1 00:02:03,390 --> 00:02:10,994 Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster 2 00:02:11,565 --> 00:02:17,771 Hast thou according to thy oath and bond brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son 3 00:02:19,172 --> 00:02:23,844 Here to make good the boisterous late appeal, which then our leisure would not let us hear... 4 00:02:23,877 --> 00:02:26,446 ...against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray? 5 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:27,548 l have, my liege 6 00:02:29,082 --> 00:02:33,526 Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him, if he appeal the duke on ancient malice 7 00:02:33,553 --> 00:02:37,827 Or worthily, as a good subiect should, on some known ground of treachery in him? 8 00:02:38,291 --> 00:02:41,098 As near as l could sift him on that argument... 9 00:02:41,128 --> 00:02:46,868 ...on some apparent danger seen in him aimed at your highness, no inveterate malice 10 00:02:47,234 --> 00:02:49,837 Then call them to our presence 11 00:02:51,838 --> 00:02:58,476 Face to face, and frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear the accuser and the accused freely speak 12 00:03:01,348 --> 00:03:08,156 High-stomached are they both, and full of ire, in rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire 13 00:03:08,789 --> 00:03:12,926 Many years of happy days befall my gracious sovereign, my most loving liege 14 00:03:13,493 --> 00:03:16,164 Each day still better other's happiness... 15 00:03:16,196 --> 00:03:20,936 ...until the heavens, envying earth's good hap, add an immortal title to your crown 16 00:03:21,835 --> 00:03:26,711 We thank you both. Yet one but flatters us, as well appeareth by the cause you come 17 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,313 Namely, to appeal each other of high treason 18 00:03:34,314 --> 00:03:38,781 Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray? 19 00:03:41,555 --> 00:03:44,294 First, heaven be the record to my speech 20 00:03:45,225 --> 00:03:49,226 Tendering the precious safety of my prince, come l appellant to this princely presence 21 00:03:51,398 --> 00:03:56,274 Now, Thomas Mowbray, do l turn to thee, and mark my greeting well 22 00:03:56,603 --> 00:04:01,979 For what l speak my body shall make good upon this earth, or my divine soul answer it in heaven 23 00:04:03,643 --> 00:04:08,951 Thou art a traitor and a miscreant too good to be so and too bad to live 24 00:04:09,750 --> 00:04:16,252 Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff l thy throat 25 00:04:16,757 --> 00:04:18,962 And wish - so please my sovereign - ere l move 26 00:04:18,992 --> 00:04:22,834 What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove 27 00:04:23,530 --> 00:04:29,941 Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal. The blood is hot that must be cooled for this 28 00:04:31,104 --> 00:04:35,707 First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me from giving reins and spurs to my free speech 29 00:04:36,610 --> 00:04:41,316 Which else would post until it had returned these terms of treason doubly down his throat 30 00:04:43,049 --> 00:04:48,255 Setting aside his high blood's royalty, l do defy him, and l spit at him 31 00:04:49,990 --> 00:04:54,093 Call him a slanderous coward and a villain, which to maintain l would allow him odds 32 00:04:54,895 --> 00:04:58,362 And meet him, were l tied to run afoot even to the frozen ridges of the Alps 33 00:04:59,366 --> 00:05:04,901 Meantime, let this defend my loyalty: by all my hopes most falsely doth he lie 34 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:07,973 Pale trembling coward, there l throw my gage 35 00:05:08,575 --> 00:05:13,281 lf guilty dread hath left thee so much strength as to take up mine honour's pawn, then stoop 36 00:05:13,713 --> 00:05:19,453 l take it up, and by that sword l swear which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder 37 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:28,361 l 'll answer thee in any knightly trial. And when l mount, alive may l not light, if l be traitor or uniustly fight 38 00:05:29,029 --> 00:05:30,939 What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge? 39 00:05:32,833 --> 00:05:36,004 lt must be great that can inherit us so much as of a thought of ill in him 40 00:05:36,536 --> 00:05:42,947 Look what l speak: my life shall prove it true, that all the treasons for these eighteen years... 41 00:05:42,976 --> 00:05:48,011 ...complotted and contrived in this land fetched from false Mowbray their first head and spring 42 00:05:49,216 --> 00:05:52,092 Further l say, and further will maintain... 43 00:05:52,118 --> 00:05:57,926 ...that he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood 44 00:05:58,592 --> 00:06:00,865 Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's... 45 00:06:00,894 --> 00:06:07,464 ...cries even from the tongueless caverns of the earth to me for iustice and rough chastisement 46 00:06:08,201 --> 00:06:14,237 And by the glorious worth of my descent, this arm shall do it, or this life be spent 47 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:20,315 How high a pitch his resolution soars! Thomas of Norfolk, what sayest thou to this? 48 00:06:21,248 --> 00:06:26,420 O, let my sovereign turn away his face and bid his ear a little while be deaf... 49 00:06:26,453 --> 00:06:31,522 ...till l have told this slander of his blood, how God and good men hate so foul a liar 50 00:06:32,158 --> 00:06:34,534 Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears 51 00:06:35,495 --> 00:06:41,201 Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir, as he is but my father's brother's son ... 52 00:06:41,234 --> 00:06:46,076 ...now, by my sceptre's awe, l make a vow, such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood... 53 00:06:46,106 --> 00:06:50,982 ...should nothing privilege him, nor partialise the unstooping firmness of my upright soul 54 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:59,080 He is our subiect, Mowbray, so art thou. Free speech and fearless l to thee allow 55 00:07:01,388 --> 00:07:08,992 Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart, through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest 56 00:07:09,896 --> 00:07:12,431 For Gloucester's death ... 57 00:07:15,535 --> 00:07:24,310 l slew him not. But to mine own disgrace neglected my sworn duty in that case. This is my fault 58 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,881 As for the rest appealed, it issues from the rancour of a villain 59 00:07:31,785 --> 00:07:35,661 A recreant and most degenerate traitor which in myself l boldly will defend 60 00:07:36,456 --> 00:07:42,026 And interchangeably hurl down my gage upon this overweening traitor's foot... 61 00:07:42,495 --> 00:07:46,371 ...to prove myself a loyal gentleman even in the best blood chambered in his bosom 62 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,144 ln haste whereof, most heartily l pray your highness to assign our trial day 63 00:07:51,671 --> 00:07:56,877 Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me: let's purge this choler without letting blood 64 00:07:58,345 --> 00:08:02,948 This we prescribe, though no physician: deep malice makes too deep incision 65 00:08:05,251 --> 00:08:11,718 Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed: our doctors say this is no time to bleed 66 00:08:16,162 --> 00:08:19,572 Good uncle, let this end where it begun: we'll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son 67 00:08:20,166 --> 00:08:24,633 To be a make-peace shall become my age: throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage 68 00:08:25,171 --> 00:08:26,171 And, Mowbray, throw down his 69 00:08:26,573 --> 00:08:29,574 When, Harry, when? Obedience bids l should not bid again 70 00:08:30,210 --> 00:08:31,915 Mowbray, throw down, we bid: there is no boot 71 00:08:34,214 --> 00:08:40,090 Myself l throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot. My life thou shalt command, but not my shame 72 00:08:41,287 --> 00:08:45,890 The one my duty owes, but my fair name, to dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have 73 00:08:47,494 --> 00:08:54,200 l am disgraced, impeached and baffled here, pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear 74 00:08:54,734 --> 00:08:59,269 The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood which breathed this poison 75 00:08:59,906 --> 00:09:04,009 Rage must be withstood. Give me his gage. Lions make leopards tame 76 00:09:04,677 --> 00:09:11,019 Yea, but not change his spots. Take but my shame, and l resign my gage 77 00:09:11,484 --> 00:09:17,792 My dear dear lord, the purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation 78 00:09:18,758 --> 00:09:21,895 That away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay 79 00:09:22,695 --> 00:09:28,139 A jewel in a ten-times barred-up chest is a bold spirit in a loyal breast 80 00:09:28,835 --> 00:09:34,871 Mine honour is my life, both grow in one. Take honour from me, and my life is done 81 00:09:35,442 --> 00:09:41,114 Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try. ln that l live and for that will l die 82 00:09:41,614 --> 00:09:44,683 Cousin, throw down your gage. Do you begin 83 00:09:45,285 --> 00:09:50,957 O God defend my soul from such foul sin! Shall l seem crest-fallen in my father's sight? 84 00:09:52,592 --> 00:09:57,627 Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height before this out-dared dastard? 85 00:09:58,598 --> 00:10:03,736 Ere my tongue shall wound mine honour with such feeble wrong, or sound so base a parle... 86 00:10:03,770 --> 00:10:07,180 ...my teeth shall tear the slavish motive of recanting fear 87 00:10:07,774 --> 00:10:13,946 And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face 88 00:10:14,714 --> 00:10:20,158 We were not born to sue, but to command. Which since we cannot do to make you friends... 89 00:10:20,186 --> 00:10:24,392 ...be ready, as your lives shall answer it, at Coventry upon Saint Lambert's day 90 00:10:25,525 --> 00:10:28,696 There shall your swords and lances arbitrate the swelling difference of your settled hate 91 00:10:29,796 --> 00:10:32,467 Since we cannot atone you, we shall see justice design the victor's chivalry 92 00:10:33,166 --> 00:10:37,337 Lord Marshal, command our officers at arms be ready to direct these home alarms 93 00:10:51,151 --> 00:10:57,459 Alas, the part l had in Gloucester's blood doth more solicit me than your exclaims... 94 00:10:57,490 --> 00:10:59,968 ...to stir against the butchers of his life 95 00:11:03,129 --> 00:11:08,767 But since correction lieth in those hands which made the fault that we cannot correct... 96 00:11:08,801 --> 00:11:11,279 ...put we our quarrel to the will of heaven 97 00:11:12,438 --> 00:11:17,212 Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth, will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads 98 00:11:18,678 --> 00:11:30,078 Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? Hath love in thy old blood no living fire? 99 00:11:33,226 --> 00:11:38,398 Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one... 100 00:11:38,431 --> 00:11:44,739 ...were as seven vials of his sacred blood, or seven fair branches springing from one root 101 00:11:46,406 --> 00:11:56,909 Some of those seven are dried by nature's course, some of those branches by the Destinies cut 102 00:11:59,485 --> 00:12:12,227 But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester! 103 00:12:15,401 --> 00:12:24,039 One vial full of Edward's sacred blood, one flourishing branch of his most royal root... 104 00:12:24,444 --> 00:12:33,719 ...is cracked, and all the precious liquor spilt 105 00:12:36,189 --> 00:12:49,795 ls hacked down, and his summer leaves all faded, by envy's hand and murder's bloody axe 106 00:12:54,507 --> 00:12:58,678 Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine 107 00:13:01,014 --> 00:13:07,152 That bed, that womb, that metal, that self-mould that fashioned thee made him a man 108 00:13:08,888 --> 00:13:13,389 And though thou livest and breathest, yet art thou slain in him 109 00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:26,038 Thou dost consent in some large measure to thy father's death ... 110 00:13:26,272 --> 00:13:33,240 ...in that thou seest thy wretched brother die, who was the model of thy father's life 111 00:13:36,215 --> 00:13:41,921 Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is despair 112 00:13:43,389 --> 00:13:46,594 ln suffering thus thy brother to be slaughtered... 113 00:13:46,626 --> 00:13:53,764 ...thou showest the naked pathway to thy life, teaching stern murder how to butcher thee 114 00:13:56,602 --> 00:14:05,240 That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts 115 00:14:10,450 --> 00:14:21,521 What shall l say? To safeguard thine own life, the best way is to venge my Gloucester's death 116 00:14:22,028 --> 00:14:32,599 God's is the quarrel, for God's substitute, his deputy anointed in his sight, hath caused his death 117 00:14:35,208 --> 00:14:41,675 The which if wrongfully, let heaven revenge, for l may never lift an angry arm against his minister 118 00:14:43,082 --> 00:14:50,516 - Where then, alas, may l complain myself? - To God, the widow's champion and defence 119 00:14:51,591 --> 00:14:57,297 Why, then, l will. Farewell, old Gaunt 120 00:15:00,366 --> 00:15:09,436 Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight 121 00:15:11,444 --> 00:15:16,513 O, sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear, that it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast 122 00:15:17,683 --> 00:15:24,321 Or if misfortune miss the first career, be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom ... 123 00:15:24,357 --> 00:15:31,791 ...that they may break his foaming courser's back, and throw the rider headlong in the lists... 124 00:15:33,166 --> 00:15:36,610 ...a caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford 125 00:15:42,875 --> 00:15:59,709 Farewell, old Gaunt. Thy sometime brother's wife with her companion grief must end her life 126 00:16:00,293 --> 00:16:10,136 Sister, farewell. l must to Coventry. As much good stay with thee as go with me 127 00:16:11,604 --> 00:16:22,277 Yet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls, not with the empty hollowness, but weight 128 00:16:24,851 --> 00:16:31,921 l take my leave before l have begun, for sorrow ends not when it seemeth done 129 00:16:38,731 --> 00:16:47,870 Commend me to my brother, Edmund York. Lo, this is all 130 00:16:51,944 --> 00:17:01,048 Nay, yet depart not so. Though this be all, do not so quickly go. l shall remember more 131 00:17:04,557 --> 00:17:17,458 Bid him - o, what? - bid him with all good speed at Plashy visit me 132 00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:25,079 Alack, and what shall good old York there see... 133 00:17:26,812 --> 00:17:35,723 ...but empty lodgings and unfurnished walls, unpeopled offices, untrodden stones? 134 00:17:37,990 --> 00:17:40,934 And what hear there for welcome but my groans? 135 00:17:41,794 --> 00:17:50,569 Therefore commend me, bid him not come there to seek out sorrow. That dwells everywhere 136 00:17:56,075 --> 00:18:07,680 Desolate, desolate, will l hence and die 137 00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:14,393 The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye 138 00:18:52,865 --> 00:18:57,434 - My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford armed? - Yea my lord, at all points, and longs to enter in 139 00:18:58,170 --> 00:19:02,807 The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold, stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet 140 00:19:03,609 --> 00:19:07,815 Why, then, the champions are prepared, and stay for nothing but his maiesty's approach 141 00:19:15,187 --> 00:19:18,461 Marshal, demand of yonder champion the cause of his arrival here in arms 142 00:19:18,491 --> 00:19:21,298 Ask him his name and orderly proceed to swear him in the iustice of his cause 143 00:19:23,095 --> 00:19:29,267 ln God's name and the king's, say who thou art and why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms 144 00:19:30,069 --> 00:19:32,808 Against what man thou comest, and what's thy quarrel 145 00:19:33,572 --> 00:19:38,812 Speak truly, on thy knighthood and thine oath, as so defend thee heaven and thy valour 146 00:19:41,247 --> 00:19:46,123 My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, who hither comes engaged by my oath ... 147 00:19:46,152 --> 00:19:50,460 ...both to defend my loyalty and truth against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me 148 00:19:51,457 --> 00:19:57,197 To prove him, in defending of myself, a traitor to my God, my king, and me 149 00:19:57,897 --> 00:20:01,000 And as l truly fight, defend me heaven 150 00:20:09,575 --> 00:20:11,712 Marshal, ask yonder knight in arms both who he is 151 00:20:11,744 --> 00:20:14,881 And why he cometh hither thus plated in habiliments of war 152 00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:21,492 What is thy name? And wherefore comest thou hither, before King Richard in his royal lists? 153 00:20:22,455 --> 00:20:28,491 Against whom comest thou? And what's thy quarrel? Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven 154 00:20:29,829 --> 00:20:36,706 Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby am l, who ready here do stand in arms... 155 00:20:36,736 --> 00:20:44,738 ...to prove, by God's grace and my body's valour, in lists, on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk... 156 00:20:44,777 --> 00:20:51,244 ...that he's a traitor, foul and dangerous, to God of heaven, King Richard and to me 157 00:20:52,785 --> 00:20:56,593 And as l truly fight, defend me heaven 158 00:20:58,457 --> 00:21:04,061 On pain of death, no person be so bold or daring-hardy as to enter the lists 159 00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:09,370 Except the marshal and such officers appointed to direct these fair designs 160 00:21:11,637 --> 00:21:15,672 Lord Marshal, let me kiss my sovereign's hand, and bow my knee before his majesty 161 00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:21,819 For Mowbray and myself are like two men that vow a long and weary pilgrimage 162 00:21:23,115 --> 00:21:26,457 Then let us take a ceremonious leave and loving farewell of our several friends 163 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:33,792 The appellant in all duty greets your highness, and craves to kiss your hand and take his leave 164 00:21:36,996 --> 00:21:39,735 We will descend and fold him in our arms 165 00:21:53,712 --> 00:21:58,816 Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right, so be thy fortune in this royal fight 166 00:22:00,252 --> 00:22:05,958 Farewell, my blood, which if today thou shed, lament we may, but not revenge thee dead 167 00:22:06,425 --> 00:22:10,994 O, let no noble eye profane a tear for me, if l be gored with Mowbray's spear 168 00:22:12,131 --> 00:22:16,598 As confident as is the falcon's flight against a bird, do l with Mowbray fight 169 00:22:18,771 --> 00:22:20,305 My loving lord, l take my leave of you 170 00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:24,414 Of you, my noble cousin, Lord Aumerle 171 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:31,223 O thou, the earthly author of my blood 172 00:22:31,250 --> 00:22:37,251 Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers, and with thy blessings steel my lance's point 173 00:22:37,289 --> 00:22:41,995 That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat, and furbish new the name of John a Gaunt 174 00:22:42,628 --> 00:22:45,936 God in thy good cause make thee prosperous 175 00:22:46,365 --> 00:22:51,707 Be swift like lightning in the execution, and let thy blows, doubly redoubled... 