[Exit.]
RATCLIFFE.
What, may it please you, shall I do at Salisbury?
KING RICHARD.
Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?
RATCLIFFE.
Your Highness told me I should post before.
KING RICHARD.
My mind is changed.
Enter Stanley Earl of Derby.
Stanley, what news with you?
STANLEY.
None good, my liege, to please you with the hearing;
Nor none so bad but well may be reported.
KING RICHARD.
Hoyday, a riddle! Neither good nor bad.
What need’st thou run so many miles about
When thou mayst tell thy tale the nearest way?
Once more, what news?
STANLEY.
Richmond is on the seas.