Page 1237 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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White-liver’d runagate! What doth he there?
ST ANLEY
I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess. [465]
KING RICHARD
Well, as you guess?
ST ANLEY
Stirr’d up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Morton,
He makes for England, here to claim the crown.
KING RICHARD
Is the chair empty? Is the sword unsway’d?
Is the King dead? The empire unpossess’d? [470]
What heir of York is there alive but we?
And who is England’s King but great York’s heir?
Then tell me, what makes he upon the seas!
ST ANLEY
Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.
KING RICHARD
Unless for that he comes to be your liege, [475]
You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.
Thou wilt revolt and fly to him, I fear.
ST ANLEY
No, my good lord; therefore mistrust me not.
KING RICHARD
Where is thy power then to beat him back?
Where be thy tenants and thy followers? [480]
Are they not now upon the western shore,
Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships?
ST ANLEY
No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.
KING RICHARD
