The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Duch._ Yet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,[798]
Not with the empty hollowness, but weight:[799]
I take my leave before I have begun, 60
For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
Commend me to thy brother, Edmund York.[800]
Lo, this is all:--nay, yet depart not so;
Though this be all, do not so quickly go;
I shall remember more. Bid him--ah, what?--[801] 65
With all good speed at Plashy visit me.[802]
Alack, and what shall good old York there see[803]
But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls,
Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones?
And what hear there for welcome but my groans?[804] 70
Therefore commend me; let him not come there,
To seek out sorrow that dwells every where.[805]
Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die:[806]
The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye. [_Exeunt._
SCENE III. _The lists at Coventry._
_Enter the_ Lord Marshal _and the_ DUKE of AUMERLE.[807]
_Mar._ My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd?[808]
_Aum._ Yea, at all points; and longs to enter in.
_Mar._ The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,[809]
Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet.[810]
_Aum._ Why, then, the champions are prepared and stay 5
For nothing but his majesty's approach.
_The trumpets sound, and the_ KING _enters with his nobles_,
GAUNT, BUSHY, BAGOT, GREEN, _and others. When they are set,
enter_ MOWBRAY _in arms, defendant, with a_ Herald.[811]
_K. Rich._ Marshal, demand of yonder champion
The cause of his arrival here in arms:
Ask him his name and orderly proceed
To swear him in the justice of his cause. 10
_Mar._ In God's name and the king's, say who thou art
And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms,
Against what man thou comest, and what thy quarrel:[812]
Speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath;[813]
As so defend thee heaven and thy valour![814] 15
_Mow._ My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk;[815]
Who hither come engaged by my oath--[816]
Which God defend a knight should violate!--[817]
Both to defend my loyalty and truth
To God, my king and my succeeding issue,[818] 20
Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me;[819]
And, by the grace of God and this mine arm,
To prove him, in defending of myself,
A traitor to my God, my king, and me:
And as I truly fight, defend me heaven![820] 25
_The trumpets sound. Enter_ BOLINGBROKE, _Appellant, in armour,
with a_ Herald.
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