That I may kindly give one fainting kiss.— And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock, Why didst thou say-of late thou wert despis'd? Plan. First, lean thine aged back against mine arm; And, in that ease, I'll tell thee my disease." And for alliance' sake,-declare the cause me, And hath detain'd me, all my flow'ring youth, Plan. Discover more at large what cause that was; For I am ignorant, and cannot guess. Mor. I will; if that my fading breath permit, I'll tell thee my disease.] Disease seems to be here uneasiness, or discontent. The reason mov'd these warlike lords to this, I was the next by birth and parentage; From Lionel duke of Clarence, the third son But mark; as, in this haughty great attempt,1 Plan. Of which, my lord, your honour is the last. Mor. True; and thou seest, that I no issue have; And that my fainting words do warrant death: Thou art my heir; the rest, I wish thee gather:" And yet be wary in thy studious care. Plan. Thy grave admonishments prevail with me: But yet, methinks, my father's execution Was nothing less than bloody tyranny. Mor. With silence, nephew, be thou politick; 1 - in this haughty great attempt,] Haughty is high. 2 Thou art my heir; the rest, I wish thee gather:] The sense is-I acknowledge thee to be my heir; the consequences which may be collected from thence, I recommend it to thee to draw. Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster, As princes do their courts, when they are cloy'd Plan. Ŏ, uncle, 'would some part of my young years, Might but redeem the passage of your age! Which giveth many wounds, when one will kill. And so farewell; and fair be all thy hopes! [Dies. Plan. And peace, no war, befal thy parting soul! In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage, And like a hermit overpass'd thy days.Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast; And what I do imagine, let that rest.Keepers, convey him hence; and I myself Will see his burial better than his life. [Exeunt Keepers, bearing out Mortimer. Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer, Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort:And, for those wrongs, those bitter injuries, Which Somerset hath offer'd to my house,I doubt not, but with honour to redress: And therefore haste I to the parliament; Either to be restored to my blood, Or make my ill the advantage of my good. [Exit. 'Or make my ill-] my ill, is my ill usage. ACT III. SCENE I. The same. The Parliament-House. Flourish. Enter King HENRY, EXETER, GLOster, WARWICK, SOMERSET, and SUFFOLK; the Bishop of Winchester, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, and Others. GLOSTER offers to put up a Bill; Winchester snatches it, and tears it. Win. Com'st thou with deep premeditated lines, As I with sudden and extemporal speech Glo. Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience, Or thou should'st find thou hast dishonour'd me. put up a Bill ;] i. e. articles of accusation, for in this sense the word bill was sometimes used. As well at London bridge, as at the Tower? safe To give me hearing what I shall reply. Glo. As good? Thou bastard of my grandfather! — Win. Ay, lordly sir; For what are you, I pray, But one imperious in another's throne? Glo. Am I not the protector, saucy priest? Win. And am I not a prelate of the church? Glo. Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps, And useth it to patronage his theft. Win. Unreverent Gloster! Glo. Thou art reverent Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life. War. Roam thither then." Thou bastard of my grandfather!] The bishop of Winchester was an illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by Katharine Swynford, whom the Duke afterwards married. Roam thither then.] Roam to Rome. To roam is supposed to |