{"id":241,"date":"2012-01-04T21:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T02:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2012-08-16T22:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:01:29","slug":"richard-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=241","title":{"rendered":"Richard II: Act IV, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Richard II<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0Act 4, Scene 1\u00a0 Bishop of Carlisle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(This text is featured in our <a title=\"David McCann\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=201\" target=\"_blank\">interview with David McCann<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>116\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marry. God forbid!<br \/>\n117\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Worst in this royal presence may I speak,<br \/>\n118\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.<br \/>\n119\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would God that any in this noble presence<br \/>\n120\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Were enough noble to be upright judge<br \/>\n121\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would<br \/>\n122\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.<br \/>\n123\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What subject can give sentence on his king?<br \/>\n124\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And who sits here that is not Richard&#8217;s subject?<br \/>\n125\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,<br \/>\n126\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Although apparent guilt be seen in them;<br \/>\n127\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And shall the figure of God&#8217;s majesty,<br \/>\n128\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His captain, steward, deputy-elect,<br \/>\n129\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anointed, crowned, planted many years,<br \/>\n130\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Be judged by subject and inferior breath,<br \/>\n131\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,<br \/>\n132\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That in a Christian climate souls refined<br \/>\n133\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!<br \/>\n134\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,<br \/>\n135\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stirr&#8217;d up by God, thus boldly for his king:<br \/>\n136\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,<br \/>\n137\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford&#8217;s king:<br \/>\n138\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if you crown him, let me prophesy:<br \/>\n139\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The blood of English shall manure the ground,<br \/>\n140\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And future ages groan for this foul act;<br \/>\n141\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,<br \/>\n142\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars<br \/>\n143\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;<br \/>\n144\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny<br \/>\n145\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shall here inhabit, and this land be call&#8217;d<br \/>\n146\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The field of Golgotha and dead men&#8217;s skulls.<br \/>\n147\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 O, if you raise this house against this house,<br \/>\n148\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will the woefullest division prove<br \/>\n149\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That ever fell upon this cursed earth.<br \/>\n150\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,<br \/>\n151\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lest child, child&#8217;s children, cry against you woe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard II \u00a0\u00a0Act 4, Scene 1\u00a0 Bishop of Carlisle (This text is featured in our interview with David McCann) 116\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marry. God forbid! 117\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Worst in this royal presence may I speak, 118\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth. 119\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would God that any in this noble presence 120\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Were enough noble to<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=241' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"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-241","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-3T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}