Act 2 Flashcards
York: ‘For all in vain comes…’
York: ‘For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.’
Gaunt: ‘His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last…’
Gaunt: ‘His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves;’
Gaunt: ‘This precious stone set…’
Gaunt: ‘This precious stone set in the silver sea,’
Gaunt: ‘This blessed plot, this earth,..’
Gaunt: ‘This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
Gaunt: ‘Is now leased out.…Like to a tenement…’
Gaunt: ‘Is now leased out.…Like to a tenement or pelting farm.’
Gaunt: ‘A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, whose compass…’
Gaunt: ‘A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, whose compass is no bigger than thy
head’
Gaunt: ‘Landlord of England art…’
Gaunt: ‘Landlord of England art thou now, not King,’
Richard: ‘Thou art a lunatic…’
Richard: ‘Thou art a lunatic lean-witted fool.’
Richard: ‘So much for that’
Richard: ‘So much for that’
Richard: ‘we do seize to us the plate, coin,..’
Richard: ‘we do seize to us the plate, coin, revenues and moveables’
York: ‘In war was never lion raged more fierce,..’
York: ‘In war was never lion raged more fierce, in peace was never gentle lamb more mild’
York: ‘You pluck a thousand dangers on your head, you lose a thousand well-disposed hearts and prick my tender patience to close thoughts which honour and allegiance cannot think.’
York: ‘You pluck a thousand dangers on your head, you lose a thousand well-disposed hearts and prick my tender patience to close thoughts which honour and allegiance cannot think.’
Richard: ‘Think what you will, we seize into our hands his plate,..’
Richard: ‘Think what you will, we seize into our hands his plate, his goods, his money and his lands.’
Northumberland: ‘The king is not himself,..’
Northumberland: ‘The king is not himself, but basely led by flatterers.’
Queen Isabel: ‘My sweet Richard…Some unborn sorrow,..’
Queen Isabel: ‘My sweet Richard…Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb, is
coming towards me’ (A2S2)
