Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight: Cut off the heads of too-fast-growing sprays, 1 Serv. Why should we, in the compass of a pale, Hold thy peace: Gard. The weeds, that his broad-spreading leaves did shelter, 9 Her knots disorder'd,] Knots are figures planted in box, the lines of which frequently intersect each other. Their fruits of duty. All superfluous branches Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down. 1 Serv. What, think you then, the king shall be depos'd? Gard. Depress'd he is already; and depos'd, 'Tis doubt, he will be: Letters came last night To a dear friend of the good duke of York's, That tell black tidings. Queen. O, I am press'd to death, + Through want of speaking!Thou, old Adam's like ness, [Coming from her concealment. Set to dress this garden, how dares Thy harsh-rude tongue sound this unpleasing news? What Eve, what serpent hath suggested thee To make a second fall of cursed man? Why dost thou say, king Richard is depos'd? Of Bolingbroke; their fortunes both are weigh'd: I speak no more than every one doth know. Queen. Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot, Doth not thy embassage belong to me, And am I last that knows it? O, thou think'st +"O, I am press'd to death, through want of speaking! ·Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden, How dares thy harsh-rude,” &c.— MALONE. To serve me last, that I may longest keep Gard. Poor queen! so that thy state might be no worse, I would my skill were subject to thy curse. Rue, even for ruth, here, shortly shall be seen, [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I.- London. Westminster Hall. The Lords spiritual on the right side of the Throne; the Lords temporal on the left; the Commons below. Enter BOLINGBROKE, AUMERLE, SURREY', NORTHUMBERLAND, PERCY, FITZWATER, another Lord, Bishop of CARLISLE, Abbot of WESTMINSTER, and Attendants. Officers behind, with BAGOT. Boling. Call forth Bagot: Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind; What thou dost know of noble Gloster's death; Surrey,] Thomas Holland, earl of Kent. He was brother to John Holland duke of Exeter, and was created duke of Surrey in the 21st year of king Richard the Second, 1397. Bagot. Then set before my face the lord Aumerle. Boling. Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man. Bagot. My lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver❜d. In that dead time when Gloster's death was plotted, Amongst much other talk, that very time, Aum. Princes, and noble lords, What answer shall I make to this base man? Boling. Bagot, forbear, thou shalt not take it up. Aum. Excepting one, I would he were the best In all this presence, that hath mov'd me so. Fitz. If that thy valour stand on sympathies, + Thus pointed by Mr. MALONE. "If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest :" And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, Aum. Thou dar'st not, coward, live to see that day. Fitz. Now, by my soul, I would it were this hour. Aum. Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this. Percy. Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is as true, In this appeal, as thou art all unjust : And, that thou art so, there I throw my gage, Over the glittering helmet of my foe! lies Lord. I take the earth to the liket, forsworn Aumerle; And spur thee on with full as many As may be holla'd in thy treacherous ear From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn; Engage it to the trial, if thou dar'st. Aum. Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all: I have a thousand spirits in one breast, To answer twenty thousand such as you. Surrey. My lord Fitzwater, I do remember well The very time Aumerle and you did talk. Fitz. My lord, 'tis truet: you were in presence then; And you can witness with me, this is true. Surrey. As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true. Surrey. In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn; |