* To bury mine intents, but to effect I fee, your brows are full of difcontent, [Exeunt. ACT VS CEN E I. TH A Street in LONDON. Enter Queen, and Ladies. QUEEN. HIS way the King will come: this is the way To whose flint-bofom my condemned lord [To K. Richard. Thou, *To bury, to conceal; to keep faid to have been the work of fecret. 9 In the first edition there is no perfonal appearance of King Richard, fo that all to the line at which he leaves the stage was inferted afterwards. 7 To Julius Cæfar's, &c.] The Tower of London is traditionally Julius Cafar. 8 Here let us reft, if, &c.] Here reft, if any reft can harbour here. MILTON. 9 O thou, the model where old Troy did ftand.] The Queen ufes comparative terms abfolutely. Inftead of saying, Thou Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb, * K. Rich. Join not with grief, fair Woman, do not fo, From which awak'd, the truth of what we are Will keep a league till death. Hye thee to France, K. Rich. A King of beafts, indeed-if aught but I had been still a happy King of men. Good fometime Queen, prepare thee hence for France; Think, I am dead; and that ev'n here thou tak'st, As from my death-bed, my last living Leave. And ere thou bid good Night, to quit their grief, And fome will mourn in afhes, fome coal-black, Enter Northumberland attended. North. 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, K. Rich. Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal And he fhall think, that thou, which know'ft the 2 to quit their grief.] To retaliate their mournful stories. 3 For awhy? ] The poet fhould have ended this fpeech with the foregoing line, and have fpared his childish pratile about the fire. Τα To worthy danger, and deferved death. ** North. My guilt be on my head, and there's an end. Take leave and part, for you must part forthwith. K. Rich. Doubly divorc'd? Bad men, ye violate A two-fold marriage; 'twixt my crown and me; And then betwixt me and my married wife, Let me unkifs the oath 'twixt thee and me. [To the Queen. -And yet not fo, for with a kifs 'twas made. Part us, Northumberland. I, towards the North, Where fhiv'ring cold and fickness pines the clime; My Queen to France, from whence, set forth in pomp, She came adorned hither like fweet May; Sent back like Hollowvmas, or fhortest day. Queen. And must we be divided? muft we part? K. Rich. Ay, hand from hand, my Love, and heart from heart. 3 r Queen. Banish us both, and fend the King with me. And piece the way out with a heavy heart. 2 Better far off, than near, be ne'er the near,] To be never the nigher, or as it is commonly spoken in the mid land counties, ne'er the ne'er, is, to make no advance towards the good defired. G 4 Queen. Queen. Give me mine own again; 'twere no good To take on me to keep, and kill thy heart. [Kifs again. So, now I have mine own again, be gone, That I may strive to kill it with a groan. K. Rich. We make woe wanton with this fond delay: Once more, adieu; the reft let forrow fay [Exeunt. SCENE III. The Duke of YORK's Palace. Enter York, and bis Dutchefs Dutch. MY Y lord, you told me, you would tell the When Weeping made you break the ftory off, Dutch. At that fad ftop, my lord, Where rude mif-govern'd hands, from window-tops, Threw duft and rubbish on King Richard's head. York. Then, as I faid, the Duke, great Bolingbroke, Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed, Which his afpiring Rider feem'd to know, With flow, but stately pace, kept on his courfe; Dutch |