"Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France. Think I am dead and that even here thou takest, As from my deathbed, thy last living leave. In winter’s tedious nights sit by the fire / With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales / Of woeful ages long ago betid; And, ere thou bid good night"
"EXTON Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake, “Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?” Was it not so? SERVINGMAN These were his very words. EXTON “Have I no friend?” quoth he. He spake it twice And urged it twice together, did he not? SERVINGMAN He did. EXTON And speaking it, h"
"That power I have, discharge, and let them go To ear the land that hath some hope to grow, For I have none. let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day."
"Exton. Great King, within this coffin I present Thy buried fear:... Bolingbroke. Exton, I thank thee not,... They love not poison that do poison need, Nor do I thee; though I wish him dead, I hate the murderer, love him murdered.... I;ll make a voyage to the Holy Land, To wash this blood off from my"
A rich case study of The Prince, in which Machiavelli puts, above all, a prince must abstain from the property of others, because men forget the death of a father more quickly than the loss of a patrimony.