Queen.
This way the King will come: This is the way
To Julius Cæsar's ill-erected Tower,
To whose flint Bosom, my condemned Lord

Is doom'd a Prisoner, by proud Bullingbroke.
Here let us rest, if this Rebellious Earth
Have any resting for her true King's Queen. Enter King Richard, and Guards.
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, [To K. Rich.
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 Ale-house Guest?

K. Rich.
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
Shews us but this. I am sworn Brother, Sweet,
To grim Necessity; and he and I
Will keep a League 'till death. High thee to France,
And Cloister thee in some Religious House;
Our holy Lives must win a new World's Crown,
Which our prophane Hours here have stricken down.

Queen.
What, is my Richard both in Shape and Mind
Transform'd and weakened? Hath Bullingbroke
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'er-power'd: And wilt thou, Pupil-like,
Take thy Correction mildly, kiss the Rod,
And fawn on Rage with base Humility,
Which art a Lion and a King of Beasts?

K. Rich.
A King of Beasts indeed; if ought but Beasts,
I had been still a happy King of Men.
Good, sometime, Queen prepare thee hence for France;
Think I am dead, and that even here thou tak'st,
As from my Death-bed, my last-living leave.
In Winters tedious Nights sit by the Fire
With good old Folks, and let them tell thee Tales
Of woful Ages, long ago betide:
And e'er thou bid good-night, to quit their Grief,

Tell thou the lamentable fall 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.

North.
My Lord, the mind of Bullingbroke 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.

K. Rich.
Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithal
The mounting Bullingbroke ascends my Throne,
The time shall not be many Hours of Age,
More than it is, e'er foul Sin, gathering head,
Shall break into Corruption; thou shalt think,
Though he divide the Realm, and give the half,
It is too little, helping him to all:
And he shall think, that thou which know'st the way
To plant unrightful Kings, wilt know again,
Being ne'er so little urg'd, another way,
To pluck him headlong from th' usurped Throne.
The Love of wicked Friends converts to Fear;
That Fear to Hate; and Hate turns one, or both,
To worthy Danger, and deserved 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 unkiss the Oath, 'twixt thee and me: [To the Queen.
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 Queen to France; from whence, set forth in Pomp,
She came adorned hither like sweet May,
Sent back like Hollowmas, or shortest Day.

Queen.
And must we be divided? Must we part?

K. Rich.
Ay, Hand from Hand, my Love, and Heart from Heart.

Queen.
Banish us both, and send the King with me.

North.
That were some Love, but little Policy.

Queen.
Then whither he goes, thither let me go.

K. Rich.
So two together weeping, make one wo.
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.

K. Rich.
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. [They kiss.

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, [Kiss again.
That I may strive to kill it with a Groan.

K. Rich.
We make Wo wanton with this fond delay:
Once more adieu; the rest let Sorrow say. [Exeunt.

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