Strike up the drum.

[♦] Duch. I prithee, hear me speak.

K. Rich. You speak too bitterly.

180 Duch. Hear me a word;

For I shall never speak to thee again.

K. Rich. So.

[♦] Duch. Either thou wilt die, by God’s just ordinance,

[♦] Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,

[185] Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish

[♦] And never look upon thy face again.