King Richard II
Act V, Scene 4
A royal palace.
Byam Shaw, 1901
- Enter Sir Pierce Exton and his Servants.
Exton
1 - 3- Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake?
- “Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?”
- Was it not so?
Exton’s First Servant
4- These were his very words.
Exton
5 - 6- “Have I no friend?” quoth he. He spake it twice,
- And urg’d it twice together, did he not?
Exton’s Second Servant
7- He did.
Exton
8 - 12- 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.
- Exeunt.
Sir Piers of Exton
From costume sketches for Henry Irving’s production of King Richard II
Edwin Austin Abbey, 1898