North. Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains,150
Of capital treason we arrest you here.
My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge
To keep him safely till his day of trial.
May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit.[1618][1619]
Boling. Fetch hither Richard, that in common view[1618][1620]155
He may surrender; so we shall proceed[1618][1620]
Without suspicion.[1618][1620]
York. I will be his conduct.[1618][1621] [Exit.
Boling. Lords, you that here are under our arrest,[1618][1622]
Procure your sureties for your days of answer.[1618]
Little are we beholding to your love,[1618][1623]160
And little look'd for at your helping hands.[1618][1624]
Re-enter York, with Richard, and Officers bearing the regalia.[1618][1625]
K. Rich. Alack, why am I sent for to a king,[1618][1626]
Before I have shook off the regal thoughts[1618]
Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd[1618]
To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs:[1618][1627]165
Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me[1618][1628][1629]
To this submission. Yet I well remember[1618][1628][1630]
The favours of these men: were they not mine?[1618][1628]
Did they not sometime cry, 'all hail!' to me?[1618][1628][1631]
So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,[1618][1628]170
Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.[1618]
God save the king! Will no man say amen?[1618][1632]
Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen.[1618][1632]
God save the king! although I be not he;[1618][1632]
And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.[1618][1632]175
To do what service am I sent for hither?[1618]
York. To do that office of thine own good will[1618]
Which tired majesty did make thee offer,[1618]
The resignation of thy state and crown[1618]
To Henry Bolingbroke.[1618][1633]180
K. Rich. Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown;[1618][1634]
Here cousin;[1618][1635][1636]
On this side my hand, and on that side yours.[1618][1635][1637]
Now is this golden crown like a deep well[1618][1638]
That owes two buckets, filling one another,[1618][1638]185
The emptier ever dancing in the air,[1618][1638]
The other down, unseen and full of water:[1618][1638]
That bucket down and full of tears am I,[1618][1638]
Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.[1618][1638][1639]
Boling. I thought you had been willing to resign.[1618][1638]190