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SERVANT

These were his very words.

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“Have I no friend?” quoth he. He spake it twice,
And urged it twice together, did he not? [150]

SERVANT

He did.

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And speaking it, he wishtly look’d on me,
As who should say “I would thou wert the man
That would divorce this terror from my heart” -
Meaning the King at Pomfret. Come, let’s go.
I am the King’s friend, and will rid his foe. [155]

Exeunt.

Scene IV IT

Enter Richard alone.

RICHARD

I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world;
And for because the world is populous,
And here is not a creature but myself,
I cannot do it. Yet I’ll hammer it out. [5]
My brain I’ll prove the female to my soul,
My soul the father, and these two beget
A generation of still-breeding thoughts,
And these same thoughts people this little world,
In humours like the people of this world, [10]
For no thought is contented; the better sort,
As thoughts of things divine, are intermix’d
With scruples, and do set the word itself
Against the word; as thus: “Come, little ones”;
And then again, [15]
“It is as hard to come as for a camel
To thread the postern of a small needle’s eye”.