That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul; Bolingbroke. Name it, fair cousin. K. Richard. "Fair cousin"? I am greater than a king: For when I was a king, my flatterers Were then but subjects; being now a subject, I have a king here to my flatterer. Being so great, I have no need to beg. Bolingbroke. Yet ask. K. Richard. And shall I have? Bolingbroke. You shall. K. Richard. Then give me leave to go. K. Richard. Whither you will, so I were from your sights. Bolingbroke. Go, some of you, convey him to the Tower. ACT V SCENE IV. WINDSOR. A Room in the Castle. (Enter Bolingbroke as King, York, Lords, and Attendants. Enter Exton, with Attendants bearing a coffin.) Exton. Great king, within this coffin I present Thy buried fear: herein all breathless lies The mightiest of thy greatest enemies, Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought. Bolingbroke. Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought A deed of slander, with thy fatal hand, Upon my head and all this famous land. Exton. From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed. Bolingbroke. They love not poison that do poison need, Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead, That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow : I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land, To wash this blood off from my guilty hand : [Exeunt. THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURNE THE standing feud with Scotland gave rise to numberless raids across the Border. The following old ballad tells of a famous encounter between those two hot-headed young chieftains, James, Earl of Douglas, and the redoubtable Harry Percy. In 1388 Douglas, at the head of three thousand Scottish spears, made a raid into Northumberland and, before the walls of Newcastle, engaged Percy in single combat, capturing his lance with the attached pennon. Douglas retired in triumph, but Hotspur mustered the full force of the Border and, following hard on the Scottish rear, made a night attack upon the camp of Douglas at Otterburne, about twenty miles from the frontier. Then ensued a moonlight battle, fought on either side with unflinching bravery, and ending in the defeat of the English, Percy being taken prisoner. the Douglas was slain in the midst of the fray. It fell about the Lammas tide,1 That the doughty Earl of Douglas rade And he has ta'en the Lindsays light, But the Jardines wad not with him ride, Then they hae harried3 the dales o' Tyne, And the Otter-dale they burned it haill,1 Then he cam' up to New Castel, And rade it round about: But "O who is the lord of this castel, But up and spake Lord Percy then, "It's I am the lord of this castel, "If thou'rt the lord of this castel, For ere I cross the Border fell,1 He took a lang spear in his hand, But O how pale his lady looked As doun before the Scottish spear "Had we twa been upon the green, I wad hae had you, flesh and fell,3 "Now gae up to the Otterburne, 1 highland. 2 the one. 3 skin. 4 if. "The Otterburne is a bonnie burn,1 "The deer rins wild on hill and dale, "Yet I will stay at Otterburne, "Thither will I come," Earl Percy said, They lichted high on Otterburne, And he that had a bonnie boy, He sent his horse to grass; Then up and spake a little boy, |