King Richard The Second

1 Enter Bolingbroke, York, Northumberland, Harry Percy, Willoughby,
2 Ross; Officers behind, with Bushy and Green, prisoners.
3 BOLINGBROKE.
4 Bring forth these men.
5 Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls—
6 Since presently your souls must part your bodies—
7 With too much urging your pernicious lives,
8 For ’twere no charity; yet to wash your blood
9 From off my hands, here in the view of men
10 I will unfold some causes of your deaths:
11 You have misled a prince, a royal king,
12 A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
13 By you unhappied and disfigured clean.
14 You have in manner with your sinful hours
15 Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
16 Broke the possession of a royal bed,
17 And stained the beauty of a fair queen’s cheeks
18 With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
19 Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,
20 Near to the King in blood, and near in love
21 Till you did make him misinterpret me,
22 Have stooped my neck under your injuries
23 And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
24 Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
25 Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
26 Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
27 From my own windows torn my household coat,
28 Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign
29 Save men’s opinions and my living blood
30 To show the world I am a gentleman.
31 This and much more, much more than twice all this,
32 Condemns you to the death. See them delivered over
33 To execution and the hand of death.
34 BUSHY.
35 More welcome is the stroke of death to me
36 Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.
37 GREEN.
38 My comfort is that heaven will take our souls
39 And plague injustice with the pains of hell.
40 BOLINGBROKE.
41 My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatched.
42 [_Exeunt Northumberland and Others, with Bushy and Green._]
43 Uncle, you say the Queen is at your house;
44 For God’s sake, fairly let her be entreated.
45 Tell her I send to her my kind commends;
46 Take special care my greetings be delivered.
47 YORK.
48 A gentleman of mine I have dispatched
49 With letters of your love to her at large.
50 BOLINGBROKE.
51 Thanks, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away,
52 To fight with Glendower and his complices.
53 A while to work, and after holiday.
54 [_Exeunt._]