KING RICHARD THE SECOND

Act 3 Scene 1

(Enter Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, the Duke of York, the Earl of Northumberland, Lord Ross, Harry Percy, and Lord Willoughby)
l1l	Bolingbroke	 Bring forth these men.
		(Enter Bushy and Green, guarded as prisoners)
l2l		Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls,
l3l		Since presently your souls must part your bodies,
l4l		With too much urging your pernicious lives,
l5l		For ’twere no charity. Yet to wash your blood
l6l		From off my hands, here in the view of men
l7l		I will unfold some causes of your deaths.
l8l		You have misled a prince, a royal king,
l9l		A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
l10l		By you unhappied and disfigured clean.
l11l		You have, in manner, with your sinful hours
l12l		Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
l13l		Broke the possession of a royal bed,
l14l		And stained the beauty of a fair queen’s cheeks
l15l		With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
l16l		Myself—a prince by fortune of my birth,
l17l		Near to the King in blood, and near in love
l18l		Till you did make him misinterpret me—
l19l		Have stooped my neck under your injuries,
l20l		And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
l21l		Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
l22l		Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
l23l		Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
l24l		From my own windows torn my household coat,
l25l		Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
l26l		Save men’s opinions and my living blood,
l27l		To show the world I am a gentleman.
l28l		This and much more, much more than twice all this,
l29l		Condemns you to the death.—See them delivered over
l30l		To execution and the hand of death.
l31l	Bushy	More welcome is the stroke of death to me
l32l		Than Bolingbroke to England.
l33l	Green	My comfort is that heaven will take our souls,
l34l		And plague injustice with the pains of hell.
l35l	Bolingbroke	My lord Northumberland, see them dispatched.
		( 35 Exit Northumberland, with Bushy and Green, guarded)
l36l		Uncle, you say the Queen is at your house.
l37l		For God’s sake, fairly let her be intreated.
l38l		Tell her I send to her my kind commends.
l39l		Take special care my greetings be delivered.
l40l	York	A gentleman of mine I have dispatched
l41l		With letters of your love to her at large.
l42l	Bolingbroke	Thanks, gentle uncle.—Come, lords, away,
l43l		To fight with Glyndwr and his complices.
l44l		A while to work, and after, holiday.
		(Exeunt)