176 00:22:51,737 --> 00:22:56,045 ...fall like amazing thunder on the casque of thy amazed pernicious enemy 177 00:22:56,809 --> 00:23:02,879 - Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant and live - Mine innocence and Saint George to thrive 178 00:23:05,017 --> 00:23:07,461 However God or fortune cast my lot... 179 00:23:07,786 --> 00:23:12,230 ...there lives or dies, true to King Richard's throne, a loyal, just and upright gentleman 180 00:23:13,692 --> 00:23:17,295 Never did captive with a freer heart cast off his chains of bondage 181 00:23:17,596 --> 00:23:21,506 And embrace his golden uncontrolled enfranchisement... 182 00:23:21,533 --> 00:23:26,909 ...more than my dancing soul doth celebrate this feast of battle with mine adversary 183 00:23:33,212 --> 00:23:39,554 Most mighty liege, and my companion peers, take from my mouth the wish of happy years 184 00:23:41,353 --> 00:23:47,923 As gentle and as jocund as to iest go l to fight. Truth hath a quiet breast 185 00:23:50,496 --> 00:23:55,838 Farewell, my lord. Securely l espy virtue with valour couched in thine eye 186 00:23:57,603 --> 00:23:58,774 Order the trial, marshal, and begin 187 00:23:59,905 --> 00:24:06,543 Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby, receive thy sword. And God defend thy right 188 00:24:07,713 --> 00:24:09,452 Go bear this sword to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk 189 00:24:11,717 --> 00:24:12,922 Sound trumpets 190 00:24:22,361 --> 00:24:25,032 And set forward, combatants 191 00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:45,757 Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down 192 00:24:46,852 --> 00:24:49,489 Let them lay by their helmets and their swords, and both return back to their chairs again 193 00:24:49,888 --> 00:24:54,196 Withdraw with us, and let the trumpets sound whilst we return these dukes what we decree 194 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:43,412 Draw near, and list what with our council we have done 195 00:25:46,712 --> 00:25:51,281 For that our kingdom's earth should not be soiled with that dear blood which it hath fostered 196 00:25:53,452 --> 00:25:57,726 And for our eyes do hate the sight of civil wounds ploughed up with neighbours' sword 197 00:25:59,358 --> 00:26:05,234 And for we think the eagle-winged pride of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts 198 00:26:05,297 --> 00:26:07,968 With rival-hating envy, set on you... 199 00:26:08,367 --> 00:26:14,834 ...to wake our peace, which in our country's cradle draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep 200 00:26:17,476 --> 00:26:20,011 Therefore, we banish you our territories 201 00:26:21,046 --> 00:26:27,047 You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of death, till twice five summers have enriched our fields... 202 00:26:27,086 --> 00:26:31,257 ...shall not regreet our fair dominions, but tread the stranger paths of banishment 203 00:26:32,991 --> 00:26:40,834 Your will be done. This must my comfort be: that sun that warms you here shall shine on me 204 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:47,674 And those his golden beams to you here lent shall point on me and gild my banishment 205 00:26:49,074 --> 00:26:54,280 Mowbray, for thee remains a heavier doom, which l with some unwillingness pronounce 206 00:26:55,614 --> 00:27:00,354 The sly slow hours shall not determinate the dateless limit of thy dear exile 207 00:27:02,154 --> 00:27:06,928 The hopeless word of 'never to return' breathe l against thee, upon pain of life 208 00:27:09,761 --> 00:27:15,171 A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, and all unlooked for from your highness' mouth 209 00:27:17,769 --> 00:27:23,179 A dearer merit, not so deep a maim, have l deserved at your highness' hands 210 00:27:25,711 --> 00:27:30,019 The language l have learned these forty years, my native English, now l must forgo 211 00:27:31,717 --> 00:27:35,923 And now my tongue's use is to me no more than an unstringed viol or a harp 212 00:27:37,656 --> 00:27:43,123 Within my mouth you have eniailed my tongue, doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips 213 00:27:43,595 --> 00:27:48,835 And dull unfeeling barren ignorance is made my jailer to attend on me 214 00:27:50,068 --> 00:27:56,274 What is thy sentence then but speechless death, that robs my tongue from breathing native breath? 215 00:27:56,909 --> 00:28:00,819 lt boots thee not to be compassionate. After our sentence, plaining comes too late 216 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,881 Then thus l turn me from my country's light to dwell in solemn shades of endless night 217 00:28:08,387 --> 00:28:12,524 Return again, and take an oath with thee. Lay on our royal sword your banished hands 218 00:28:13,091 --> 00:28:16,001 Swear by the duty that you owe to God to keep the oath that we administer 219 00:28:20,566 --> 00:28:23,942 You never shall, so help you truth and God, embrace each other's love in banishment 220 00:28:25,470 --> 00:28:28,846 Nor ever by advised purpose meet to plot, contrive, or complot... 221 00:28:28,874 --> 00:28:32,113 ...any ill 'gainst us, our state, our subiects, or our land 222 00:28:32,744 --> 00:28:35,517 - l swear - And l , to keep all this 223 00:28:38,550 --> 00:28:41,119 Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy... 224 00:28:44,323 --> 00:28:49,563 By this time, had the king permitted us one of our souls had wandered in the air 225 00:28:51,597 --> 00:28:54,439 Confess thy treasons ere thou fly this realm 226 00:29:06,645 --> 00:29:11,317 Since thou hast far to go, bear not along the clogging burden of a guilty soul 227 00:29:27,032 --> 00:29:32,408 No, Bolingbroke. lf ever l were traitor... 228 00:29:33,205 --> 00:29:37,877 ...my name be blotted from the book of life, and l from heaven banished as from hence 229 00:29:38,510 --> 00:29:45,921 But what thou art, God, thou, and l do know, and all too soon, l fear, the king shall rue 230 00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:55,287 Farewell, my liege, now no way can l stray: save back to England, all the world's my way 231 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:08,105 Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes l see thy grieved heart 232 00:30:09,374 --> 00:30:13,818 Thy sad aspect hath from the number of his banished years plucked four away 233 00:30:15,881 --> 00:30:20,348 Six frozen winters spent, return with welcome home from banishment 234 00:30:23,155 --> 00:30:25,462 How long a time lies in one little word! 235 00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:33,664 Four lagging winters and four wanton springs end in a word: such is the breath of kings 236 00:30:34,466 --> 00:30:42,604 l thank my liege, that in regard of me he shortens four years of my son's exile 237 00:30:43,375 --> 00:30:45,819 But little vantage shall l reap thereby 238 00:30:46,244 --> 00:30:51,348 For ere the six years that he hath to spend can change their moons and bring their times about... 239 00:30:51,917 --> 00:30:58,953 ...my oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light shall be extinct with age and endless night 240 00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:03,559 - Why uncle, thou hast many years to live - But not a minute, king, that thou canst give 241 00:31:03,795 --> 00:31:09,467 Shorten my days thou canst with sudden sorrow, and pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow 242 00:31:10,001 --> 00:31:13,706 Thy son is banished upon good advice, whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave 243 00:31:14,373 --> 00:31:19,817 - Why at our iustice seemest thou then to lour? - Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour 244 00:31:21,012 --> 00:31:26,752 You urged me as a judge, but l had rather you would have bid me argue like a father 245 00:31:27,986 --> 00:31:33,794 Oh, had it been a stranger, not my child, to smoothe his fault l should have been more mild 246 00:31:34,693 --> 00:31:38,228 Cousin, farewell, and, uncle, bid him so. Six years we banish him, and he shall go 247 00:31:49,841 --> 00:31:56,809 Cousin, farewell. What presence must not know, from where you do remain let paper show 248 00:31:58,683 --> 00:32:03,684 My lord, no leave take l, for l will ride as far as land will let me, by your side 249 00:32:09,928 --> 00:32:15,270 O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words that thou returnest no greeting to thy friends? 250 00:32:16,067 --> 00:32:17,874 l have too few to take my leave of you 251 00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:29,540 - What are six winters? They are quickly gone - To men in ioy. But grief makes one hour ten 252 00:32:30,048 --> 00:32:32,117 Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure 253 00:32:32,484 --> 00:32:36,053 My heart will sigh when l miscall it so, which finds it an enforced pilgrimage 254 00:32:36,655 --> 00:32:41,565 The sullen passage of thy weary steps esteem as foil... 255 00:32:41,593 --> 00:32:44,798 ...wherein thou art to set the precious iewel of thy home return 256 00:32:45,230 --> 00:32:48,333 Nay, rather, every tedious stride l make will but remember me... 257 00:32:48,366 --> 00:32:52,776 ...what a deal of world l wander from the jewels that l love 258 00:32:54,439 --> 00:33:00,781 Must l not serve a long apprenticehood to foreign passages, and in the end... 259 00:33:00,812 --> 00:33:05,415 ...having my freedom, boast of nothing else but that l was a iourneyman to grief? 260 00:33:06,151 --> 00:33:12,721 All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens 261 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,134 Teach thy necessity to reason thus: there is no virtue like necessity 262 00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:23,605 Think not the king did banish thee, but thou the king 263 00:33:25,537 --> 00:33:28,276 Woe doth the heavier sit, where it perceives it is but faintly borne 264 00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:34,083 Go, say l sent thee forth to purchase honour and not the king exiled thee 265 00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:44,517 Or suppose devouring pestilence hangs in our air and thou art flying to a fresher clime 266 00:33:46,324 --> 00:33:51,734 Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it to lie that way thou goest, not whence thou comest 267 00:33:54,332 --> 00:34:00,368 Suppose the singing birds musicians, the grass whereon thou treadest the presence strewed 268 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:09,244 The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more than a delightful measure or a dance 269 00:34:11,850 --> 00:34:15,760 For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it and sets it light 270 00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:20,530 O, who can hold a fire in his hand by thinking on the frosty Caucasus? 271 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,234 Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite by bare imagination of a feast? 272 00:34:28,166 --> 00:34:34,042 Or wallow naked in December snow by thinking on fantastic summer's heat? 273 00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:41,040 O no, the apprehension of the good gives but the greater feeling to the worse 274 00:34:50,689 --> 00:34:59,430 Come, come, my son, l'll bring thee on thy way. Had l thy youth and cause, l would not stay 275 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:11,439 Then England's ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu. My mother, and my nurse, which bears me yet 276 00:35:13,678 --> 00:35:21,350 Where'er l wander, boast of this l can: though banished, yet a true-born Englishman 277 00:35:30,095 --> 00:35:38,131 We did observe. Cousin Aumerle, how far brought you high Hereford on his way? 278 00:35:39,671 --> 00:35:45,513 l brought high Hereford, if you call him so, but to the next highway, and there l left him 279 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,024 And say, what store of parting tears were shed? 280 00:35:51,750 --> 00:35:56,922 Faith, none for me, except the north-east wind, which then blew bitterly against our face... 281 00:35:56,955 --> 00:36:01,831 ...awaked the sleepy rheum, and so by chance did grace our hollow parting with a tear 282 00:36:06,464 --> 00:36:10,431 - What said our cousin when you parted with him? - ' Farewell' 283 00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:19,545 Marry, would the word 'farewell' have lengthened hours and added years to his short banishment... 284 00:36:19,577 --> 00:36:23,146 ...he should have had a volume of farewells, but since it would not, he had none of me 285 00:36:24,683 --> 00:36:32,890 He is our cousin, cousin, but 'tis doubt, when time shall call him home from banishment... 286 00:36:32,924 --> 00:36:35,300 ...whether our kinsman come to see his friends 287 00:36:36,494 --> 00:36:40,870 Ourself and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green observed his courtship to the common people 288 00:36:42,867 --> 00:36:46,936 How he did seem to dive into their hearts with humble and familiar courtesy 289 00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:53,438 Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench, a brace of draymen bid God speed him well ... 290 00:36:53,478 --> 00:36:57,320 ...and had the tribute of his supple knee, with 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends' 291 00:36:57,549 --> 00:37:01,550 As were our England in reversion his, and he our subjects' next degree in hope 292 00:37:01,986 --> 00:37:10,693 Well, he is gone, and with him go these thoughts. Now for the rebels which stand out in lreland 293 00:37:10,762 --> 00:37:13,706 Expedient manage must be made, my liege... 294 00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:17,972 ...ere further leisure yield them further means for their advantage and your highness' loss 295 00:37:18,403 --> 00:37:21,404 We will ourself in person to this war 296 00:37:24,175 --> 00:37:30,313 And, for our coffers with too great a court and liberal largess are grown somewhat light... 297 00:37:30,348 --> 00:37:32,758 ...we are enforced to farm our royal realm 298 00:37:32,784 --> 00:37:35,489 The revenue whereof shall furnish us for our affairs in hand 299 00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:42,930 lf that come short, our substitutes at home shall have blank charters... 300 00:37:42,961 --> 00:37:47,064 ...whereto, when they shall know what men are rich, they shall subscribe them for large sums of gold 301 00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:49,432 For we will make for lreland presently 302 00:37:49,868 --> 00:37:53,278 - Bushy, what news? - Old John of Gaunt is very sick, my lord 303 00:37:53,872 --> 00:37:58,248 Suddenly taken, and hath sent post haste to entreat your maiesty to visit him 304 00:37:58,877 --> 00:38:00,218 - Where lies he? - At Ely House 305 00:38:02,347 --> 00:38:08,985 Now put it God in his physician's mind to help him to his grave immediately 306 00:38:11,556 --> 00:38:16,159 The linings of his coffers shall make coats to deck our soldiers for these lrish wars 307 00:38:17,028 --> 00:38:22,768 Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him. Pray God we may make haste, and come too late 308 00:38:23,935 --> 00:38:32,710 Will the king come, that l may breathe my last in wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth? 309 00:38:33,444 --> 00:38:39,082 Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath, for all in vain comes counsel to his ear 310 00:38:39,684 --> 00:38:44,788 O, but they say the tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony 311 00:38:46,491 --> 00:38:54,595 More are men's ends marked than their lives before. The setting sun and music at the close... 312 00:38:54,632 --> 00:39:00,304 ...as the last taste of sweets is sweetest last, writ in remembrance more than things long past 313 00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:06,014 Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear, my death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear 314 00:39:06,311 --> 00:39:08,948 No, it is stopped with other flattering sounds 315 00:39:10,114 --> 00:39:14,854 Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound the open ear of youth doth always listen 316 00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:23,689 Report of fashions in proud ltaly, whose manners still our tardy apish nation limps after in base imitation 317 00:39:24,729 --> 00:39:30,196 Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, so it be new, there's no respect how vile... 318 00:39:30,235 --> 00:39:32,270 ...that is not quickly buzzed into his ears? 319 00:39:33,304 --> 00:39:38,874 Direct not him whose way himself will choose. 