King Richard the Second.

A

TRAGEDY,

BY

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

ACCURATELY PRINTED

FROM THE TEXT OF

MR. STEEVENS'S LAST EDITION.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

King Richard the Second.

Edmund of Langley, Duke of York;

uncles to the

King.

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; S
Henry, surnamed Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, son
to John of Gaunt; afterwards King Henry IV.
Duke of Aumerle, or Albemarle, son to the Duke of
York.

Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.

Duke of Surrey.

Lord Ross, or Roos. Lord Willoughby. Lord Fitz

water.

Bishop of Carlisle. Abbot of Westminster.

Lord Marshal; and another lord.

Sir Pierce of Exton. Sir Stephen Scroop.
Captain of a band of Welchmen.

Queen to King Richard.

Dutchess of Glo'ster.

Dutchess of York.

Lady attending on the Queen.

Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, two Gardeners, Keeper,

staggers thus my person.

King Richard the Second

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THE LIFE AND DEATH

OF

KING RICHARD II.

ACT I. SCENE I.

LONDON. A ROOM IN THE PALACE.

Enter King Richard, attended; John of Gaunt,
and other nobles, with him.

K. Rich. OLD John of Gaunt, time-honour'd
Lancaster,

Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,
Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son;
Here to make good the boisterous late appeal,
Which then our leisure would not let us hear,
Against the duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray ?
Gaunt. I have, my liege.

K. Rich. Tell me moreover, hast thou sounded

him,

If he appeal the duke on ancient malice;

Or worthily, as a good subject should,

On some known ground of treachery in him?

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