To win your daughter. There is no other way; Q. Eliz. K. Rich. Say that I did all this for love of her. Having bought love with such a bloody spoil. K. Rich. Look, what is done cannot be now amended: Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after hours give leisure to repent. If I did take the kingdom from your sons, To quicken your increase, I will beget The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife, 290 300 310 Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother; Of ten times double gain of happiness. Q. Eliz. What were I best to say? her father's brother Would be her lord? or shall I say, her uncle? Q. Eliz. Which she shall purchase with still 323. Advantaging, increasing. 323. loan. Theobald's emendation for Ff 'love.' 320 330 340 324. Often times; Theobald's emendation for oftentimes Ff. 343. Infer, etc., allege that England's peace depends upon. ে K. Rich. Say that the king, which may command, entreats. Q. Eliz. That at her hands which the king's King forbids. K. Rich. Say, she shall be a high and mighty queen. Q. Eliz. To wail the title, as her mother doth. K. Rich. Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end. K. Rich. So long as heaven and nature lengthens it. Q. Eliz. So long as hell and Richard likes of it. K. Rich. Say, I, her sovereign, am her subject love. Q. Eliz. But she, your subject, loathes such K. Rich. Be eloquent in my behalf to her. K. Rich. Then in plain terms tell her my Q. Eliz. Plain and not honest is too harsh a style. K. Rich. Your reasons are too shallow and too quick. Q. Eliz. O no, my reasons are too deep and Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave. that is past. Q. Eliz. Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break. 350 360 K. Rich. Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown, Q. Eliz. Profaned, dishonour'd, and the third usurp❜d. K. Rich. I swear Q. Eliz. By nothing; for this is no oath : The George, profaned, hath lost his holy honour; The garter, blemish'd, pawn'd his knightly virtue; 370 The crown, usurp'd, disgraced his kingly glory. If something thou wilt swear to be believed, Swear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd. K. Rich. Now, by the world Q. Eliz. 'Tis full of thy foul wrongs. K. Rich. My father's death- Thy life hath that dishonour'd. K. Rich. Then, by myself— Thyself thyself misusest. K. Rich. Why then, by God- God's wrong is most of all. Had not been broken, nor my brother slain : K. Rich. The time to come. Q. Eliz. That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast; 366. my George, the figure of St. George as a part of the insignia of the Garter. It was, however, first added to the in signia by Henry VII. L. 380 385. two. Dyce's reading 'too' is attractive, but not clearly right. For I myself have many tears to wash Ungovern'd youth, to wail it in their age; 390 hast The parents live, whose children thou hast Old wither'd plants, to wail it with their age. K. Rich. As I intend to prosper and repent, Day, yield me not thy light; nor, night, thy rest! To my proceedings, if, with pure heart's love, I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter! It cannot be avoided but by this; It will not be avoided but by this. Therefore, good mother, I must call you so- Plead what I will be, not what I have been ; Urge the necessity and state of times, And be not peevish-fond in great designs. Q. Eliz. Shall I be tempted of the devil thus? 400 410 405. tender, am attached 417. peevish-fond, perversely foolish. |