i. i. 30.
I am determined to prove a villain.
What does appear of Richard's past, seen through the favourable medium of a mother's description, only seems to extend the completeness to earlier stages:
iv. iv. 167.
A grievous burthen was thy birth to me;
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;
Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious,
Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous,
Thy age confirm'd, proud, subtle, bloody, treacherous,
More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred.