Towards Phœbus’ lodging: such a waggoner
As Phaethon would whip you to the west
And bring in cloudy night immediately.”
The unfortunate Richard II. (act iii. sc. 3, l. 178, vol. iv. p. 179), when desired by Northumberland to meet Bolingbroke in the courtyard (“may’t please you to come down”), replies,—
“Down, down, I come; like glistering Phaeton
Wanting the manage of unruly jades.”
And he too, in 3 Henry VI. (act i. sc. 4, l. 16, vol. v. p. 244), Richard, Duke of York, whose son cried,—
“A crown, or else a glorious tomb!
A sceptre or an earthly sepulchre!”—
when urged by Northumberland (l. 30),—