Page 1212 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

The late request that you did sound me in.

KING RICHARD

Well, let that rest. Dorset is fled to Richmond.

BUCKINGHAM

I hear the news, my lord. [85]

KING RICHARD

Stanley, he is your wife’s son. Well, look unto it.

BUCKINGHAM

My lord, I claim the gift, my due by promise,
For which your honour and your faith is pawn’d:
Th’earldom of Hereford, and the moveables
Which you have promised I shall possess. [90]

KING RICHARD

Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey
Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.

BUCKINGHAM

What says your Highness to my just demand?

KING RICHARD

I do remember me, Henry the Sixth
Did prophesy that Richmond should be King, [95]
When Richmond was a little peevish boy.
A king... perhaps... perhaps -

BUCKINGHAM

My lord!

KING RICHARD

How chance the prophet could not, at that time
Have told me - I being by - that I should kill him?

BUCKINGHAM

My lord, your promise for the earldom - [100]