{"id":5440,"date":"2017-05-23T21:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5440"},"modified":"2017-05-23T21:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:09:39","slug":"richard-ii-act-v-scene-v","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5440","title":{"rendered":"Richard II: Act V, Scene v"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard II<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0Act 5, Scene 5 \u00a0Richard II<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our interview with Curt L. Tofteland)<\/p>\n

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1. I have been studying how I may compare<\/span>
\n2. \u00a0This prison where I live unto the world:<\/span>
\n3. \u00a0And for because the world is populous<\/span>
\n4. And here is not a creature but myself,<\/span>
\n5. I cannot do it; yet I’ll hammer it out.<\/span>
\n6. My brain I’ll prove the female to my soul,<\/span>
\n7. My soul the father; and these two beget<\/span>
\n8. A generation of still-breeding thoughts,<\/span>
\n9. \u00a0And these same thoughts people this little world,<\/span>
\n10. \u00a0In humours like the people of this world,<\/span>
\n11. \u00a0For no thought is contented. The better sort,<\/span>
\n12. \u00a0As thoughts of things divine, are intermix’d<\/span>
\n13. \u00a0With scruples and do set the word itself<\/span>
\n14. \u00a0Against the word:<\/span>
\n15. \u00a0As thus, ‘Come, little ones,’ and then again,<\/span>
\n16. \u00a0‘It is as hard to come as for a camel<\/span>
\n17. \u00a0To thread the postern of a small needle’s eye.’<\/span>
\n18. \u00a0Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot<\/span>
\n19. \u00a0Unlikely wonders; how these vain weak nails<\/span>
\n20. \u00a0May tear a passage through the flinty ribs<\/span>
\n21. \u00a0Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls,<\/span>
\n22. \u00a0And, for they cannot, die in their own pride.<\/span>
\n23. \u00a0Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves<\/span>
\n24. \u00a0That they are not the first of fortune’s slaves,<\/span>
\n25. \u00a0Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars<\/span>
\n26. \u00a0Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame,<\/span>
\n27. \u00a0That many have and others must sit there;<\/span>
\n28. \u00a0And in this thought they find a kind of ease,<\/span>
\n29. \u00a0Bearing their own misfortunes on the back<\/span>
\n30. \u00a0Of such as have before endured the like.<\/span>
\n31. \u00a0Thus play I in one person many people,<\/span>
\n32. \u00a0And none contented: sometimes am I king;<\/span>
\n33. \u00a0Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,<\/span>
\n34. \u00a0And so I am: then crushing penury<\/span>
\n35. \u00a0Persuades me I was better when a king;<\/span>
\n36. \u00a0Then am I king’d again: and by and by<\/span>
\n37. \u00a0Think that I am unking’d by Bolingbroke,<\/span>
\n38. \u00a0And straight am nothing: but whate’er I be,<\/span>
\n39. \u00a0Nor I nor any man that but man is<\/span>
\n40. \u00a0With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased<\/span>
\n41. \u00a0With being nothing. Music do I hear?<\/span><\/p>\n

Music<\/em><\/p>\n

42. \u00a0Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,<\/span>
\n43. \u00a0When time is broke and no proportion kept!<\/span>
\n44. \u00a0So is it in the music of men’s lives.<\/span>
\n45. \u00a0And here have I the daintiness of ear<\/span>
\n46. \u00a0To cheque time broke in a disorder’d string;<\/span>
\n47. \u00a0But for the concord of my state and time<\/span>
\n48. \u00a0Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.<\/span>
\n49. \u00a0I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;<\/span>
\n50. \u00a0For now hath time made me his numbering clock:<\/span>
\n51. \u00a0My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar<\/span>
\n52. \u00a0Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,<\/span>
\n53. \u00a0Whereto my finger, like a dial’s point,<\/span>
\n54. \u00a0Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.<\/span>
\n55. \u00a0Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is<\/span>
\n56. \u00a0Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,<\/span>
\n57. \u00a0Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans<\/span>
\n58. \u00a0Show minutes, times, and hours: but my time<\/span>
\n59. \u00a0Runs posting on in Bolingbroke’s proud joy,<\/span>
\n60. \u00a0While I stand fooling here, his Jack o’ the clock.<\/span>
\n61. \u00a0This music mads me; let it sound no more;<\/span>
\n62. \u00a0For though it have holp madmen to their wits,<\/span>
\n63. \u00a0In me it seems it will make wise men mad.<\/span>
\n64. \u00a0Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me!<\/span>
\n65. \u00a0For ’tis a sign of love; and love to Richard<\/span>
\n66. \u00a0Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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