'Tis breath thou lackest, and that breath wilt thou lose 320 00:39:39,844 --> 00:39:47,982 Methinks l am a prophet new inspired and thus expiring do foretell of him 321 00:39:49,721 --> 00:39:58,189 His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, for violent fires soon burn out themselves 322 00:39:59,564 --> 00:40:03,474 Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short 323 00:40:04,802 --> 00:40:11,042 Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, consuming means soon preys upon itself 324 00:40:13,011 --> 00:40:27,355 This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, this earth of maiesty, this seat of Mars 325 00:40:28,893 --> 00:40:33,462 This other Eden, demi-paradise 326 00:40:33,498 --> 00:40:40,238 This fortress built by nature for herself against infection and the hand of war 327 00:40:41,806 --> 00:40:47,717 This happy breed of men, this little world 328 00:40:47,879 --> 00:40:52,255 This precious stone set in the silver sea which serves it... 329 00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:58,250 ...in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house, against the envy of less happier lands 330 00:40:59,991 --> 00:41:09,425 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England 331 00:41:11,970 --> 00:41:20,177 This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, feared by their breed and famous for their birth 332 00:41:20,211 --> 00:41:25,349 Renowned for their deeds as far from home, for Christian service and true chivalry... 333 00:41:25,683 --> 00:41:32,253 ...as is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son 334 00:41:34,625 --> 00:41:45,366 This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, dear for her reputation through the world... 335 00:41:45,403 --> 00:41:55,212 ...is now leased out - l die pronouncing it - like to a tenement or a pelting farm 336 00:41:57,215 --> 00:42:00,659 England, bound in with the triumphant sea 337 00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:05,459 whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege of watery Neptune... 338 00:42:05,490 --> 00:42:14,560 ...is now bound in with shame, with inky blots and rotten parchment bonds 339 00:42:17,001 --> 00:42:24,673 That England, that was wont to conquer others, hath made a shameful conquest of itself 340 00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:32,515 Oh, would the scandal vanish with my life, how happy then were my ensuing death 341 00:42:33,117 --> 00:42:38,789 The king is come. Deal mildly with his youth, for young hot colts being raged do rage the more 342 00:42:40,391 --> 00:42:42,732 How fares our noble uncle Lancaster? 343 00:42:43,327 --> 00:42:45,430 What comfort, man? How is't with aged Gaunt? 344 00:42:48,232 --> 00:42:54,438 O, how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old 345 00:42:54,972 --> 00:42:59,916 Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast, and who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? 346 00:43:01,212 --> 00:43:08,350 For sleeping England long time have l watched, watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt 347 00:43:10,721 --> 00:43:17,961 The pleasure that some fathers feed upon is my strict fast, l mean my children's looks 348 00:43:20,098 --> 00:43:26,872 Gaunt am l for the grave, gaunt as a grave, whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones 349 00:43:27,805 --> 00:43:29,715 Can sick men play so nicely with their names? 350 00:43:30,575 --> 00:43:35,417 Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me, l mock my name, great king, to flatter thee 351 00:43:35,713 --> 00:43:40,123 - Should dying men flatter those that live? - No, no, men living flatter those that die 352 00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:47,530 - Thou, now a-dying, say'st thou flatterest me - O no, thou diest, though l the sicker be 353 00:43:48,359 --> 00:43:53,769 - l am in health, l breathe, l see thee ill - Now he that made me knows l see thee ill 354 00:43:55,633 --> 00:44:02,635 Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land wherein thou liest in reputation sick 355 00:44:03,808 --> 00:44:07,116 And thou, too careless patient as thou art... 356 00:44:07,145 --> 00:44:12,249 ...commitest thy anointed body to the cure of those physicians that first wounded thee 357 00:44:13,985 --> 00:44:19,123 A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, whose compass is no bigger than thy head 358 00:44:21,292 --> 00:44:27,134 O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye seen how his son's son should destroy his sons... 359 00:44:27,165 --> 00:44:32,609 ...from forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame, deposing thee before thou wert possessed 360 00:44:34,872 --> 00:44:40,646 Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world, it were a shame to let this land by lease 361 00:44:42,413 --> 00:44:50,517 Landlord of England art thou now not king. Thy state of law is bondslave to the law, and thou ... 362 00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:53,794 And thou, a lunatic lean-witted fool, presuming on an ague's privilege 363 00:44:53,958 --> 00:44:55,595 darest with thy frozen admonition... 364 00:44:55,626 --> 00:44:59,763 ...make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood with fury from his native residence? 365 00:45:00,198 --> 00:45:04,142 Now, by my seat's right royal maiesty, wert thou not brother to great Edward's son... 366 00:45:04,168 --> 00:45:08,374 ...this tongue that runs so roundly in thy head should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders 367 00:45:09,006 --> 00:45:10,984 O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son 368 00:45:11,609 --> 00:45:16,417 That blood already, like the pelican, thou hast tapped out and drunkenly caroused 369 00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:24,558 My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul... 370 00:45:24,589 --> 00:45:31,363 ... .may be a precedent and witness good that thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood 371 00:45:33,231 --> 00:45:40,199 Live in thy shame, and die not shame with thee: these words hereafter thy tormentors be 372 00:45:41,305 --> 00:45:50,012 Convey me to my bed, then to my grave: love they to live that love and honour have 373 00:45:51,916 --> 00:45:57,724 And let them die that age and sullens have, for both hast thou, and both become the grave 374 00:45:58,256 --> 00:46:04,201 l do beseech your maiesty, impute his words to wayward sickliness and age in him 375 00:46:05,296 --> 00:46:12,139 He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear as Harry Duke of Hereford, were he here 376 00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:18,711 Right, you say true. As Hereford's love, so his. As theirs, so mine, and all be as it is 377 00:46:21,045 --> 00:46:24,853 My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty 378 00:46:25,483 --> 00:46:27,586 - What says he? - Nay, nothing. All is said 379 00:46:28,786 --> 00:46:36,356 His tongue is now a stringless instrument. Words, life and all, old Lancaster hath spent 380 00:46:40,731 --> 00:46:49,074 Be York the next that must be bankrupt so. Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe 381 00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:04,186 The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he. His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be 382 00:47:08,926 --> 00:47:14,962 So much for that. Now for our lrish wars: we must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns 383 00:47:14,999 --> 00:47:18,204 And for these great affairs do ask some charge, towards our assistance we do seize to us... 384 00:47:18,235 --> 00:47:22,304 ...the plate, coin, revenues and movables whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possessed 385 00:47:23,908 --> 00:47:29,853 How long shall l be patient? O, how long shall tender duty make me suffer wrong? 386 00:47:31,215 --> 00:47:36,750 Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment, nor Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs... 387 00:47:36,787 --> 00:47:42,993 ...have ever made me sour my patient cheek, or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face 388 00:47:45,830 --> 00:47:52,866 l am the last of noble Edward's sons, of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first 389 00:47:53,571 --> 00:47:55,674 His face thou hast, for even so looked he 390 00:47:56,240 --> 00:48:00,411 But when he frowned, it was against the French and not against his friends 391 00:48:01,412 --> 00:48:07,482 His noble hand did win what he did spend and spent not that which his triumphant father's hand had won 392 00:48:08,753 --> 00:48:15,686 His hands were guilty of no kindred's blood, but bloody with the enemies of his kin 393 00:48:17,194 --> 00:48:22,934 O Richard, York is too far gone with grief, or else he never would compare between 394 00:48:23,734 --> 00:48:25,541 Why, uncle, what's the matter? 395 00:48:27,471 --> 00:48:33,041 O my liege, pardon me if you will. lf not, l, pleased not to be pardoned, am content withal 396 00:48:33,844 --> 00:48:38,447 Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands the royalties and rights of banished Hereford? 397 00:48:40,284 --> 00:48:46,717 ls not Gaunt dead? And doth not Hereford live? Was not Gaunt iust? And is not Harry true? 398 00:48:47,425 --> 00:48:52,028 Did not the one deserve to have an heir? ls not his heir a well-deserving son? 399 00:48:52,963 --> 00:48:55,236 Take Hereford's rights away... 400 00:48:55,266 --> 00:49:01,904 ...and take from time his charters and his customary rights: let not tomorrow then ensue today 401 00:49:03,507 --> 00:49:10,418 Be not thyself. For how art thou a king but by fair sequence and succession? 402 00:49:13,217 --> 00:49:19,162 Now, afore God - God forbid l say true - if you do wrongfully seize Hereford's right... 403 00:49:19,190 --> 00:49:25,328 ...you pluck a thousand dangers on your head, you lose a thousand well-disposed hearts 404 00:49:26,096 --> 00:49:32,063 And prick my tender patience to those thoughts which honour and allegiance cannot think 405 00:49:32,670 --> 00:49:36,205 Think what you will, we seize into our hands his plate, his goods, his money and his lands 406 00:49:37,675 --> 00:49:46,711 l'll not be by the while. My liege, farewell. What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell 407 00:49:47,251 --> 00:49:53,889 But by bad courses may be understood that their events can never fall out good 408 00:49:54,325 --> 00:49:58,997 Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight, bid him repair to us to Ely House to see this business 409 00:49:59,029 --> 00:50:03,132 Tomorrow next we will for lreland, and 'tis time, l trow 410 00:50:03,868 --> 00:50:09,869 And we create, in absence of ourself, our uncle York Lord Governor of England 411 00:50:11,208 --> 00:50:13,481 For he is iust and always loved us well 412 00:50:14,245 --> 00:50:20,156 Come on, our queen. Tomorrow must we part. Be merry, for our time of stay is short 413 00:50:38,402 --> 00:50:45,279 - Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead - And living too, for now his son is duke 414 00:50:45,843 --> 00:50:50,219 - Barely in title, not in revenue - Richly in both, if iustice had her right 415 00:50:52,483 --> 00:50:56,484 - My heart is great, but it must break with silence - Nay, speak thy mind 416 00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,657 Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford? 417 00:50:58,689 --> 00:51:01,565 lf it be so, out with it boldly, man. Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him 418 00:51:02,192 --> 00:51:04,693 No good at all that l can do for him, unless you call it good to pity him 419 00:51:05,029 --> 00:51:10,030 Now afore God 'tis shame such wrongs are borne in him, a royal prince... 420 00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:12,477 ...and many more of noble blood in this declining land 421 00:51:13,037 --> 00:51:16,811 The king is not himself, but basely led by flatterers 422 00:51:17,274 --> 00:51:21,480 And what they will inform, merely in hate, 'gainst any of us all ... 423 00:51:21,512 --> 00:51:26,547 ...that will the king severely prosecute 'gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs 424 00:51:27,217 --> 00:51:30,059 The commons hath he pilled with grievous taxes, and quite lost their hearts 425 00:51:30,754 --> 00:51:33,959 The nobles hath he fined for ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts 426 00:51:34,325 --> 00:51:37,428 And daily new exactions are devised. But what, o' God's name, doth become of that? 427 00:51:38,095 --> 00:51:42,369 Wars hath not wasted it, for warred he hath not. More hath he spent in peace than they in wars 428 00:51:42,866 --> 00:51:47,140 - The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man - Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him 429 00:51:47,638 --> 00:51:50,877 He hath not money for these lrish wars, but by the robbing of the banished duke 430 00:51:51,275 --> 00:51:53,685 His noble kinsman, most degenerate king! 431 00:51:57,147 --> 00:52:03,183 But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing, yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm 432 00:52:04,088 --> 00:52:07,123 We see the very wreck that we must suffer, and unavoided is the danger now 433 00:52:07,424 --> 00:52:12,334 Not so. Even through the hollow eyes of death l spy life peering 434 00:52:12,997 --> 00:52:15,373 But l dare not say how near the tidings of our comfort is 435 00:52:15,833 --> 00:52:19,436 Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours 436 00:52:20,337 --> 00:52:26,248 We three are but thyself, and speaking so, thy words are but as thoughts. Therefore be bold 437 00:52:29,713 --> 00:52:34,055 Then thus: l have received intelligence that Harry Duke of Hereford... 438 00:52:34,084 --> 00:52:37,653 ...Rainold Lord Cobham, his brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury... 439 00:52:37,688 --> 00:52:43,360 ...Sir Thomas Erpingham and Francis Quoint, with eight tall ships, three thousand men of war... 440 00:52:43,394 --> 00:52:48,202 ...are making hither with all due expediency and shortly mean to touch our northern shore 441 00:52:48,866 --> 00:52:55,868 lf then we shall shake off our slavish yoke, imp out our drooping country's broken wing 442 00:52:55,906 --> 00:53:01,817 Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown, wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt... 443 00:53:01,845 --> 00:53:07,881 ...and make high majesty look like itself, away with me in post to Ravenspurgh 444 00:53:09,086 --> 00:53:14,826 - To horse, to horse! Urge doubts to them that fear - Hold out my horse, and l will first be there 445 00:53:34,044 --> 00:53:40,818 Madam, your majesty is too much sad. You promised, when you parted with the king... 446 00:53:40,851 --> 00:53:44,852 ...to lay aside life-harming heaviness and to entertain a cheerful disposition 447 00:53:45,856 --> 00:53:50,698 To please the king l did. To please myself l cannot do it 448 00:53:52,296 --> 00:53:57,763 Yet l know no cause why l should welcome such a guest as grief... 449 00:53:57,801 --> 00:54:02,768 ...save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest as my sweet Richard 450 00:54:04,208 --> 00:54:10,050 Yet again, methinks, some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb... 451 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,922 ...is coming towards me, and my inward soul with nothing trembles 452 00:54:15,486 --> 00:54:19,191 At something it grieves, more than with parting from my lord the king 453 00:54:21,425 --> 00:54:27,199 Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so 454 00:54:30,667 --> 00:54:35,873 For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects 455 00:54:38,175 --> 00:54:46,450 Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon show nothing but confusion: eyed awry, distinguish form 456 00:54:55,292 --> 00:54:58,429 So your sweet maiesty, looking awry upon your lord's departure 457 00:54:58,562 --> 00:55:01,904 Find shapes of grief, more than himself to wail 458 00:55:01,932 --> 00:55:05,342 Which, looked on as it is, is naught but the shadows of what it is not 459 00:55:07,905 --> 00:55:11,474 So, thrice-gracious queen, more than your lord's departure weep not 460 00:55:12,643 --> 00:55:16,883 More's not seen. Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye, 461 00:55:17,114 --> 00:55:20,353 which for things true weeps things imaginary 462 00:55:21,118 --> 00:55:26,187 lt may be so, but yet my inward soul persuades me it is otherwise 463 00:55:26,924 --> 00:55:34,835 Howe'er it be, l cannot but be sad. But what it is, l cannot name. 'Tis nameless woe, l wot 464 00:55:38,202 --> 00:55:43,271 God save your majesty! And well met, gentlemen. l hope the king is not yet shipped for lreland 465 00:55:43,807 --> 00:55:49,081 Why hopest thou so? 'Tis better hope he is, for his designs crave haste, his haste good hope 466 00:55:49,713 --> 00:55:54,350 The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, and with uplifted arms is safe arrived at Ravenspurgh 467 00:55:55,052 --> 00:56:00,087 - Now God in heaven forbid! - O, madam, 'tis too true. And that is worse... 468 00:56:00,123 --> 00:56:02,658 ...the Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy... 469 00:56:02,693 --> 00:56:05,296 ...the Lords of Ross, Beaumont, and Willoughby... 470 00:56:05,329 --> 00:56:07,932 ...with all their powerful friends, are fled to him 471 00:56:08,165 --> 00:56:12,439 Why have you not proclaimed Northumberland and the rest of the revolted faction, traitors? 472 00:56:12,769 --> 00:56:16,304 We have: whereupon the Earl of Worcester hath broke his staff, and fled to Bolingbroke 473 00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:24,249 So, Green, thou art the midwife of my woe, and Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir 474 00:56:25,649 --> 00:56:29,320 Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy 475 00:56:29,353 --> 00:56:34,593 And l , a gasping new-delivered mother, have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow ioined 476 00:56:35,325 --> 00:56:37,803 - Despair not, madam - Who shall hinder me? 477 00:56:38,829 --> 00:56:47,638 l will despair, and be at enmity with cozening hope. He is a flatterer, a parasite, a keeper-back of death... 