Richard II by William Shakespeare Read Free Book Online

beg.
    BULLINGBROOK     Yet ask.
    KING RICHARD     And shall I have?
    BULLINGBROOK     You shall.
    KING RICHARD     Then give me leave to go.
    BULLINGBROOK     Whither?
    KING RICHARD     Whither you will, so I were from your sights.
    BULLINGBROOK     Go, some of you convey 313 him to the Tower.
    KING RICHARD     O, good! ‘Convey’? Conveyers are you all,
    That rise thus nimbly by a true king’s fall.
    [
Exeunt Richard, some Lords and a Guard
]
    BULLINGBROOK     On Wednesday next we solemnly set down 316
    Our coronation. Lords, prepare yourselves.
    Exeunt
[
all except Carlisle, the Abbot and Aumerle
]
    ABBOT     A woeful pageant have we here beheld.
    CARLISLE     The woe’s to come. The children yet unborn
    Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.
    AUMERLE     You holy clergymen, is there no plot
    To rid the realm of this pernicious 322 blot?
    ABBOT     Before I freely speak my mind herein,
    You shall not only take the sacrament 324
    To bury 325 mine intents, but also to effect
    Whatever I shall happen to devise.
    I see your brows are full of discontent,
    Your heart of sorrow and your eyes of tears.
    Come home with me to supper. I’ll lay
    A plot shall show us all a merry day.
    Exeunt

TEXTUAL NOTES
    Q = First Quarto text of 1597
    F = First Folio text of 1623
    F2 = a correction introduced in the Second Folio text of 1632
    Ed = a correction introduced by a later editor
    List of parts = Ed
    1.1.127 duly = Q.
Not in
F 163 Obedience bids = Ed. F
erroneously prints the words twice
203 we shall = Q. F = you shall
    1.2.20 faded
spelled
vaded
in
F 43 to = F. Q = and 62 my = F. Q = thy
    1.3.28 plated = Q. F = placed 29 formally = Q. F = formerly 76 furbish = Q. F = furnish 86 King = Q. F = Kings 256 as foil = Q. F = a soyle 266 never = Q. F = euer
    1.4.7 blew = Q. F = grew 22 Bagot here = Q. F = heere
Bagot
27 smiles = Q. F = soules
    2.1.18 found = Q. F = sound 118 chasing = Q. F = chafing 191 grip
spelled
gripe
in
F 234 thou wouldst = Q. F = thou’dst 286 Brittany = Ed. F =
Britaine
    2.2.3 life-harming = Q. F = selfe-harming 27 weeps = Q. F = weepe 54 son young = Q. F = yong sonne 74 hope lingers = Q. F = hopes linger 95 as … callèd = Q. F = I came by, and call’d
    2.3.87 nor uncle me no uncle = Ed. F = nor Unckle me 92 then more = Q. F = more then
    3.2.26 rebellion’s = Q. F = Rebellious 102 makes = Q. F = make 107 Whitebeards = Q. F = White Beares 177 And … yourself = Q.
Not in
F
    3.3.39 most royal = Q. F = Royall
(
F
’s lineation is also aberrant in these lines)
    3.4.11 joy = Ed. F = Griefe 26 come = Q. F = comes 61 we at = Ed. F = at 62 Do = Q. F = And 70 and = F. Q = of
    4.1.27 I say thou = Q. F = Thou 34 sympathy = Q. F = sympathize 113 noblesse = Q. F = noblenesse 132 his = F. Q = this 139 rear = F. Q = raise
    5.1.39 thy = Q. F = my
    5.3.36 be = Q. F = me 49 reason = F. Q = treason 62 held = Q. F = had 93 kneel = F. Q = walke
    5.5 [Scene 5] = Ed. F =
Scoena Quarta (i.e. numbered 5.4, since previous scene break is not noted)
31 prison = F. Q = person 95 Spurred, galled = Q. F = Spur-gall’d
    5.6 [Scene 6] = Ed. F =
Scoena Quinta

QUARTO PASSAGES THAT DO NOT APPEAR IN THE FOLIO
    Following 1.3.127:
    And for we think the eagle-wingèd pride
Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts,
With rival-hating envy, set on you
To wake our peace, which in our country’s cradle
Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep;
    Following 1.3.232:
    O, had it been a stranger, not my child,
To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:
A partial slander sought I to avoid,
And in the sentence my own life destroyed.
    Following 1.3.257:
    BULLINGBROOK     Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make
    Will but remember me what a deal of world
I wander from the jewels that I love.
Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
To foreign passages, and in the end,
Having my freedom, boast of nothing