And harth-refounding trumpets dreadful bray, But tread the ftranger paths of banishment. Boling. Your will be done: This must my comfort be, That fun, that warms you here, fhall fhine on me : And thofe his golden beams, to you here lent, Shall point on me, and gild my banishment. K. Rich. Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom, The fly-flow hours fhall not determinate Mob. A heavy fentence, my moft fovereign Liege, As to be caft forth in the common air, Or being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony. Within my mouth you have engoal'd my tongue, (5) (5) Within my mouth you bave engoal'd my tongue, Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips :] Thefe verses Mr. Pope has degraded and thrown out of the text, on account of the image convey'd in the fecond line, as I prefume. I am far from praifing the metaphor; but, perhaps, the ufage might be defended for once from the the example of our mafter Homer. Iliad. A. v. 350. ̓Ατρείδη, ποῖόν σε ἔπο φύγεν ἔρα ὀδόνων. The Epu idov here, methinks, approaches very nigh to the Idea of a Port-cullife. Doubly Doubly port-cullis'd with my teeth and lips: What is thy fentence then, but fpeechless death, Mowb. Then thus I turn me from my country's light. To dwell in folemn fhades of endless night. K. Rich. Return again, and take an oath with ye. You never fhall, (fo help you truth, and heav'n!) To plot, contrive, or complot any ill, Mowb. And I, to keep all this. Boling. Norfolk, fo far, as to mine enemy : By this time, had the King permitted us, Morub. No, Bolingbroke; if ever I were traitor, Farewel, Farewel, my Liege; now no way can I ftray, [Exit. Gaunt. I thank my Liege, that in regard of me For ere the fix years, that he hath to spend, Can change their moons, and bring their times about, K. Rich. Why, uncle? thou haft many years to live. Gaunt. Things, fweet to tafte, prove in digestion fow'r: you To smooth his fault, I would have been more mild: A partial flander fought I to avoid, And in the fentence my own life destroy'd. K. Rich. Coufin, farewel; and, uncle, bid him him fo: Six years we banish him, and he shall go. [Flourish. Exit. Aum. Coufin, farewel; what presence must not know, From where you do remain, let paper fhow. Mar. My Lord, no leave take 1; for I will ride As far as land will let me, by your fide. my Gaunt. Oh, to what purpose doft thou hoard thy words, That thou retun'ft no greeting to thy friends? Boling. I have too few to take leave of you, When the tongue's office should be prodigal, To breathe th' abundant dolour of the heart. Gaunt. Thy grief is but thy abfence for a time. Boling. Joy abfent, grief is prefent for that time. Gaunt. What is fix winters? they are quickly gone. Boling. To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten. Gaunt. Call it a travel, that thou tak 'ft for pleasure. Boling. My heart will figh, when I miscal it fo, Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage. Gaunt. The fullen paffage of thy weary fleps Efteem a foil, wherein thou art to fet The precious jewel of thy home-return. Boling. Nay, rather, ev'ry tedious ftride I make (6) Will but remember me, what a deal of world I wander from the jewels that I love. Muft I not serve a long apprentice-hood, To foreign paffages, and in the end Having my freedom, boast of nothing else Gaunt. All places, that the eye of heaven vifits Are to Teach thy neceffity to reafon thus: There is no virtue like neceffity. (6) Boling. Nay, rather, ev'ry tedious fride I make.] This, and the fix verfes which follow, I have ventur'd to fupply from the old Quarto. The allufion, 'tis true, to an Apprentice-ship, and becoming a Journeyman, is not in the fublime tafte, nor, as Horace has exprefs' it, fpirat Tragicum fatis: However as there is no doubt of the paffage being genuine, the lines are not fo defpicable as to deferve being quite loft. Think not, the King did banish thee; But thou the King. Woe doth the heavier fit, To lie that way thou go'ft, not whence thou com'st. The grafs, whereon thou tread'ft, the prefence-floor; For gnarling forrow hath lefs pow'r to bite Boling.Than, England's ground, farewel; fweet foil, adieu. Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishman. [Exeunt. SCENE changes to the Court. Enter King Richard, and Bufhy, Sc. at one door; and the Lord Aumerle, at the other. K. Rich. How far brought you high Hereford on 7E did, indeed, obferve-Coufin Aumerle, his way? Aum. |