I'll beg one boon,
And then be gone and trouble you no more.
Shall I obtain it?
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Name it, fair cousin.
KING RICHARD II 'Fair cousin'? I am greater than a king:
For when I was a king, my flatterers
Were then but subjects; being now a subject,
I have a king here to my flatterer.
Being so great, I have no need to beg.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Yet ask.
KING RICHARD II And shall I have?
HENRY BOLINGBROKE You shall.
KING RICHARD II Then give me leave to go.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Whither?
KING RICHARD II Whither you will, so I were from your sights.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Go, some of you convey him to the Tower.
KING RICHARD II O, good! convey? conveyers are you all,
That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall.
[Exeunt KING RICHARD II, some Lords, and a Guard]
HENRY BOLINGBROKE On Wednesday next we solemnly set down
Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves.
[Exeunt all except the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, the Abbot
of Westminster, and DUKE OF AUMERLE]
Abbot A woeful pageant have we here beheld.
BISHOP OF CARLISLE The woe's to come; the children yet unborn.
Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.
DUKE OF AUMERLE You holy clergymen, is there no plot
To rid the realm of this pernicious blot?
Abbot My lord,
Before I freely speak my mind herein,
You shall not only take the sacrament
To bury mine intents, but also to effect
Whatever I shall happen to devise.
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