Richard 4

Question 1

What subject can give sentence on his King?

Answer 1

And who sits here that is not Richards subject?

Question 2

If you crown him, let me prophesy

Answer 2

The blood of English shall manure the ground

Question 3

Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child

Answer 3

Child’s children, cry against you ‘Woe’

Question 4

I hardly yet have learned To insinuate,

Answer 4

Flatter, bow, and bend my knee

Question 5

So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve, found truth in all but one;

Answer 5

I, in twelve thousand, none

Question 6

Now is this golden crown like a deep well

Answer 6

That owes two buckets, filling one another

Question 7

The emptier ever dancing in the air

Answer 7

The other down, unseen, and full of water

Question 8

That bucket down, and full of tears, am I

Answer 8

Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high

Question 9

My care is

Answer 9

Loss of care

Question 10

Now, mark me how I will undo myself. I give this heavy weight from off my head,

Answer 10

And this unwieldy sceptre from my head

Question 11

With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,

Answer 11

With mine own breath release all duteous oaths

Question 12

Long mayst thou live in Richards seat to sit,

Answer 12

And soon lie Richard in an earthy pit

Question 13

And must I ravel out

Answer 13

My weaved-up follies?

Question 14

yet you Pilates have here delivered me to my sour cross,

Answer 14

And water cannot wash away your sin

Question 15

Nay if I turn mine eyes upon myself

Answer 15

I find myself a traitor with the rest

Question 16

I have no name

Answer 16

No title

Question 17

O, that I were a mockery-king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke

Answer 17

To melt myself away in water-drops!

Question 18

No deeper wrinkles yet? Bath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine

Answer 18

And made no deeper wounds?

Question 19

Was this the face that faced so many follies,

Answer 19

And was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke?

Question 20

For there it is

Answer 20

Cracked in a hundred shivers

Question 21

O good: convey! Conveyers are you all

Answer 21

That rise thus nimbly by a true kings fall

Question 22

That woes to come: the children yet unborn shall feel this day

Answer 22

As sharp to them as a thorn