Act 3 quotations

Question 1

“You have misled a prince…” - Bolingbroke (A3S1)

Answer 1

“You have misled a prince, a royal king”

Question 2

“Eating the bitter bread of banishment, whilst you have fed upon my signories, disparked…” - Bolingbroke (A3S1)

Answer 2

“Eating the bitter bread of banishment, whilst you have fed upon my signories, disparked my parks, and felled my forest woods”

Question 3

“More welcome is the stroke of death to me…” - Bushy (A3S1)

Answer 3

“More welcome is the stroke of death to me than Bolingbroke to England”

Question 4

“So weeping, smiling greet…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 4

“So weeping, smiling greet I thee, my earth”

Question 5

“Fear not, my lord. The Power that made you King hath power…” - Carlisle (A3S2)

Answer 5

“Fear not, my lord. The Power that made you King hath power to keep you King in spite of all”

Question 6

“And darts his light through every guilty hole, then murders, treasons and detested sins (The cloak of night being plucked from off their backs)…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 6

“And darts his light through every guilty hole, then murders, treasons and detested sins (The cloak of night being plucked from off their backs) stand bare and naked, trembling
at themselves”

Question 7

“Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 7

“Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king”

Question 8

“But now the blood of twenty thousand men did…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 8

“But now the blood of twenty thousand men did triumph in my face, and they are fled”

Question 9

“Is not the King’s name…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 9

“Is not the King’s name twenty thousand names?”

Question 10

“White beards have armed their thin and hairless scalps against thy majesty; boys with women’s voices, strive to speak big and…” - Scroope (A3S2)

Answer 10

“White beards have armed their thin and hairless scalps against thy majesty; boys with women’s voices, strive to speak big and clap their female joints in stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown”

Question 11

“Three Judases, each one…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 11

“Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas”

Question 12

“Let’s talk of graves…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 12

“Let’s talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs”

Question 13

“Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke’s and…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 13

“Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke’s and nothing we can call our own, but death”

Question 14

“For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground, and tell…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 14

“For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings”

Question 15

“within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keep…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 15

“within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps death his court, and there the antic sits”

Question 16

“From Richard’s night to…” - Richard (A3S2)

Answer 16

“From Richard’s night to Bolingbroke’s fair day”

Question 17

“Take not, good cousin, further than you should, lest you mistake…” - York (A3S3)

Answer 17

“Take not, good cousin, further than you should, lest you mistake: the heavens o’er our heads”

Question 18

“Be he the fire, I’ll be the yielding water; the age be his…” - Bolingbroke (A3S3)

Answer 18

“Be he the fire, I’ll be the yielding water; the age be his, whist on earth I rain”

Question 19

“As doth the blushing discontented sun From…” - Bolingbroke (A3S3)

Answer 19

“As doth the blushing discontented sun From out her fiery portal of the east”

Question 20

“For well we know, no hand of blood and bone can gripe the…” - Richard (A3S3)

Answer 20

“For well we know, no hand of blood and bone can gripe the sacred handle
of our sceptre”

Question 21

“And we are barren and…” - Richard (A3S3)

Answer 21

“And we are barren and bereft of friends”

Question 22

“every stride he makes upon my…” - Richard (A3S3)

Answer 22

“every stride he makes upon my land is dangerous treason”

Question 23

“And my large kingdom for a little grave, a little, little…” - Richard (A3S3)

Answer 23

“And my large kingdom for a little grave, a little, little grave, an obscure grave”

Question 24

“Down, down I come, like glist’ring Phaeton, wanting…” - Richard (A3S3)

Answer 24

“Down, down I come, like glist’ring Phaeton, wanting the manage of unruly jades”

Question 25

“In the base court’? Base court, where kings grow base, to…” - Richard (A3S3)

Answer 25

“In the base court’? Base court, where kings grow base, to come at traitor’s calls, and do them grace”

Question 26

“In the base court’? ‘Come down’? Down court, down King! For night owls shriek…” - Richard (A3S3)

Answer 26

“In the base court’? ‘Come down’? Down court, down King! For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing”

Question 27

“He that have suffered this disordered spring, hath now…” - Gardener (A3S4)

Answer 27

“He that have suffered this disordered spring, hath now himself met with
the fall of leaf”

Question 28

“Bolingbroke hath seized the…” - Gardener (A3S4)

Answer 28

“Bolingbroke hath seized the wasteful King”

Question 29

“their fortunes both are weighted. In your lord’s scale is nothing but…” - Gardener (A3S4)

Answer 29

“their fortunes both are weighted. In your lord’s scale is nothing but himself
and a few vanities that make him light”

Question 30

“But in the balance of great Bullingbrooke, besides himself are all the English peers and…” - Gardener (A3S4)

Answer 30

“But in the balance of great Bullingbrooke, besides himself are all the English peers and with that odds he weighs King Richard down”