{"id":2203,"date":"2013-05-09T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2203"},"modified":"2021-08-25T20:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T00:02:03","slug":"henry-vi-part-iii-act-iii-scene-ii-first-folio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2203","title":{"rendered":"Henry VI, Part iii Act III, Scene ii: First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry 6, Part 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 3, Scene 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Richard of Gloucester
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our interviews with Jim DeVita<\/a>, Hamilton Clancy<\/a> \u00a0and Jeffrey Wilson<\/a>)<\/p>\n

124\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I, Edward will vse Women honourably:
\n125\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would he were wasted, Marrow, Bones, and all,
\n126\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That from his Loynes no hopefull Branch may spring,
\n127\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To crosse me from the Golden time I looke for:
\n128 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And yet, betweene my Soules desire, and me,
\n129 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The lustfull Edwards Title buryed,
\n120\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is Clarence, Henry, and his Sonne young Edward,
\n131\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And all the vnlook’d-for Issue of their Bodies,
\n132\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To take their Roomes, ere I can place my selfe:
\n133\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A cold premeditation for my purpose.
\n134\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why then I doe but dreame on Soueraigntie,
\n135\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Like one that stands vpon a Promontorie,
\n136\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And spyes a farre-off shore, where hee would tread,
\n137\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wishing his foot were equall with his eye,
\n138\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And chides the Sea, that sunders him from thence,
\n139\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saying, hee’le lade it dry, to haue his way:
\n140\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So doe I wish the Crowne, being so farre off,
\n141\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And so I chide the meanes that keepes me from it,
\n142\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And so (I say) Ile cut the Causes off,
\n143\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flattering me with impossibilities:
\n144\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My Eyes too quicke, my Heart o’re-weenes too much,
\n145\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vnlesse my Hand and Strength could equall them.
\n146\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, say there is no Kingdome then for Richard:
\n147\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What other Pleasure can the World affoord?
\n148\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ile make my Heauen in a Ladies Lappe,
\n149\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And decke my Body in gay Ornaments,
\n150\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And ‘witch sweet Ladies with my Words and Lookes.
\n151\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh miserable Thought! and more vnlikely,
\n152\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then to accomplish twentie Golden Crownes.
\n153\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why Loue forswore me in my Mothers Wombe:
\n154\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And for I should not deale in her soft Lawes,
\n155\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shee did corrupt frayle Nature with some Bribe,
\n156\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To shrinke mine Arme vp like a wither’d Shrub,
\n157\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To make an enuious Mountaine on my Back,
\n158\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where sits Deformitie to mocke my Body;
\n159\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To shape my Legges of an vnequall size,
\n160\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To dis-proportion me in euery part:
\n161\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Like to a Chaos, or an vn-lick’d Beare-whelpe,
\n162\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That carryes no impression like the Damme.
\n163\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And am I then a man to be belou’d?
\n164\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought.
\n165\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then since this Earth affoords no Ioy to me,
\n166\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But to command, to check, to o’re-beare such,
\n167\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As are of better Person then my selfe:
\n168\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ile make my Heauen, to dreame vpon the Crowne,
\n169\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And whiles I liue, t’account this World but Hell,
\n170\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vntill my mis-shap’d Trunke, that beares this Head,
\n171 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Be round impaled with a glorious Crowne.
\n172\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And yet I know not how to get the Crowne,
\n173\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For many Liues stand betweene me and home:
\n174\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I, like one lost in a Thornie Wood,
\n175\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That rents the Thornes, and is rent with the Thornes,
\n176\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seeking a way, and straying from the way,
\n177\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not knowing how to finde the open Ayre,
\n178\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But toyling desperately to finde it out,
\n179\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Torment my selfe, to catch the English Crowne:
\n180\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And from that torment I will free my selfe,
\n181\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or hew my way out with a bloody Axe.
\n182\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why I can smile, and murther whiles I smile,
\n183\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And cry, Content, to that which grieues my Heart,
\n184\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And wet my Cheekes with artificiall Teares,
\n185\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And frame my Face to all occasions.
\n186\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ile drowne more Saylers then the Mermaid shall,
\n187\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ile slay more gazers then the Basiliske,
\n188\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ile play the Orator as well as Nestor,
\n189\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Deceiue more slyly then Vlisses could,
\n190\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And like a Synon, take another Troy.
\n191\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can adde Colours to the Camelion,
\n192\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Change shapes with Proteus, for aduantages,
\n193\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And set the murtherous Macheuill to Schoole.
\n194\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can I doe this, and cannot get a Crowne?
\n195\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tut, were it farther off, Ile plucke it downe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Henry 6, Part 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 3, Scene 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Richard of Gloucester (This text is featured in our interviews with Jim DeVita, Hamilton Clancy \u00a0and Jeffrey Wilson) 124\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I, Edward will vse Women honourably: 125\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would he were wasted, Marrow, Bones, and all, 126\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That from his Loynes no hopefull Branch may spring, 127\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To crosse<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-zx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7698,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2203\/revisions\/7698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}