{"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":"

Richard II<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0Act 4, Scene 1\u00a0 Bishop of Carlisle<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our interview with David McCann<\/a>)<\/p>\n

116\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marry. God forbid!
\n117\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Worst in this royal presence may I speak,
\n118\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.
\n119\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would God that any in this noble presence
\n120\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Were enough noble to be upright judge
\n121\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would
\n122\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.
\n123\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What subject can give sentence on his king?
\n124\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And who sits here that is not Richard’s subject?
\n125\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,
\n126\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Although apparent guilt be seen in them;
\n127\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And shall the figure of God’s majesty,
\n128\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His captain, steward, deputy-elect,
\n129\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anointed, crowned, planted many years,
\n130\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Be judged by subject and inferior breath,
\n131\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,
\n132\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That in a Christian climate souls refined
\n133\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!
\n134\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,
\n135\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stirr’d up by God, thus boldly for his king:
\n136\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,
\n137\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford’s king:
\n138\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if you crown him, let me prophesy:
\n139\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The blood of English shall manure the ground,
\n140\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And future ages groan for this foul act;
\n141\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,
\n142\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
\n143\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;
\n144\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny
\n145\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shall here inhabit, and this land be call’d
\n146\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The field of Golgotha and dead men’s skulls.
\n147\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 O, if you raise this house against this house,
\n148\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will the woefullest division prove
\n149\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
\n150\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,
\n151\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lest child, child’s children, cry against you woe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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