Speeches (Lines) for Servant in "History of Richard II"

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# Act / Scene Speech text
1 II / 2
  • My lord, your son was gone before I came.
  • My lord, your son was gone before I came.
  • Edmund of Langley. Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:
    Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,
    Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.
    Your husband, he is gone to save far off,
    Whilst others come to make him lose at home:
    Here am I left to underprop his land,
    Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:
    Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;
    Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him.

    Servant. My lord, your son was gone before I came.

2 II / 2
  • My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,
    To-day, as I came by, I called...
  • My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,
    To-day, as I came by, I called there;
    But I shall grieve you to report the rest.
  • Edmund of Langley. He was? Why, so! go all which way it will!
    The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,
    And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side.
    Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;
    Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:
    Hold, take my ring.

    Servant. My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,
    To-day, as I came by, I called there;
    But I shall grieve you to report the rest.

3 II / 2
  • An hour before I came, the duchess died.
  • An hour before I came, the duchess died.
  • Edmund of Langley. What is't, knave?

    Servant. An hour before I came, the duchess died.

4 III / 4
  • Why should we in the compass of a pale
    Keep law and form and due proportion,...
  • Why should we in the compass of a pale
    Keep law and form and due proportion,
    Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,
    When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
    Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
    Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,
    Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs
    Swarming with caterpillars?
  • Gardener. Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,
    Which, like unruly children, make their sire
    Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:
    Give some supportance to the bending twigs.
    Go thou, and like an executioner,
    Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,
    That look too lofty in our commonwealth:
    All must be even in our government.
    You thus employ'd, I will go root away
    The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
    The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.

    Servant. Why should we in the compass of a pale
    Keep law and form and due proportion,
    Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,
    When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
    Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
    Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,
    Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs
    Swarming with caterpillars?

5 III / 4
  • What, are they dead?
  • What, are they dead?
  • Gardener. Hold thy peace:
    He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring
    Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf:
    The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,
    That seem'd in eating him to hold him up,
    Are pluck'd up root and all by Bolingbroke,
    I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.

    Servant. What, are they dead?

6 III / 4
  • What, think you then the king shall be deposed?
  • What, think you then the king shall be deposed?
  • Gardener. They are; and Bolingbroke
    Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it
    That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land
    As we this garden! We at time of year
    Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit-trees,
    Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,
    With too much riches it confound itself:
    Had he done so to great and growing men,
    They might have lived to bear and he to taste
    Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches
    We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:
    Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,
    Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.

    Servant. What, think you then the king shall be deposed?

7 V / 4
  • These were his very words.
  • These were his very words.
  • Sir Pierce of Exton. Didst thou not mark the king, what words he spake,
    'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'
    Was it not so?

    Servant. These were his very words.

8 V / 4
  • He did.
  • He did.
  • Sir Pierce of Exton. 'Have I no friend?' quoth he: he spake it twice,
    And urged it twice together, did he not?

    Servant. He did.

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