READ STUDY GUIDE: Act II, scenes iii-iv |
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Act II, Scene iv:
A camp in Wales.
A camp in Wales.
| [Enter EARL OF SALISBURY and a CAPTAIN.] |
| CAPTAIN: |
| My Lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days |
| And hardly kept our countrymen together, |
| And yet we hear no tidings from the King; |
| Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell. |
| SALISBURY: |
| Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman; |
| The King reposeth all his confidence in thee. |
| CAPTAIN: |
| 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. |
| The bay trees in our country are all wither'd, |
| And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven; |
| The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth |
| And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change; |
| Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap, |
| The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, |
| The other to enjoy by rage and war. |
| These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. |
| Farewell: our countrymen are gone and fled, |
| As well assur'd Richard their king is dead. |
| [Exit.] |
| SALISBURY: |
| Ah, Richard! with the eyes of heavy mind, |
| I see thy glory like a shooting star |
| Fall to the base earth from the firmament. |
| The sun sets weeping in the lowly west, |
| Witnessing storms to come, woe, and unrest. |
| Thy friends are fled, to wait upon thy foes, |
| And crossly to thy good all fortune goes. |
| [Exit.] |
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