[Exeunt.]

Enter Gower.

GOWER.
In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:
In Pericles, his queen and daughter seen,
Although assail’d with Fortune fierce and keen,
Virtue preserved from fell destruction’s blast,
Led on by heaven, and crown’d with joy at last.
In Helicanus may you well descry
A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:
In reverend Cerimon there well appears
The worth that learned charity aye wears:
For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
Had spread their cursed deed, the honour’d name
Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,
That him and his they in his palace burn.
The gods for murder seemed so content
To punish, although not done, but meant.
So on your patience evermore attending,
New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.

[Exit.]

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND

Contents

ACT I
[Scene I. London. A Room in the palace]
[Scene II. The same. A room in the Duke of Lancaster’s palace]
[Scene III. Open Space, near Coventry. Lists set out, and a Throne. Heralds, &c., attending]
[Scene IV. London. A Room in the King’s Castle]

ACT II
[Scene I. London. An Apartment in Ely House]
[Scene II. The Same. A Room in the Castle]
[Scene III. The Wolds in Gloucestershire]
[Scene IV. A camp in Wales]

ACT III
[Scene I. Bristol. Bolingbroke’s camp]
[Scene II. The coast of Wales. A castle in view]
[Scene III. Wales. Before Flint Castle]
[Scene IV. Langley. The Duke of York’s garden]

ACT IV
[Scene I. Westminster Hall]

ACT V
[Scene I. London. A street leading to the Tower]
[Scene II. The same. A room in the Duke of York’s palace]
[Scene III. Windsor. A room in the Castle]
[Scene IV. Another room in the Castle]
[Scene V. Pomfret. The dungeon of the Castle]
[Scene VI. Windsor. An Apartment in the Castle]

Dramatis Personæ

KING RICHARD THE SECOND
JOHN OF GAUNT, Duke of Lancaster - uncle to the King
EDMUND LANGLEY, Duke of York - uncle to the King
HENRY, surnamed BOLINGBROKE, Duke of Hereford, son of John of Gaunt, afterwards King Henry IV
DUKE OF AUMERLE, son of the Duke of York
THOMAS MOWBRAY, Duke of Norfolk
DUKE OF SURREY
EARL OF SALISBURY
LORD BERKELEY
BUSHY - Servant to King Richard
BAGOT - Servant to King Richard
GREEN - Servant to King Richard
EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND
HARRY PERCY, surnamed Hotspur, his son
LORD ROSS
LORD WILLOUGHBY
LORD FITZWATER
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER
LORD MARSHAL
SIR PIERCE OF EXTON
SIR STEPHEN SCROOP
Captain of a band of Welshmen