Act 4 quotations Flashcards
“What subject can give sentence on his King? And who…” - Carlisle (A4S1)
“What subject can give sentence on his King? And who sits here that is not
Richard’s subject?”
“If you crown him, let me prophesy, The blood of English…” - Carlisle (A4S1)
“If you crown him, let me prophesy, The blood of English shall manure the
ground”
“Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child’s…” - Carlisle (A4S1)
“Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child’s children, cry against you
“Woe!”
“I hardly yet have learned To insinuate…” - Richard (A4S1)
“I hardly yet have learned To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee”
“So Judus did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found…” - Richard (A4S1)
“So Judus did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none”
“Now is this golden crown like a deep well that…” - Richard (A4S1)
“Now is this golden crown like a deep well that owes two buckets, filling one
another”
“The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other…” - Richard (A4S1)
“The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other down, unseen, and full of
water”
“That bucket down, and full of tears, am I, Drinking…” - Richard (A4S1)
“That bucket down, and full of tears, am I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you
mount up on high”
“My care is…” - Richard (A4S1)
“My care is loss of care”
“Now, mark me how I will undo myself. I give this heavy weight from off my
head…” - Richard (A4S1)
“Now, mark me how I will undo myself. I give this heavy weight from off my
head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand”
“With mine own tonque deny my sacred state, With mine…” - Richard (A4S1)
“With mine own tonque deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duteous oaths”
“Long mayst thou live in Richard’s seat to sit, And soon…” - Richard (A4S1)
“Long mayst thou live in Richard’s seat to sit, And soon lie Richard in an earthy
pit”
“And must I ravel out…” - Richard (A4S1)
“And must I ravel out my weaved-up follies”
“yet you Pilates have here delivered me to my sour cross, And…” - Richard (A4S1)
“yet you Pilates have here delivered me to my sour cross, And water cannot
wash away your sin”
“Nay if I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find…” - Richard (A4S1)
“Nay if I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest”
“I have no…” - Richard (A4S1)
“I have no name, no title”
“O, that I were a mockery-king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke….” - Richard (A4S1)
“O, that I were a mockery-king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke, To melt myself away in water-drops”
“No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows…” - Richard (A4S1)
“No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine, And made no deeper wounds?”
“Was this the face that faced so many follies, And…” - Richard (A4S1)
“Was this the face that faced so many follies, And was at last out-faced by
Bolingbroke?”
“For there it is, cracked…” - Richard (A4S1)
“For there it is, cracked in an hundred shivers”
“O good: ‘convey’! Conveyers are you all, That rise…” - Richard (A4S1)
“O good: ‘convey’! Conveyers are you all, That rise thus nimbly by a true king’s fall”
“The woe’s to come: the children yet unborn shall feel…” - Carlisle (A4S1)
“The woe’s to come: the children yet unborn shall feel this day as sharp to them as a thorn”
