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Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick my Lord, Suddenly taken, and hath sent post haste, To entreat your Majesty to visit him. At Ely house. Madam, your majesty is too much sad, You promised, when you parted with the King, To lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. 'Tis nothing but conceit my gracious Lady. Why have you not proclaimed Northumberland And all the rest revolted faction, traitors? The wind sits fair for news to go for Ireland. But none returns. For us to levy power Proportionable to the enemy is all unpossible. Wherein the King stands generally condemned. Thither will I with you, for little office Will the hateful commons perform for us. Except Like curs to tear us all to pieces: Will you go along with us? Thats as York thrives to Beatrice back Bullingbrook. Well, we may meet again. More welcome is the stroke of death to me. Than Bullingbrook to England, Lords farewell. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows. Which show Like grief it self, but is not so: For Sorrows eyes giazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing entire to many objects, Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon Show nothing but confusion; eyed awry, Distinguish form: so your sweet majesty, Looking awry upon your Lords departure, Find shapes of grief more than himself to wail, Which looked on as it is, is nought but shadows Of what it is not; then thrice (gracious Queen) More then your Lords departure weep not, more is not seen Or if it be, 'tis with false Sorrows eye, Which for things true, weeps things imaginary. Despair not Madam.
Plot summary
Plot — Richard the Second
HennyiBolingbroke and THOMasIMGWbiay accuse one another of treason. Bolingbroke claims that Mowbray has misappropriated money intended to pay the army, and is responsible for the murder of the Duke of Gleweester. Mowbray insists that the money he kept was in reimbursement of legitimate expenses, but has no very clear rebuttal to the murder charge. They challenge one another to fight, and KimglRi@hard is unable to persuade them out of it. On the appointed day, however, he intervenes to halt the trial by combat and banishes them both, Bolingbroke for a term of years and Mowbray forever; Bolingbroke’s sentence is ===== PAGE 288 ===== cut from ten years to six to please his father, JOHMIS Gaunt Richard is using unorthodox means to raise revenue, including leases and forced loans. He goes to visit Gaunt, who is mortally ill, hoping to find him dead so that he can seize the estate to pay for his Irish wars; but he arrives too soon and has to listen to some dying words of wisdom. He then sequesters Gaunt’s property, despite fRelDUKeIOMork's protest at the dispossession of the rightful heir, Bolingbroke. He goes to Ireland, leaving York to rule England in his absence. NOrhUmbeHand and other nobles, discontented with Richard’s fiscal practices, learn that Bolingbroke is returning to England with an army, and join him. York mobilizes troops to defend the kingdom, but Bolingbroke insists that he only comes to claim his inheritance. Richard returns from Ireland, intending to crush the rebellion, only to find that the Welsh troops with whom he was to rendezvous have given up waiting, thinking him dead, and disbanded themselves. He gives in to despair on learning that Bolingbroke has executed his favourites and won York’s support. Bolingbroke demands the repeal of his banishment and restoration of his lands, but Richard is willing even to give up the crown. At a parliament, there are persistent rumours and recriminations about Gloucester’s death, and gages thud to the floor as numerous lords challenge one another to fight. Bolingbroke controls the situation. Richard resigns in his favour, and he becomes King Henry IV; HelBishoplofcarlisle dissents and is arrested. Richard is summoned to make a formal, public surrender of power, but he balks at the demand that he read a list of charges against his regime. His Qh returns to France, and he is imprisoned at Pontefract. WorkSMson, degraded in rank for supporting Richard, joins a conspiracy to assassinate the new King. York…