Richard II Incomplete Quotes Flashcards
“we were … command”
“we were not born to sue but to command”
“this royal … Eden … for herself”
“this royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by nature for herself”
“the emptier … down … water”
“the emptier ever dancing in the air, the other down, unseen, and full of water”
“let heaven … angry … minister”
“let heaven revenge, for I may never lift an angry arm against his minister”
“pray God … late”
“pray God we may make haste, and come too late”
“I hate … murdered”
“I hate the murderer, love him murdered”
“as full … blood”
“as full of valour as of royal blood”
“not … wash … king”
“not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king”
“how he … hearts … courtesy”
“how he did seem to dive into their hearts with humble and familiar courtesy”
“mount … flesh … die”
“mount, mount, my soul, thy seat is up on high, whilst my gross flesh sinks downward here to die”
“our lands … but death”
“our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke’s, and nothing can we call our own but death”
“the king … flatterers”
“the king is not himself, but basely led by flatterers”
“the king’s … man”
“the king’s grown bankrupt like a broken man”
“no hand … sacred … unless … usurp”
“no hand of blood and bone can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre, unless he do profane, steal or usurp”
“drinking … high”
“drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high”
” … court … base”
“in the base court, where kings grow base”
“the … commonwealth”
“the caterpillars of the commonwealth”
“you pluck … lose … hearts”
“you pluck a thousand dangers on your head, you lose a thousand well disposed hearts”
“his rash … violent … themselves”
“his rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, for violent fires soon burn out themselves”
“old John … Lancaster”
“old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster”
“I’ll make … blood … hand”
“I’ll make a voyage to the Holy land, to wash this blood from my guilty hand”
“forget … bleed”
"”forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed, our doctors say this is no month to bleed”
“my large … grave”
“my large kingdom for a little grave, a little grave, an obscure grave”
“I wasted … me”
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me”
“if you … English … ground”
“if you crown him, let me prophesy: the blood of English shall manure the ground”
” … enforced … realm”
“we are enforced to farm our royal realm”
