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King Richard II Flashcards

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TIME

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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me - Richard

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SEA BALM

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Not all the water in the rough rude sea / Can wash the balm off from an anointed king; - Richard

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GAUNT ISLE

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“This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, / This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, / This other Eden, demi-paradise, / . . . This precious stone set in the silver sea . . .” - Gaunt

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HASTE

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“Pray God we may make haste, and come too late!” - Richard

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TO A

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“Alack, why am I sent for to a King?” - Richard

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JESUS

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“So did Judas to Christ, but he in twelve/Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.” - Richard

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DEPOSE

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“You may my glories and my state depose,/ But not my griefs, still I am king of those” - Richard

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CARE

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” My care is loss of care, by old care done/ Your care is gain of care, by new care won/The cares I give, I have, though given away, yet still with me they stay.”

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TEARS BALM

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“With mine own tears I wash away my balm,” - Richard

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FACE

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“Is this the face which faced so many follies,/That was at last outfaced by Bollingbroke?” - Richard

FAUSTUS - 1588

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FAIR COUSIN

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“Fair Cousin? I am greater than a King/ For when I was a king, my flatterers/ Were then but subjets. Being now a subject,/I have a king here to my flatterer.” - Richard

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GOD SAVE

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“Whilst all tongues cried ‘God save thee, Bolingbroke!” - York
“No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home”

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PRISON WORLD

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‘I have been studying how I may compare/this prison where I live unto the world/and, for because the world is populous/and here is not a creature but myself,/I cannot do it yet I’ll hammer’t out’ - Richard

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PEOPLE

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My brain prove the female to my soul,/my soul the father, and these two beget/a generation of still breeding thoughts;/and the same thoughts people in this little world’

‘For no thought is contented. The better sort,/as thoughts of things divine, or intermixed/with scruples and you set the word itself/against the word’ - Richard

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HOLY LAND

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I’ll make a voyage to the holy land/to wash this blood off from my guilty hand/March sadly after; Grace my mornings here/weeping after this untimely bier - Bolingbroke

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GAUNT

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O, how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old.
Within me Grief hath kept a tedious fast, And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? - Gaunt

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