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- KING RICHARD THE SECOND
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- Additional Passages
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- The following passages of four lines or more appear in the 1597
- Quarto but not the Folio; Shakespeare probably deleted them as part
- of his limited revisions to the text.
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- Additional Passage A
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- After 1.3.127
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- l1l King Richard And for we think the eagle-wingΦd pride
- l2l Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts
- l3l With rival-hating envy set on you
- l4l To wake our peace, which in our countryÆs cradle
- l5l Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep,
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- Additional Passage B
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- After 1.3.235
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- l1l John Of Gaunt O, had Æt been a stranger, not my child,
- l2l To smooth his fault I should have been more mild.
- l3l A partial slander sought I to avoid,
- l4l And in the sentence my own life destroyed.
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- Additional Passage C
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- After 1.3.256
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- l1l Bolingbroke Nay, rather every tedious stride I make
- l2l Will but remember what a deal of world
- l3l I wander from the jewels that I love.
- l4l Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
- l5l To foreign passages, and in the end,
- l6l Having my freedom, boast of nothing else
- l7l But that I was a journeyman to grief?
- l8l John Of Gaunt All places that the eye of heaven visits
- l9l Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
- l10l Teach thy necessity to reason thus:
- l11l There is no virtue like necessity.
- l12l Think not the King did banish thee,
- l13l But thou the King. Woe doth the heavier sit
- l14l Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
- l15l Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour,
- l16l And not the King exiled thee; or suppose
- l17l Devouring pestilence hangs in our air
- l18l And thou art flying to a fresher clime.
- l19l Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
- l20l To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou comÆst.
- l21l Suppose the singing birds musicians,
- l22l The grass whereon thou treadÆst the presence strewed,
- l23l The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
- l24l Than a delightful measure or a dance;
- l25l For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
- l26l The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
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- Additional Passage D
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- After 3.2.28
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- l1l Bishop Of Carlisle The means that heavens yield must be embraced
- l2l And not neglected; else heaven would,
- l3l And we will not: heavenÆs offer we refuse,
- l4l The proffered means of succour and redress.
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- Additional Passage E
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- After 4.1.50
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- l1l Another Lord I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle,
- l2l And spur thee on with full as many lies
- l3l As may be hollowed in thy treacherous ear
- l4l From sun to sun. There is my honourÆs pawn.
- l5l Engage it to the trial if thou darest.
- (He throws down his gage)
- l6l Aumerle Who sets me else? By heaven, IÆll throw at all.
- l7l I have a thousand spirits in one breast
- l8l To answer twenty thousand such as you.
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