You urged me as a judge; but I had rather
You would have bid me argue like a father.
O, had it been a stranger, not my child,
To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:
A partial slander sought I to avoid,
And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.
Alas, I look'd when some of you should say,
I was too strict to make mine own away;
But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
Against my will to do myself this wrong.
KING RICHARD II Cousin, farewell; and, uncle, bid him so:
Six years we banish him, and he shall go.
[Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II and train]
DUKE OF AUMERLE Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know,
From where you do remain let paper show.
Lord Marshal My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride,
As far as land will let me, by your side.
JOHN OF GAUNT O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,
That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?
HENRY BOLINGBROKE I have too few to take my leave of you,
When the tongue's office should be prodigal
To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.
JOHN OF GAUNT Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Joy absent, grief is present for that time.
JOHN OF GAUNT What is six winters? they are quickly gone.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten.
JOHN OF GAUNT Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.
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