King Richard: “Go to Flint castle: there ’Il pine away;
A King, woe’s slave, shall kingly woe obey.”
(Richard II, Act III, Sc. 2.)
Queen: “This is the way
To Julius Caesar’s ill-erected tower,
To whose flint bosom my condemned lord
Is doomed a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke.”
(Richard II, Act V, Sc. 2.)
King Richard: “How these vain weak nails
May tear a passage through the flinty ribs