Were then but fubjects; being now a subject, K. Rich. And fhall I have? Boling. You fhall. . K. Rich. Then give me leave to go. K. Rich. Whither you will, fo I were from your fights. Boling. Go fome of you, convey him to the Tower. K. Rich. Oh, good! convey:-' conveyers are you all, That rife thus nimbly by a true king's fall. [Exit. Boling. On Wednesday next we folemnly fet down Our coronation lords, prepare yourselves. [Ex. all but Abbot, bishop of Carlisle, and Aumerle. Abbot. A woeful pageant have we here beheld. Carl. The woe's to come; the children yet unborn Shall feel this day as fharp to them as thorn. * Aum. You holy clergymen, is there no plot conveyers are ye all,] To convey is a term often used in an ill fenfe, and fo Richard understands it here. Pistol fays of Stealing, convey the wife it call; and to convey is the word for flight of hand, which feems to be alluded to here. Ye are all, fays the depofed prince, jugglers, who rife with this nimble dexterity by the fall of a good king. JOHNSON. 2 On Wednesday next we folemnly fet down Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves.] The first 4to, 1598, reads, "Let it be fo: and lo on Wednesday next "We folemnly proclaim our coronation : as fharp as thorn.] This pathetic denunciation fhews that Shakespeare intended to imprefs his auditors with dislike of the depofal of Richard. JOHNSON. To 3 To bury mine intents, but to effect I fee, your brows are full of difcontent, [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE I. HIS TH Enter Queen and ladies. QUEEN. way the king will come: this is the way 5 To Julius Cæfar's ill-erected tower; To whofe flint bofom my condemned lord Is doom'd a prifoner by proud Bolingbroke. 'Here let us reft, if this rebellious earth Have any refting for her true king's queen. Enter king Richard, and guards, But foft, but fee, or rather do not fee, And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.- [To K. Rich. To bury- - To conceal, to keep fecret. JOHNSON. 4 In the first edition there is no perfonal appearance of king Richard, fo that all to the line at which he leaves the flage was inferted afterwards. JOHNSON. 5 To Julius Cæfar's, &c.] The Tower of London is traditionally faid to have been the work of Julius Cæfar. JouNs. Here let us reft, if, &c.] Here reft, if any rest can barbour here. MILTON. 70 thou, the model where old Troy did ftand;] The queen ufes comparative terms abfolutely. Instead of faying, Thou who ap N 4 peareft Thou map of honour; thou king Richard's tomb, K. Rich. Join not with grief, fair woman, do not fo, From which awak'd, the truth of what we are Will keep a league till death. Hye thee to France, Our holy lives muft win a new world's crown, Queen. What, is my Richard both in fhape and mind And wounds the earth, if nothing elfe, with rage Which art a lion and a king of beasts? K. Rich. A king of beafts, indeed-if aught but beafts, I had been ftill a happy king of men. Good fometime queen, prepare thee hence for France; peareft as the ground on which the magnificence of Troy was once erected, the fays, O thou, the model, &c. Theu map of honour. Thou picture of greatnefs. JOHNS. Join not with grief,-] Do not thou unite with grief against me; do not, by thy additional forrows, enable grief to ftrike me down at once. My own part of forrow I can bear, but thy affliction will immediately destroy me. JOHNSON. -6 I am fworn brother, To grim neceffity;] I have reconciled myfelf to neccffity, I am in a ftate of amity with the constraint which I have fulained. JOHNSON, As As from my death-bed, my laft living leave. With good old folks; and let them tell thee tales And, ére thou bid good night, 'to quit their grief, And fend the hearers weeping to their beds. Enter Northumberland attended. North. My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is chang'd: You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower. And, madam, there is order ta'en for you, And he fhall think, that thou, which know'ft the way To pluck him headlong from the ufurped throne. 1 to quit their grief,] To retaliate their mournful ftories. For why?— JOHNSON. -] The poet fhould have ended this fpeech with the foregoing line, and have fpared his childish prattle about the fire. JOHNSON, North. North. My guilt be on my head, and there's an end. -Take leave and part; for you must part forthwith. K. Rich. Doubly divorc'd? Bad men, ye violate A two-fold marriage; 'twixt my crown and me; And then betwixt me and my married wife. Let me unkifs the oath 'twixt thee and me. [To the queen. -And yet not fo, for with a kifs 'twas made. Part us, Northumberland. I, towards the north, Where shivering cold and fickness pines the clime; My queen to France; from whence, fet forth in pomp She came adorned hither like fweet May, Sent back like Hollowmas, or fhort'ft of day. Queen. And muft we be divided? muft we part? K. Rich. Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart. Queen. Banifh us both, and fend the king with me. North. That were fome love, but little policy. Queen. Then whither he goes, thither let me go. K. Rich. So two, together weeping, make one woe, Weep thou for me in France; I for thee here: 3 Better far off, than near, be ne'er the near'. ing fhort, way be And piece the way out with a heavy heart. [They kifs. Queen. Give me mine own again; 'twere no good part, Better far off, than near, be ne'er the near.] To be never the nigher, or, as it is commonly fpoken in the mid-land counties, ne'er the ne-er, is, to make no advance towards the good defired. JOHNSON. To |