muddy passages     Hath held his current and defil'd himself!     Thy overflow of good converts to bad;     And thy abundant goodness shall excuse     This deadly blot in thy digressing son.   YORK. So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd;     And he shall spend mine honour with his shame,     As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.     Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies,     Or my sham'd life in his dishonour lies.     Thou kill'st me in his life; giving him breath,     The traitor lives, the true man's put to death.   DUCHESS. [Within] I What ho, my liege, for God's sake, let me in.   BOLINGBROKE. What shrill-voic'd suppliant makes this eager cry?   DUCHESS. [Within] A woman, and thine aunt, great King; 'tis I.     Speak with me, pity me, open the door.     A beggar begs that never begg'd before.   BOLINGBROKE. Our scene is alt'red from a serious thing,     And now chang'd to 'The Beggar and the King.'     My dangerous cousin, let your mother in.     I know she is come to pray for your foul sin.   YORK. If thou do pardon whosoever pray,     More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.     This fest'red joint cut off, the rest rest sound;     This let alone will all the rest confound.                   Enter DUCHESS    DUCHESS. O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!     Love loving not itself, none other can.   YORK. Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here?     Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear?   DUCHESS. Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege.                                                      [Kneels]   BOLINGBROKE. Rise up, good aunt.   DUCHESS. Not yet, I thee beseech.     For ever will I walk upon my knees,     And never see day that the happy sees     Till thou give joy; until thou bid me joy     By pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy.   AUMERLE. Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee.                                                      [Kneels]   YORK. Against them both, my true joints bended be.                                                      [Kneels]     Ill mayst thou thrive, if thou grant any grace!   DUCHESS. Pleads he in earnest? Look upon his face;     His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest;     His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast.     He prays but faintly and would be denied;     We pray with heart and soul, and all beside.     His weary joints would gladly rise, I know;     Our knees still kneel till to the ground they grow.     His prayers are full of false hypocrisy;     Ours of true zeal and deep integrity.     Our prayers do out-pray his; then let them have     That mercy which true prayer ought to have.   BOLINGBROKE. Good aunt, stand up.   DUCHESS. do not say 'stand up';     Say 'pardon' first, and afterwards 'stand up.'     An if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,     'Pardon' should be the first word of thy speech.     I never long'd to hear a word till now;     Say 'pardon,' King; let pity teach thee how.     The word is short, but not so short as sweet;     No word like 'pardon' for kings' mouths so meet.   YORK. Speak it in French, King, say 'pardonne moy.'   DUCHESS. Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy?     Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord,     That sets the word itself against the word!     Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land;     The chopping French we do not understand.     Thine eye begins to speak, set thy tongue there;     Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear,     That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,     Pity may move thee 'pardon' to rehearse.   BOLINGBROKE. Good aunt, stand up.   DUCHESS. I do not sue to stand;     Pardon is all the suit I have in hand.   BOLINGBROKE. I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.   DUCHESS. O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!     Yet am I sick for fear. Speak it again.     Twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain,     But makes one pardon strong.   BOLINGBROKE. With all my heart     I pardon him.   DUCHESS. A god on earth thou art.   BOLINGBROKE. But for our trusty brother-in-law and the Abbot,     With all the rest of that consorted crew,     Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels.     Good uncle, help to order several powers     To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are.     They shall not live within this world, I swear,     But I will have them, if I once know where.     Uncle, farewell; and, cousin, adieu;     Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true.   DUCHESS. Come, my old son; I pray God make thee new.      Exeunt     SCENE 4. Windsor Castle  Enter SIR PIERCE OF EXTON and a servant    EXTON. Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake?     'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'     Was it not so?   SERVANT. These were his very words.   EXTON. 'Have I no friend?' quoth he. He spake it twice     And urg'd it twice together, did he not?   SERVANT. He did.   EXTON. And, speaking it, he wishtly look'd on me,     As who should say 'I would thou wert the man     That would divorce this terror from my heart';     Meaning the King at Pomfret. Come, let's go.     I am the King's friend, and will rid his foe.         Exeunt     SCENE 5. Pomfret Castle. The dungeon of the Castle  Enter KING RICHARD    KING RICHARD. I have been studying how I may compare     This prison where I live unto the world     And, for because the world is populous     And here is not a creature but myself,     I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.     My brain I'll prove the female to my soul,     My soul the father; and these two beget     A generation of still-breeding thoughts,     And these same thoughts people this little world,     In humours like the people of this world,     For no thought is contented. The better sort,     As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd     With scruples, and do set the word itself     Against the word,     As thus: 'Come, little ones'; and then again,     'It is as hard to come as for a camel     To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.'     Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot     Unlikely wonders: how these vain weak nails     May tear a passage through the flinty ribs     Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls;     And, for they cannot, die in their own pride.     Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves     That they are not the first of fortune's slaves,     Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars     Who, sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame,     That many have and others must sit there;     And in this thought they find a kind of ease,     Bearing their own misfortunes on the back     Of such as have before endur'd the like.     Thus play I in one person many people,     And none contented. Sometimes am I king;     Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,     And so I am. Then crushing penury     Persuades me I was better when a king;     Then am I king'd again; and by and by     Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke,     And straight am nothing. But whate'er I be,     Nor I, nor any man that but man is,     With nothing shall be pleas'd till he be eas'd     With being nothing.                    [The music plays]     Music do I hear?     Ha, ha! keep time. How sour sweet music is     When time is broke and no proportion kept!     