{"id":5449,"date":"2017-05-23T21:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5449"},"modified":"2017-05-23T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:06:01","slug":"richard-ii-act-v-scene-v-first-folio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5449","title":{"rendered":"Richard II: Act V, Scene v; First Folio"},"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

    \n
  1. I haue bin studying, how to compare<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. This Prison where I liue, vnto the World:<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. And for because the world is populous,<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. And heere is not a Creature, but my selfe,<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. I cannot do it: yet Ile hammer’t out.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. My Braine, Ile proue the Female to my Soule,<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. My Soule, the Father: and these two beget<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. A generation of still breeding Thoughts;<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. And these same Thoughts, people this Little World<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. In humors, like the people of this world,<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. For no thought is contented. The better sort,<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. As thoughts of things Diuine, are intermixt<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. With scruples, and do set the Faith it selfe<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Against the Faith: as thus: Come litle ones: & then again,<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. It is as hard to come, as for a Camell<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. To thred the posterne of a Needles eye.<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Thoughts tending to Ambition, they do plot<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Vnlikely wonders; how these vaine weake nailes<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. May teare a passage through the Flinty ribbes<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Of this hard world, my ragged prison walles:<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. And for they cannot, dye in their owne pride.<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Thoughts tending to Content, flatter themselues,<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. That they are not the first of Fortunes slaues,<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Nor shall not be the last. Like silly Beggars,<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Who sitting in the Stockes, refuge their shame<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. That many haue, and others must sit there;<\/span><\/li>\n
  27. And in this Thought, they finde a kind of ease,<\/span><\/li>\n
  28. Bearing their owne misfortune on the backe<\/span><\/li>\n
  29. Of such as haue before indur’d the like.<\/span><\/li>\n
  30. Thus play I in one Prison, many people,<\/span><\/li>\n
  31. And none contented. Sometimes am I King;<\/span><\/li>\n
  32. Then Treason makes me wish my selfe a Beggar,<\/span><\/li>\n
  33. And so I am. Then crushing penurie,<\/span><\/li>\n
  34. Perswades me, I was better when a King:<\/span><\/li>\n
  35. Then am I king’d againe: and by and by,<\/span><\/li>\n
  36. Thinke that I am vn-king’d by Bullingbrooke,<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n
  37. And straight am nothing. But what ere I am, <\/span>Musick<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n
  38. Nor I, nor any man, that but man is,<\/span><\/li>\n
  39. With nothing shall be pleas’d, till he be eas’d<\/span><\/li>\n
  40. With being nothing. Musicke do I heare?<\/span><\/li>\n
  41. Ha, ha? keepe time: How sowre sweet Musicke is,<\/span><\/li>\n
  42. When Time is broke, and no Proportion kept?<\/span><\/li>\n
  43. So is it in the Musicke of mens liues:<\/span><\/li>\n
  44. And heere haue I the daintinesse of eare,<\/span><\/li>\n
  45. To heare time broke in a disorder’d string:<\/span><\/li>\n
  46. But for the Concord of my State and Time,<\/span><\/li>\n
  47. Had not an eare to heare my true Time broke.<\/span><\/li>\n
  48. I wasted Time, and now doth Time waste me:<\/span><\/li>\n
  49. For now hath Time made me his numbring clocke;<\/span><\/li>\n
  50. My Thoughts, are minutes; and with Sighes they iarre,<\/span><\/li>\n
  51. Their watches on vnto mine eyes, the outward Watch,<\/span><\/li>\n
  52. Whereto my finger, like a Dialls point,<\/span><\/li>\n
  53. Is pointing still, in cleansing them from teares.<\/span><\/li>\n
  54. Now sir, the sound that tels what houre it is,<\/span><\/li>\n
  55. Are clamorous groanes, that strike vpon my heart,<\/span><\/li>\n
  56. Which is the bell: so Sighes, and Teares, and Grones,<\/span><\/li>\n
  57. Shew Minutes, Houres, and Times: but my Time<\/span><\/li>\n
  58. Runs poasting on, in Bullingbrookes<\/i> proud ioy,<\/span><\/li>\n
  59. While I stand fooling heere, his iacke o’th’ Clocke.<\/span><\/li>\n
  60. This Musicke mads me, let it sound no more,<\/span><\/li>\n
  61. For though it haue holpe madmen to their wits,<\/span><\/li>\n
  62. In me it seemes, it will make wise-men mad:<\/span><\/li>\n
  63. Yet blessing on his heart that giues it me;<\/span><\/li>\n
  64. For ’tis a signe of loue, and loue to Richard,<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n
  65. Is a strange Brooch, in this all-hating world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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