第 10 节
作者:尘小春      更新:2021-04-30 17:10      字数:9322
  friends;   fortune;   and   thy   state;   For   all   the   Welshmen;   hearing   thou   wert
  dead; Are gone to Bolingbroke; dispers'd; and fled。 AUMERLE。 Comfort;
  my liege; why looks your Grace so pale? KING RICHARD。 But now the
  blood of twenty thousand men Did triumph in my face; and they are fled;
  And; till so much blood thither come again; Have I not reason to look pale
  and dead? All souls that will be safe; fly from my side; For time hath set a
  blot upon my pride。 AUMERLE。 Comfort; my liege; remember who you
  are。 KING RICHARD。 I had forgot myself; am I not King? Awake; thou
  coward   majesty!   thou   sleepest。   Is   not   the   King's   name   twenty   thousand
  names? Arm;   arm;   my   name!   a   puny   subject   strikes At   thy   great   glory。
  Look not to the ground; Ye favourites of a king; are we not high? High be
  our thoughts。 I know my uncle York Hath power enough to serve our turn。
  But who comes here?
  Enter SCROOP SCROOP。 More health and happiness betide my liege
  Than can my care…tun'd tongue deliver him。 KING RICHARD。 Mine ear is
  open and my heart prepar'd。 The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold。
  Say; is my kingdom lost? Why; 'twas my care; And what loss is it to be rid
  of care? Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we? Greater he shall not be;
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  if   he   serve   God;   We'll   serve   him   too;   and   be   his   fellow   so。   Revolt   our
  subjects? That we cannot mend; They break their faith to God as well as
  us。 Cry woe; destruction; ruin; and decay… The worst is death; and death
  will have his day。 SCROOP。 Glad am I that your Highness is so arm'd To
  bear   the   tidings   of   calamity。   Like   an   unseasonable   stormy   day   Which
  makes      the  silver  rivers   drown     their  shores;   As   if  the  world    were   all
  dissolv'd to tears; So high above his limits swells the rage Of Bolingbroke;
  covering   your   fearful   land With   hard bright   steel   and hearts   harder   than
  steel。 White…beards   have   arm'd their thin   and hairless scalps Against thy
  majesty;   boys;   with   women's   voices;   Strive   to   speak   big;   and   clap   their
  female      joints   In  stiff  unwieldy      arms    against   thy   crown;     Thy    very
  beadsmen learn to bend their bows Of double…fatal yew against thy state;
  Yea; distaff…women manage rusty bills Against thy seat: both young and
  old rebel; And all goes worse than I have power to tell。 KING RICHARD。
  Too well; too well thou tell'st a tale so in。 Where is the Earl of Wiltshire?
  Where is Bagot? What is become of Bushy? Where is Green? That they
  have   let   the   dangerous   enemy   Measure   our   confines   with   such   peaceful
  steps? If we prevail; their heads shall pay for it。 I warrant they have made
  peace with Bolingbroke。 SCROOP。 Peace have they made with him indeed;
  my lord。 KING RICHARD。 O villains; vipers; damn'd without redemption!
  Dogs; easily won to fawn on any man! Snakes; in my heart…blood warm'd;
  that   sting   my   heart!   Three   Judases;   each   one   thrice   worse   than   Judas!
