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Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.

Prince. Is it upon record, or else reported

Successively from age to age, he built it?

Buck. Upon record, my gracious lord.

Prince. But say, my lord, it were not register'd,

Methinks the truth should live from age to age,

As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,

Even to the general [all-]ending day.

Rich. [Aside.] So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Prince. What say you, uncle?

Rich. I say, without characters, fame lives long.

[Aside.] Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity,

I moralize two meanings in one word.

Prince. That Julius Cæsar was a famous man;

With what his valour did enrich his wit,

His wit set down to make his valour live:

Death makes no conquest of his conqueror,

For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,—

Buck. What, my gracious lord?

Prince. An if I live until I be a man,

I'll win our ancient right in France again,

Or die a soldier, as I liv'd a king.

Rich. [Aside.] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

Buck. Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of York.

Prince. Richard of York! how fares our noble brother?

 77 retail'd: handed down

78 [all-]ending day: i.e. doomsday

79 So long; cf. n.

81 characters: written documents

82 Vice, Iniquity; cf. n.

83 moralize: interpret

85 With what: that with which

94 lightly: commonly

