Which I with some unwillingness pronounce:

The fly-slow hours shall not determinate

The dateless limit of thy dear exile.

The hopeless word of never to return

Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.”

Richard II., I. 3.

Norfolk was banished in 1398, and died in Venice in the following year, and in Act IV., Scene 1 of the play, when Bolingbroke announces that he shall be “repealed”:—

“and, though mine enemy, restored again

to all his lands and signories.”

The Bishop of Carlisle answers:—