Tag: Richard II

  • December 15

    December 15

    You Are False to the Core


    As low as to thy heart,
    Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.

    –Richard II,
    Act I, Scene i

  • November 8

    November 8

    Player’s Poem


    ‘This man’s untrue,’
    And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;
    Heard where his plants in others’ orchards grew,
    Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;
    Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;
    Thought characters and words merely but art,
    And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.

    –A Lover’s Complaint

  • November 7

    November 7

    Exposed


    His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
    Not able to endure the sight of day,
    But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.

    –Richard II,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • October 3

    October 3

    Wasted


    I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

    –Richard II,
    Act V, Scene v