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Within the earth; and, there inlaid: 'There lies

Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes.'

Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see

I talk but idly and you laugh at me.

Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,

What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty

Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?

You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay.

North. My lord, in the base court he doth attend

To speak with you; may 't please you to come down?

K. Rich. Down, down, I come; like glistering Phaethon,

Wanting the manage of unruly jades.

In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,

To come at traitors' calls and do them grace.

In the base court? Come down? Down, court! down, king!

For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.

Boling. What says his majesty?

North. Sorrow and grief of heart

Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man:

Yet he is come.

Boling. Stand all apart,

And show fair duty to his majesty.

My gracious lord,—

 168 inlaid: inscribed

169 digg'd: who digged

175 make a leg: make an obeisance

176 base court: outer court of castle

178 glistering: shining

Phaethon; cf. n.

179 Wanting: lacking

manage: skill to handle

jades: horses

185 fondly: foolishly

