Speeches (Lines) for Bolingbroke in "History of Henry VI, Part II"

Father John Hume. Come, my masters; the duchess, I tell you, expects
performance of your promises.

Bolingbroke. Master Hume, we are therefore provided: will her
ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms?

Father John Hume. Ay, what else? fear you not her courage.

Bolingbroke. I have heard her reported to be a woman of an
invincible spirit: but it shall be convenient,
Master Hume, that you be by her aloft, while we be
busy below; and so, I pray you, go, in God's name,
and leave us.
[Exit HUME]
Mother Jourdain, be you
prostrate and grovel on the earth; John Southwell,
read you; and let us to our work.

Eleanor. Well said, my masters; and welcome all. To this
gear the sooner the better.

Bolingbroke. Patience, good lady; wizards know their times:
Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
The time of night when Troy was set on fire;
The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,
And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,
That time best fits the work we have in hand.
Madam, sit you and fear not: whom we raise,
We will make fast within a hallow'd verge.
[Here they do the ceremonies belonging, and make the]
circle; BOLINGBROKE or SOUTHWELL reads, Conjuro te,
&c. It thunders and lightens terribly; then the
Spirit riseth]

Spirit. Ask what thou wilt. That I had said and done!

Bolingbroke. 'First of the king: what shall of him become?'

Spirit. The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose;
But him outlive, and die a violent death.

Bolingbroke. 'What fates await the Duke of Suffolk?'

Spirit. By water shall he die, and take his end.

Bolingbroke. 'What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?'

Spirit. Let him shun castles;
Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
Than where castles mounted stand.
Have done, for more I hardly can endure.

Bolingbroke. Descend to darkness and the burning lake!
False fiend, avoid!
[Thunder and lightning. Exit Spirit]
[Enter YORK and BUCKINGHAM with their Guard]
and break in]