  Would they make peace? Terrible hell make war Upon their spotted souls
  for this offence! SCROOP。 Sweet love; I see; changing his property; Turns
  to the sourest and most deadly hate。 Again uncurse their souls; their peace
  is made With heads; and not with hands; those whom you curse Have felt
  the   worst   of   death's   destroying   wound   And   lie   full   low;   grav'd   in   the
  hollow   ground。 AUMERLE。   Is   Bushy;   Green;   and   the   Earl   of   Wiltshire
  dead? SCROOP。 Ay; all of them at Bristow lost their heads。 AUMERLE。
  Where   is   the   Duke   my   father   with   his   power?   KING   RICHARD。   No
  matter where…of comfort no man speak。 Let's talk of graves; of worms; and
  epitaphs; Make dust our paper; and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the
  bosom of the earth。 Let's choose executors and talk of wills; And yet not
  so…for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our
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  lands; our lives;  and an;  are Bolingbroke's。 And   nothing can   we can   our
  own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as
  paste and cover to our  bones。 For  God's sake let us sit   upon the  ground
  And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been depos'd;
  some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd; Some
  poison'd by their wives; some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd…for within the
  hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his
  court; and there the antic sits; Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp;
  Allowing him  a   breath;   a   little   scene; To   monarchize;   be   fear'd;   and   kill
  with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit; As if this flesh which
  walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and; humour'd thus; Comes
  at the last; and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall; and farewell;
  king!    Cover    your   heads;   and   mock    not  flesh   and  blood    With   solemn
  reverence;   throw   away   respect;   Tradition;   form;   and   ceremonious   duty;
  For you have but mistook me all this while。 I live with bread like you; feel
  want; Taste grief; need friends: subjected thus; How can you say to me I
  am a king? CARLISLE。 My lord; wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes;
  But    presently    prevent   the   ways    to  wail。  To   fear   the  foe;  since   fear
  oppresseth strength; Gives; in your weakness; strength unto your foe; And
  so your follies fight against yourself。 Fear and be slain…no worse can come
  to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying
  pays death servile breath。 AUMERLE。 My father hath a power; inquire of
  him; And learn to make a body of a limb。 KING RICHARD。 Thou chid'st
  me well。 Proud   Bolingbroke; I come To change blows   with thee for   our
  day of doom。 This ague fit of fear is over…blown; An easy task it is to win
  our own。 Say; Scroop; where lies our uncle with his power? Speak sweetly;
  man; although thy looks be sour。 SCROOP。 Men judge by the complexion
  of the sky The state in inclination of the day; So may you by my dull and
  heavy eye; My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say。 I play the torturer; by
  small and small To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken: Your uncle
  York is join'd with Bolingbroke; And all your northern castles yielded up;
  And     all  your    southern    gentlemen      in  arms    Upon     his   party。  KING
  RICHARD。         Thou    hast   said  enough。     'To   AUMERLE'         Beshrew     thee;
  cousin; which didst lead me forth Of that sweet way I was in to despair!
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  What say you now? What comfort have we now? By heaven; I'll hate him
  everlastingly  That   bids   me   be   of   comfort   any   more。   Go   to   Flint   Castle;
  there   I'll   pine   away;   A   king;   woe's   slave;   shall   kingly   woe   obey。   That
  power I have; discharge; and let them go To ear the land that hath some
  hope to grow; For I have none。 Let no man speak again To alter this; for
  counsel is but vain。 AUMERLE。 My liege; one word。 KING RICHARD。
  He   does   me   double   wrong   That   wounds   me   with   the   flatteries   of   his
  tongue。   Discharge   my   followers;   let   them   hence   away;   From   Richard's
  night to Bolingbroke's fair day。 Exeunt
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  SCENE 3。 Wales。 Before Flint Castle
  Enter;     with     drum      and     colours;     BOLINGBROKE;              YORK;
  NORTHUMBERLAND; and forces
  BOLINGBROKE。             So   that   by   this   intelligence    we    learn   The
  Welshmen   are   dispers'd;   and   Salisbury   Is   gone   to   meet   the   King;   who
  lately    landed     With     some     few    private    friends    upon     this   coast。
  NORTHUMBERLAND。 The news is very fair and good; my lord。 Richard
  not far from hence hath hid his head。 YORK。 It would beseem the Lord
  Northumberland To say 'King Richard。' Alack the heavy day When such a
  sacred   king   should   hide   his   head!   NORTHUMBERLAND。   Your   Grace
  mistakes; only to be brief; Left I his title out。 YORK。 The time hath been;
  Would you have been so brief with him; he would Have been so brief with
  you   to   shorten   you;   For   taking   so   the   head;   your   whole   head's   length。
  BOLINGBROKE。   Mistake   not;   uncle;   further   than   you   should。   YORK。
  Take   not;   good   cousin;   further   t