Act 4 quotations

Question 1

“What subject can give sentence on his King? And who…” - Carlisle (A4S1)

Answer 1

“What subject can give sentence on his King? And who sits here that is not
Richard’s subject?”

Question 2

“If you crown him, let me prophesy, The blood of English…” - Carlisle (A4S1)

Answer 2

“If you crown him, let me prophesy, The blood of English shall manure the
ground”

Question 3

“Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child’s…” - Carlisle (A4S1)

Answer 3

“Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child’s children, cry against you
“Woe!”

Question 4

“I hardly yet have learned To insinuate…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 4

“I hardly yet have learned To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee”

Question 5

“So Judus did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 5

“So Judus did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none”

Question 6

“Now is this golden crown like a deep well that…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 6

“Now is this golden crown like a deep well that owes two buckets, filling one
another”

Question 7

“The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 7

“The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other down, unseen, and full of
water”

Question 8

“That bucket down, and full of tears, am I, Drinking…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 8

“That bucket down, and full of tears, am I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you
mount up on high”

Question 9

“My care is…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 9

“My care is loss of care”

Question 10

“Now, mark me how I will undo myself. I give this heavy weight from off my
head…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 10

“Now, mark me how I will undo myself. I give this heavy weight from off my
head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand”

Question 11

“With mine own tonque deny my sacred state, With mine…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 11

“With mine own tonque deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duteous oaths”

Question 12

“Long mayst thou live in Richard’s seat to sit, And soon…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 12

“Long mayst thou live in Richard’s seat to sit, And soon lie Richard in an earthy
pit”

Question 13

“And must I ravel out…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 13

“And must I ravel out my weaved-up follies”

Question 14

“yet you Pilates have here delivered me to my sour cross, And…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 14

“yet you Pilates have here delivered me to my sour cross, And water cannot
wash away your sin”

Question 15

“Nay if I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 15

“Nay if I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest”

Question 16

“I have no…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 16

“I have no name, no title”

Question 17

“O, that I were a mockery-king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke….” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 17

“O, that I were a mockery-king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke, To melt myself away in water-drops”

Question 18

“No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 18

“No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine, And made no deeper wounds?”

Question 19

“Was this the face that faced so many follies, And…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 19

“Was this the face that faced so many follies, And was at last out-faced by
Bolingbroke?”

Question 20

“For there it is, cracked…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 20

“For there it is, cracked in an hundred shivers”

Question 21

“O good: ‘convey’! Conveyers are you all, That rise…” - Richard (A4S1)

Answer 21

“O good: ‘convey’! Conveyers are you all, That rise thus nimbly by a true king’s fall”

Question 22

“The woe’s to come: the children yet unborn shall feel…” - Carlisle (A4S1)

Answer 22

“The woe’s to come: the children yet unborn shall feel this day as sharp to them as a thorn”