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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Richard II
[II, 2]

Bushy

994

Madam, your majesty is too much sad:
You promised, when you parted with the king,
To lay aside life-harming heaviness
And entertain a cheerful disposition.

2

Richard II
[II, 2]

Green

1047

Ah, madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,
The Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy,
The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby,
With all their powerful friends, are fled to him.

3

Richard II
[II, 2]

Bushy

1062

Despair not, madam.

4

Richard II
[III, 4]

Lady

1863

Madam, we'll play at bowls.

5

Richard II
[III, 4]

Lady

1866

Madam, we'll dance.

6

Richard II
[III, 4]

Lady

1870

Madam, we'll tell tales.

7

Richard II
[III, 4]

Lady

1872

Of either, madam.

8

Richard II
[III, 4]

Lady

1880

Madam, I'll sing.

9

Richard II
[III, 4]

Lady

1883

I could weep, madam, would it do you good.

10

Richard II
[III, 4]

Gardener

1948

Pardon me, madam: little joy have I
To breathe this news; yet what I say is true.
King Richard, he is in the mighty hold
Of Bolingbroke: their fortunes both are weigh'd:
In your lord's scale is nothing but himself,
And some few vanities that make him light;
But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,
Besides himself, are all the English peers,
And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.
Post you to London, and you will find it so;
I speak no more than every one doth know.

11

Richard II
[V, 1]

Earl of Northumberland

2386

My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed:
You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.
And, madam, there is order ta'en for you;
With all swift speed you must away to France.

12

Richard II
[V, 2]

Edmund of Langley

2483

Aumerle that was;
But that is lost for being Richard's friend,
And, madam, you must call him Rutland now:
I am in parliament pledge for his truth
And lasting fealty to the new-made king.

13

Richard II
[V, 2]

Duke of Aumerle

2491

Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not:
God knows I had as lief be none as one.