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第30章 Exeunt SCENE V. Pomfret castle.

Enter KING RICHARD KING RICHARD II I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world:

And for because the world is populous And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.

My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, My soul the father; and these two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts, And these same thoughts people this little world, In humours like the people of this world, For no thought is contented. The better sort, As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd With scruples and do set the word itself Against the word:

As thus, 'Come, little ones,' and then again, 'It is as hard to come as for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.'

Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot Unlikely wonders; how these vain weak nails May tear a passage through the flinty ribs Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls, And, for they cannot, die in their own pride.

Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves That they are not the first of fortune's slaves, Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame, That many have and others must sit there;

And in this thought they find a kind of ease, Bearing their own misfortunes on the back Of such as have before endured the like.

Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king;

Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king;

Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing. Music do I hear?

Music Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept!

So is it in the music of men's lives.

And here have I the daintiness of ear To cheque time broke in a disorder'd string;

But for the concord of my state and time Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;

For now hath time made me his numbering clock:

My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.

Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours: but my time Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy, While I stand fooling here, his Jack o' the clock.

This music mads me; let it sound no more;

For though it have holp madmen to their wits, In me it seems it will make wise men mad.

Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me!

For 'tis a sign of love; and love to Richard Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.

Enter a Groom of the Stable Groom Hail, royal prince! KING RICHARD II Thanks, noble peer;

The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.

What art thou? and how comest thou hither, Where no man never comes but that sad dog That brings me food to make misfortune live? Groom I was a poor groom of thy stable, king, When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York, With much ado at length have gotten leave To look upon my sometimes royal master's face.

O, how it yearn'd my heart when I beheld In London streets, that coronation-day, When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary, That horse that thou so often hast bestrid, That horse that I so carefully have dress'd! KING RICHARD II Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend, How went he under him? Groom So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground. KING RICHARD II So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!

That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;

This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.

Would he not stumble? would he not fall down, Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck Of that proud man that did usurp his back?

Forgiveness, horse! why do I rail on thee, Since thou, created to be awed by man, Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse;

And yet I bear a burthen like an ass, Spurr'd, gall'd and tired by jouncing Bolingbroke.

Enter Keeper, with a dish Keeper Fellow, give place; here is no longer stay. KING RICHARD II If thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away. Groom What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.

Exit Keeper My lord, will't please you to fall to? KING RICHARD II Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do. Keeper My lord, I dare not: Sir Pierce of Exton, who lately came from the king, commands the contrary. KING RICHARD II The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee!

Patience is stale, and I am weary of it.

Beats the keeper Keeper Help, help, help!

Enter EXTON and Servants, armed KING RICHARD II How now! what means death in this rude assault?

Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument.

Snatching an axe from a Servant and killing him Go thou, and fill another room in hell.

He kills another. Then Exton strikes him down That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land.

Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;

Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.

Dies EXTON As full of valour as of royal blood:

Both have I spill'd; O would the deed were good!

For now the devil, that told me I did well, Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.

This dead king to the living king I'll bear Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.

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