And lands reftor'd again, be freely granted: If not, I'll use th' advantage of my pow'r, And lay the fummer's duft with fhow'rs of blood, Go fignify as much, while here we march Let's march without the noife of threat'ning drum, Of fire and water, when their thund'ring Shock, Parle without, and answer within; then a flourish. Enter, on the walls, King Kichard, the Bishop of Carlisle, Aumerle, Scroop and Salisbury. 8 York. See! fee! King Richard doth himself appear, As doth the blufhing difcontented Sun, From out the fiery portal of the East, When he perceives, the envious clouds are bent & See! fee! King Richard dath bimfelf appear,] The following fix lines are abfurdly given to Bolingbroke, who is made to condemn his own conduct and difculp the King's. It is plain thefe fix and the four following. all belon; to York. WA" B. Yet looks he like a King; behold his eye, K. Rich. We are amaz'd, and thus long have we ftood To watch the fearful bending of thy knee, [To North. Το pay their awful duty to our prefence? If we be not, fhew us the hand of God, And though you think, that all, as you have done, 9 But e'er the Crown, be locks Shall ill become the Flow'r of Tea Peace, as Mr. Warburton juftly obferv'd to me, is a very odd Phrafe. He fuppofes; But e'er the Crown, he looks for, light in Peace, . e. descend and fettle upon Bolingbroke's Head in Peace. Again, I have a fmall Quarrel to the third Line quoted. Would the Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' fons Her Pasture's grafs with faithful English blood. Be rush'd upon! no, thy thrice-noble coufin, i. e. Shall make a difmal Spectacle on the Surface of the Kingdom's Earth. THEOBALD. Shall ill Lecome the flow'r of England's face;] By the flow'r of England's face, is meant the choiceft youths of England, who fhall be flaughter'd in this quarrel, or have bloody crowns. The facer of England's face, to defign her choiceft Youth, is a fine and noble expreffion. Peridles, by a fimilar thought, faid that the deftruction of the Athenian youth was a fatality like cutting off the Spring from the Year. Yet the Oxford Editor, who did not apprehend the figure, -I know not WARBURTON. Dr. Warburton has inferted light in peace in the text of his own edition, but love in peace is more fuitable to Richard's intention, which is to tell him that though he fhould get the cown by rebellion, it will be long before it will live in peace,be fo jettled as to be firm. The flow'r of England's face, is very happily explained, and any alteration is therefore needless. And by the bury'd hand of warlike Gaunt.] It should be read just the other way, And by the warlike hand of bury'd Gaunt. WARBURT. I fee no great difference. Then Than for his lineal Royalties, and to beg This fwears he, as he is a Prince, is just; [turns: K. Rich. Northumberland, fay-Thus the King reHis noble Coufin is right-welcome hither, And all the number of his fair demands Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction. With all the gracious utterance thou haft, Speak to his gentle Hearing kind Commends. Exit North. We do debase our felf, Coufin, do we not, [To Aum. To look fo poorly, and to speak fo fair? Shall we call back Northumberland, and fend Aum. No, good my lord, let's fight with gentle words, Till time lend friends, and friends their helpful fwords. K. Rich. Oh God, oh God! that e'er this tongue of mine, That laid the Sentence of dread Banifhment 2 On yond proud man, fhould take it off again Or that I could forget what I have been, Or not remember what I must be now! Swell'ft thou, proud heart? I'll give thee fcope to beat, Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me. Aum. Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke. K. Rich. What muft the King do now? must he fubmit? The King fhall do it. Muft he be depos'd? 2 With words of footh;] or foftnefs, a fignification yet reSooth is feet as well as true. In tained in the verb to footh. this place footh means feetnes VOL. IV. F The 3 The King shall be contented: must he lose |