Som. Here in my scabbard, meditating that Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red. Plan. Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses; For pale they look with fear, as witnessing The truth on our side Som. Plan. Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset ? Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood. ing roses, That shall maintain what I have said is true, Plan. Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand, I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy. Suf. Turn not thy scorns this way. Plantagenet. Plan. Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee. Suf. I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat. War. Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence, 83. grandfather; see the note on Richard Plantagenet above. 60 70 80 85. crestless, not dignified with coat-armour, not noble. Plan. He bears him on the place's privilege, Or durst not, for his craven heart, say thus. Som. By him that made me, I'll maintain my words On any plot of ground in Christendom. Plan. My father was attached, not attainted, Look to it well and say you are well warn'd. Som. Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still; And know us by these colours for thy foes, For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear. Plan. And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate, Will I for ever and my faction wear, Until it wither with me to my grave Or flourish to the height of my degree. Suf. Go forward and be choked with thy am bition ! And so farewell until I meet thee next. 91. executed; this should probably be execute,' as proposed by Steevens. 93. exempt, excluded. 96. attached, not attainted, [Exit. arrested, not convicted. 100. partaker, confederate. 102. apprehension, conception (i.e. of my father and me). 108. cognizance, badge. Som. Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, am bitious Richard. [Exit. Plan. How I am braved and must perforce endure it! War. This blot that they object against your house Shall be wiped out in the next parliament Call'd for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester; Plan. Thanks, gentle sir. Come, let us four to dinner: I dare say This quarrel will drink blood another day. 120 130 [Exeunt. Enter MORTIMER, brought in a chair, and Gaolers. Mor. Kind keepers of my weak decaying age, Let dying Mortimer here rest himself. Even like a man new haled from the rack, Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer. These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, Weak shoulders, overborne with burthening grief, As witting I no other comfort have. But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come? come: We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber; Mor. Enough: my soul shall then be satisfied. But now the arbitrator of despairs, Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries, With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence : That so he might recover what was lost. Enter RICHARD PLANTAGENET. First Gaol. My lord, your loving nephew now is come. 5. pursuivants, heralds. 9. exigent, extreme moment, end. TO 20 30 Mor. Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come? Plan. Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used, Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes. Mor. Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck, And in his bosom spend my latter gasp: O, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks, And now declare, sweet stem from York's great Why didst thou say, of late thou wert despised? Plan. First, lean thine aged back against mine arm; And, in that ease, I'll tell thee my disease. And for alliance sake, declare the cause me And hath detain'd me all my flowering youth Plan. Discover more at large what cause that was, For I am ignorant and cannot guess. Mor. I will, if that my fading breath permit And death approach not ere my tale be done. 53. alliance, kinship. 44. disease, trouble. |