. The works of Shakespeare : in seven volumes : collated with the oldest copies, and corrected, with notes, explanatory, and critical. %Ahb!t\f Weftminfter>£^ *the Parlia™«t-Sir Pierce of Exton, j Queen to King chefs of Gloucefter*Dutchefs of ^ attending on the Queen. Heralds^ two Gardinersj Keeper^ Meffenger^ Groom, and other Attendants. SCENE, dijperfedly, in feveral Tarts of England, THE (i) The L I F E and D E A T H of King RICHARD II. ACT I. SCENE, the C 0 U R T. Enter King Richard, John of Gaunt, with otherNobles and Attendants. King Richard. |LD John of Gaunt)
. The works of Shakespeare : in seven volumes : collated with the oldest copies, and corrected, with notes, explanatory, and critical. %Ahb!t\f Weftminfter>£^ *the Parlia™«t-Sir Pierce of Exton, j Queen to King chefs of Gloucefter*Dutchefs of ^ attending on the Queen. Heralds^ two Gardinersj Keeper^ Meffenger^ Groom, and other Attendants. SCENE, dijperfedly, in feveral Tarts of England, THE (i) The L I F E and D E A T H of King RICHARD II. ACT I. SCENE, the C 0 U R T. Enter King Richard, John of Gaunt, with otherNobles and Attendants. King Richard. |LD John of Gaunt) time-honourd Lancafter^Haft thou, according to thy oath and bond,Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold Ton,Here to make good the boiftrous late Ap-peal, Which then our leifure would not let us hear,Againft the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray ?Gaunt. I have, my liege. (i) The Life and Death of King Richard II.] But this Hiflory com-prizes little more than the Two laft Years of this unfortunate Prince. TheAction of the Drama begins with Bolingbroke\ appealing the Duke ofNorfolk, on an Accufation of high Treafon, which fell out in the Year1398; and it clofes with the Murder of King Richard at Pom/ret-CMc,towards the End of the Year 1400, or the Beginning of the enfuingYear. Mr. Gildon acknowledges, that Shakefpeare has drawn K. RichardsCharacter according to the bell Accounts of Hiflory; that is, infolent,proud, and thoughtlefs in Profperity; dejected, and de
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