478 00:56:47,671 --> 00:56:52,843 ...who gently would dissolve the bands of life, which false hope lingers in extremity 479 00:56:54,044 --> 00:56:57,249 - Here comes the Duke of York. - With signs of war about his aged neck 480 00:56:57,814 --> 00:57:00,258 Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words 481 00:57:01,485 --> 00:57:07,055 Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth, where nothing lives but crosses, care and grief 482 00:57:07,791 --> 00:57:11,633 Your husband, he is gone to save far off, while others come to make him lose at home 483 00:57:12,362 --> 00:57:16,568 Here am l left to underprop his land, who, weak with age, cannot support myself 484 00:57:17,467 --> 00:57:24,776 - My lord, your son is gone to lreland. - Aumerle! Why, so go all which way it will 485 00:57:25,809 --> 00:57:29,878 The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold, and will, l fear, revolt on Hereford's side 486 00:57:30,881 --> 00:57:36,223 Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester, bid her send me presently a thousand pound 487 00:57:36,253 --> 00:57:39,561 - Hold, take my ring - My lord, l had forgot to tell your lordship 488 00:57:40,857 --> 00:57:45,494 Today as l came by, l called there. But l shall grieve you to report the rest 489 00:57:46,330 --> 00:57:50,274 - What is it, knave? - An hour before l came, the duchess died 490 00:57:52,936 --> 00:58:00,472 God for his mercy! What a tide of woes comes rushing on this woeful land at once 491 00:58:02,012 --> 00:58:08,354 l know not what to do. l would to God the king had cut off my head with my brother Gloucester's 492 00:58:09,853 --> 00:58:14,763 What, are there no posts dispatched for lreland? How shall we do for money for these wars? 493 00:58:16,827 --> 00:58:19,930 Come, sister - cousin, l would say - pray, pardon me 494 00:58:21,064 --> 00:58:27,600 Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts and bring away the armour that is there 495 00:58:28,472 --> 00:58:31,416 Gentlemen, will you go muster men? 496 00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:40,854 lf l know how or which way to order these affairs thus disorderly thrust into my hands, never believe me 497 00:58:41,852 --> 00:58:45,387 Both are my kinsmen. The one is my sovereign 498 00:58:46,857 --> 00:58:49,994 The other again is my kinsman, whom the king hath wronged 499 00:58:51,628 --> 00:58:57,732 Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, l'll dispose of you 500 00:58:59,603 --> 00:59:02,376 l should to Plashy too, but time will not permit 501 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:06,582 All is uneven and everything is left at six and seven 502 00:59:09,012 --> 00:59:12,251 For us to levy power proportionable to the enemy is all impossible 503 00:59:12,282 --> 00:59:15,749 Besides, our nearness to the king in love is near the hate of those love not the king 504 00:59:15,786 --> 00:59:19,457 And that's the wavering commons, for their love lies in their purses... 505 00:59:19,489 --> 00:59:23,297 ...and whoso empties them, by so much fills their hearts with deadly hate 506 00:59:23,326 --> 00:59:25,236 Wherein the king stands generally condemned 507 00:59:25,629 --> 00:59:29,266 lf judgement lie in them, then so do we, because we have been ever near the king 508 00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:35,810 - Well, l will for refuge straight to Bristol Castle - Thither will l with you 509 00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:42,307 For little office shall the hateful commons perform for us, except like curs to tear us all in pieces 510 00:59:43,814 --> 00:59:47,622 - Will you go along with us? - No, l will to lreland to his maiesty 511 00:59:49,152 --> 00:59:52,857 Farewell. lf heart's presages be not vain, we three here part that ne'er shall meet again 512 00:59:54,558 --> 00:59:57,763 Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever 513 01:00:02,966 --> 01:00:09,968 - Well, we may meet again - l fear me, never 514 01:00:20,050 --> 01:00:22,119 How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now? 515 01:00:22,152 --> 01:00:24,528 Believe me, noble lord, l am a stranger here in Gloucestershire 516 01:00:25,755 --> 01:00:30,631 These high wild hills and rough uneven ways draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome 517 01:00:31,828 --> 01:00:36,238 And yet our fair discourse hath been as sugar, making the hard way sweet and delectable 518 01:00:36,967 --> 01:00:40,672 Of much less value is my company than your good words. But who comes here? 519 01:00:41,605 --> 01:00:45,174 Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby, bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste 520 01:00:45,609 --> 01:00:52,111 Welcome, my lords. l wot your love pursues a banished traitor 521 01:00:52,149 --> 01:00:58,060 All my treasury is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enriched shall be your love and labour's recompense 522 01:00:58,922 --> 01:01:02,764 - Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord - And far surmounts our labour to attain it 523 01:01:03,226 --> 01:01:05,602 Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor 524 01:01:05,629 --> 01:01:10,573 Which, till my infant fortune comes to years, stands for my bounty. But who comes here? 525 01:01:11,034 --> 01:01:14,012 lt is my son, young Harry Percy, sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever 526 01:01:14,704 --> 01:01:17,341 - Harry, how fares your uncle? - He hath forsook the court... 527 01:01:17,374 --> 01:01:20,284 ...broken his staff of office and dispersed the household of the king 528 01:01:20,810 --> 01:01:23,686 - What was his reason? - Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor 529 01:01:25,048 --> 01:01:28,287 But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh to offer service to the Duke of Hereford 530 01:01:28,852 --> 01:01:32,796 And sent me over by Berkeley to discover what power the Duke of York had levied there 531 01:01:33,156 --> 01:01:36,759 - Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy? - No, my good lord 532 01:01:36,793 --> 01:01:40,294 For that is not forgot which ne'er l did remember. To my knowledge, l never in my life did look on him 533 01:01:40,897 --> 01:01:42,670 Then learn to know him now: this is the duke 534 01:01:44,467 --> 01:01:50,037 My gracious lord, l tender you my service, such as it is, being tender, raw and young 535 01:01:50,407 --> 01:01:54,908 Which elder days shall ripen and confirm to more approved service and desert 536 01:01:55,278 --> 01:02:01,189 l thank thee, gentle Percy, and be sure l count myself in nothing else so happy... 537 01:02:01,218 --> 01:02:06,560 ...as in a soul remembering my good friends. My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it 538 01:02:08,425 --> 01:02:12,562 How far is it to Berkeley? And what stir keeps good old York there with his men of war? 539 01:02:13,029 --> 01:02:18,167 There stands the castle, by yond tuft of trees, manned with three hundred men, as l have heard 540 01:02:18,201 --> 01:02:21,906 And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour, none else of name and noble estimate 541 01:02:22,372 --> 01:02:23,247 My noble uncle! 542 01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:27,714 Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee, whose duty is deceivable and false 543 01:02:28,078 --> 01:02:31,488 - My gracious uncle... - Tut, tut! Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle 544 01:02:32,449 --> 01:02:36,257 l am no traitor's uncle, and that word 'grace' in an ungracious mouth is but profane 545 01:02:36,987 --> 01:02:41,431 Why have these banished and forbidden legs dared once to touch a dust of England's ground? 546 01:02:42,325 --> 01:02:47,463 But then more 'why' : why have they dared to march so many miles upon her peaceful bosom... 547 01:02:47,497 --> 01:02:51,839 ...frighting her pale-faced villages with war and ostentation of despised arms? 548 01:02:53,069 --> 01:02:55,876 Comest thou because the anointed king is hence? 549 01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:03,848 Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind, and in my loyal bosom lies his power 550 01:03:04,514 --> 01:03:08,788 My gracious uncle, let me know my fault. On what condition stands it and wherein? 551 01:03:09,753 --> 01:03:15,561 Even in condition of the worst degree, in gross rebellion and detested treason 552 01:03:17,027 --> 01:03:19,334 Thou art a banished man 553 01:03:19,362 --> 01:03:24,966 And here art come before the expiration of thy time in braving arms against thy sovereign 554 01:03:25,669 --> 01:03:29,579 As l was banished, l was banished Hereford, but as l come, l come for Lancaster 555 01:03:31,474 --> 01:03:35,145 And noble uncle, l beseech your grace look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye 556 01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:41,656 You are my father, for methinks in you l see old Gaunt alive 557 01:03:43,386 --> 01:03:50,888 O then, my father, will you permit that l shall stand condemned a wandering vagabond... 558 01:03:50,927 --> 01:03:56,769 ...my rights and royalties plucked from my arms perforce and given away to upstart unthrifts? 559 01:03:57,367 --> 01:03:58,276 Wherefore was l born? 560 01:03:59,769 --> 01:04:04,713 lf that my cousin king be King of England, it must be granted l am Duke of Lancaster 561 01:04:05,675 --> 01:04:11,620 You have a son, Aumerle, my noble kinsman. Had you first died, and he been thus trod down ... 562 01:04:11,648 --> 01:04:15,888 ...he should have found his uncle Gaunt a father to rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay 563 01:04:17,554 --> 01:04:24,897 l am denied to sue my livery here, my father's goods are all distrained and sold 564 01:04:24,928 --> 01:04:31,566 What would you have me do? l am a subject, and l challenge law. Attorneys are denied me 565 01:04:31,968 --> 01:04:36,469 And therefore personally l lay my claim to my inheritance of free descent 566 01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:41,382 - The noble duke hath been too much abused - lt stands your grace upon to do him right 567 01:04:43,546 --> 01:04:45,751 My lords of England, let me tell you this 568 01:04:46,416 --> 01:04:51,883 l have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs and laboured all l could to do him right 569 01:04:52,722 --> 01:04:59,894 But in this kind to come, in braving arms, be his own carver and cut out his way... 570 01:04:59,929 --> 01:05:03,373 ...to find out right with wrongs, it may not be 571 01:05:04,434 --> 01:05:09,106 And you that do abet him in this kind cherish rebellion and are rebels all 572 01:05:09,639 --> 01:05:12,878 The noble duke hath sworn his coming is but for his own 573 01:05:13,843 --> 01:05:17,151 And for the right of that we all have strongly sworn to give him aid 574 01:05:18,815 --> 01:05:21,486 And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath! 575 01:05:23,653 --> 01:05:27,790 Well, well, l see the issue of these arms 576 01:05:29,225 --> 01:05:34,829 l cannot mend it, l must needs confess, because my power is weak and all ill left 577 01:05:35,865 --> 01:05:39,139 But if l could, by him that gave me life... 578 01:05:39,169 --> 01:05:44,409 ... l would attach you all and make you stoop unto the sovereign mercy of the king 579 01:05:46,009 --> 01:05:57,284 But since l cannot, be it known to you l do remain as neuter. So, fare you well 580 01:06:06,429 --> 01:06:11,464 Unless you please to enter in the castle and there repose you for this night 581 01:06:12,001 --> 01:06:13,672 An offer, uncle, that we will accept 582 01:06:17,006 --> 01:06:21,416 But we must win your grace to go with us to Bristol Castle... 583 01:06:21,444 --> 01:06:25,047 ...which they say is held by Bushy, Bagot and their complices 584 01:06:26,149 --> 01:06:32,753 The caterpillars of the commonwealth, which l have sworn to weed and pluck away 585 01:06:35,492 --> 01:06:43,460 lt may be l will go with you: but yet l'll pause, for l am loath to break our country's laws 586 01:06:44,868 --> 01:06:54,507 Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are. Things past redress are now with me past care 587 01:07:13,897 --> 01:07:17,807 My lord of Salisbury, we have stayed ten days, and hardly kept our countrymen together 588 01:07:18,668 --> 01:07:22,305 And yet we hear no tidings from the king, therefore we will disperse ourselves. Farewell 589 01:07:22,705 --> 01:07:27,581 Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman, the king reposeth all his confidence in thee 590 01:07:28,211 --> 01:07:30,882 'Tis thought the king is dead, we will not stay 591 01:07:32,749 --> 01:07:38,319 The bay-trees in our country all are withered and meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven 592 01:07:39,722 --> 01:07:45,598 The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth and lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change 593 01:07:47,330 --> 01:07:50,535 Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap 594 01:07:51,668 --> 01:07:56,476 The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, the other to enjoy by rage and war 595 01:07:57,807 --> 01:08:00,808 These signs forerun the death or fall of kings 596 01:08:01,945 --> 01:08:09,481 Farewell. Our countrymen are gone and fled, as well assured Richard their king is dead 597 01:08:13,656 --> 01:08:18,123 Ah, Richard, with eyes of heavy mind... 598 01:08:18,161 --> 01:08:23,969 ...l see thy glory like a shooting star fall to the base earth from the firmament 599 01:08:25,335 --> 01:08:31,609 Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest 600 01:08:32,475 --> 01:08:39,147 Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes, and crossly to thy good all fortune goes 601 01:08:51,594 --> 01:08:53,799 Bring forth these men 602 01:09:01,070 --> 01:09:08,708 Bushy and Green, l will not vex your souls, since presently your souls must part your bodies... 603 01:09:08,745 --> 01:09:14,212 ...with too much urging your pernicious lives, for 'twere no charity 604 01:09:16,252 --> 01:09:18,855 Yet to wash your blood from off my hands... 605 01:09:18,888 --> 01:09:22,957 ...here in the view of men l will unfold some causes of your deaths 606 01:09:25,528 --> 01:09:28,995 You have misled a prince, a royal king 607 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:36,570 You have in manner with your sinful hours made a divorce betwixt his queen and him 608 01:09:37,674 --> 01:09:45,051 Broke the possession of a royal bed and stained the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks... 609 01:09:45,081 --> 01:09:47,888 ...with tears drawn from her eyes with your foul wrongs 610 01:09:51,187 --> 01:09:56,495 Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth, near to the king in blood, and near in love... 611 01:09:56,526 --> 01:10:02,027 ...till you did make him misinterpret me, have stooped my neck under your iniuries 612 01:10:03,966 --> 01:10:08,638 And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, eating the bitter bread of banishment 613 01:10:09,572 --> 01:10:16,574 Whilst you have fed upon my signories, from my own windows torn my household coat 614 01:10:16,612 --> 01:10:22,284 Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign save men's opinions and my living blood... 615 01:10:22,318 --> 01:10:24,489 ...to show the world l am a gentlemen 616 01:10:29,192 --> 01:10:35,466 This and much more, much more than twice all this, condemns you to the death 617 01:10:37,033 --> 01:10:38,806 See them delivered over to execution and the hand of death 618 01:10:39,736 --> 01:10:43,907 More welcome is the stroke of death to me than Bolingbroke to England 619 01:10:44,574 --> 01:10:50,075 My comfort is that heaven will take our souls and plague injustice on the pains of hell 620 01:10:50,747 --> 01:10:51,884 My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatched 621 01:10:55,952 --> 01:11:03,954 Uncle, you say the queen is at your house. For God's sake, fairly let her be entreated 622 01:11:05,528 --> 01:11:09,336 Tell her l send to her my kind commends. Take special care my greetings be delivered 623 01:11:09,866 --> 01:11:13,537 A gentleman of mine l have dispatched with letters of your love to her at large 624 01:11:14,070 --> 01:11:22,413 Thanks, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away. A while to work, and after holiday 625 01:11:38,694 --> 01:11:40,138 Harlech Castle call you this at hand? 626 01:11:40,596 --> 01:11:44,631 Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air, after your late tossing on the breaking seas? 627 01:11:45,067 --> 01:11:49,841 Needs must l like it well. l weep for joy to stand upon my kingdom once again 628 01:11:50,673 --> 01:11:54,708 Dear earth, l do salute thee with my hand, though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs 629 01:11:56,679 --> 01:12:01,817 As a long-parted mother with her child plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting... 630 01:12:01,851 --> 01:12:07,386 ...as, weeping, smiling, greet l thee, my earth, and do thee favours with my royal hands 631 01:12:09,225 --> 01:12:15,226 Feed not thy sovereign's foes, my gentle earth, nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense 632 01:12:15,531 --> 01:12:21,942 But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom, and heavy-gaited toads lie in their way... 633 01:12:21,971 --> 01:12:26,006 ...doing annoyance to the treacherous feet which with usurping steps do trample thee 634 01:12:27,610 --> 01:12:29,917 Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies 635 01:12:31,881 --> 01:12:37,451 And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower, guard it, l pray thee, with a lurking adder 636 01:12:42,425 --> 01:12:46,631 Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords 637 01:12:46,963 --> 01:12:50,373 This earth shall have a feeling and these stones prove armed soldiers... 638 01:12:50,399 --> 01:12:53,206 ...ere her native king shall falter under foul rebellion's arms 639 01:12:54,070 --> 01:12:59,446 Fear not, my lord. That power that made you king hath power to keep you king in spite of all 640 01:12:59,976 --> 01:13:04,284 He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, whilst Bolingbroke, through our security... 641 01:13:04,313 --> 01:13:06,552 ...grows strong and great in substance and in friends 642 01:13:07,316 --> 01:13:11,487 Discomfortable cousin! Know'st thou not... 643 01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:15,623 ...that when the searching eye of heaven is hid behind the globe and lights the lower world... 644 01:13:15,658 --> 01:13:21,432 ...then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen in murders and in outrage boldy here 645 01:13:21,998 --> 01:13:24,999 But when from under this terrestrial ball ... 646 01:13:25,034 --> 01:13:31,172 ...he fires the proud tops of the eastern pine and darts his light through every guilty hole... 647 01:13:31,207 --> 01:13:37,447 ...then murders, treasons and detested sins, the cloak of night being plucked from off their back... 648 01:13:37,480 --> 01:13:40,856 ...stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves? 649 01:13:43,286 --> 01:13:51,129 So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke, who all this time hath revelled in the night... 650 01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:57,593 ...shall see us rising in our throne, the east, his treasons will sit blushing in his face 651 01:13:58,567 --> 01:14:02,841 Not able to endure the sight of day, but, self-affrighted, tremble at his sin 652 01:14:06,108 --> 01:14:11,212 Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm off from an anointed king 653 01:14:13,516 --> 01:14:17,358 The breath of worldly men cannot depose the deputy elected by the Lord 654 01:14:19,689 --> 01:14:24,929 For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed to lift shrewd steel against our golden crown... 655 01:14:24,961 --> 01:14:30,201 ...God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay a glorious angel 656 01:14:33,202 --> 01:14:40,476 Then, if angels fight, weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right 657 01:14:41,644 --> 01:14:44,349 Welcome, my lord. How far off lies your power? 658 01:14:45,681 --> 01:14:48,659 Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord, than this weak arm 659 01:14:50,052 --> 01:14:53,860 Discomfort guides my tongue and bids me speak of nothing but despair 660 01:14:55,191 --> 01:15:01,295 O, call back yesterday, bid time return, and thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men 661 01:15:02,765 --> 01:15:09,403 Today, today, unhappy day too late, o'erthrows thy ioys, friends, fortunes and thy state 662 01:15:10,106 --> 01:15:15,641 For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead, are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fled 663 01:15:17,213 --> 01:15:19,282 Comfort, my liege. Why looks your grace so pale? 664 01:15:21,117 --> 01:15:24,152 But now the blood of twenty thousand men did triumph in my face, and they are fled 665 01:15:25,087 --> 01:15:28,156 And till so much blood thither come again, have l not reason to look pale and dead? 666 01:15:29,959 --> 01:15:34,199 All souls that will be safe fly from my side, for time hath set a blot upon my pride 667 01:15:34,730 --> 01:15:36,730 Comfort, my liege. Remember who you are 668 01:15:39,335 --> 01:15:43,972 l had forgot myself. Am l not king? Awake, thou sluggard maiesty, thou sleepest 669 01:15:44,907 --> 01:15:46,885 ls not the king's name forty thousand names? 670 01:15:47,176 --> 01:15:52,018 Arm, arm, my name! A puny subject strikes at thy great glory 671 01:15:52,348 --> 01:15:56,985 Look not to the ground, ye favourites of a king. Are we not high? High be our thoughts 672 01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:01,328 l know my uncle York hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here? 673 01:16:02,958 --> 01:16:07,402 More health and happiness betide my liege than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him 674 01:16:08,364 --> 01:16:14,831 Mine ear is open and my heart prepared. The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold 675 01:16:15,838 --> 01:16:19,612 Say, is my kingdom lost? Why, 'twas my care. What loss is it to be rid of care? 676 01:16:20,076 --> 01:16:22,747 Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we? Greater he shall not be 677 01:16:23,012 --> 01:16:25,115 lf he serve God, we'll serve him too and be his fellow so 678 01:16:25,881 --> 01:16:29,450 Revolt our subjects? That we cannot mend. They break their faith to God as well as us 679 01:16:30,286 --> 01:16:37,822 Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay. The worst is death, and death will have his day 680 01:16:38,894 --> 01:16:42,634 Glad am l that your highness is so armed to bear the tidings of calamity 681 01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:50,370 Like an unseasonable stormy day, which makes the silver rivers drown their shores... 682 01:16:50,406 --> 01:16:57,578 ...as if the world were all dissolved to tears, so high above his limits swells the rage of Bolingbroke... 683 01:16:57,613 --> 01:17:02,182 ...covering your fearful land with hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel 684 01:17:03,786 --> 01:17:09,526 Whitebeards have armed their thin and hairless scalps against thy majesty, and boys with women's voices... 685 01:17:09,558 --> 01:17:14,798 ...strive to speak big and clap their female ioints in stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown 686 01:17:16,565 --> 01:17:21,566 Both young and old rebel, and all goes worse than l have power to tell 687 01:17:22,304 --> 01:17:26,214 Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill 688 01:17:27,877 --> 01:17:32,878 Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? Where is Bagot? What is become of Bushy, where is Green... 689 01:17:32,915 --> 01:17:37,450 ...that they have let the dangerous enemy measure our confines with such peaceful steps? 690 01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:39,761 lf we prevail, their heads shall pay for it 691 01:17:40,356 --> 01:17:44,300 - l warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke - Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord 692 01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:49,529 O, villains, vipers, damned without redemption! Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man! 693 01:17:49,832 --> 01:17:53,640 Snakes, in my heart-blood warmed, that sting my heart! 694 01:17:53,669 --> 01:17:57,170 Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas! 695 01:17:57,239 --> 01:18:02,206 Would they make peace? Terrible hell make war upon their spotted souls for this offence 696 01:18:02,845 --> 01:18:06,516 Sweet love, l see, changing his property, turns to the sourest and most deadly hate 697 01:18:07,883 --> 01:18:10,088 Again uncurse their souls. 698 01:18:10,719 --> 01:18:16,220 Their peace is made with heads, and not with hands. Those whom you curse... 699 01:18:16,292 --> 01:18:23,225 ...have felt the worst of death's destroying wound and lie full low, graved in the hollow ground 700 01:18:23,866 --> 01:18:27,901 - ls Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead? - Yea, all of them at Bristol lost their heads 701 01:18:27,937 --> 01:18:33,006 - Where is my father the duke with his power? - No matter where. Of comfort no man speak 702 01:18:35,477 --> 01:18:39,285 Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs 703 01:18:41,250 --> 01:18:45,558 Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the earth 704 01:18:47,323 --> 01:18:49,164 Let's choose executors and talk of wills 705 01:18:49,525 --> 01:18:54,594 And yet not so, for what can we bequeath save our deposed bodies to the ground? 706 01:18:56,999 --> 01:19:06,535 Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's, and nothing can we call our own but death... 707 01:19:06,575 --> 01:19:10,519 ...and that small model of the barren earth which serves as paste and cover to our bones 708 01:19:13,215 --> 01:19:14,715 For God's sake let us sit upon the ground... 709 01:19:24,693 --> 01:19:27,569 ...and tell sad stories of the death of kings 710 01:19:30,766 --> 01:19:39,200 How some have been deposed, some slain in war, some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed 711 01:19:42,211 --> 01:19:49,645 Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, all murdered 712 01:19:52,087 --> 01:19:57,327 For within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king keeps Death his court 713 01:19:57,793 --> 01:20:02,328 And there the antic sits, scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp 714 01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:12,175 Allowing him a breath, a little scene, to monarchise, be feared and kill with looks 715 01:20:15,678 --> 01:20:23,714 lnfusing him with self and vain conceit, as if this flesh which walls about our life were brass impregnable 716 01:20:27,489 --> 01:20:29,626 And humoured thus, comes at the last 717 01:20:30,359 --> 01:20:38,827 and with a little pin bores through his castle walls, and farewell king! 718 01:20:44,106 --> 01:20:48,448 Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood with solemn reverence 719 01:20:50,913 --> 01:20:56,687 Throw away respect, tradition, form and ceremonious duty 720 01:20:59,722 --> 01:21:01,859 For you have but mistook me all this while 721 01:21:06,428 --> 01:21:17,362 l live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief, need friends 722 01:21:20,008 --> 01:21:25,248 Subjected thus, how can you say to me, l am a king? 723 01:21:26,215 --> 01:21:33,489 My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail 724 01:21:34,890 --> 01:21:38,561 Fear and be slain. No worse can come to fight 725 01:21:39,828 --> 01:21:46,761 And fight and die is death destroying death, where fearing dying pays death servile breath 726 01:21:47,336 --> 01:21:51,644 My father hath a power. Enquire of him and learn to make a body of a limb 727 01:21:52,174 --> 01:21:57,243 Thou chidest me well. Proud Bolingbroke, l come to change blows with thee for thy day of doom 728 01:21:58,514 --> 01:22:02,322 This ague fit of fear is over-blown, an easy task it is to win our own 729 01:22:03,385 --> 01:22:08,659 Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power? Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour 730 01:22:10,025 --> 01:22:13,799 Men iudge by the complexion of the sky the state and inclination of the day 731 01:22:14,997 --> 01:22:19,407 So may you by my dull and heavy eye, my tongue hath but a heavier tale to say 732 01:22:21,437 --> 01:22:25,643 Your uncle York is ioined with Bolingbroke, and all your northern castles yielded up 733 01:22:26,508 --> 01:22:28,645 And all your southern gentlemen in arms upon his faction 734 01:22:29,111 --> 01:22:36,920 Thou hast said enough. Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth ... 735 01:22:36,952 --> 01:22:41,896 ...of that sweet way l was in to despair! What say you now? What comfort have we now? 736 01:22:43,392 --> 01:22:48,029 By heaven, l'll hate him everlastingly that bids me be of comfort anymore 737 01:22:52,768 --> 01:23:03,543 Go to Flint Castle. There l'll pine away. A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey 738 01:23:09,551 --> 01:23:16,223 That power l have, discharge, and let 'em go to ear the land that hath some hope to grow 739 01:23:16,959 --> 01:23:20,630 For l have none. Let no man speak again to alter this, for counsel is but vain 740 01:23:21,196 --> 01:23:22,401 My liege, one word 741 01:23:22,431 --> 01:23:25,807 He does me double wrong that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue 742 01:23:37,513 --> 01:23:50,914 Discharge my followers. Let them hence away, from Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day 743 01:24:06,508 --> 01:24:12,146 So that by this intelligence we learn the Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury is gone to meet the king 744 01:24:12,548 --> 01:24:15,992 The news is fair, Richard not far from hence hath hid his head 745 01:24:16,351 --> 01:24:19,352 lt would beseem the Lord Northumberland to say 'King Richard' 746 01:24:20,355 --> 01:24:24,299 Alack the heavy day when such a sacred king should hide his head 747 01:24:24,893 --> 01:24:28,030 Your grace mistakes. Only to be brief left l his title out 748 01:24:28,564 --> 01:24:33,702 The time hath been, would you have been so brief with him, he would have been so brief with you ... 749 01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:38,372 ...to shorten you, for taking so the head, your whole head's length 750 01:24:38,907 --> 01:24:41,385 Mistake not, uncle, further than you should 751 01:24:42,411 --> 01:24:50,515 Take not, good cousin, further than you should, lest you mistake. The heavens are o'er your head 752 01:24:51,186 --> 01:24:56,187 l know it, uncle, and oppose not myself against their will. But who comes here? 753 01:24:56,825 --> 01:24:59,394 Welcome, Harry. What, will not this castle yield? 754 01:24:59,428 --> 01:25:02,463 The castle royally is manned, my lord, against thy entrance 755 01:25:02,497 --> 01:25:05,839 - Royally? Why, it contains no king? - Yes, my good lord, it doth contain a king 756 01:25:06,635 --> 01:25:09,670 King Richard lies within the limits of yond lime and stone 757 01:25:09,705 --> 01:25:12,183 And with him the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury... 758 01:25:12,207 --> 01:25:16,413 ...Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman of holy reverence, who, l cannot learn 759 01:25:16,712 --> 01:25:19,053 O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle 760 01:25:20,682 --> 01:25:24,717 Noble lord, go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle 761 01:25:25,687 --> 01:25:30,631 Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parle into his ruined ears, and thus deliver: 762 01:25:31,927 --> 01:25:36,133 Henry Bolingbroke upon his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand 763 01:25:36,164 --> 01:25:40,006 And sends allegiance and true faith of heart to his most royal person 764 01:25:40,402 --> 01:25:44,073 Hither come even at his feet to lay my arms and power... 765 01:25:44,106 --> 01:25:49,676 ...provided that my banishment repealed and lands restored again be freely granted 766 01:25:51,713 --> 01:25:55,248 lf not, l 'll use the advantage of my power 767 01:25:56,251 --> 01:26:01,127 And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen 768 01:26:03,025 --> 01:26:06,799 The which, how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke it is... 769 01:26:06,828 --> 01:26:14,171 ...such crimson tempest should bedrench the fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land... 770 01:26:14,202 --> 01:26:17,112 ...my stooping duty tenderly shall show 771 01:26:19,374 --> 01:26:21,681 Methinks King Richard and myself should meet with no less terror... 772 01:26:21,710 --> 01:26:24,086 ...than the elements of fire and water... 773 01:26:24,112 --> 01:26:27,317 ...when their thundering smoke at meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven 774 01:26:28,050 --> 01:26:32,722 Be he the fire, l 'll be the yielding water. The rage be his... 775 01:26:32,754 --> 01:26:39,392 ...while on the earth l rain my waters: on the earth, and not on him 776 01:27:04,286 --> 01:27:06,787 See, see, King Richard doth himself appear 777 01:27:08,256 --> 01:27:12,928 As doth the blushing discontented sun from out the fiery portal of the east 778 01:27:13,295 --> 01:27:15,364 When he perceives the envious clouds... 779 01:27:15,397 --> 01:27:21,364 ...are bent to dim his glory and to stain the track of his bright passage to the occident 780 01:27:22,070 --> 01:27:29,538 Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye, as bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth controlling majesty 781 01:27:30,946 --> 01:27:35,356 Alack, alack, for woe, that any harm should stain so fair a show 782 01:27:39,354 --> 01:27:42,730 We are amazed, and thus long have we stood... 783 01:27:42,758 --> 01:27:47,702 ...to watch the fearful bending of thy knee, because we thought ourself thy lawful king 784 01:27:48,330 --> 01:27:52,638 And if we be, how dare thy joints forget to pay their awful duty to our presence? 785 01:27:55,003 --> 01:28:00,311 lf we be not, show us the hand of God that hath dismissed us from our stewardship 786 01:28:01,877 --> 01:28:07,378 For well we know, no hand of blood and bone can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre... 787 01:28:07,415 --> 01:28:12,519 ...unless he do profane, steal, or usurp 788 01:28:16,424 --> 01:28:19,300 And though you think that all, as you have done... 789 01:28:19,327 --> 01:28:24,169 ...have torn their souls by turning them from us, and we are barren and bereft of friends 790 01:28:25,367 --> 01:28:34,210 Yet know, my master, God omnipotent, is mustering in his clouds on our behalf armies of pestilence 791 01:28:34,242 --> 01:28:37,481 And they shall strike your children yet unborn and unbegot... 792 01:28:37,512 --> 01:28:42,252 ...that lift your vassal hands against our heads and threat the glory of our precious crown 793 01:28:45,086 --> 01:28:50,360 Tell Bolingbroke, for yond methinks he stands 794 01:28:51,459 --> 01:28:56,131 That every stride he makes upon our land is dangerous treason 795 01:28:56,798 --> 01:29:00,299 He is come to ope the purple testament of bleeding war 796 01:29:00,435 --> 01:29:02,435 But ere the crown he looks for live in peace... 797 01:29:02,571 --> 01:29:07,311 ...ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons shall ill become the flower of England's face 798 01:29:08,376 --> 01:29:12,343 Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace to scarlet indignation 799 01:29:13,014 --> 01:29:17,890 And bedew her pasture's grass with faithful English blood 800 01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:25,797 The king of heaven forbid our lord the king should so with civil and uncivil arms be rushed upon 801 01:29:29,564 --> 01:29:32,803 Thy thrice-noble cousin, Harry Bolingbroke, doth humbly kiss thy hand 802 01:29:33,869 --> 01:29:38,370 And by the honourable tomb he swears, that stands upon your royal grandsire's bones: 803 01:29:38,406 --> 01:29:43,578 His coming hither hath no further scope than for his lineal royalties... 804 01:29:43,612 --> 01:29:46,283 ...and to beg enfranchisement immediate on his knees 805 01:29:46,648 --> 01:29:51,786 Which on thy royal party granted once, his glittering arms he will commend to rust 806 01:29:52,888 --> 01:29:57,832 His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart to faithful service of your maiesty 807 01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:05,932 This swears he, as he is a prince, is iust: and, as l am a gentleman, l credit him 808 01:30:14,876 --> 01:30:20,877 Northumberland, say thus the king returns. His noble cousin is right welcome hither 809 01:30:22,150 --> 01:30:32,118 And all the number of his fair demands shall be accomplished without contradiction 810 01:30:36,197 --> 01:30:40,664 With all the gracious utterance thou hast, speak unto his gentle hearing kind commends 811 01:30:48,777 --> 01:30:53,085 We do debase ourself, cousin, do we not, to look so poorly and to speak so fair? 812 01:30:55,550 --> 01:30:59,756 Shall we call back Northumberland, and send defiance to the traitor, and so die? 813 01:31:00,188 --> 01:31:05,360 No, good my lord, let's fight with gentle words till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords 814 01:31:05,927 --> 01:31:09,598 O God, O God, that e'er this tongue of mine... 815 01:31:09,864 --> 01:31:13,308 ...that laid the sentence of dread banishment on yond proud man... 816 01:31:13,468 --> 01:31:15,275 ...should take it off again with words of sooth 817 01:31:16,204 --> 01:31:19,978 O, that l were as great as is my grief, or lesser than my name 818 01:31:20,709 --> 01:31:24,483 Or that l could forget what l have been, or not remember what l must be now 819 01:31:25,013 --> 01:31:26,718 Swellest thou, proud heart? 820 01:31:26,915 --> 01:31:30,291 l'll give thee scope to beat, since... 821 01:31:30,352 --> 01:31:32,659 - Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke - What must the king do now? 822 01:31:32,687 --> 01:31:37,154 Must he submit? The king shall do it 823 01:31:38,293 --> 01:31:40,703 Must he be deposed? The king shall be contented 824 01:31:41,896 --> 01:31:45,397 Must he lose the name of king? O' God's name, let it go 825 01:31:48,136 --> 01:31:53,410 l 'll give my jewels for a set of beads, my gorgeous palace for a hermitage 826 01:31:55,410 --> 01:32:00,616 My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, my figured goblets for a dish of wood 827 01:32:02,917 --> 01:32:08,987 My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff, my subiects for a pair of carved saints 828 01:32:11,793 --> 01:32:20,034 And my large kingdom for a little grave, a little little grave, an obscure grave 829 01:32:20,201 --> 01:32:21,906 Or l 'll be buried in the king's highway 830 01:32:21,936 --> 01:32:25,846 Some way of common trade, where subiects' feet may hourly trample on their sovereign's head 831 01:32:25,874 --> 01:32:29,443 For on my heart they tread now whilst l live, and buried once, why not upon my head? 832 01:32:34,015 --> 01:32:38,516 Aumerle, thou weepest, my tender-hearted cousin 833 01:32:43,358 --> 01:32:45,529 We'll make foul weather with despised tears 834 01:32:46,528 --> 01:32:50,836 Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn, and make a dearth in this revolting land 835 01:32:54,202 --> 01:32:59,169 Or shall we play the wantons with our woes, and make some pretty match with shedding tears? 836 01:33:01,276 --> 01:33:06,720 As thus, to drop them still upon one place, till they have fretted us a pair of graves within the earth 837 01:33:07,916 --> 01:33:13,861 And, therein laid: there lies two kinsmen digged their graves with weeping eyes 838 01:33:17,425 --> 01:33:28,632 Would not this ill do well? Well, well, l see l talk but idly, and you mock at me 839 01:34:51,553 --> 01:34:58,123 Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland, what says King Bolingbroke? 840 01:34:58,159 --> 01:35:00,535 Will his maiesty give Richard leave to live till Richard die? 841 01:35:00,962 --> 01:35:02,235 You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says 'ay' 842 01:35:02,997 --> 01:35:07,566 My lord, in the base court he doth attend to speak with you. May it please you to come down? 843 01:35:08,336 --> 01:35:14,610 Down, down l come, like glistering Phaethon, wanting the manage of unruly jades 844 01:35:16,411 --> 01:35:21,878 ln the base court? Base court where kings grow base, to come at traitors' calls and do them grace 845 01:35:23,151 --> 01:35:25,151 ln the base court, come down. 846 01:35:25,853 --> 01:35:33,162 Down court, down king, for night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing 847 01:35:34,629 --> 01:35:36,539 What says his majesty? 848 01:35:36,564 --> 01:35:39,838 Sorrow and grief of heart makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man 849 01:35:41,402 --> 01:35:46,210 - Yet he is come - Stand all apart, and show fair duty to his majesty 850 01:35:50,345 --> 01:35:52,118 My gracious lord... 851 01:35:52,146 --> 01:35:55,954 Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee to make the base earth proud with kissing it 852 01:35:58,586 --> 01:36:02,723 Me rather had my heart might feel your love than my unpleased eye see your courtesy 853 01:36:05,927 --> 01:36:12,201 Up, cousin, up! Your heart is up, l know, thus high at least, although your knee be low 854 01:36:14,002 --> 01:36:24,539 - My gracious lord, l come but for mine own - Your own is yours, and l am yours, and all 855 01:36:25,346 --> 01:36:32,484 So far be mine, my most redoubted lord, as my true service shall deserve your love 856 01:36:33,121 --> 01:36:38,725 Well you deserve. They well deserve to have, that know the strongest and surest way to get 857 01:36:41,562 --> 01:36:52,496 Uncle, give me your hands. Nay, dry your eyes. Tears show their love, but want their remedies 858 01:36:56,744 --> 01:37:00,950 Cousin, l am too young to be your father, though you are old enough to be my heir 859 01:37:05,453 --> 01:37:10,625 What you will have, l'll give, and willing too, for do we must what force will have us do 860 01:37:14,095 --> 01:37:18,232 Set on towards London, cousin, is it so? 861 01:37:21,469 --> 01:37:27,243 - Yea, my good lord - Then l must not say no 862 01:38:52,293 --> 01:38:57,601 What sport shall we devise here in this garden, to drive away the heavy thought of care? 863 01:38:57,932 --> 01:38:59,466 Madam, we'll play at bowls 864 01:39:00,768 --> 01:39:04,678 'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs, and that my fortune runs against the bias 865 01:39:05,106 --> 01:39:06,174 Madam, we'll dance 866 01:39:07,975 --> 01:39:14,045 My legs can keep no measure in delight when my poor heart no measure keeps in grief 867 01:39:14,081 --> 01:39:17,684 Therefore, no dancing, girl, some other sport 868 01:39:18,152 --> 01:39:21,857 - Madam, we'll tell tales - Of sorrow or of joy? 869 01:39:22,890 --> 01:39:28,960 - Of either, madam - Of neither, girl 870 01:39:29,564 --> 01:39:33,804 For if of ioy, being altogether wanting, it doth remember me the more of sorrow 871 01:39:35,136 --> 01:39:40,308 Or if of grief, being altogether had, it adds more sorrow to my want of ioy 872 01:39:41,008 --> 01:39:42,042 Madam, l 'll sing 873 01:39:44,045 --> 01:39:48,614 'Tis well that thou hast cause, but thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep 874 01:39:49,150 --> 01:39:51,889 l could weep, madam, would it do you good 875 01:39:54,155 --> 01:39:59,690 And l could sing, would weeping do me good, and never borrow any tear of thee 876 01:40:02,430 --> 01:40:08,466 But stay, here come the gardeners. Let's step into the shadow of these trees 877 01:40:09,637 --> 01:40:12,081 My wretchedness unto a row of pins... 878 01:40:12,106 --> 01:40:18,676 ...they'll talk of state, for everyone doth so against a change. Woe is forerun with woe 879 01:40:26,988 --> 01:40:30,193 Go bind thou up yond dangling apricocks 880 01:40:33,694 --> 01:40:39,570 Which, like unruly children, make their sire stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight 881 01:40:42,136 --> 01:40:44,409 Give some supportance to the bending twigs 882 01:40:50,278 --> 01:40:53,688 Go then, and like an executioner... 883 01:40:53,714 --> 01:40:58,715 ...cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays, that look too lofty in our commonwealth 884 01:41:00,955 --> 01:41:02,558 All must be even in our government 885 01:41:03,257 --> 01:41:11,191 Why should we in the compass of a pale keep law and form and due proportion... 886 01:41:11,232 --> 01:41:16,142 ...when our sea-walled garden, the whole land, is full of weeds 887 01:41:17,838 --> 01:41:24,180 Her fairest flowers are choked up, her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined 888 01:41:24,211 --> 01:41:29,087 Her knots disordered and her wholesome herbs swarming with caterpillars 889 01:41:30,117 --> 01:41:31,356 Hold thy peace 890 01:41:31,719 --> 01:41:37,425 He that hath suffered this disordered spring hath now himself met with the fall of leaf 891 01:41:38,092 --> 01:41:44,128 The weeds that his broad-spreading leaves did shelter, that seemed in eating him to hold him up... 892 01:41:44,165 --> 01:41:49,769 ...are pulled up root and all by Bolingbroke: l mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green 893 01:41:50,237 --> 01:41:51,408 What, are they dead? 894 01:41:51,439 --> 01:41:55,440 They are. And Bolingbroke hath seized the wasteful king 895 01:41:56,243 --> 01:42:01,744 O, what pity is it that he had not so trimmed and dressed his land as we this garden 896 01:42:03,017 --> 01:42:07,552 Superfluous branches we lop away, that bearing boughs may live 897 01:42:08,589 --> 01:42:15,022 Had he done so, himself had borne the crown, which waste and idle hours hath quite thrown down 898 01:42:15,429 --> 01:42:19,396 What, think you the king shall be deposed? 899 01:42:19,433 --> 01:42:24,843 Depressed he is already, and deposed 'tis doubted he will be 900 01:42:27,241 --> 01:42:29,014 O, l am pressed to death through want of speaking! 901 01:42:30,311 --> 01:42:33,687 Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden ... 902 01:42:34,448 --> 01:42:37,790 ...how dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news? 903 01:42:38,886 --> 01:42:43,489 What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee to make a second fall of cursed man? 904 01:42:44,892 --> 01:42:47,927 Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed? 905 01:42:52,166 --> 01:42:55,440 Darest thou, thou little better thing than earth, divine his downfall? 906 01:42:57,238 --> 01:43:03,376 Say, when, where, and how, camest thou by this ill tidings? Speak, thou wretch 907 01:43:04,912 --> 01:43:10,084 Pardon me, madam. Little ioy have l to breathe these news, yet what l say is true 908 01:43:12,186 --> 01:43:16,960 King Richard, he is in the mighty hold of Bolingbroke. Their fortunes both are weighed 909 01:43:18,693 --> 01:43:23,501 ln your lord's scale is nothing but himself, and some few vanities that make him light 910 01:43:25,366 --> 01:43:32,038 But in the balance of great Bolingbroke, besides himself, are all the English peers 911 01:43:32,073 --> 01:43:35,176 And with that odds he weighs King Richard down 912 01:43:37,211 --> 01:43:41,746 Post you to London, and you'll find it so, l speak no more than everyone doth know 913 01:43:51,358 --> 01:43:55,302 Nimble mischance, which art so light of foot 914 01:43:55,896 --> 01:44:01,500 Doth not thy embassage belong to me, and am l last that knows it? 915 01:44:02,870 --> 01:44:08,644 Ladies, go to meet at London London's king in woe 916 01:44:11,612 --> 01:44:20,114 What, was l born to this, that my sad look should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke? 917 01:44:22,156 --> 01:44:29,158 Gardener, for telling me this news of woe, pray God the plants thou graftest may never grow 918 01:44:33,834 --> 01:44:40,108 Poor queen, so that thy state might be no worse, l would my skill were subject to thy curse 919 01:44:42,977 --> 01:44:50,251 Here did she drop a tear. Here in this place l 'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace 920 01:44:51,585 --> 01:44:58,325 Rue, e'en for ruth, here shortly shall be seen, in the remembrance of a weeping queen 921 01:45:21,415 --> 01:45:23,018 Call forth Bagot 922 01:45:28,355 --> 01:45:35,129 Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind, what thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death 923 01:45:36,363 --> 01:45:43,740 - Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle - Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man 924 01:45:46,073 --> 01:45:52,313 My Lord Aumerle, l know your daring tongue scorns to unsay what it hath once delivered 925 01:45:53,948 --> 01:45:58,585 ln that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted, l heard you say: 926 01:46:00,054 --> 01:46:05,624 ' ls not my arm of length, that reacheth from the restful English court as far as Calais, to my uncle's head?' 927 01:46:06,894 --> 01:46:10,838 Amongst much other talk, that very time, l heard you say... 928 01:46:10,865 --> 01:46:17,071 ...that you had rather refuse the offer of a hundred thousand crowns than Bolingbroke's return to England 929 01:46:18,205 --> 01:46:24,241 Adding withal how blest this land would be in this your cousin's death 930 01:46:25,813 --> 01:46:30,689 Princes and noble lords, what answer shall l make to this base man? 931 01:46:33,354 --> 01:46:37,230 There is my gage, the manual seal of death that marks thee out for hell. l say thou liest 932 01:46:38,192 --> 01:46:40,136 Bagot, forbear. Thou shalt not take it up 933 01:46:40,828 --> 01:46:46,000 lf that thy valour stand on sympathy, there is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine 934 01:46:47,534 --> 01:46:53,410 l heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it, that thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death 935 01:46:54,008 --> 01:46:58,475 - lf thou deniest it twenty times, thou liest - Thou darest not, coward, live to see the day 936 01:46:58,812 --> 01:47:02,722 - Now by my soul, l would it were this hour - Willoughby, thou art damned to hell for this 937 01:47:03,117 --> 01:47:07,186 Aumerle, thou liest. His honour is as true in this appeal as thou art all unjust 938 01:47:07,888 --> 01:47:11,355 And that thou art so, there l throw my gage, to prove it on thee 939 01:47:11,792 --> 01:47:15,327 - Seize it, if thou darest - And if l do not, may my hands rot off 940 01:47:16,130 --> 01:47:20,870 My Lord Willoughby, l do remember well the very time Aumerle and you did talk 941 01:47:21,335 --> 01:47:25,472 My lord, 'tis very true. You were in presence then and can witness with me this is true 942 01:47:25,906 --> 01:47:30,077 - As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true - Salisbury, thou liest 943 01:47:30,477 --> 01:47:34,921 Dishonourable boy! That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword... 944 01:47:34,949 --> 01:47:40,825 ...that it shall render vengeance and revenge till thou the lie-giver and that lie... 945 01:47:40,854 --> 01:47:47,231 ...do lie ln earth as quiet as thy father's skull, in proof whereof, there is mine honour's pawn 946 01:47:48,963 --> 01:47:53,873 - Engage it to the trial, if thou darest - How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse! 947 01:47:55,202 --> 01:48:00,271 lf l dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live, l dare meet Salisbury in a wilderness 948 01:48:01,008 --> 01:48:05,282 And spit upon him, whilst l say he lies, and lies, and lies 949 01:48:08,649 --> 01:48:11,422 Besides, l heard the banished Mowbray say... 950 01:48:11,452 --> 01:48:16,260 ...that thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men to execute the noble duke at Calais 951 01:48:17,725 --> 01:48:19,600 Some honest Christian trust me with a gage 952 01:48:20,527 --> 01:48:24,630 That Mowbray lies, here do l throw down this, if he may be repealed, to try his honour 953 01:48:25,232 --> 01:48:29,972 These differences shall all rest under gage till Mowbray be repealed 954 01:48:31,205 --> 01:48:37,081 Repealed he shall be, and though mine enemy, restored again to all his lands and signories 955 01:48:37,711 --> 01:48:41,882 When he's returned, against Aumerle we will enforce his trial 956 01:48:42,883 --> 01:48:47,918 That honourable day shall ne'er be seen. Many a time hath banished Mowbray fought... 957 01:48:47,955 --> 01:48:52,831 ...for Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field, and toiled with works of war 958 01:48:54,094 --> 01:48:59,732 Retired himself to ltaly, and there at Venice gave his body to that pleasant country's earth 959 01:49:00,834 --> 01:49:06,574 And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, under whose colours he had fought so long 960 01:49:07,241 --> 01:49:10,446 - Why, bishop, is Mowbray dead? - As sure as l live, my lord 961 01:49:11,311 --> 01:49:15,016 Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom of good old Abraham 962 01:49:16,050 --> 01:49:21,551 Lords appellants, your differences shall all rest under gage till we assign you to your days of trial 963 01:49:23,957 --> 01:49:27,697 Great Duke of Lancaster, l come to thee from plume-plucked Richard 964 01:49:28,729 --> 01:49:37,402 Who with willing soul adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields to the possession of thy royal hand 965 01:49:38,972 --> 01:49:47,645 Ascend his throne, descending now from him, and long live Henry, of that name the fourth 966 01:49:56,190 --> 01:49:59,964 ln God's name, l 'll ascend the regal throne 967 01:50:00,994 --> 01:50:02,199 Marry, God forbid! 968 01:50:04,264 --> 01:50:09,265 Worst in this royal presence may l speak, yet best beseeming me to speak the truth 969 01:50:11,071 --> 01:50:16,845 Would God that any in this noble presence were enough noble to be upright judge of noble Richard! 970 01:50:18,445 --> 01:50:22,480 Then true noblesse would learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong 971 01:50:25,052 --> 01:50:31,826 What subject can give sentence on his king? And who kneels here that is not Richard's subiect? 972 01:50:33,794 --> 01:50:35,738 And shall the figure of God's majesty... 973 01:50:35,762 --> 01:50:42,002 ...his captain, steward, deputy-elect, anointed, crowned, planted many years... 974 01:50:42,970 --> 01:50:48,971 ...be judged by subject and inferior breath, and he himself not present? 975 01:50:51,044 --> 01:50:55,988 O, forbid it, God, that in a Christian climate souls refined... 976 01:50:56,016 --> 01:51:00,824 ...should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed! 977 01:51:03,090 --> 01:51:08,830 My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king, is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king 978 01:51:09,363 --> 01:51:12,568 And if you crown him, let me prophesy: 979 01:51:12,599 --> 01:51:18,839 The blood of English shall manure the ground, and future ages groan for this foul act 980 01:51:20,841 --> 01:51:24,978 Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny shall here inhabit 981 01:51:25,012 --> 01:51:29,479 And this land be called the field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls 982 01:51:32,853 --> 01:51:36,661 O, if you rear this house against this house... 983 01:51:36,690 --> 01:51:41,896 ...it will the woefullest division prove that ever fell upon this cursed earth 984 01:51:43,830 --> 01:51:52,969 Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, lest child, child's children, cry against you 'woe! ' 985 01:51:54,074 --> 01:51:59,246 Well have you argued, sir. And for your pains, of capital treason we do arrest you here 986 01:52:00,047 --> 01:52:03,889 My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge to keep him safely till his day of trial 987 01:52:04,718 --> 01:52:10,322 Fetch hither Richard, that in common view he may surrender 988 01:52:11,825 --> 01:52:14,735 So we shall proceed without suspicion 989 01:52:15,529 --> 01:52:16,529 l will be his conduct 990 01:52:40,854 --> 01:52:45,958 Alack, why am l sent for to a king, before l have shook off the regal thoughts wherewith l reigned? 991 01:52:48,562 --> 01:52:53,563 l hardly yet have learned to insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee 992 01:52:55,836 --> 01:52:59,576 Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me to this submission 993 01:53:02,509 --> 01:53:06,646 Yet l well remember the favours of these men 994 01:53:09,483 --> 01:53:15,359 Were they not mine? Did they not sometime cry 'All hail! ' to me? 995 01:53:18,692 --> 01:53:26,330 So Judas did to Christ, but he in twelve found truth in all but one. l , in twelve thousand, none 996 01:53:30,003 --> 01:53:31,276 God save the king! 997 01:53:35,709 --> 01:53:42,086 Will no man say 'amen'? Am l both priest and clerk? Well then, amen 998 01:53:44,785 --> 01:53:54,185 God save the king, although l be not he. And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me 999 01:53:57,664 --> 01:53:59,039 To do what service am l sent for hither? 