What is become of Bufby? where is Green? Lord. K. Rich. O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption! Dogs, eafily won to fawn on any man! Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that fting my heart! Three Judales, each one thrice worse than Judas! Would they make peace? terrible hell make war Upon their spotted fouls for this offence! Scroop. Sweet love, I fee, changing his property, Have felt the worst of death's deftroying hand, Why, with the Lofs of their Heads. This being explained, Aumerle fays, Is Bufhy, Green, and th' Earl of Wiltshire dead? So that Bagot ought to be left out of the Question: and, indeed, he had made the best of his way for Chefter, and from thence had efcap'd into Irland And fo we find him, in the 2d Act, determining to do. Bagot. No: I'll to Ireland, to bis Majefy. The Poet could not be guilty of fo much Forgetfulnefs and Abfurdity. The Iranfcribers must K. Rich. No matter where; of comfort no man freak; Let's talk of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Bores through his castle-walls, and farewel King! *And that small model of the larren earth.] He ufes mcdel here, as he frequently does elfewhere, for far', portion. WARBURTON. He ufes it rather for mould. That earth, which clofing upon the body, takes its form. This interpretat on the next line feems to authorife. 3 A metaphor, not of the moft fublime kind, taken from a pie. 4 There the Anti k fits. Here is an allufion to the antick or fol of old farces, whofe chief part is to deride and disturb the graver and more splendid perfonages With folemn Rev'rence; throw away respect, Carl. My lord, wife men ne'er wail their prefent woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail: To fear the foe, fince fear oppreffeth strength, 6 Fear, and be flain; no worfe can come from fight; And fight and die, is death destroying death: Where fearing dying, pays death fervile breath. Aum. My father hath a power, enquire of him, And learn to make a body of a limb. K. Rich. Thou chid'ft me well; proud Bolingbroke, To change blows with thee, for our day of doom. An eafy task it is to win our own. Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his Power? So may you, by my dull and heavy eye, 5 Tradition.] This word feems here ufed in an improper fenfe, for traditional practices: That is, established or cutomary homage. "Death deftreyi g death.] hat is, to dye fighting, is to return the evil that we fuffer, to deftroy the deftroyers. I once read death defying death, but deftroying is as weil. K. Rich. K. Rich. Thou haft faid enough. Befhrew thee, Coufin, which didit lead me forth Of that sweet way I was in to Despair. [To Aumerle. What fay you now? what comfort have we now? K. Rich. He does me double wrong, That wounds me with the flatt'ries of his tongue. S CEN E V. Bolingbroke's Camp near Flint. [Exeunt. Enter with drum and colours, Bolingbroke, York, Northumberland, and Attendants. Boling. O that by this intelligence we learn, The Welshmen are difpers'd; and Salisbury Is gone to meet the King, who lately landed. With fome few private friends upon this Coaft. North. The news is very fair and good, my lord, Richard, not far from hence, hath hid his head. York. It would beseem the lord Northumberland, I'll hate him everlasting', That bids me be of comfort.] This fentiment is drawn from nature. Nothing is more of fenfive to a mind convinced that his diftrefs is without a remedy, and preparing to fubmit quietly to irrefiltible calamity, than these petty and conjectured comforts which unfkilful officioufnefs thinks it virtue to administer. Το To fay, King Richard. Ah, the heavy day, North. Your Grace mistakes me; only to be brief, Left I his Title out. York. The time hath been, Would you have been fo brief with him, he would Enter Percy. Welcome, Harry; what, will not this caftle yield? Beling. Royally? why, it contains no King? It doth contain a King. King Richard lies [To North. Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle, Henry of Bolingbroke upon his knees Doth kifs King Richard's hand, and fends allegiance Ev'n at his feet I lay my arms and pow'r, For taking fo the head,-] out reftraint; to take undue li To take the head is, to act with- berties. And |