with Prospero's—
“Twelve years since, Miranda! twelve years since.”
The actor should supply the time by emphasis, and pause on the first syllable of each of these verses.
Act i. sc. 1. Bolingbroke's speech:—
“First (heaven be the record to my speech!),
In the devotion of a subject's love,” &c.
I remember in the Sophoclean drama no more striking example of the τὸ πρέπον καὶ σεμνὸν than this speech; and the rhymes in the last six lines well express the preconcertedness of Bolingbroke's scheme so beautifully contrasted with the vehemence and sincere irritation of Mowbray.
Ib. Bolingbroke's speech:—
“Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries,
Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,