1000 01:53:59,866 --> 01:54:06,072 To do that office of thine own good will which tired maiesty did make thee offer 1001 01:54:07,474 --> 01:54:10,975 The resignation of thy state and crown to Henry Bolingbroke 1002 01:54:11,745 --> 01:54:13,223 Give me the crown 1003 01:54:27,761 --> 01:54:32,865 Here, cousin, seize the crown 1004 01:54:45,912 --> 01:54:47,481 Here cousin ... 1005 01:55:15,041 --> 01:55:17,110 On this side my hand, on that side thine 1006 01:55:18,478 --> 01:55:24,218 Now is this golden crown like a deep well that owes two buckets, filling one another 1007 01:55:25,652 --> 01:55:29,562 The emptier ever dancing in the air, the other down, unseen and full of water 1008 01:55:31,558 --> 01:55:37,332 That bucket down and full of tears am l, drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high 1009 01:55:38,932 --> 01:55:44,070 - l thought you had been willing to resign - My crown l am, but still my griefs are mine 1010 01:55:46,072 --> 01:55:50,607 You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs. Still am l king of those 1011 01:55:51,077 --> 01:55:55,817 - Part of your cares you give me with your crown - Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down 1012 01:55:57,451 --> 01:56:01,691 My care is loss of care, by old care done: your care is gain of care, by new care won 1013 01:56:02,756 --> 01:56:07,996 The cares l give l have, though given away, they tend the crown, yet still with me they stay 1014 01:56:08,495 --> 01:56:10,973 Are you contented to resign the crown? 1015 01:56:14,801 --> 01:56:33,510 Ay, no. No, ay, for l must nothing be: therefore no 'no' , for l resign to thee 1016 01:56:36,923 --> 01:56:39,401 Now mark me how l will undo myself 1017 01:56:43,230 --> 01:56:48,334 l give this heavy weight from off my head, and this unwieldy sceptre from my hand 1018 01:56:48,368 --> 01:56:51,210 The pride of kingly sway from out my heart 1019 01:56:51,238 --> 01:56:56,614 With mine own tears l wash away my balm, with mine own hands l give away my crown 1020 01:56:56,643 --> 01:57:02,713 With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, with mine own breath release all duteous oaths 1021 01:57:02,749 --> 01:57:04,693 All pomp and maiesty l do forgo 1022 01:57:04,918 --> 01:57:10,522 My manors, rents, revenues l forswear. My acts, decrees, and statutes l deny 1023 01:57:10,991 --> 01:57:17,731 God pardon all oaths that are broke to me, God keep all vows unbroke are made to thee 1024 01:57:19,065 --> 01:57:26,305 Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved, and thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved 1025 01:57:28,441 --> 01:57:36,147 Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit, and soon lie Richard in an earthy pit 1026 01:57:38,952 --> 01:57:49,330 'God save King Henry' , unkinged Richard says, 'and send him many years of sunshine days' 1027 01:58:08,882 --> 01:58:13,951 - What more remains? - No more, but that you read these accusations... 1028 01:58:13,987 --> 01:58:19,091 ...and these grievous crimes committed by your person and your followers... 1029 01:58:19,125 --> 01:58:22,467 ...against the state and profit of this land 1030 01:58:22,929 --> 01:58:29,635 That by confessing them, the souls of men may deem that you are worthily deposed 1031 01:58:42,916 --> 01:58:48,088 Must l do so? And must l ravel out my weaved-up follies? 1032 01:58:49,456 --> 01:58:54,923 Gentle Northumberland, if thy offences were upon record... 1033 01:58:54,961 --> 01:58:58,371 ...would it not shame thee in so fair a troop to read a lecture of them? 1034 01:59:00,433 --> 01:59:05,002 lf thou wouldst, there shouldst thou find one heinous article... 1035 01:59:05,038 --> 01:59:12,744 ...containing the deposing of a king marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven 1036 01:59:16,216 --> 01:59:23,627 Nay, all of you that stand and look upon me, whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself 1037 01:59:23,657 --> 01:59:27,533 Though some of you with Pilate wash your hands, showing an outward pity... 1038 01:59:27,560 --> 01:59:31,265 ...yet you Pilates have here delivered me to my sour cross 1039 01:59:31,564 --> 01:59:34,042 And water cannot wash away your sin 1040 01:59:34,067 --> 01:59:39,375 - My lord, dispatch. Read o'er these articles - Mine eyes are full of tears, l cannot see 1041 01:59:42,409 --> 01:59:46,410 And yet salt water blinds them not so much but they can see a sort of traitors here 1042 01:59:47,881 --> 01:59:53,325 Nay, if l turn mine eyes upon myself, l find myself a traitor with the rest 1043 01:59:53,753 --> 01:59:59,357 For l have given here my soul's consent to undeck the pompous body of a king 1044 02:00:00,560 --> 02:00:07,630 Made glory base and sovereignty a slave, proud majesty a subiect, state a peasant 1045 02:00:08,168 --> 02:00:11,339 - My lord... - No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man 1046 02:00:14,808 --> 02:00:22,776 No, nor no man's lord. l have no name, no title 1047 02:00:22,816 --> 02:00:28,056 No, not that name was given me at the font, but 'tis usurped 1048 02:00:28,655 --> 02:00:32,656 Alack the heavy day, that l have worn so many winters out 1049 02:00:32,692 --> 02:00:36,363 And know not now what name to call myself 1050 02:00:41,000 --> 02:00:46,911 O, that l were a mockery king of snow standing before the sun of Bolingbroke... 1051 02:00:46,940 --> 02:00:50,350 ...to melt myself away in water-drops 1052 02:00:58,118 --> 02:01:06,393 Good king, great king - and yet not greatly good - 1053 02:01:09,395 --> 02:01:14,567 An if my word be sterling yet in England, let it command a mirror hither straight 1054 02:01:16,336 --> 02:01:21,610 That it may show me what a face l have, since it is bankrupt of his majesty 1055 02:01:23,276 --> 02:01:24,685 Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass 1056 02:01:25,145 --> 02:01:30,817 - Read o'er this paper till the glass doth come - Fiend, thou torments me ere l come to hell 1057 02:01:31,351 --> 02:01:34,920 - Urge it no more, my Lord Northumberland - The commons will not then be satisfied 1058 02:01:35,455 --> 02:01:37,694 They shall be satisfied. l 'll read enough... 1059 02:01:37,724 --> 02:01:40,600 ...when l do see the very book indeed where all my sins are writ, and that's myself 1060 02:01:41,961 --> 02:01:43,961 Give me that glass, and therein will l read 1061 02:02:16,796 --> 02:02:18,330 No deeper wrinkles yet? 1062 02:02:22,569 --> 02:02:30,503 Hath sorrow struck so many blows upon this face of mine, and left no deeper wound? 1063 02:02:32,545 --> 02:02:40,047 O flattering glass, like to my followers in prosperity, thou dost beguile me 1064 02:02:42,522 --> 02:02:49,160 Was this face the face that every day under his household roof did keep ten thousand men? 1065 02:02:50,930 --> 02:02:55,033 Was this the face that like the sun did make beholders wink? 1066 02:02:59,239 --> 02:03:06,673 ls this the face that faced so many follies, that was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke? 1067 02:03:10,650 --> 02:03:17,117 A brittle glory shineth in this face, as brittle as the glory is the face 1068 02:03:17,757 --> 02:03:20,428 For there it is, cracked in an hundred shivers 1069 02:03:23,363 --> 02:03:33,365 Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport, how soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face 1070 02:03:35,608 --> 02:03:41,052 The shadow of your sorrow hath destroyed the shadow of your face 1071 02:03:44,717 --> 02:03:52,787 Say that again. The shadow of my sorrow? 1072 02:03:54,994 --> 02:04:04,803 Ha? Let's see, 'tis very true, my grief lies all within, and these external manners of laments... 1073 02:04:04,837 --> 02:04:10,043 ...are merely shadows to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul 1074 02:04:13,212 --> 02:04:18,520 There lies the substance. And l thank thee, king, for thy great bounty... 1075 02:04:18,551 --> 02:04:23,291 ...that not only givest me cause to wail, but teachest me the way how to lament the cause 1076 02:04:23,756 --> 02:04:26,029 l 'll beg one boon, and then be gone and trouble you no more 1077 02:04:29,162 --> 02:04:33,265 - Shall l obtain it? - Name it, fair cousin 1078 02:04:33,933 --> 02:04:36,070 'Fair cousin'? Now l am greater than a king 1079 02:04:37,170 --> 02:04:40,409 For when l was a king, my flatterers were then but subiects 1080 02:04:40,440 --> 02:04:47,544 Being now a subject, l have a king here to be my flatterer. Being so great, l have no need to beg 1081 02:04:48,314 --> 02:04:50,883 - Yet ask - And shall l have? 1082 02:04:51,417 --> 02:04:56,123 - You shall - Then give me leave to go 1083 02:04:58,758 --> 02:05:02,634 - Whither? - Whither you will, so l were from your sights 1084 02:05:04,297 --> 02:05:06,332 Go, some of you convey him to the Tower 1085 02:05:06,866 --> 02:05:17,471 O, good! 'Convey'? Conveyers are you all, that rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall 1086 02:05:36,095 --> 02:05:45,370 On Wednesday next we solemnly set down our coronation. Lords, prepare yourselves 1087 02:06:01,921 --> 02:06:05,126 A woeful pageant have we here beheld 1088 02:06:05,158 --> 02:06:11,591 The woe's to come. The children yet unborn shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn 1089 02:06:13,032 --> 02:06:17,533 You holy clergymen, is there no plot to rid the realm of this pernicious blot? 1090 02:06:19,505 --> 02:06:28,246 My lord, before l freely speak my mind herein, you shall not only take the sacrament... 1091 02:06:28,281 --> 02:06:33,555 ...to bury mine intent, but also to effect whatever l shall happen to devise 1092 02:06:36,355 --> 02:06:40,822 l see your brows are full of discontent, your heart of sorrow and your eyes of tears 1093 02:06:43,496 --> 02:06:49,634 Come home with me to supper. l 'll lay a plot shall show us all a merry day 1094 02:07:02,315 --> 02:07:04,952 This way the king will come 1095 02:07:08,287 --> 02:07:11,492 This is the way to Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower... 1096 02:07:11,524 --> 02:07:16,332 ...to whose flint bosom my condemned lord is doomed a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke 1097 02:07:19,332 --> 02:07:25,243 Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth have any resting for her true king's queen 1098 02:07:32,912 --> 02:07:37,322 But soft, but see, or rather do not see, my fair rose wither 1099 02:07:38,551 --> 02:07:43,995 Yet look up, behold, that you in pity may dissolve to dew 1100 02:07:44,023 --> 02:07:47,660 And wash him fresh again with true-love tears 1101 02:07:49,128 --> 02:07:52,936 Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb, and not King Richard 1102 02:07:53,966 --> 02:07:57,501 Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, to make my end too sudden 1103 02:07:57,537 --> 02:08:01,413 Learn, good soul, to think our former state a happy dream 1104 02:08:01,440 --> 02:08:04,316 From which awaked, the truth of what we are shows us but this 1105 02:08:05,311 --> 02:08:11,051 l am sworn brother, sweet, to grim Necessity, and he and l will keep a league till death 1106 02:08:11,484 --> 02:08:17,951 Hie thee to France and cloister thee in some religious house. Our holy lives must win a new world's crown ... 1107 02:08:17,990 --> 02:08:20,297 ...which our profane hours here have stricken down 1108 02:08:21,494 --> 02:08:27,166 What, is my Richard both in shape and mind transformed and weakened? 1109 02:08:27,200 --> 02:08:32,576 Hath Bolingbroke deposed thine intellect? Hath he been in thy heart? 1110 02:08:33,706 --> 02:08:40,412 The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw, and wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage to be o'erpowered 1111 02:08:41,881 --> 02:08:46,291 And wilt thou, pupil-like, take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod? 1112 02:08:47,286 --> 02:08:52,753 And fawn on rage with base humility, which art a lion and a king of beasts? 1113 02:08:56,195 --> 02:08:59,764 A king of beasts, indeed. lf aught but beasts, l had been still a happy king of men 1114 02:09:01,734 --> 02:09:05,110 Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France 1115 02:09:05,137 --> 02:09:09,979 Think l am dead and that even here thou takest, as from my death-bed, thy last living leave 1116 02:09:11,110 --> 02:09:14,577 ln winter's tedious nights sit by the fire with good old folks 1117 02:09:14,780 --> 02:09:18,054 And let them tell thee tales of woeful ages long ago betid 1118 02:09:18,084 --> 02:09:20,926 And ere thou bid good night, to quit their grief... 1119 02:09:20,953 --> 02:09:27,364 ...tell thou the lamentable tale of me and send the hearers weeping to their beds 1120 02:09:28,327 --> 02:09:36,329 My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed. You must to Pomfret, and not unto the Tower 1121 02:09:38,070 --> 02:09:43,776 And, madam, there is order ta'en for you: with all swift speed you must away to France 1122 02:09:46,212 --> 02:09:52,157 Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne 1123 02:09:54,053 --> 02:09:56,588 The time shall not be many hours of age more than it is 1124 02:09:56,789 --> 02:10:01,097 Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption 1125 02:10:01,794 --> 02:10:07,204 Thou shalt think, though he divide the realm and give thee half, it is too little, helping him to all 1126 02:10:08,834 --> 02:10:14,040 He shall think that thou, which knowest the way to plant unrightful kings... 1127 02:10:14,073 --> 02:10:19,074 ...wilt know again, being ne'er so little urged, another way to pluck him headlong from the usurped throne 1128 02:10:19,478 --> 02:10:24,047 My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Take leave and part, for you must part forthwith 1129 02:10:24,850 --> 02:10:32,727 Part us, Northumberland. l towards the north, where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime 1130 02:10:34,593 --> 02:10:45,630 My queen to France, from whence, set forth in pomp, she came adorned hither like sweet May... 1131 02:10:45,671 --> 02:10:48,581 ...sent back like Hallowmas or shortest of day 1132 02:10:49,442 --> 02:10:54,886 - And must we be divided? Must we part? - Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart 1133 02:10:55,414 --> 02:11:01,518 - Banish us both and send the king with me - That were some love, but little policy 1134 02:11:02,788 --> 02:11:06,959 - Then whither he goes, thither let me go - So two, together weeping, make one woe 1135 02:11:08,527 --> 02:11:16,370 - Go, count thy ways with sighs, l mine with groans - So longest way shall have the longest moans 1136 02:11:18,371 --> 02:11:30,044 One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part: thus give l mine, and thus take l thy heart 1137 02:11:35,187 --> 02:11:42,825 Give me mine own again. 'Twere no good part to take on me to keep and kill thy heart 1138 02:11:48,968 --> 02:11:56,106 So, now l have mine own again, be gone, that l may strive to kill it with a groan 1139 02:11:57,410 --> 02:12:02,514 We make woe wanton with this fond delay. Once more, adieu. The rest let sorrow say 1140 02:12:17,930 --> 02:12:26,034 My lord, you told me you would tell the rest, when weeping made you break the story off... 1141 02:12:26,071 --> 02:12:30,481 - ...of our two cousins coming into London - Where did l leave? 1142 02:12:30,509 --> 02:12:35,578 At that sad stop, my lord, where rude misgoverned hands... 1143 02:12:35,614 --> 02:12:39,717 ...from windows' tops threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head 1144 02:12:40,319 --> 02:12:45,763 Then, as l said, the duke, great Bolingbroke, mounted upon a hot and fiery steed... 1145 02:12:45,791 --> 02:12:52,202 ...with slow but stately pace kept on his course, while all tongues cried 'God save thee, Bolingbroke! ' 1146 02:12:53,365 --> 02:12:55,570 You would have thought the very windows spake... 1147 02:12:55,601 --> 02:13:00,670 ...so many greedy looks of young and old through casements darted their desiring eyes 1148 02:13:01,707 --> 02:13:10,118 Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck... 1149 02:13:10,149 --> 02:13:19,583 ...bespake them thus: ' l thank you, countrymen' , and thus still doing, thus he passed along 1150 02:13:20,392 --> 02:13:24,927 Alas, poor Richard! Where rides he the whilst? 1151 02:13:26,198 --> 02:13:32,006 As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage... 1152 02:13:32,037 --> 02:13:38,448 ...are idly bent on him that enters next, thinking his prattle to be tedious 1153 02:13:38,477 --> 02:13:44,012 Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes did scowl on Richard. No man cried 'God save him' 1154 02:13:44,617 --> 02:13:48,152 But dust was thrown upon his sacred head 1155 02:13:48,187 --> 02:13:56,825 Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, his face still combating with tears and smiles 1156 02:13:57,730 --> 02:14:02,936 That had not God, for some strong purpose, steeled the hearts of men... 1157 02:14:02,968 --> 02:14:06,412 ...they must perforce have melted and barbarism itself have pitied him 1158 02:14:07,239 --> 02:14:13,411 But heaven hath a hand in these events, to whose high will we bound our calm contents 1159 02:14:14,213 --> 02:14:20,715 To Bolingbroke are we sworn subiects now, whose state and honour l for aye allow 1160 02:14:22,888 --> 02:14:26,730 - Here comes my son Aumerle - Aumerle that was 1161 02:14:26,759 --> 02:14:32,169 But that is lost for being Richard's friend and, madam, you must call him Rutland now 1162 02:14:33,165 --> 02:14:41,701 Welcome, my son. Who are the violets now that strew the green lap of the new come spring? 