May't please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit. view He may surrender; so we shall proceed Without suspicion. YORK. I will be his conduct. [Exit. BOLING. Lords, you that here are under our ar rest, Procure your sureties for your days of answer :Little are we beholden to your love, [To CARLisle. And little look * for at your helping hands. Re-enter YORK, with King RICHARD, and Officers bearing the Crown, &c. K. RICH. Alack, why am I sent for to a king, Before I have shook off the regal thoughts Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs Give sorrow leave a while to tutor me To this submission. Yet I well remember * So quarto; folio, look'd. † So quarto; folio, knee. The addition was first made in the quarto 1608. STEEVENS. The first edition was in 1597, not in 1598. When it is said that this scene was added, the reader must understand that it was added by the printer, or that a more perfect copy fell into the hands of the later editor than was published by a former. There is no proof that the whole scene was not written by Shakspeare at the same time with the rest of the play, though for political reasons it might not have been exhibited or printed during the life of Queen Elizabeth. See An Attempt to ascertain the Order of his Plays, vol. ii. In the quarto 1597, after the words "his day of trial," the scene thus closes : Part II.: "Bol. Let it be so: and, lo! on Wednesday next, "We solemnly proclaim our coronation. "Lords, be ready all. 66 [Exeunt." MALONE. his CONDUCT.] i. e. conductor. So, in King Henry VI. Although thou hast been conduct of my shame." STEEVENS. The favours of these men': Were they not mine? Did they not sometime cry, all hail! to me? So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found truth in all, but one; I, in twelve thousand, none. God save the king!-Will no man say, amen? YORK. To do that office of thine own good will, K. RICH. Give me the crown:-Here, cousin, seize the crown; On this side, my hand; and on that side, thine. Now is this golden crown like a deep well, That owes two buckets filling one another; 7 The FAVOURS, &c.] The countenances, the features. So, in Othello: 66 nor should I know him, JOHNSON. "Were he in favour as in humour alter'd." STEEVENS. Here, on this side,] The old copy redundantly has-" Here, cousin, on this side." STEEVENS. The quarto 1608, where this scene first appeared, reads: Seize the crown. "Here, cousin, on this side my hand, and on that side yours." The folio: "Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown. "Here, cousin, on this side my hand, on this side yours." It is evident that in the original copy, the words "Here, cousin, seize the crown," were misplaced, and erroneously printed"Seize the crown. Here, cousin ;" but these words being properly arranged, all the rest of the first copy is right, and I have followed it. The folio omitted the word and in the second line : Mr. Steevens prints 66 Here, on this side, my hand; on that side, thine." MALONE. The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other down, unseen, and full of water: Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high. You may my glories and my state depose, BOLING. Part of your cares you give me with your crown. K. RICH. Your cares set up, do not pluck my My care is loss of care, by old care done'; Therefore no, no, for I resign to thee. 9 The EMPTIER ever dancing-] This is a comparison not easily accommodated to the subject, nor very naturally introduced. The best part is this line, in which he makes the usurper the empty bucket. JOHNSON. 1 My care is-loss of care, by old care done ;] Shakspeare often obscures his meaning by playing with sounds. Richard seems to say here, that "his cares are not made less by the increase of Bolingbroke's cares;" for this reason, that "his care is the loss of care," his grief is, that his regal cares are at an end, by the cessation of the care to which he had been accustomed. JOHNSON. With mine own breath release all duty's rites * NORTH. No more, but that you read [Offering a paper. These accusations, and these grievous crimes, Committed by your person, and your followers, Against the state and profit of this land; That, by confessing them, the souls of men May deem that you are worthily depos'd. K. RICH. Must I do so? and must I ravel out My weav'd up follies? Gentle Northumberland, If thy offences were upon record, Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop, And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,— * So quarto; folio, duteous caths. So quarto; folio, are made. 3 If thou would'st,] That is, if thou wouldst read over a list of thy own deeds. JOHNSON. So the quarto restored from look upon " is 4 Nay, ALL of you, that stand and look upon,] 1608, except that it omits the word all, which I have the folio. The folio reads-look upon me. frequently used by our author, for" to be a looker on." To" MALONE. Though some of you, with Pilate, wash your hands, NORTH. My lord, dispatch; read o'er these ar ticles. 5 K. RICH. Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see : And yet salt water blinds them not so much, But they can see a sort of traitors here. Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest: For I have given here my soul's consent, To undeck the pompous body of a king; Make glory base; and sovereignty, a slave; Proud majesty, a subject; state, a peasant. NORTH. My lord, K. RICH. No lord of thine, thou haught, insult ing man, Nor no man's lord; I have no name, no title,- And know not now what name to call myself! ---- Good king,-great king,-(and yet not greatly good,) -a sort] A pack, a company. So, in King Richard III.: 6 WARBURTON. "A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways." STEEVENS. haught,] i. e. haughty. So, in King Richard III. : 7 No, not that name was given me at the font,] How that name which was given him at the font could be usurped, I do not understand. Perhaps Shakspeare meant to shew that imagination, dwelling long on its own misfortunes, represents them as greater than they really are. ANONYMOUS. |