ACT II
SCENE IV A camp in Wales.


 [Enter EARL OF SALISBURY and a Welsh 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.

EARL OF 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-faced 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 assured Richard their king is dead.

 [Exit]

EARL OF 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.
 Thy 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]




 KING RICHARD II


ACT III