So is it in the music of men's lives.     And here have I the daintiness of ear     To check time broke in a disorder'd string;     But, for the concord of my state and time,     Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.     I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;     For now hath time made me his numb'ring clock:     My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar     Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,     Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,     Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.     Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is     Are clamorous groans which strike upon my heart,     Which is the bell. So sighs, and tears, and groans,     Show minutes, times, and hours; but my time     Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy,     While I stand fooling here, his Jack of the clock.     This music mads me. Let it sound no more;     For though it have holp madmen to their wits,     In me it seems it will make wise men mad.     Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me!     For 'tis a sign of love; and love to Richard     Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.                Enter a GROOM of the stable    GROOM. Hail, royal Prince!   KING RICHARD. Thanks, noble peer!     The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.     What art thou? and how comest thou hither,     Where no man never comes but that sad dog     That brings me food to make misfortune live?   GROOM. I was a poor groom of thy stable, King,     When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,     With much ado at length have gotten leave     To look upon my sometimes royal master's face.     O, how it ern'd my heart, when I beheld,     In London streets, that coronation-day,     When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary-     That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,     That horse that I so carefully have dress'd!   KING RICHARD. Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,     How went he under him?   GROOM. So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground.   KING RICHARD. So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!     That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;     This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.     Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,     Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck     Of that proud man that did usurp his back?     Forgiveness, horse! Why do I rail on thee,     Since thou, created to be aw'd by man,     Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse;     And yet I bear a burden like an ass,     Spurr'd, gall'd, and tir'd, by jauncing Bolingbroke.                Enter KEEPER with meat    KEEPER. Fellow, give place; here is no longer stay.   KING RICHARD. If thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away.   GROOM. my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.  Exit   KEEPER. My lord, will't please you to fall to?   KING RICHARD. Taste of it first as thou art wont to do.   KEEPER. My lord, I dare not. Sir Pierce of Exton,     Who lately came from the King, commands the contrary.   KING RICHARD. The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee!     Patience is stale, and I am weary of it.                                            [Beats the KEEPER]   KEEPER. Help, help, help!     The murderers, EXTON and servants, rush in, armed   KING RICHARD. How now! What means death in this rude assault?     Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument.                          [Snatching a weapon and killing one]     Go thou and fill another room in hell.               [He kills another, then EXTON strikes him down]     That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire     That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand     Hath with the King's blood stain'd the King's own land.     Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;     Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.                                                        [Dies]   EXTON. As full of valour as of royal blood.     Both have I spill'd. O, would the deed were good!     For now the devil, that told me I did well,     Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.     This dead King to the living King I'll bear.     Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.       Exeunt     SCENE 6. Windsor Castle  Flourish. Enter BOLINGBROKE, the DUKE OF YORK, With other LORDS and attendants    BOLINGBROKE. Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear     Is that the rebels have consum'd with fire     Our town of Ciceter in Gloucestershire;     But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not.                Enter NORTHUMBERLAND      Welcome, my lord. What is the news?   NORTHUMBERLAND. First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.     The next news is, I have to London sent     The heads of Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent.     The manner of their taking may appear     At large discoursed in this paper here.   BOLINGBROKE. We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains;     And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.                    Enter FITZWATER    FITZWATER. My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London     The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely;     Two of the dangerous consorted traitors     That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.   BOLINGBROKE. Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot;     Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.           Enter PERCY, With the BISHOP OF CARLISLE    PERCY. The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,     With clog of conscience and sour melancholy,     Hath yielded up his body to the grave;     But here is Carlisle living, to abide     Thy kingly doom, and sentence of his pride.   BOLINGBROKE. Carlisle, this is your doom:     Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,     More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;     So as thou liv'st in peace, die free from strife;     For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,     High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.        Enter EXTON, with attendants, hearing a coffin    EXTON. Great King, within this coffin I present     Thy buried fear. Herein all breathless lies     The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,     Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.   BOLINGBROKE. Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought     A deed of slander with thy fatal hand     Upon my head and all this famous land.   EXTON. From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.   BOLINGBROKE. They love not poison that do poison need,     Nor do I thee. Though I did wish him dead,     I hate the murderer, love him murdered.     The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,     But neither my good word nor princely favour;     With Cain go wander thorough shades of night,     And never show thy head by day nor light.     Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe     That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.     Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,     And put on sullen black incontinent.     I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,     To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.     March sadly after; grace my mournings here     In weeping after this untimely bier.                  Exeunt  THE END