Page 1256 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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KING RICHARD
What said Northumberland, as touching Richmond?
RAT CLIFFE
That he was never trained up in arms.
KING RICHARD
He said the truth. And what said Surrey then?
RAT CLIFFE
He smil’d and said, ‘The better for our purpose.’ [275]
KING RICHARD The clock striketh.
He was in the right, and so indeed it is.
Tell the clock there! Give me a calendar -
Who saw the sun today?
RAT CLIFFE
Not I, my lord.
KING RICHARD
Then he disdains to shine, for by the book
He should have brav’d the east an hour ago. [280]
A black day will it be to somebody.
Ratcliffe!
RAT CLIFFE
My lord?
KING RICHARD
The sun will not be seen today!
The sky doth frown and lour upon our army:
I would these dewy tears were from the ground. [285]
Not shine today? Why, what is that to me
More than to Richmond? For the self-same heaven
That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.
Enter Norfolk.
