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GARDENER

in Richard the Second — Shakespeare, William

Metadata

PlayRichard the Second
AuthorShakespeare, William
Year (catalogued)1597
First performance1595
Decade1590s
GenreTragedy; History
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyLord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Speech prefix(es)Gard.
Words415
Characters2187
Typicality0.28 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA11994
BritDrama no.1002
ClusterCluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit

Important excerpts

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Full speech

Go bind thou up young dangling Aphricokes, Which Like unruly children make their sire, Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight, Give some supportance to the bending twigs, Go thou, and Like and executioner Cut off the heads of two fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth, All must be even in our government. You thus employed, I will go root away The noisome weeds which without profit suck The soils fertility from wholesome flowers. Hold thy peace. He that htah suffered this disordered spring, Hath now himself met with the fallen of leaf: The weeds which his broad spreading leaves did shelter, That seemed in eating him to hold him up, Are plucked up root and all by Bullingbrook, I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green, They are. And Bullingbrook hath ceased the wasteful king, O what pity is it that he had not so trimde, And dressed his land a we this garden at time of year Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees, Lest being ver proud in blood, With too much riches it it self Had he done so to great and growing men, They might have lived to bear and he to taste Their fruits of duty: supe fluous branches We lop away that bearing boughs may live: Had he done so, himself had born the crown, Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down Depressed he is already, and deposed 'Tis doubt he will be. Letters came last night To a deer friend of the good Duke of The kes, That tell black tidings. Pardon me Madam, little joy have I To breathe this news, yet what I say is true: King Richard he is in the mighty hold Of Bullingbrook: their Fortune's both are weyde In your Lo. scale is nothing but himself, And some few vanities that make him light: But in the balance of great Bullingbrook, Beside himself are all the English peers, And with that odds he weighs King Richard down; Post you to London and you will find it so, I speak no more e than every one does know. Poor Queen, so that thy state might be no worse, I would my Skill were subject to thy cum see: Here did she fallen a tear, here in this place I'll set a bank of Rew sour herb of grace, Rew even for ruth here shortly shall be seen, In the remembrance of a weeping Queen.

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…