" He has indeed invested it
with high poetical interest. Thus, in Scene 2 of Act iii. where occurs
that touching lament of unkingship--
----Of comfort, no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, &c.
Again, where the moody monarch says--
----What comfort have we now?
By heaven! I'll hate him everlastingly,
That bids me be of comfort any more.
Go, to _Flint Castle_, there I'll pine away;
A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.
Then, the investiture of the Castle--"Scene 3.--_Wales--Before Flint
Castle;" "Enter, with drums and colours_, BOLINGBROKE _and Forces."
"A parle sounded, and answered.--Flourish.--Enter on the walls_
KING RICHARD, &c." Shakspeare makes the capture _in the castle_.
Thus, Northumberland (from Bolingbroke before the castle) parleys
with the King--
My lord, in the base court he doth attend
To speak with you, may't please you to come down?
KING RICHARD.
Down, down I come; like glistering Phaeton,
Wanting the management of unruly jades.
(_North retires to Boling._)
In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,
To come at traitors' calls, and do them grace.
In the base court? Come Down? Down Court, Down King!
For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
(_Exeunt from above.
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