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第29章 ACT IV(7)

KING RICHARD.Infer fair England's peace by this alliance.QUEEN ELIZABETH.Which she shall purchase with still-lasting war.KING RICHARD.Tell her the King,that may command,entreats.QUEEN ELIZABETH.That at her hands which the King's King forbids.KING RICHARD.Say she shall be a high and mighty queen.QUEEN ELIZABETH.To wail the title,as her mother doth.KING RICHARD.Say I will love her everlastingly.QUEEN ELIZABETH.But how long shall that title 'ever'last?KING RICHARD.Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end.QUEEN ELIZABETH.But how long fairly shall her sweet life last?KING RICHARD.As long as heaven and nature lengthens it.QUEEN ELIZABETH.

As long as hell and Richard likes of it.KING RICHARD.Say I,her sovereign,am her subject low.QUEEN ELIZABETH.But she,your subject,loathes such sovereignty.KING RICHARD.Be eloquent in my behalf to her.QUEEN ELIZABETH.An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.KING RICHARD.Then plainly to her tell my loving tale.QUEEN ELIZABETH.Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.KING RICHARD.Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.QUEEN ELIZABETH.O,no,my reasons are too deep and dead-Too deep and dead,poor infants,in their graves.KING RICHARD.Harp not on that string,madam;that is past.QUEEN ELIZABETH.Harp on it still shall I till heartstrings break.KING RICHARD.Now,by my George,my garter,and my crown-QUEEN ELIZABETH.Profan'd,dishonour'd,and the third usurp'd.

KING RICHARD.I swear-QUEEN ELIZABETH.By nothing;for this is no oath:Thy George,profan'd,hath lost his lordly honour;Thy garter,blemish'd,pawn'd his knightly virtue;Thy crown,usurp'd,disgrac'd his kingly glory.If something thou wouldst swear to be believ'd,Swear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd.KING RICHARD.Then,by my self-QUEEN ELIZABETH.Thy self is self-misus'd.KING RICHARD.Now,by the world-QUEEN ELIZABETH.'Tis full of thy foul wrongs.KING RICHARD.My father's death-QUEEN ELIZABETH.Thy life hath it dishonour'd.KING RICHARD.Why,then,by God-QUEEN ELIZABETH.God's wrong is most of all.If thou didst fear to break an oath with Him,The unity the King my husband made Thou hadst not broken,nor my brothers died.If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,Th'imperial metal,circling now thy head,Had grac'd the tender temples of my child;And both the Princes had been breathing here,Which now,two tender bedfellows for dust,Thy broken faith hath made the prey for worms.What canst thou swear by now?KING RICHARD.The time to come.

QUEEN ELIZABETH.That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast;For I myself have many tears to wash Hereafter time,for time past wrong'd by thee.The children live whose fathers thou hast slaughter'd,Ungovern'd youth,to wail it in their age;The parents live whose children thou hast butcheed,Old barren plants,to wail it with their age.Swear not by time to come;for that thou hast Misus'd ere us'd,by times ill-us'd o'erpast.KING RICHARD.As I intend to prosper and repent,So thrive I in my dangerous affairs Of hostile arms!Myself myself confound!Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours!

Day,yield me not thy light;nor,night,thy rest!Be opposite all planets of good luck To my proceeding!-if,with dear heart's love,Immaculate devotion,holy thoughts,I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter.In her consists my happiness and thine;Without her,follows to myself and thee,Herself,the land,and many a Christian soul,Death,desolation,ruin,and decay.It cannot be avoided but by this;It will not be avoided but by this.Therefore,dear mother-I must call you so-Be the attorney of my love to her;Plead what I will be,not what I have been;Not my deserts,but what I will deserve.Urge the necessity and state of times,And be not peevish-fond in great designs.QUEEN ELIZABETH.Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?KING RICHARD.Ay,if the devil tempt you to do good.QUEEN ELIZABETH.Shall I forget myself to be myself?KING RICHARD.Ay,if your self's remembrance wrong yourself.QUEEN ELIZABETH.Yet thou didst kill my children.

KING RICHARD.But in your daughter's womb I bury them;Where,in that nest of spicery,they will breed Selves of themselves,to your recomforture.QUEEN ELIZABETH.Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?KING RICHARD.And be a happy mother by the deed.QUEEN ELIZABETH.I go.Write to me very shortly,And you shall understand from me her mind.KING RICHARD.Bear her my true love's kiss;and so,farewell.Kissing her.Exit QUEEN ELIZABETH Relenting fool,and shallow,changing woman!

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