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York. I will be his conduct.

Boling. Lords, you that here are under our arrest,

Procure your sureties for your days of answer.

[To Carlisle.] Little are we beholding to your love,

And little look'd for at your helping hands.

K. Rich. Alack! why am I sent for to a king

Before I have shook off the regal thoughts

Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd

To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee:

Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me

To this submission. Yet I well remember

The favours of these men: were they not mine?

Did they not sometime cry, 'All hail!' to me?

So Judas did to Christ: but He, in twelve,

Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.

God save the king! Will no man say, amen?

Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen.

God save the king! although I be not he;

And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.

To do what service am I sent for hither?

York. To do that office of thine own good will

Which tired majesty did make thee offer,

The resignation of thy state and crown

To Henry Bolingbroke.

K. Rich. Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown;

Here cousin,

On this side my hand and on that side thine.

 157 conduct: escort

159 sureties: bail

answer: trial

165 insinuate: ingratiate myself

168 favours: faces

169 sometime: formerly