1163 02:14:42,241 --> 02:14:49,084 Madam, l know not, nor l greatly care not. God knows l had as lief be none as one 1164 02:14:49,481 --> 02:14:54,357 Well, bear you well in this new spring of time, lest you be cropped before you come to prime 1165 02:14:55,454 --> 02:14:58,364 What news from Oxford? Do these iousts and triumphs hold? 1166 02:14:58,390 --> 02:15:00,334 For aught l know, my lord, they do 1167 02:15:00,359 --> 02:15:03,098 - You will be there, l know - lf God prevent not, l purpose so 1168 02:15:03,596 --> 02:15:08,700 What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom? Yea, lookest thou pale? Let me see the writing 1169 02:15:08,734 --> 02:15:10,973 - My lord, 'tis nothing - No matter, then, who sees it 1170 02:15:11,003 --> 02:15:14,640 - l will be satisfied. Let me see the writing - l do beseech your grace to pardon me 1171 02:15:14,673 --> 02:15:18,242 lt is a matter of small consequence, which for some reasons l would not have seen 1172 02:15:18,644 --> 02:15:22,088 Which for some reasons, sir, l mean to see. l fear, l fear... 1173 02:15:22,881 --> 02:15:23,984 What should you fear? 1174 02:15:24,016 --> 02:15:28,585 Tis nothing but some bond that he is entered into for gay apparel against the triumph 1175 02:15:29,288 --> 02:15:33,232 Bound to himself? What doth he with a bond that he is bound to? 1176 02:15:34,360 --> 02:15:37,031 Wife, thou art a fool. Boy, let me see the writing 1177 02:15:37,529 --> 02:15:41,735 - l do beseech you pardon me. l may not show it - l will be satisfied. Let me see it, l say 1178 02:15:48,507 --> 02:15:53,247 Treason, foul treason! Villain, traitor, slave! 1179 02:15:53,746 --> 02:15:54,917 What's the matter, my lord? 1180 02:15:55,280 --> 02:16:00,690 Ho! Who's within there? Saddle my horse! God for his mercy, what treachery is here 1181 02:16:01,286 --> 02:16:05,958 - Why, what is it, my lord? - Give me my boots, l say, saddle my horse 1182 02:16:06,625 --> 02:16:09,694 Now, by my honour, my life, my troth, l will appeach the villain 1183 02:16:10,195 --> 02:16:12,036 - What is the matter? - Peace, foolish woman 1184 02:16:12,431 --> 02:16:13,772 l will not peace. What is the matter, son? 1185 02:16:14,166 --> 02:16:17,269 Good mother, be content. lt is no more than my poor life must answer 1186 02:16:19,304 --> 02:16:20,713 Thy life answer? 1187 02:16:21,173 --> 02:16:23,208 Bring me my boots. l will unto the king 1188 02:16:24,443 --> 02:16:26,819 Strike him, Aumerle. Poor boy, thou art amazed 1189 02:16:28,113 --> 02:16:31,955 Hence, villain! Never more come in my sight 1190 02:16:34,386 --> 02:16:35,693 Give me my boots, l say! 1191 02:16:36,255 --> 02:16:40,029 Why, York, what wilt thou do? Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own? 1192 02:16:41,560 --> 02:16:47,061 Have we more sons? Or are we like to have? And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age? 1193 02:16:47,766 --> 02:16:50,744 Thou fond mad woman, wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy? 1194 02:16:51,770 --> 02:16:54,180 A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament... 1195 02:16:54,206 --> 02:16:58,173 ...and interchangeably set down their hands, to kill the king at Oxford 1196 02:16:59,445 --> 02:17:02,855 He shall be none. We'll keep him here. Then what is that to him? 1197 02:17:03,515 --> 02:17:07,652 Away, fond woman! Were he twenty times my son, l would appeach him 1198 02:17:08,387 --> 02:17:12,127 Hadst thou groaned for him as l have done thou wouldst be more pitiful 1199 02:17:13,826 --> 02:17:20,896 But now l know thy mind: thou dost suspect that l have been disloyal to thy bed... 1200 02:17:20,933 --> 02:17:26,241 - ...and that he is a bastard, not thy son - Make way, unruly woman! 1201 02:17:28,273 --> 02:17:30,978 After, Aumerle! Mount thee upon his horse 1202 02:17:31,677 --> 02:17:36,746 Spur post, and get before him to the king, and beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee 1203 02:17:38,350 --> 02:17:42,658 l'll not be long behind. Though l be old, l doubt not but to ride as fast as York 1204 02:17:44,156 --> 02:17:51,794 And never will l rise up from the ground till Bolingbroke have pardoned thee. Away, begone! 1205 02:17:57,836 --> 02:18:03,144 Can no man tell of my unthrifty son? 'Tis full three months since l did see him last 1206 02:18:03,175 --> 02:18:07,346 lf any plague hang over us, 'tis he. l would to God, my lords, he might be found 1207 02:18:09,281 --> 02:18:12,020 Enquire at London, amongst the taverns there 1208 02:18:13,485 --> 02:18:18,054 For there, they say, he daily doth frequent, with unrestrained loose companions 1209 02:18:18,590 --> 02:18:22,796 My lord, some two days since l saw the prince, and told him of these triumphs held at Oxford 1210 02:18:23,128 --> 02:18:26,402 - And what said the gallant? - His answer was, he would unto the stews... 1211 02:18:26,431 --> 02:18:29,307 ...and from the commonest creature pluck a glove, and wear it as a favour 1212 02:18:29,334 --> 02:18:32,210 And with that he would unhorse the lustiest challenger 1213 02:18:32,237 --> 02:18:33,305 As dissolute as desperate 1214 02:18:34,006 --> 02:18:35,415 Where is the king? 1215 02:18:37,242 --> 02:18:39,720 What means our cousin, that he stares and looks so wild? 1216 02:18:40,045 --> 02:18:45,353 God save your grace! l do beseech your maiesty, to have some conference with your grace alone 1217 02:18:45,984 --> 02:18:51,360 Withdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone. What is the matter with our cousin now? 1218 02:18:51,957 --> 02:18:56,424 Forever may my knees grow to the earth, unless a pardon ere l rise or speak 1219 02:18:57,930 --> 02:18:59,339 lntended or committed was this fault? 1220 02:19:01,233 --> 02:19:09,110 lf on the first, how heinous e'er it be, to win thy after-love l pardon thee 1221 02:19:11,210 --> 02:19:15,450 Then give me leave that l may turn the key, that no man enter till my tale be done 1222 02:19:15,814 --> 02:19:16,485 Have thy desire 1223 02:19:16,882 --> 02:19:22,292 My liege, beware! Look to thyself: thou hast a traitor in thy presence there 1224 02:19:22,654 --> 02:19:26,757 - Villain, l'll make thee safe - Stay thy revengeful hand, thou hast no cause to fear 1225 02:19:26,792 --> 02:19:32,793 Open the door, secure, foolhardy king.: open the door, or l will break it open 1226 02:19:36,435 --> 02:19:42,436 What is the matter, uncle? Speak, recover breath, tell us how near is danger 1227 02:19:43,642 --> 02:19:49,314 Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know the reason that my haste forbids me show 1228 02:19:50,148 --> 02:19:54,285 Remember, as thou readest, thy promise passed. l do repent me: read not my name there 1229 02:19:54,953 --> 02:19:59,761 - My heart is not confederate with my hand - lt was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down 1230 02:19:59,791 --> 02:20:05,167 l tore it from the traitor's bosom, king. Fear, and not love, begets his penitence 1231 02:20:06,131 --> 02:20:12,337 O, heinous, strong and bold conspiracy! O loyal father of a treacherous son! 1232 02:20:15,307 --> 02:20:19,615 Thy overflow of good converts to bad, and thy abundant goodness... 1233 02:20:19,645 --> 02:20:23,748 ...shall excuse this deadly blot in thy digressing son 1234 02:20:24,449 --> 02:20:29,052 So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd, thou killest me in his life 1235 02:20:29,087 --> 02:20:32,531 Giving him breath, the traitor lives, the true man's put to death 1236 02:20:33,091 --> 02:20:36,228 What ho, my liege! For God's sake, let me in 1237 02:20:37,095 --> 02:20:46,972 - What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry? - A woman, and thine aunt, great king. 'Tis l 1238 02:20:47,572 --> 02:20:53,016 Speak with me, pity me, open the door.: a beggar begs that never begged before 1239 02:20:54,146 --> 02:20:57,817 Our scene is altered from a serious thing, and now changed to 'The Beggar and the King' 1240 02:20:59,718 --> 02:21:04,390 My dangerous cousin, let your mother in. l know she's come to pray for your foul sin 1241 02:21:05,490 --> 02:21:10,366 lf thou do pardon, whosoever pray, more sins for this forgiveness prosper may 1242 02:21:11,363 --> 02:21:16,739 O king, believe not this hard-hearted man. Love loving not itself none other can 1243 02:21:17,569 --> 02:21:23,411 Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here? Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear? 1244 02:21:23,442 --> 02:21:28,511 - Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege - Rise up, good aunt 1245 02:21:28,547 --> 02:21:30,025 Not yet, l thee beseech 1246 02:21:30,515 --> 02:21:35,459 Forever will l kneel upon my knees, and never see day that the happy sees... 1247 02:21:35,654 --> 02:21:43,326 ...till thou give joy, until thou bid me ioy, by pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy 1248 02:21:43,996 --> 02:21:48,440 - Unto my mother's prayers l add my knee - Against them both my true joints bended be 1249 02:21:49,568 --> 02:21:51,046 Pleads he in earnest? Look upon his face 1250 02:21:51,870 --> 02:21:57,712 He prays but faintly and would be denied: we pray with heart and soul and all beside 1251 02:21:58,910 --> 02:22:06,048 His weary joints would gladly rise, l know: our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow 1252 02:22:08,153 --> 02:22:13,154 His prayers are full of false hypocrisy, ours of true zeal and deep integrity 1253 02:22:14,760 --> 02:22:26,433 Our prayers do out-pray his: then let them have that mercy which true prayers ought to have 1254 02:22:27,172 --> 02:22:28,377 Good aunt, stand up 1255 02:22:28,807 --> 02:22:32,876 Nay, do not say, 'stand up' , but 'pardon' first, and afterwards 'stand up' 1256 02:22:34,646 --> 02:22:40,056 l never longed to hear a word till now: say 'pardon' , king, let pity teach thee how 1257 02:22:40,852 --> 02:22:47,695 - Speak it in French, king: say, 'pardonnez-moi' - Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy? 1258 02:22:48,960 --> 02:22:52,700 Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land: this chopping French we do not understand 1259 02:22:53,732 --> 02:22:55,232 Good aunt, stand up 1260 02:22:55,267 --> 02:23:00,075 l do not sue to stand: pardon is all the suit l have in hand 1261 02:23:00,672 --> 02:23:08,413 - l pardon him, as God shall pardon me - O, happy vantage of a kneeling knee! 1262 02:23:11,349 --> 02:23:13,054 Yet am l sick with fear 1263 02:23:13,685 --> 02:23:20,959 Speak it again, twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain, but make one pardon strong 1264 02:23:20,992 --> 02:23:24,436 - l pardon him with all my heart - A god on earth thou art 1265 02:23:25,630 --> 02:23:30,472 Good uncle, help to order several powers to Oxford, or where'er these traitors are 1266 02:23:31,837 --> 02:23:35,713 They shall not live within this world, l swear, but l will have them, if l once know where 1267 02:23:36,508 --> 02:23:46,579 Uncle, farewell, and, cousin, adieu: your mother well hath prayed, and prove you true 1268 02:23:50,489 --> 02:23:55,229 Come, my old son. l pray God make thee new 1269 02:24:37,569 --> 02:24:44,843 l have been studying how l may compare this prison where l live unto the world 1270 02:24:47,913 --> 02:24:56,983 And for because the world is populous and here is not a creature but myself, l cannot do it 1271 02:24:58,456 --> 02:25:10,595 Yet l 'll hammer it out. My brain l 'll prove the female to my soul, my soul the father 1272 02:25:10,635 --> 02:25:15,602 And these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts 1273 02:25:16,675 --> 02:25:20,312 And these same thoughts people this little world... 1274 02:25:22,047 --> 02:25:25,650 ...in humours like the people of this world, for no thought is contented 1275 02:25:30,522 --> 02:25:33,796 Thus play l in one person many people 1276 02:25:36,928 --> 02:25:44,396 Sometimes am l king, then treason makes me wish myself a beggar, and so l am 1277 02:25:45,570 --> 02:25:49,105 Then crushing penury persuades me l was better when a king 1278 02:25:51,509 --> 02:26:02,978 Then am l kinged again, and by and by think that l am unkinged by Bolingbroke, and straight am nothing 1279 02:26:05,090 --> 02:26:10,194 But whate'er l am, nor l nor any man but that man is... 1280 02:26:10,228 --> 02:26:15,002 ...with nothing shall be pleased till he be eased with being nothing 1281 02:26:16,668 --> 02:26:17,975 Music do l hear? 1282 02:26:22,307 --> 02:26:28,740 Ha, ha! Keep time. How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept 1283 02:26:31,750 --> 02:26:34,728 So is it in the music of men's lives 1284 02:26:35,754 --> 02:26:41,699 And here have l the daintiness of ear to hear time broke in a disordered string 1285 02:26:42,494 --> 02:26:48,200 But in the concord of my state and time l had not an ear to hear my true time broke 1286 02:26:52,337 --> 02:26:56,781 l wasted time, and now doth time waste me 1287 02:27:02,914 --> 02:27:04,517 This music mads me. Let it sound no more 1288 02:27:09,120 --> 02:27:12,428 Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me, for 'tis a sign of love 1289 02:27:12,457 --> 02:27:15,196 And love to Richard is a strange brooch in this all-hating world 1290 02:27:21,433 --> 02:27:23,104 Hail, royal prince 1291 02:27:23,134 --> 02:27:27,578 Thanks, noble peer. The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear 1292 02:27:29,474 --> 02:27:33,645 What art thou? And how comest thou hither where no man ever comes... 1293 02:27:33,678 --> 02:27:37,088 ...but that sad dog that brings me food to make misfortune live? 1294 02:27:38,516 --> 02:27:45,086 l was a poor groom of thy stable, king, when thou wert king, who, travelling towards York... 1295 02:27:45,123 --> 02:27:51,227 ...with much ado, at length have gotten leave to look upon my sometimes royal master's face 1296 02:27:54,532 --> 02:27:59,840 O, how it yearned my heart when l beheld in London streets, that coronation-day... 1297 02:27:59,871 --> 02:28:02,974 ...when Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary 1298 02:28:05,977 --> 02:28:11,853 That horse that thou so often had bestrid, that horse that l so carefully have dressed 1299 02:28:12,250 --> 02:28:15,319 Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend, how went he under him? 1300 02:28:15,754 --> 02:28:20,130 - So proudly as if he had disdained the ground - So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back? 1301 02:28:22,360 --> 02:28:27,464 That iade hath eat bread from my royal hand, that hand hath made him proud with clapping him 1302 02:28:28,433 --> 02:28:32,809 Would he not stumble? Would he not fall down, since pride must have a fall... 1303 02:28:32,837 --> 02:28:36,213 ...and break the neck of that proud man that did usurp his back? 1304 02:28:38,443 --> 02:28:47,752 Forgiveness, horse. Why do l rail on thee, since thou, created to be awed by man, wast born to bear? 1305 02:28:48,153 --> 02:28:51,961 l was not made a horse, and yet l bear a burden like an ass 1306 02:28:52,724 --> 02:28:56,793 Spur-galled and tired by iauncing Bolingbroke 1307 02:28:57,529 --> 02:28:58,938 Fellow, give place. Here is no longer stay 1308 02:29:07,405 --> 02:29:18,510 - lf thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away - What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say 1309 02:29:31,763 --> 02:29:37,071 - My lord, will it please you to fall to? - Taste of it first, as thou wert wont to do 1310 02:29:42,373 --> 02:29:48,011 My lord, l dare not. There lately came one from the king, commands the contrary 1311 02:29:50,615 --> 02:29:55,491 The devil take Henry Bolingbroke and thee! Patience is stale, and l am weary of it 1312 02:29:57,522 --> 02:29:59,932 How now? What means death in this rude assault? 1313 02:30:03,528 --> 02:30:08,529 Villain, thine own hand yields thy death's instrument. Go thou, and fill another room in hell 1314 02:30:11,603 --> 02:30:15,308 That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire that staggers thus my person 1315 02:30:20,278 --> 02:30:27,916 Thy fierce hand hath with the king's blood stained the king's own land 1316 02:30:29,787 --> 02:30:40,460 Mount, mount, my soul, thy seat is up on high, whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die 1317 02:30:48,907 --> 02:31:04,308 As full of valour as of royal blood. Both have l spilled. O, would the deed were good 1318 02:31:05,557 --> 02:31:11,934 For now the devil that told me l did well says that this deed is chronicled in hell 1319 02:31:35,286 --> 02:31:39,730 Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear is that the rebels have consumed with fire... 1320 02:31:39,757 --> 02:31:45,031 ...our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire, but whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not 1321 02:31:46,798 --> 02:31:53,368 - Welcome, my lords. What is the news? - First, to thy sacred state wish l all happiness 1322 02:31:53,404 --> 02:31:58,576 The next news is, l have to London sent the heads of Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent 1323 02:31:59,477 --> 02:32:02,887 The manner of their taking may at large appear discoursed in this paper here 1324 02:32:03,715 --> 02:32:08,955 We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains, and to thy worth will add right worthy gains 1325 02:32:09,887 --> 02:32:14,524 My lord, l have from Oxford sent to London the heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely 1326 02:32:15,226 --> 02:32:20,761 Thy pains, my good lord, shall not be forgot. Right noble is thy merit, well l wot 1327 02:32:21,866 --> 02:32:25,640 The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster, hath yielded up his body to the grave 1328 02:32:26,871 --> 02:32:31,679 But here is Carlisle living, to abide thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride 1329 02:32:32,677 --> 02:32:34,950 Carlisle, this is your doom 1330 02:32:37,215 --> 02:32:44,489 Choose out some secret place, some reverend room, more than thou hast, and with it ioy thy life 1331 02:32:45,723 --> 02:32:49,565 So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife 1332 02:32:50,328 --> 02:32:55,329 For though mine enemy thou hast ever been, high sparks of honour in thee have l seen 1333 02:32:56,134 --> 02:32:58,009 Great king! 1334 02:33:03,174 --> 02:33:06,584 Within this coffin l present thy buried fear 1335 02:33:07,745 --> 02:33:11,621 Herein all breathless lies the greatest of thy mighty enemies 1336 02:33:13,851 --> 02:33:16,852 Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought 1337 02:33:18,890 --> 02:33:21,231 l thank thee not 1338 02:33:22,493 --> 02:33:28,063 For thou hast wrought a deed of slaughter with thy fatal hand upon my head and all this famous land 1339 02:33:28,800 --> 02:33:31,244 From your own mouth, my lord, did l this deed 1340 02:33:31,569 --> 02:33:34,877 They love not poison that do poison need, nor do l thee 1341 02:33:35,606 --> 02:33:38,880 Though l did wish him dead, l hate the murderer, love him murdered 1342 02:33:40,678 --> 02:33:45,088 The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour, but neither my good word nor princely favour 1343 02:33:46,150 --> 02:33:52,720 With Cain go wander through shades of night, and never show thy head by day nor light 1344 02:34:01,666 --> 02:34:09,475 Lords, l protest, my soul is full of woe, that blood should sprinkle me to make me grow 1345 02:34:11,776 --> 02:34:18,312 l 'll make a voyage to the Holy Land, to wash this blood from off my guilty hand