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- {\pard\f0\fs28{\fs48 Richard II
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- {\i [Flourish.] Enter King Henry and the Duke of York,\
- [with other lords and attendants]\
- }{\b \fs24 KING HENRY\
- } Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear\
- Is that the rebels have consumed with fire\
- Our town of Ci'cester in Gloucestershire;\
- But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not.\
- {\i Enter the Earl of Northumberland\
- } Welcome, my lord. What is the news? {\fs20 5}\
- {\b \fs24 NORTHUMBERLAND\
- } First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.\
- The next news is, I have to London sent\
- The heads of Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent.\
- The manner of their taking may appear\
- At large discourse\'c1d in this paper here. {\fs20 10}\
- {\i He gives the paper to King Henry\
- }{\b \fs24 KING HENRY\
- } We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains,\
- And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.\
- {\i Enter Lord Fitzwalter\
- }{\b \fs24 FITZWALTER\
- } My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London\
- The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,\
- Two of the dangerous consorted traitors {\fs20 15}\
- That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY\
- } Thy pains, Fitzwalter, shall not be forgot.\
- Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.\
- {\i Enter Harry Percy, with the Bishop of Carlisle,\
- guarded\
- }{\b \fs24 HARRY PERCY\
- } The grand conspirator Abbot of Westminster,\
- With clog of conscience and sour melancholy, {\fs20 20}\
- Hath yielded up his body to the grave.\
- But here is Carlisle living, to abide\
- Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY} Carlisle, this is your doom.\
- Choose out some secret place, some reverent room {\fs20 25}\
- More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life.\
- So as thou liv'st in peace, die free from strife.\
- For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,\
- High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.\
- {\i Enter Exton with [his men bearing] the coffin\
- }{\b \fs24 EXTON\
- } Great King, within this coffin I present {\fs20 30}\
- Thy buried fear. Herein all breathless lies\
- The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,\
- Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY\
- } Exton, I thank thee not, for thou hast wrought\
- A deed of slander with thy fatal hand {\fs20 35}\
- Upon my head and all this famous land.\
- {\b \fs24 EXTON\
- } From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY\
- } They love not poison that do poison need;\
- Nor do I thee. Though I did wish him dead,\
- I hate the murderer, love him murdere\'c1d. {\fs20 40}\
- The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,\
- But neither my good word nor princely favour.\
- With Cain go wander through the shades of night,\
- And never show thy head by day nor light.\
- {\i [Exeunt Exton and his men]\
- } Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe {\fs20 45}\
- That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.\
- Come mourn with me for what I do lament,\
- And put on sullen black incontinent.\
- I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land\
- To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. {\fs20 50}\
- March sadly after. Grace my mournings here\
- In weeping after this untimely bier.\
- {\i Exeunt [with the coffin]\
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