exemit labem, purumque reliquit Æthereum sensum, atque aurai simplicis ignem.

VIRGIL.

BY

THOMAS BOWDLER, Esq. F.R.S. & S.A.

The Fourth Edition.

VOL. V.

CONTAINING

KING RICHARD II.;
FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV.;
SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.;

KING HENRY V.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW,

KING RICHARD II.

VOL. V.

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PERSONS REPRESENTED.

King RICHARD THE SECOND.
EDMOND OF LANGLEY, Duke of York; 1 uncles to the

King.
Henry, surnamed Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford.

son to John of Gaunt; afterwards King Henry IV.
DUKE OF AUMERLE, son to the Duke of York.
MOWBRAY, Duke of Norfolk.
DUKE OF SURREY.
EARL OF SALISBURY. EARL BERKELEY.
Bushy,
Bagot, { creatures to King Richard.
GREEN,
EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
HENRY Percy, his son.
Lord Ross. LORD WILLOUGHBY.
LORD FITZWATER.
Bishop of CARLISLE. ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER.
Lord Marshal; and another Lord.
Sir PIERCE OF Exton. Sir STEPHEN SCROOP.
Captain of a band of Welshmen.

QUEEN to King Richard.
DUCHESS OF GLOSTER.
DUCHESS OF York.
Lady attending on the Queen.

som

Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, two Gardeners,
Keeper, Messenger, Groom, and other Attendants.
Scene, dispersedly in England and Wales.

THE

LIFE AND DEATH

OF

KING RICHARD II.

ACT THE FIRST.

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 ?
Gaunt. As near as I could sift him on that ar-

gument, On some apparent danger seen in him, Aim'd at your highness; no inveterate malice. K. Rich. Then call them to our presence; face to face,

! Bond.